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$BTC pleb. Overall degen.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Troy, but instead of Brad Pitt, it’s Elliot Page.

[NewsForce @Newsforce]

🚨BREAKING: UK POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE

With only 31 of 136 councils declared, Reform is already dominating local elections:

➡️ Reform: +258 seats
🔴 Labour: -188
🔵 Conservatives: -96

Britain’s two traditional parties are both getting hammered at the same time.

This is starting to look less like a protest vote… and more like a political realignment.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Congratulations to President To Lam and Prime Minister Le Minh Hung of Vietnam. We value our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, built on more than 30 years of cooperation, and look forward to advancing peace, stability, and prosperity together in a free and open Indo-Pacific.

[SharpPadawan 🍊 @PadawanSharp]

@_The_Prophet__ What is your latest assessment on the direction of the Iran war?

[Capital Flows @Globalflows]

I ran every major AI model against each other in iterative loops with agents building on agents to map the geopolitical escalation

Tomorrow at futures open, I'm going break it all down

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@resistancemoney I loved the books except the two last ones … Didn’t like how the story landed at all. But the actual last chapter was perfect.

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@solanagaming @solanamobile @burnandclaim Padawanseeker.skr

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@shetlerjones Right when ROK president is in China?

[OK Then @okaythenfuture]

Vietnam has two potential paths,

It either caps out as a better version of Thailand(basically an upper end middle income industrial economy with a lot of tourism as well but never makes the value added leap to higher technologies),

Or it becomes an upscale Guangxi province and becomes the last developed country in the world, it does manage to create leading frontier edge companies and the VCP is as goated as the big brother CPC up north.

Vietnam is both East Asian and southeast Asian so it could go both ways.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Only two existential actors have remained intact following the collapse of the Soviet Union - the ideological network of the Comintern and the international web of the KGB. The former has been spreading Marxism-Leninism around the globe like the metastasis of a treacherous cancer, while the latter has re-established itself as the “siloviki apparatus” in the Kremlin and has been ruling over Russia for the last twenty years.
The dire consequence of both is the relaunch of the anti-Western, anti-American, and finally, the worst revisionist matrix of Russia, which is now being reenforced by the emergence of the DragonBear on the global arena and the moral decay of the Western elites from within.
The Cold War 2 between America and the DragonBear has an ideological dimension once again and the Marxists in the West are doing the perfect job of hollowing out the bloc from within and from without.
Today’s Marxism-Leninism’s methodology is not much different than during the first Cold War but has been perfected thanks to the efficient spread of technology to boost the demoralization of power and the weaponization of resentment, and it flourishes inside the West’s own democratic discourse due to the wide-spread power corruption.
The DragonBear doesn’t even need to impose the ideology from the outside these days.
It hijacks the West’s own failed intellectual currents that are descendants or followers of Marxism-Leninism, now dressed in the moral language about decolonization, diversity, or equality, and steers them toward strategic anti-Westernism and anti-Americanism from within.
In this Cold War 2.0, the ideological battle will be much harder because of the ongoing military interventions of Russia which successfully injects emotions among the disillusioned Western youth such humiliation, resentment, decay, but more importantly because of the geoeconomic rise of China which supplies the sustainable structure of legitimacy, narratives, funding, and alternative institutions.
The result is an ideological aikido for the West, turning the moral and ideological momentum of the Western self-criticism, decay and self-deception against itself.
In other words:
The DragonBear doesn’t just export Marxism-Leninism as a perfidious doctrine; it also reactivates it as a discourse within the Global South and beyond by using the West’s own moral guilt, negligence and naivety as the mediums of transmission.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This email is one of the most quietly revealing artifacts of the entire post-2008 era.

Peter Thiel isn’t predicting socialism here. He’s diagnosing the terminal logic of late capitalism: when ownership becomes inaccessible, belief in the system dissolves.

He’s mapping structural inevitability.

The key insight is in that last line:

“If one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.”

Every economic order survives only as long as its participants believe they have a stake in its rewards. When that belief breaks, when capital accumulation is delayed beyond a generation, the feedback loop collapses.

In plain terms:
•Boomers owned.
•Gen X still managed to buy in.
•Millennials rent the world their parents own, and Gen Z is now locked out entirely.

The result isn’t ideological socialism. It’s resentful capitalism - a system where people still chase wealth but no longer trust the architecture that allocates it. That’s the precursor to all great systemic transitions - Rome, Weimar, post-Soviet Russia, even 18th-century France.

Thiel’s email is almost tragic in tone because he’s speaking to the very class - Zuckerberg, Andreessen, Sandberg - who became the gatekeepers of the new digital feudalism. They turned “ownership” into platform access, and “opportunity” into subscription. The economy was financialized, then digitized, then moralized - and in each step, capital got lighter, faster, and further removed from the people whose lives depend on it.

What he’s really saying is this:

Capitalism doesn’t fail when the rich get richer.

It fails when the poor stop believing they can join them.

That’s the pivot we’re living through right now. The “Millennial socialism” he mentions is the immune response of a generation whose time horizon was stolen.

The irony is that Thiel, the ultimate capitalist contrarian, saw it first.

And he was right.

The generation that couldn’t buy the system will end up rewriting it.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The smartest people I know aren't the most knowledgeable.

(they have something else entirely)...

They adapt faster than everyone else.

I spent my 20s collecting credentials. Degrees. Finance roles. The "right" path. I thought intelligence meant having all the answers.

Then markets crashed. Industries transformed. Everything I "knew" became obsolete overnight.

That's when I learned: The rigid cling to what was. The adaptable adjust to what is and what will be.

Your expertise? A liability if you're too attached to it.

Your identity? A prison if it prevents you from evolving.

The future belongs to those who rewrite the manual when the game changes.

Every time you say "that's not how we do things," you're choosing rigidity over intelligence.

Adaptability isn't just surviving change—it's thriving because of it.

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BREAKING 🚨: Japan

Japan's 30-Year Treasury jumps above 3.23%, its highest level in history 📈📈

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@matthew_pines Bitcoin

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@matthew_pines The AK-47

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@neutron__me You should implement feature fiat-to-fiat using BTC as a bridge. As of now this is possible but we have to go through one more step of converting fiat 1 to BTC, then BTC to fiat 2

[SharpPadawan 🍊 @PadawanSharp]

@izakaminska @JacobShap Is PBOC still in love with CBDC?

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@Sandbagger_01 The real life "M", litterally