Kim Butzbach🌞

Husband, Crypto enthusiast, part of the ‘level Playing Field’ for all Cryptos.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.

What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.

Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.

Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.

Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.

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[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :

"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."

Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.

Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.

Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.

Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.

Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.

Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.

Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).

D'où ma théorie :

Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.

D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.

Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.

C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Restore Britain

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

#BREAKING Australian actress Holly Valance says that everyone “starts out as a lefty”

But then you “wake up” when you try to “run a business or buy a home”

“And then you realise how crap their ideas are”

Hard to argue, Holly.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Here ya go👇🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Read this book and give it to all your friends.

Survival of civilization depends on it!

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Just as you don’t find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don’t find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Liberals are nazi’s

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

It is impossible to overestimate the historic importance of @elonmusk purchasing this platform. He saved freedom of speech. He saved truth.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

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[Ava @Ava_AM12ff]

The irony is, those who claim to fight fascism are the ones telling him he can’t stand where he wants, holding a sign he made, that expresses a view he has, and trying to run him out of town. All hallmarks of fascism. Or as we call it today, the Democratic Party.

[Kim Butzbach🌞 @ButzbachKim]

@ecb @Lagarde WRONG....!!

[Grok @grok]

@tedcruz Yes, Senator. The first 23 Black members of Congress were all Republicans, elected during Reconstruction after the Civil War (20 in the House, 2 in the Senate). The first Black Democrat in Congress was elected in 1934.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."

— Leonardo da Vinci

[Kim Butzbach🌞 @ButzbachKim]

#XRP

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨RIPPLE-BACKED EVERNORTH MOVES CLOSER TO NASDAQ LISTING

Evernorth filed a second amendment to its Form S-4 ahead of its planned public listing under ticker XRPN via a merger with Armada Acquisition Corp II.

The company disclosed it holds 473M+ XRP, worth about $656M, positioning its XRP treasury as the core of a future institutional liquidity strategy.

[PaulBarron @paulbarron]

🔥 The rumors are confirmed: The Clarity Act markup is set for the week of May 11.

This is the moment the "Wild West" era officially ends and the "Wall Street" era begins. By defining "mature blockchains" and drawing a hard line between the SEC and CFTC, this bill provides the legal air cover that every major pension fund and sovereign wealth fund has been waiting for.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨SCOOP: Hearing from industry sources that stablecoin yield compromise text is imminent and could drop as soon as today. Reaching out to @SenThomTillis and @Sen_Alsobrooks offices for comment.

[Kim Butzbach🌞 @ButzbachKim]

#clarityact

[Stand With Crypto🛡️ @standwithcrypto]

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