David Stevens

[David Stevens @steves_d]

Bitcoin is nonviolent defiance to the corrupt state and their broken money. Beautiful

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

The prices may gyrate, the players may change, but the song remains the same. #Bitcoin

[David Stevens @steves_d]

100

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque.

Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation.

Quelques exemples concrets :

— San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité.

— Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider.

— L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher.

Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise.

La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable.
Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même.

L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

Yes

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Must be said over and over again:

Things aren’t getting more expensive. Your dollar is worth less.

Inflation is not the magical increase in general prices. It is the increase in money supply chasing the same number of goods, making your dollar worth less compared to goods.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

Insanity

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Some people lived through 2020-2022 and concluded that the government needs more taxpayer money and more power.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

The liberals have hijacked our country. You are not worried enough about your children’s future.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

First principles seeks a first cause

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

A common response to the fine-tuning argument is to say that of course the universe is finely tuned, because if it wasn't we wouldn't be here to observe it.

That's a truism and a tautology, not an explanation.

Think of it this way. You're standing before a firing squad of dozens of skilled shooters, all with loaded weapons pointed straight at you, who all fire at you simultaneously. Yet you walk away unscathed. Your response? Well, if I hadn't survived, I wouldn't be here to observe it. Does that explain this extremely improbable outcome? No. It's a statement of the obvious, but you'd be searching for answers.

In the same way, the fine-tuning of the universe to allow conscious life cries out for an explanation. The possibilities are that this happened by

1. Chance
2. Necessity
3. Design

Option 1 is the firing squad problem. The odds are so overwhelmingly against this "just happening" that proponents have resorted to untestable and bizarre explanations like an infinite multiverse.

There is no evidence for Option 2. Nothing in the laws of nature requires the finely-tuned parameters of the universe to be the way they are.

Logically, this leaves Option 3 as the most probable explanation.

When I was a physics student coming out of my lifelong atheism, I was deeply moved by this argument. It didn't matter what my prejudices were, the logic was so sound that I couldn't see any way around it.

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

This is central banking in a nutshell:

A group of rich guys go to the king and say: "Hey, you need money for your war. We'll give you all the money you want."

The king says: "Great, where's the money?"

They say: "We're going to make it up. We'll write numbers in a book and that's your money now."

The king says: "What do I owe you?"

They say: "You pay us back with interest."

The king says: "Where do I get that money?"

They say: "You tax your citizens."

The king says: "What if I can't pay it all back?"

They say: "That's fine. We'll lend you more. Same deal."

The king says: "And what do you do with the IOUs I gave you?"

They say: "We use them to prove we have money, so we can lend even more money to other people and charge them interest too."

The king says: "So you made up money, lent it to me, I tax my people to pay you back, and then you use my debt to make up even more money and lend it to everyone else?"

They say: "Yes."

The king says: "What did it cost you?"

They say: "Nothing."

That's literally how the Bank of England started in 1694. The Bank was formed to finance King William's war with France. The king gave the Bank a charter, granting it a monopoly on money.

The king could have as much money as he wanted. The bankers could always earn interest. Taxpayers covered the bill.

Now replace "king" with "United States Government" and you have the Federal Reserve in 1913. Same story, different country.

It doesn't end there.

185 central banks exist in the world today.

Across the globe, the governments get as much money as they want, the bankers load their pockets with interest, and the taxpayers pay for it all.

Oh, and if you don't pay your taxes, they'll fine you, penalize you, or throw you in jail.

The ONLY way out of this is to STOP USING THEIR MONEY.

As long as you're using the money that central banks control, the central banks will have control.

You have to stop giving them energy.

Use a different form of money that they can't control.

This is why Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin.

[Michelle LA🇨🇦 @MichelleLA1981]

Wow! What a great job hes doing... 🤦‍♀️

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Capitalism is so effective that you can become a multimillionaire by being a popular anti-capitalist.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

Those in power are purposely trying to destroy western countries.

[BRITISH HODL ❤️‍🔥🐂❤️‍🔥 @BritishHodl]

Woke up to learning the Netherlands has imposed a 36% UNrealised gains tax on it’s residents.

Watch the wealth flee - what a disaster.

Real Estate -> Bitcoin -> The World.

