@LibertyLockPod Year and a half ago my mom fell and hit her head. Brain bleed + blood thinners. Neurosurgeon told us she ��was like Terry Schaivo” and would never wake up. Not really the praying type, but did. She woke up the next morning and now recognizes her new granddaughter. Wish u the best
@dklineii In 10th grade a teacher gave me the number sequence 0, 1, 3, 6, 10 and asked me to find a formula for the nth term. I solved for x(x-1)/2. Didn't realize until just now where that number sequence came from, or what the formula meant. 20 years later!
@Cernovich Buy a bar of gold and you’ll have to sell a portion of it each year just to pay the tax. There’s obviously no “capital” gain in a bar of gold that just sits there. Capital gains taxes were first enacted in 1913, as was the Federal Reserve.
@ericweinstein Had someone yesterday tell me that the stock market had gone down during Trump’s term. I knew the numbers off the top of my head and said them, then pulled up Google and showed the chart. STILL believed the narrative over the evidence in front of them. Had read it in the media.
@geico After struggling with login issues for 15min, website offered a customer service number that... sent me a text to download the app I already have and then told me I could hang up. Glad I was trying to renew a policy and not file a claim!
@LynAldenContact@JoeCarlasare@parkeralewis Elasticity historically refers to unit variance because there's a powerful organization trying to maintain price stability. There are two variables (units & price) and one is artificially constrained. Central banks constrain price, BTC constrains units.
@paulvigna@Danainhawaii@brucefenton The actual number of the total supply is arbitrary beyond a minimum # of units to be practical for use.
This is literally like saying that kilometers cannot be a unit of measurement because you can keep dividing them into centimeters and nanometers.
One of the most important forces shaping the current US presidential election is not being sufficiently discussed: COMMUNISM.
Because the Democratic Party does not view itself in any way as communist, you can't have a discussion about the role that communism is playing in support for Donald Trump. How can a Wall-Street friendly party favored by large institutions be communist!?!
Okay. Begin by just stipulating that this is true for the sake of argument whether or not you agree with it.
For the moment, imagine that you see all DEI as Marxist and Maoist. Imagine that you see AOC and the squad as communists. Imagine that what you see in terms of 'social justice' or 'wokeness' or 'Postmodernism' or 'Gender affirming healthcare' or 'Palestinian Genocide' or 'Soros open society initiatives' or 'progressive DAs' or 'Anti-Whiteness' or 'defund the police' is straight up precursor to *violent* revolutionary Marxism.
The people crossing over to the cause of Trump with enormous checkbooks see this EXACTLY the way I have described in the above paragraph. You can pretend that this isn't so. Maybe they won't admit it to you or do so in public. But the stark truth of it is that what is driving a lot of surprising support for Trump and the Republicans has nothing to do with either. It's not all about Trump. Or the GOP.
It's about Marx, Mao, Stalin, and Lennin. It is the idea that Revolutionary Marxism is a dangerous brain cancer that is always trying to get a foothold among the weak.
The idea that is everywhere is this: "The Democratic party of the United States thought they could play with rebranded revolutionary Marxists as if the new Communism were merely a form of socially conscious pro-market, pro-democracy liberalism, when it is instead a communist Trojan horse philosophy. It has as its aim, destabilizing and destroying our culture, the United States and then the world. This isn't a culture war. It is the takeover of the United States by hardcore revolutionary neo-marxists who have come for your newspapers, universities, public schools and your children. The leaders who think they can reach out to 'progressive' voters do not realize that they are dancing with a devil who will outplay them."
Does that sound silly to you? Great. Glad to hear it.
And, if so, you have absolutley no idea what is being discussed by many of the world's smartest, most powerful and most influential people. Constantly.
Why is this confusing? Well, no one I know sees Joe Biden as communist. They don't even see the Democratic party leadership as communist. They view the party as opportunistic and naive in thinking that Democrats can allow violent pathological revolutionaries into the big blue tent with a simple coat of blue paint and a bargain basement rebrand to 'Deconstruct the patriarchy' and 'Decolonize', 'Defund', and otherwise 'Reform' our society while quietly waiting for their real moment.
I'm sorry if this sounds funny to some of you who can't imagine opposing Biden for these reasons. If so, it just means you have no clue...as in ZERO...as to what is going on in a pivotal part of the shift towards Trump.
I just wanted to bring this up because it is barely being discussed in mainstream media:
"It's the Communism stupid."
@MegynKellyShow@megynkelly@billmaher Listening to this now and am struck by: @megynkelly clearly has heard both left/right narratives and has them ready to go while @billmaher is hearing the pro-right narrative (and supporting facts!) for the first time live, and trying to confidently assert that it doesn’t matter.
@natbrunell Aligning the accounting system (fiat/BTC) with the economic system (real world production), particularly by tethering to physical constraints, forces capital into the hands of competent allocators and thus improves systemic efficiency.
@PrestonPysh@DeItaone I propose that Jamie has been reading @halfin on the future of BTC and “personally” is his way of saying that Chase is already loading up.