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 It blows my mind that so many people don’t understand that all social media is actually a political apparatus that has been mutilated into the most debased crass garbage EXPLICITLY to mute out its political nature.

We can interactivity speak and organize directly through a decentralized nature to millions of people now. There has never been a power so politically potent in human history, and this nature remains hidden because the moment it is truly understood as a political praxis it will become the most powerful political entity that has ever existed.

We can now start the grandest conversation about what it means to be human in our day and age, and what The Political really is. If we are truly free people and not slaves subservient to a system of totalizing exploitation, than we should be able to use these tools to both throw off the yoke of digital imperialism, while also giving one another the knowledge/power to create a totally new territory of human freedom from which a new future may be born.  
 Yep, not too bas 
 About as west as you can get 
 You will own your data, or your data will own you. 

Just like your money.

You decide. 
 Or how about it’s shared only through homophonic methods that make such data whitenoise without the property of the decryption key?

Seems like that would be the best way to share while demarcating how we’d like the data to be understood. 
 Dog, this morning:

“Hey, I thought I chewed through this internet cord…”

damn it.
 
 Listened to the Marc Andreesen Rogan podcast. A few things that stood out to me as a Bitconer:

*... 
 Classic Bitcoin derangement syndrome  
 Thanksgiving

I am thankful for my life--all of it. Each any every minor details that has created who I am, and my thrown life into this world. It is a complex and complete tale of how I am to become who I am suppose to be, and I am here for it. Despite the fact that most of my life I feel less-than, incapable, and incompetent about what is before me; there are moments into which infinity unveils itself just for the shortest of all durations and I can see it, I can see it all, and it is the face of God showing itself for the briefest of moments. But in those moments that all else is defined, and that the whole of who I am is realized in the flash of an instant; the entirety of my being is consolidated into one, and I am so thankful for what it is, and what I have been given. I can see each and every beautiful monad that is the path of my life towards who I am and the majesty of who I will become. 

Much of that becoming is only through my understanding of what Bitcoin is, what it represents in our world of today, and how it will allow for us to save humanity from the clutches of evil that are growing more powerful with each passing day. Bitcoin is not about money in any contemporary sense; but the birth of a new kind of law for all of humankind and into all of the known future for humanity. It is the one and only law that has always stood before time and always has and always will outlast the temporality of any being for what it really is: Aletheia. Speaking to this essence that I know to be Bitcoin is the task that I have been chosen for, and what I am most thankful for on this day. 

All people everywhere now have a form of law that can keep their wealth and property secured forever no matter what, and it is through the protocols of self sovereignty that Bitcoin as a social contract of what the being is through cryptography it represents. Bitcoin may now become our sacred value and relic that bonds all of us into the ethos of time itself, and what it means to be a human being on our planet today, and moving forward for all of human time. Only with Bitcoin have we discovered a new kind of law that is beyond the legality of any nation-state, and its armies of lawyers, bureaucrats and politicians; all who seek to make infinite war against everlasting peace, and enforce and invisible system of power, surveillance and control against all beings everywhere, forever. In short, fiat money is evil, and it must be destroyed. 

To destroy this evil system of surveillance, control, and domination is the most holy of all tasks of our time, and is a spiritual calling that many already have been called to. At this very time there are thousands that hear the call and are discovering for themselves the truth of the task before us all and what it means to be called to that. 

I am thankful for the task that I have personally been call towards to educate my people on the task of cryptosovereignty and the power to which each and every being may now hold to honor, respect, cherish, and dignify the one and only law will redeem us all from our fallen world and the sinister fate that we all have become ensnared within. We are to unveil the the laws of the universe together and the infinite capacity of cryptography to protect the knowledge of what is mine and what is yours for all peoples everywhere, forever. No matter their station of birth, creed of religion, color of their skin, or any other identifying feature; we may all now use the shield of cryptography to protect ourselves from anyone else who may seek to harm us through the very knowledge of who we are. 

To show people this secret is a most beautiful and sacred task that only the seekers shall know. It is a knowledge of what the future will become when it is freed from the avarice and slavery of moderninty and all of its appendages of death and power that seek to make us into slaves who are little more than flesh based machines for the free rape and exploitation of whatever powers there may be. What we see is the light and agency within each and every being to now choose a new and better existence for all through banishing the last vestiges of slavery that we call fiat money and all of the tentacles that come from that evil lie. It is an existence of purpose, drive, and calling that allows for a radical new world to be unveiled that needs you to help create it. 

Bitcoin needs your help show the world that understanding this is a most blessed and sacred of tasks. It is something that shall be remembered for all of human time to come for it represents the moment that humanity as one group of peoples finally stood up to take their place in history to be the final liberators of the individual from the oppression of the collective forever. Each being may now choose for themselves alone what system they will choose to create and support, or which they will be enslaved to and forced to serve. There will always only be one truth against any infinate number of lies their may be, and it is our task to expose the world to what this means, and how the return towards The Truth as Aletheia and how that shall set all of us free. 

