NaibofTabr

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

/c/[email protected]

“Never mind joining me, I’m joining you…”

Learning not to take everything so seriously.

“Vhat are you… sinking about?”

If you meet a bear in the woods today, you met a bear. If all day long all you meet is bears…

you’re also a bear.

We’re not quite here yet, but… it’s only been 2 months.

So couple things:

1. Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) are certainly not untraceable. Public ledger means that all the transactions are publicly visible - if you can associate a wallet to a person or organization then you know where the money went, and there are businesses that specifically do that kind of research. Every single transaction ever is part of the blockchain record. Cryptocurrency is a terrible way to make a clandestine purchase.
2. All currencies are made up (I know, real imfourteenandthisisdeep energy, but still technicallythetruth).

*Edit - A silly caveat to this is that if the US government starts regularly transacting in Bitcoin, it would be very easy to audit… using blockchain means there’s a built-in transaction record… anybody with a little bit of experience in reading the ledger could just track everything.

Other than that you’re absolutely right.

1. Cryptocurrencies are still largely unregulated, and the crypto market has attracted exactly the kind of people you would expect to be most interested in unregulated financial transactions - scammers, thieves, con men, ransomware gangs, money launderers, and anyone who wants buy or sell CSAM, narcotics, weapons, DDOS-as-a-Service, and North Korea’s government funding crew. The crypto market is absolutely chock-full of criminal activity, so it’s entirely reasonable to assume that anyone who wants to participate in that market wants to participate in the crime.
2. As you said, trading physical gold for digital currency is a stupid idea. It’s also uneccessary, because the FBI is already sitting on a collection of cryptocurrencies that have been confiscated through criminal investigations, including large amounts of Bitcoin. It is technically illegal right now for the US government to do anything with that, but that could be changed with a law. There’s nowhere else for that cryptocurrency to go anyway.

It seems likely to me that a play to distribute gold from the reserve is about having an excuse to open it and take gold out, and disappear some of it in the process. It’s a cover for a plan to rob the US.

Governments incur debt by selling bonds, which guarantee a certain repayment at a certain date. If the government fails to make the bond payments, fewer people will buy bonds in the future. You can’t “just add more” debt if no one is willing to actually lend you money.

Even talking about not making the payments damages the value of future bonds. This kills the dollar.

The really crazy part is that the US is absolutely solvent and capable of paying its debts. There is no good reason for this to even be a point of discussion. Not making the payments only hurts the country.

China would benefit most from the collapsing value of the US dollar.

“It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.”

The US Department of Education doesn’t mandate any curriculum from the federal level. States set their own curriculum guidelines.

If you hear someone making this complaint about the federal government dictating what can and can’t be taught in schools, they are either being intentionally disingenuous (in which case they should be called out for it immediately) or they are an idiot who bought this idea being peddled by someone else (in which case they should be enlightened).

Christians (and any other group that wants) can (and do) already have their own private schools.

The same things that’re wrong with everywhere else, but all mixed up with each other and compacted into a smaller area.

Hooray for the melting pot.

Stop questioning. Start arresting.

Even if they have to burn down the rest of the world to get it.

Could be arson, could be… https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/

That… doesn’t really answer the question. So it’s relatively easy to leave, but how would you know that you needed to in the first place?

If the voting of posts on an instance were being manipulated, or the visibility of certain sources or users, or if commercial influences were affecting administrative decisions or moderator behavior, how would you know?

How do you discover that you are in a bubble? That the information being presented to you is intentionally skewed in order to project a narrative?

How do you exit Plato’s cave if you don’t know that you are in it?

thank you!

What is the source for this list, please?

I need to share it with conservatives and listen to them try to justify it.

But can you know that what you see through your instance is being manipulated?