'According to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, one solution suggested in American Government circles was to sink the Liberty so journalists could not photograph it and inflame public opinion against the Israelis.'
[The Day Israel Attack America (2014)]
Watching socialism consume its own allies in Spain, he wrote what he saw, not what his ideology told him to see.
Most people never do that. They stay loyal to the team, the narrative, the identity. Not to what they actually witnessed.
Orwell named the three things killing his movement: polarization between factions, ethical nihilism masquerading as principle, and the creep of authoritarian power.
Those aren't 1937 problems.
A new generation is being asked to put their name on the same commitment to truth, individual dignity, and limited power he refused to abandon.
👉 https://t.co/5RalB7D3Il
.@GovRonDeSantis says: "Sometimes government does things that may appear to be benevolent but really are kind of like a wolf in sheep's clothing. This is a wolf coming as a wolf!”
What's the “this?”
He tells me here:
Why do we have inflation? The Fed tries to force 2% inflation. It wasn’t always this way.
“The natural tendency for prices is to go down. If you look at the CPI in 1900 and you look at it in 1800, it was down by 50%. So for a hundred years in America, prices went down. And during that time, we had the Industrial Revolution.”
“We had the most rapid period of economic growth in the history of America, which was after the Civil War and into the early 1900s. All the time prices were coming down.”
“Today, the Federal Reserve says that we need to have 2 % inflation. Prices have to go up 2 % a year. Why? I mean, why does the cost of living have to go up? Why can't it go down or at least remain the same? And what is the answer to that? What's the rationale for that?”
“Well, they have a bunch of BS explanations and it's all to justify the fact that the government wants inflation. It's not that it's good for us. The government needs it.”
“It's the way the government raises revenue and repudiates its debts.”
@PeterSchiff
“We need a new foreign policy that says we oughta mind our own business, bring our troops home, defend this country, defend our borders.”
— @RonPaul in 2007 in the GOP debates
Watching this debate is always so bittersweet, but it’s even worse now that the Iran war has started. Listen and remember that the GOP sided with John McCain and Mitt Romney over this guy.
“We dug a hole for ourselves, and we dug a hole for our party. We’re losing elections, and we’re going down [in 2008] if we don't change it, and it has all to do with foreign policy, and we have to wake up to this fact.”
As predicted, the GOP went on to lose in 2008 while Obama was pretending to be the peace candidate. Obama’s foreign policy record was Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, killing 90% of civilians in drone strikes, etc.
We had so many off-ramps. We should’ve listened.
@heavyledger@elonmusk It must have been a Brit, Elon doesn’t do silly giggles. Scary to think that anyone can be anyone, apparently quite convincingly.
RON PAUL: “There’s been a coup. We don’t have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic. We don’t have honest money. We don’t have integrity. We don’t even have people in Washington who even pretend… to tell the truth.”
“[I believe the coup began on] November 22, 1963.”
IAN CROSSLAND: “What happened on that day?”
RON PAUL: “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government. You know, by the CIA.”
@flyosity@SecWar@grok In addition to fascism in broad daylight, question is: where has the moral compass gone overall for this administration? And when will the people do something tangible about this? At this conjunction, even China appears freer and morally sound, ironically.
“Any suggestion that it is time to move on from the ‘#Epsteinfiles’ is unacceptable. It represents a failure of responsibility towards victims,”https://t.co/XlbESM80RP
@SageKrystal1@NeverJDVance Quoting the conclusion: “Bottom line: Depending on the metric, you'd need $16-20/hour by tame measures, $60 by gold, or north of $100 by the most aggressive alt calcs to match 1983's punch.” Feel free to comment further.
The “disappearance” of Nikolai Mushegian and the Epstein Files:
This still has no answer:
- son of Russian scientists
- studies computer science at Carnegie Mellon
- interns at Apple, works on system tools
- becomes obsessed with decentralization
2014–2018:
- joins Rune Christensen to build MakerDAO
- designs the original single collateral DAI
- co-authors the Dai Purple Paper
- builds DSProxy and the security patterns DeFi still uses
- helps launch DAI in 2017
- leaves in 2018 after fights about centralization and direction
2018–2021:
- co-authors the Balancer whitepaper
- helps create WETH, the wrapper every protocol uses
- builds DappHub and the Dappsys toolkit
- launches RAI, the “pure crypto” stable asset
- works on Feedbase and Manaflow
- donates over $5M to Carnegie Mellon for crypto research
2021–2022:
- moves alone to Puerto Rico with his dog
- becomes more private
- tweets increasingly paranoid messages
- writes about intelligence agencies and “bad actors”
- friends say he struggled with mental health for years
- family says he felt hunted
October 28, 2022
- tweets about CIA, Mossad and a trafficking ring
- hours later walks alone on Condado Beach
- strong currents pull him into the water
- “dies” by drowning
- wallet still in his pocket, no signs of violence
- police rule it an accident
What happened here?
@vitrupo The so called smart people whose intellectual supremacy feels at risks should instead focus on how the rest of us remain safe and thriving and learning with access to this godlike technology. The fact that it’s unstoppable is trivially obvious.