No longer must we tolerate the lies of fiat money and the world it has created, nor will we continue to allow for the illegal, unconstitutional, and unethical wars that so guilefully and obtusely contort and control the money of the whole world to kill and enslave our brothers and sisters everywhere. Now is the time that we may rise to the task of freeing ourselves and our posterity from the yoke of fiat money and what it is, so that we may open the future towards a new and better time for all. It is time to free ourselves so that we may make the world a better place for all beings to be free forever. 

This is what I am thankful for this Thanksgiving, and I hope you are too. Thank you my friends, my brothers, my sisters; and thank you most of all to Satoshi Nakamoto—whoever you may be. 
 This is why I am an anarchist. Direct action is the praxis from which change comes. 
 Millerman is brilliant and I’ve listened to a lot of his courses on philosophy. My philosophical partner does tutoring with him and speaks highly of him. He’s one of the best scholars on conservative philosophy and Heidegger specifically. He is well read in Schmitt so I am not surprised he’s speaking to this, thanks for the flag and I’ll give it a listen. 
 I’ve pretty much ate only steak and chanterelle mushrooms for the last week for dinner.

Flatirons are becoming one of my favorite cuts. 
 Lots of farts from the mushrooms which seems to really smooth out and soften the turds, really 8 out of 10 on the turd scale for comfort and form. happy my family is away. 
 Nice golden will pop soon, been finding mostly whites and porchinis so far 
 GN, love you too Ben. 
 Anyone build a nostr fitness app? 
 Zapable accountability.

I’m here for it. 
 I actually feel bad for government bureaucrats, having to shuffle around papers all day, acting like the most basic procedures are extraordinarily complicated, and are useless at actually helping people or making problems better. It must be a pretty defeated existence. 
 I can be empathetic and not sympathetic. It must really suck to feel so powerless that your life’s work is bullshit, but you feel too weak and scared to do anything. But maybe they should self-reflect a bit and realize this is the one shot they got and walk away from paper pushing and do what they are really called for. I hope they figure it out, because it’s gonna suck when they get to the end and realize they wasted most of their lives. 
 Fixed my internet after a week of not getting the parts delivered. 

There are cost to living in the middle of nowhere—still worth it, just can suck at times. 
 They simply won’t. Many who hold their own keys will never platform them and at some point there is likely going to be different prices for fiat bitcoin vs bitcoin. Same game as before with gold, now with bitcoin tho. 
 Yeah a bit of this, but I have digital work to do. But it does have me pondering just turning it off and not looking back. 
 It was a starlink. Not much is going to fix damaged Ethernet cables 
 Pretty much, or whenever they sell they’ll get bitcoin scrips issued for the kyc system 
 Just fucking hit $100k already. 
 Anytime I head into town, I’m always devastated at how often I’ll go out to eat, and I’ll be the only patron under 50.

Goes to show the state of the misbalanced economy. 
 Sorry dog ate my internet cable so working on repairing that today :/ 
 I’ve had to explain this to a few folks and I have great empathy now for those who have actually lost their homework to their dog eating it. 
 So I’m thinking of buying a retreat center in the redwoods of Northern California that supports about 50 people in a rustic setting.

It’s pretty badass. 8 cabins, riverside, large hot tub, 3 saunas, swimming pond on about +200 acres. It’s expensive and would take a few years to get cashflow positive, but I could do it.

I think it would be a great spot to do various workshops on self-sovereignty, and get brilliant people together to teach, learn, and collaborate together. Only problem is I have no fucking clue what I am doing or how to run something like this. I feel confident I could figure it out, I just know it’ll be a lot of work, administration, and management the first several years.

But with that being said, I guess get busy living or get busy dying. 
 Southern Jefferson here, hope one day we’ll have our own state and stick it to Salem and Sacramento 
 Unchained bridge loan perhaps 
 The right wing is spiritually masculine and the left wing is spiritually feminine. 

Although it... 
 There is a really, really, really big conversation and interesting conversation to be had about this dynamic, and it runs super deep (maybe the deepest that there is), and yet it is so sensitive and cancelable because pretty much everyone has their own traumas involved in this that very few can see the forest amongst the trees.

IMHO at the deepest level this is really a spiritual war that’s been carried out at the deepest levels for at least a century that’s been about destroying spirituality-religious identity to create a population that is highly controllable and at war with itself to perpetuate its own oppression through material and biological means. 

It’s crazy fucked up. 
 I finally figured out that I can just pitch liberal on bitcoin as it being anti-war money—I’m just gonna start with that now. 
 Nothing more expensive than freedom. 
 How about they give back the 200k coins to Bitfinex and their customers, instead of using as coll... 
 “But, but strategic reserve is good for bitcoin!” 
 I understand why blackhats like social engineering. It’s quite fun to chat with folks, build rapport, and pump them for information about how shitty bureaucratic systems work, finding the loopholes and what not.