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

Obama-era ICE was “keeping communities safe". Now it's "fascism".

[David Stevens @steves_d]

I don’t want to be apart of China’s New World Order.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

They all were

[Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k]

in 2015, bernie was literally maga

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2016. Obama's Press Secretary is asked about reports that during immigration raids, ICE agents were storming into homes, going room to room looking for illegals, and making children tremble with fear.

I thought only fascist Presidents do that sort of thing.

Why was the press so civil? Why weren't they crying or at least calling Obama a nazi?

How come nobody was shaving their head in protest? Surely there were a bunch of angry white liberal wine moms outside the building screaming at the top of their lungs, right?

Always keep in mind how fake and performative the outrage is.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

North America has been infiltrated with the disease of collectivism. The hive mind pathogen that killed 100 million last century.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

When they tell you who and what they are, you should listen

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

I have whiplash right now watching the dems pivot from supporting Somali fraudsters to cartel kingpins and illegitimate dictators

[David Stevens @steves_d]

This is basic knowledge to all fully functioning humans. The left has gone insane the last 30 yrs. The democrats of the 20th century would be called MAGA now.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Fascinating story from 2019: Republicans did NOT change the views on immigration from 1994 to 2019 (they were basically agnostic).

But Democrats moved far to the open-borders left as they ditched the working class, setting the stage for the Biden catastrophe.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

Big government always leads to big corruption.

[David Gokhshtein @davidgokhshtein]

This is why Democrats tried so hard to silence Elon Musk and go after his companies.

He bought Twitter because free speech was being strangled.

They also hated DOGE because it started exposing what was really happening behind the scenes.

Just look at Minnesota as an example;
@nickshirleyy went in and exposed massive fraud tied to taxpayer money that the media completely ignored.

Without Elon buying Twitter, does any of this ever see the light of day?

I don’t think it does.

[David Stevens @steves_d]

Western civilization is being actively attacked. It starts with our institutions. Unless truth and honesty starts to mean more then political loyalty our fate is sealed.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Fraud in Minnesota

I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe.

I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of times I was offered bribes to award a contract, or falsify records to do things like create larger (fake) headcounts at places like dining facilities, or to just simply be on the take for future illegal requests.

Of course I had enough sense to never comply with such requests. Moreover, they were never explicitly structured as “bribes”; instead it was usually along the lines of “Here I have these Rolexes as gifts for you and your wife to show our friendship.” (Unfortunately, too many US officers and NCOs succumbed to this siren song and ended up breaking rocks in Leavenworth.)

The weird thing about this to me was that whenever I turned down such an offering, it was treated as a grave insult. I was the one in the wrong, and not the fraudster trying to bribe me. They considered it rude that I was in their country and refused to accept how things got done. After all, why did I not want to help my tribe by helping their tribe?

Let me repeat: in these cultures, FRAUD IS NOT EVEN A CONCEPT. There is only what helps your tribe.

Such thought processes are so alien to Americans and much of the West. We are raised on the presumption that our institutions are valid, that the rule of law always prevails, and that integrity is universal. We need these presumptions to have working governments and economies, and without those presumptions—without the mental barrier that causes us not to accept outright fraud—our nation would quickly descend into the economic and social hellscape of countries like…. ummm… you know…. SOMALIA!

So when we import people en masse from cultures that accept bribery and fraud as routine, acceptable ways to advance one’s tribe, we should not be surprised that things like the $8 BILLION fraud schemes of the Somali population in Minnesota happen so easily.

Introducing a fraud-based culture based on tribalism into America is like introducing some sort of lethal virus into a population that has no natural immunity. The virus will spread and grow, unchecked, because it is so alien to the host. Similarly, a culture of fraud is anathema to American thinking, and it must be cut out before it consumes the host.

So when you see and hear patriotic Americans decrying what is happening in Minnesota or elsewhere, and when they seek deportation of the offenders, it is not “racism,” it is not “bigotry,” it is not “xenophobia”; instead, it is preserving the American tradition of responsible institutions and national integrity.

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

I have respect for billionaires who built their fortunes by creating value for society.

I have zero respect for career politicians and unelected bureaucrats who have never created anything of value, and exist as parasites sucking the value out of productive people.