Sentiments of Venezuelans
I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.
If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing
Then shut the fuck up.
You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.
I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.
This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.
Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.
My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.
Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.
And everything died.
Not slowly.
Violently.
People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.
They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.
People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.
They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.
So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”
No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.
China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.
They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.
If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity
Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.
Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.
This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.
Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.
If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation
Then again
Shut the fuck up.
This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.
By Stephen Subero
Today we celebrate Satoshi Nakamoto.
But let's not forget the cryptographers
and the cypherpunks who took decades
to build the bricks for Bitcoin.
Bookmark this and enjoy a fast, floating
trip about the quest for perfect money.
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🔥THE ULTIMATE ORANGE PILL🔥
Here’s the thing nobody wants to say out loud because it ruins brunch:
The natural state of a free market is deflation. Prices falling. Abundance increasing. Life getting easier. More stuff, cheaper, better, faster, forever. That is what competition plus technology actually does when left alone.
If this sounds insane to you, congratulations, you have been successfully domesticated like the tax cattle that you are!
Every year humans invent machines that do more work for less energy, less time, less labor. Computers get cheaper. Software scales infinitely. AI is about to vaporize entire white-collar industries while running on electricity that gets more efficient every decade. In a sane system, this means your money buys more every year and you work less to live better.
But that cannot be allowed!
Because the entire global economy is a rotting debt tower duct-taped together with the promise that tomorrow will fix today. And deflation is kryptonite to debt. Deflation is debt sobriety. It’s the moment the drunk realizes the bar is closed.
So instead, they light money on fire on purpose.
They call it “stimulus.” They call it “growth.” They call it “2 percent inflation targets,” like that isn’t a polite way of saying “we will steal from you slowly so you don’t riot.”
Inflation is the anesthetic required to keep this corpse economy moving. It makes debt lighter, assets explode upward, and wages chase prices like a dog chasing a car it will never catch.
That’s why your grandparents bought a house on one salary and you need a dual-income household, a side hustle, a crypto portfolio, and mild alcoholism just to rent a condo with inspirational wall art.
Technology is screaming, “Everything should be cheaper.”
Central banks are screaming back, “Shut the fuck up.”
Bitcoin says: what if money actually reflected reality?
What if productivity gains weren’t stolen before they reached you? What if saving wasn’t a financial death sentence? What if the future wasn’t a leveraged hallucination funded by your shrinking purchasing power?
That’s the orange pill.
It’s realizing that inflation is a controlled demolition of your time, your labor, your future, dressed up as economic management.
And deflation, the thing they tell you to fear, is just abundance trying to happen before being beaten back into submission.
And once you see that, you don’t unsee it. You just sit there quietly at dinner, smiling, while everyone else argues about interest rates like hostages negotiating with their captors.
Welcome to the ultimate orange pill.
BUY BITCOIN AND INHERIT THE PRODUCTIVITY GAINS OF HUMANITY WITHOUT DEBASEMENT.
What the FUCK is Wrong with this Country.
Killing People at the Beach.
We need LABOUR OUT NOW, we need a reset.
These muppets needs to stop destroying Paradise.
Fix The Money, Shut the borders, Stop the power grab of this government.
Stricter Gun Laws would not of prevented this, it's a PSYOP.
Sorry for all the Fucks, Just heart broken with whats happen to Oz.
Being a Bitcoiner is waking up every morning thinking:
“How can I explain to everyone I love that the entire global monetary system is a parasitic hallucination designed to extract their life energy and that hope exists in a cryptographic number embedded in an orange coin on the internet?”
@Scavacini777 My journey began exactly then with a tiny look-see purchase. So lucky to have started then and have never looked back. Slowly but surely orange pilling the family.