"Bitcoiners" like Stacy Herbert defending Bukele 😂.
Government rights can never be above private property rights, the moment this happens, it is no longer called democracy, it is called communism or fascism.
Get it into your heads that just because someone fills their mouth with bitcoin doesn't mean anything. Most people give in to corruption and are trash that only serve the interests of whoever is in charge, with 0 critical thinking, likewise most Bitcoiners are just polyvaccinated morons.
All politicians suck, including Bukele, Milei and Trump, sooner than later they will let you down and betray you, if a Bitcoiner supports any kind of current democracy or any politician you better punch him in the face and forget about him because he is just another phony.
Sliiiiiight exaggeration there, don't you think?
I don't try to make excuses for any political vampire, but supporting the lesser evil against the greater is something every social primate species does.
And we got a lotta evils
Lesser evil? Bukele has used Bitcoin as nothing more than propaganda.
They have a serious economic problem and it is only going to get worse with their policies.
Time to time
There are no "lesser evils". They are all at the same level. Only that some of them are better at lying than others.
They all violate natural law, it only changes how they violate it slightly.
she is right
all politicians are corrupt
some more some less
all politicians are useless
be a souvereign individual
The only thing I can think of here is very long term vision of breaking and crushing the dam eventually. Things have to start somewhere..this could also fill into art of war tactics...you have to let the Trojan Horse in. Best part is #bitcoin doesn't care. Not defending Max and his wife here but I see element of long term game theory playing out here, doesn't matter if they planned it or not. Same would apply to situation if Trump decides to play with Bitcoin.
Even in a very very unlikely situation this isn't what it looks like on surface, you just don't do stuff like this if you're economically literate and want people to come to invest in your country.
Am I surprised? No. Disapointed? Yes. But it's good to see the red flags sooner rather than later.
And Max? He's doing well, clowning around, good for him. But who would ever trust this guy really?
i told everyone many years ago here and everywhere i write messages,
that the bukele cult is ridiculous. hardly anyone listened.
it looked more like a variation of the jones plantation.
the 'coronation' video of his second 'inauguration' is so absurd that it makes any banana republic parody look real.
el salvador is a poor third world country with most people uneducated and even illiterate. putting hundred thousand people in prison (many innocent among them) without due process does not solve any problems mid- and long term. it is dangerous to live there. anything can happen. a ticking time bomb. do not fall for propaganda.
Politicians ain’t gonna save us.
you still pay taxes?
so why you not start there
i would vote for someone who at least wants to shrink the state and its powers
or how else you want to get rid of it?
parallel economies?!
The only option is to create a parallel economy to the state, unfortunately Bitcoiners do not realize the importance of this.
Bitcoin is only 33% of the recipe for success.
- 33% Bitcoin
- 33% Parallel/circular economy
- 33% privacy
you opt out of the system
get some land
trade with others
barter your avocados for meat
make your own energy
drill for water
the only weak point is web access
You’re traversing a pretty large spectrum of “you can’t trust politicians” to anyone who votes is a phony.
I can only assume you live on a self regulated island detached from any political influence?
This is exactly right, and has been for thousands of years.
The only reason that politicians survive is because they promise attractive things to people who don't want to be responsible for their own, which unfortunately are the majority, because the human race sucks.
don't trust dictators = verified ✅
But hey, there has always been gold, that rulers could not print for a very long time. And yet, there were rulers, as well as empires. Bitcoin is just another technology. Perhaps better, but just a technology. There will still be rulers for a very long time. More than that, for quite a long time they will still have to trick the naive ones into believing that they are elected democratically. Like Putin has successfully done for decades already.
It is hilarious watching Max Keiser run interference for Bukele with the utmost desperation.
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