It’s also pretty sad to see how easily it works as well. 
 Now with bonus track:

“Bitconers are trying to help you, you stupid fuck.”

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 IMHO monero is wonderful ecash, (cash as in an immediate exchange vehicle) but a shitty asset as these things are quite different, which seems to be under appreciated in general. 

Furthermore, I think bitcoiners and moneroeans(?) are mostly on the same team. I want to see more collaboration than shit-slinging personally. 
 I’m thinking that I’m just going to release random chapters of my audiobook as I find it tedious to read it from cover to cover, and more fun just to read whatever I want to. 

Plus I don’t really care about trying to ‘release an audiobook’ as much as I just want to cultivate dialogue from the readings. 
 I’m highly considering hiring a  mariachi band to follow me around my home town singing ballads about how right I have been, how great bitcoin is, and how much inflation is going to fuck everyone as a celebration of a new ATH.

Too much? 
 This might be the right answer. 
 You have to be extremely disagreeable to be a Bitcoiner because if you’re not, hordes of retard... 
 Fuck you, I’ll tell you what our top memes are. 
 You are the hero your family needs. 

Inflation is going to fuck everyone you know and all of your family if you let it.

You understand Bitcoin and why it is important. Lead them into a happy and secure life as only you with your understanding can.
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 The correction will be to $58k.

Sorry, I don’t make the rules. 
 I wouldn’t lol, but you do you 
 IMHO, Bitcoin going into the system as a ‘victory’ for the system is just the Trojan horse playing out. 

Folks that need greater privacy have ramps between privacy coins like monero, and bitcoin, and there are newer developments (such as FROST) that provide greater privacy as well. The only way that fiat can be destroyed is by it infecting the system and making it eat itself from inside out. 
 Institutional investors (particularly non-us ones) see bitcoin as a greater safe haven than treasury bills. Fiat goes to hyperinflation. 
 just found some moldy head cheese in the fridge and nearly projectile vomited

happy ATH!! 
 One of those, ‘the container goes with it kind’ eh? 
 Bull markets are a lot of fun and can be quite euphoric, but don’t fuck it up and chop off a finger trying to time the top or trade it—take what little bit you need off the table (if you have a real need) and let the rest ride.

Take your coins off exchange and don’t tempt yourself. 
 IMHO I’d keep the housing debt if you got a >4% rate and ride that shit to hyperinflation 
 I’m quite familiar with the backend and internal operations, so I highly doubt they’d blow it up from stupid security stuff, but who knows. 
 If you’re a man who’s struggling with low self esteem let me tell you going to therapy isn’... 
 I can see both perspectives, my grip is with licensing from the state and the obligations and perspectives it forces on to the therapist client relationship. I believe that should be sacred first and foremost, and I struggle to see how it can be that with the state in between. And this is not unique to this relationship, but doctors, teachers, and all relationships in which ‘licensing’ is the only way to attain such a practice. 
 Cold water surfing and sauna are a zonking combo.

GN. 
 This pod was genuinely entertaining and engaging beyond most in the past months. 
And I listen to... 
 Thanks! Always fun have great chats with my homies. 
 I had a nightmare last night where I was explaining to a family friend why solana was retarded, and they just kept retorting with, “but it’s got crypto” like that scene from idiocracy.

It was terrifying. 
 It’s totally insecure, controlled and not money at all. 
 I am always astounded at how little time, energy, and effort most people put into asking this question, if they are even able to engage themselves in a sincere questioning towards it.

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 Man, the survivor’s guilt thing @HODL was talking about on the pod yesterday is real. I’m just realizing how much of that I’ve been carrying around, how much I feel like I should have done more for other people to really get bitcoin long ago, when in truth I’ve probably done enough.

It’s time for me to let go and remember that everyone gets bitcoin at the price they deserve. 
 My husband read 34 of 45 chapters of my hobby sci fi manuscript so far, and the funniest conclusi... 
 This is very sweet. 
 I am surprised I am feeling things from an ATH. Last round I was totally dead inside.

It’s not euphoria, but more of just a smug satisfaction about being right.
https://m.primal.net/LurT.jpg 
 Why TF are we voting on this?

I don’t care about retarded non-technical desires that think this all works by magic.

Let a council of competent contributing devs decide. 

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 I’m assembling a team to party our faces off the week before BTC Prague. This is hands down the best party on the planet in one of the most beautiful places in the world:

https://anjunadeep.com/us/events/explorations

DM me if you wanna coordinate. I need a bitcoiner party crew… 
 TBH I’m really excited to go down to the local coffee shop tomorrow and have a big ol’ cup of schadenfreude over coastal liberal tears.

A real deliciously. 
 I’m an anarchist and I don’t vote, and living in a liberal bubble, I enjoy the sense of schadenfreude over their zealous comment to democracy backfiring on them. 
 Lmao, I just realized you will be in a way, as a dog showed up at my property a few months back, that I guess is ours now, the kids named Sandy. So I’ll take her with me down there so in spirit you will be.