Judge Abena Darkeh led Dexter Taylor's sentencing hearing by complaining about the well-deserved criticism she has been receiving on social media.
Right before sending Dexter to a cage for 10 years of her life, she tried to pretend she was the victim.
This is the type of tyrant that runs New York's government.
#IStandWithDexterTaylor
#FreeDexterTaylor
Unrealized cap gains can NEVER happen.
“But it’s only for HNWIs!” they’ll claim. No. Reject their framing.
Inflation is already the tool for covert wealth confiscation, and now they want to make the theft overt. A lions share of “realized capital gains” today aren’t even a result of asset appreciation, but instead a second order effect of currency debasement.
An example of this slow creep is the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, which required financial institutions to report transactions over $10k.
54 years later, and the threshold is still $10k, despite $10k in 1970 being worth ~$85k in 2024 terms.
Any and all attempts at justifying arbitrary thresholds (especially in fiat currency terms) for where wealth confiscation becomes legal and just must be outright rejected.
It’s a steady encroachment of privacy, liberty, and property.
We are headed down an ugly path.
Take a stand.
Cool. So this week the Senate is voting to let the NSA take over the internet and authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans, and the House is voting to take another hundred billion dollars from you (a tenth of a trillion!) to squander on fruitless foreign wars. Very cool.
No one’s saying that a bitcoin standard would literally end all wars.
The argument is simply that by strictly limiting the state’s access to credit and seigniorage, the scale and length of wars will decrease significantly.
There is a guy on TikTok who asks anyone 30 to 100 y.o their:
• Worst regrets
• Biggest lessons
• #1 Advice to the next gen
I scrolled for like 30 min and found some patterns...
My top 9: