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Last Notes npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss cool, will check it out, thanks npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss above my paygrade npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Grok npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss The point of the post isn't that Team Good IS good, it's that it's what people think is good. On nostr, they think being above it all is good. I'm saying, neither is good. It's just what the dominant ethos of good is on the various platforms. And that there is one. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss On legacy social media Team Good was mostly leftist/corporate HR-think. On Nostr Team Good is libertarian-above-it-all platitude-think. This is not to say whether one set of values is better or worse per se. Only that, effective or not, none of you (and not me either) represent the “good” no matter how many pats on the back you receive. Best one can do is aim for truth and let the chips fall. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Maybe this post will age poorly, but I feel I’ve been through the worst of the fourth turning (for me) already, that for me it’s already turning around. For normies, the worst might be yet to come. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I don't know. He also talked solo for 2 hours, zero back and forth. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss don’t know what that is npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I would buy it #note1w3j…uh0l npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss In Portugal, they’re very fond of these soggy, overripe persimmons, and I’ve gotten hooked on them. Problem is every time you bring them home from the farmer’s market, they get crushed in the bag and spill out everywhere. Had no choice but to eat three of them just now, mixed in with yogurt. They are the size of large apples. But I had no choice. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Yeah, we’ll see. Lots of malefactors still running around not just for covid too. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss it's happening as they revise the childhood schedule first, small steps to deprogram people from seeing it as a religious rite. Once the deprogramming succeeds, and they are judged on the merits, it will be like an avalanche. I don’t think they can put the genie back in the bottle. Too many people know, and once the taboo has been broken… we’ll see. Maybe not quite Nuremberg, but I don’t see how they avoid some kind of reckoning. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss gravy train to Nuremberg? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Yeah something’s weird. First thought was who would want anything to do with that? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Just hate putting the 25KG ones in the luggage #nevent1q…pyuz npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Often I wake up and see no way I can get anything useful or difficult done. It’s like I’m paralyzed into doomscrolling and thinking and theorizing, and doing anything is impossible, just too daunting. It’s like Xeno’s Paradox, to move one foot, you have to move six inches, and to move six inches you have to move three, and to move three you have to move 1.5, and so on. There are an infinite number of steps you’d have to take, so you can never cross the chasm from thought into action. And then I put on my running shoes and walk out the door. There is no bridge from the mind into the world of action except action. To refute Xeno’s paradox you could argue the limit as the denominator heads to infinity is zero, or you can just take a step. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss One might argue — wait, you can break the rules if there’s sufficient urgency to do so? So force-vaccinating people and locking them down was cool because of the scary *pandemic*? No! If you break the rules, you had better be correct. There was no science to justify lockdowns, no precedent to quarantining healthy people, no double-blind placebo controlled studies for ANY vaccine let alone this novel mRNA product that turned out not even to stop the spread. And in breaking the rules you MUST do so in the least invasive, most judicious way possible, e.g, extracting Maduro, not destroying Iraq. But how do we know in advance? Well, we knew the science was fake in advance, and the measures were extreme, unprecedented and unsupported by evidence. But to some extent, we really don’t know in advance. The mark of a great leader is to know when to break the rules and when not to, and if you break them, only break them to the minimum extent necessary. But if we don’t know, and we can’t formulate a rule how do we know if the action is justified? We don’t. Being a leader requires taking a chance sometimes, and if you get something wrong, error correcting quickly and decisively, something that did not happen with Covid. It would be great if there were just a rule book you could follow in all cases and we could consult it to see whether something applied or not. But I’m talking about cases in which the book in on fire, and in any event, no book can contain the complexity of real life. #nevent1q…a4qr npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss right, kind of looks like that had already happened npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Yes, you had better be right. And it had better be the case that what you did was necessary due to the corrosion and corruption of those institutions that are no longer serving their intended mission. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Feels like Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is more relevant than ever. You can be tolerant, but if you tolerate intolerance, tolerance is gone. So you must not tolerate intolerance. When people complain (and I have in the past) about El Salvador almost certainly violating rights (even gang members are innocent until proven guilty), you get to a contradiction: if the tolerant system wherein everyone gets full due process under the law has been destroyed and abused beyond recognition, then you might have to use supra-constitutional force. If a neighboring country is actively harming and undermining your own, you might have to use force that violates its sovereignty. Whether El Salvador was really in such a situation (I’ve never been there), I don’t know for sure. I can only go by what I read online. And whether Maduro was really doing everything he’s alleged to have done and it had a material impact on the security of our votes or the health of our citizens, I don’t know. Governments who want to use these extra-legal powers to achieve desired ends are notoriously deceitful and self-serving in the justifications for their actions. But it’s naive and misguided IMO not to acknowledge the principle in itself: namely, that if circumstances are such that the institutions themselves are no longer capable of delivering justice and/or protecting the liberty of the people, then you cannot restrict your actions to what’s legal within their own rules. You must make an exception and be intolerant to this intolerance. It cannot be correct that one should rely on the courts to ensure due process or comply with international law if those institutions are coopted and broken. The question as to whether Bukele in ES or Trump in seizing Maduro were justified in doing what they did can and should be argued. That Trump says so is obviously not good enough. But what I see now is people who believe that even if Venezuela were deliberately and materially harming the US that Trump needed to play within the rules even if the harms done were set up to circumvent them. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss There’s no such thing as capitalism. There’s just voluntary exchange among human beings and involuntary coercion. You get to pick which model you prefer, but if you pick the coercion one, you only get to pick once. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Rough day for those who think elections don’t matter: https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/7d70c115819e4fcc3f4e90b30fc2bc7705ba504bfd175691034cf6d88b175a15.webp npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss maybe I should try to define every word in the English language from first principles, fail, find the language wanting and never speak again? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss the meaning of what I wrote is clear — you are free to disagree with it, but endless semantic pedantry isn’t moving the needle for me. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I'm not denouncing ALL generalizations only the lazy ones I’m seeing trotted out in response to current events. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss sorry, not seeing it npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss That could be. I had read the US has the kind of refineries to process it, but who knows? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I read that Venezuela's vast oil reserves have not really been developed, and that the regime was siphoning off the 15 percent that it had developed for itself and its cronies, basically transnational criminal organizations, while impoverishing the people. So the US will come in with its oil companies and over a few years get it up to speed and extract/make good use of its plentiful and valuable reserves. I would expect *some* of the profits therefrom to flow to the locals, and conditions there to improve, maybe substantially since it’s starting at a low point. But I very much doubt the locals will see the lion’s share of it — I’d expect most of the wealth to flow to oil companies and the American government entities cutting them in on the deal. I could be wrong about all of this, of course, I get my information from the internet like everyone else. But I see it playing out mostly as a benefit to certain US factions, the US economy to some extent and the Venezuelan economy to some lesser extent. The other big issues with Venezuela are the drug cartel/rogue CIA/foreign intelligence agencies that were benefitting, and if what I’ve gathered is true, they will be disrupted/damaged by this. And Venezuela’s alleged involvement (with rogue CIA and foreign intelligence) in stealing US (and other countries’) elections. If Maduro really does have intel on this and spills the beans, that too would be seismic result of his capture. Draw your own conclusions as to whether this is true, and if so whether that makes Maduro’s capture a good thing. I tend to think it’s net positive and might be, but of course it could also go very wrong. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I'm not making a generalization except about generalizations themselves. I’m saying each geopolitical event is unique, to take them case by case. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Don’t confuse weakness or ineffectiveness with virtue. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Real man has access to minimum three freezing lakes. Had a higher opinion of you before this post. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss NP — appreciate the apology. (Only thing rarer than bitcoin!) npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss The stalest genre of geopolitcal analysis is the one-note retards who see EVERYTHING as “this is a distraction,” “this is another neo-con forever war,” “this is done at Netanyahu’s behest,” “this is more of the same” no matter what happens. That’s not to say that these conclusions couldn’t be correct in any given case — they might, and surely they have at times in the past — but applying them lazily to EVERY case is retarded. The world-weary “I told you so” mantra in the face of ANY development is a tell a person hasn’t looked into what’s going on, and just wants to sound savvy to others. You are under no obligation to pay attention to geopolitics — maybe you’d even be better off hiking in the mountains and swimming in freezing lakes. But if you’re not paying attention except to headlines and hot takes, why make the discourse dumber? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss If you can’t enforce it, it’s not real npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss No idea maybe they were never credible. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss but those institutions are no longer credible npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Don’t think there really is a such thing as “international law” except insofar it’s used against powerless countries to punish them. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss usually the case npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss It's obviously wrong to break into someone's home, but if a guy shoots a few people, then goes home, the police are justified in breaking in if he won’t voluntarily go outside and surrender. It’s obviously wrong to break into a sovereign country and capture its leader, but if that leader has done something to warrant it, has been asked to surrender himself and refuses, it would be justified. Did Maduro’s behavior justify this? I don’t know. Government allegations are not proven facts. So we’ll see (or we may not see.) But that the US went in and arrested him isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It might be, and it might not. What would be a bad thing unequivocally is if the US invaded Venezuela and killed a million people because it wanted to get Maduro. That would be very bad. Kind of like what the FBI did in Waco, Texas when they wanted to get David Koresh. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss lot of reporting done (no idea if it’s true) that Venezuela (believed it or not) was the epicenter of 2020 election fraud, not just for US but other countries too. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss seems more apt, but it’s not the one being cited by the biggest pearl clutchers npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I don’t know whether taking out Maduro was good policy or bad, time will tell. I do know for sure people comparing it to invading Iraq and killing 1M people to take out Saddam Hussein are retarded. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Why are you incapable of discussing something without accusing the person with whom you are discussing it as “simping” for war criminals and mass murderers? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss All governments fascist in that they use top-down coercion to achieve their agendas. Legitimate governments use only the minimum top-down coercion to perpetuate conditions for bottom-up prosperity which is the ONLY kind of prosperity. If there is rampant murder and gang violence in say El Salvador, the fascist government uses top-down coercion to remove it and bottom-up prosperity is possible. Unless it goes too far and becomes the impediment itself. So government is “fascist” yet can be necessary the way medicine is, only insofar as it’s used to facilitate natural healing and never more than that. I was thinking this might also apply to foreign intervention, i.e., war. War is always a breach of sovereignty, but is only legitimate when the minimal use of force is used for its objective. The problem with government and war (and medicine) is humans are very bad at limiting force only to the minimum amount necessary. But the alternative is also untenable — not using force even when force is necessary. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss They didn’t attack Venezuela either. They just captured Maduro. Did Maduro commit crimes against the US that warranted his capture? We’ll see, npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss there might be one, we'll see npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Same people who said bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to a ground invasion, Iraq 2.0! and WWIII! are reprising the same tired hysteria to Venezuela. They say bets are a tax on bullshit, and I’m happy to bet some sats on this if anyone wants to take the other side. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss incorporate the robbery/kidnapping/murder into your trip — will make it more intense, find out what you’re really about! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I've argued with them, got them to concede the error, but then they made more errors. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Had this thought that someone (funds/nation states) is simultaneously losing money on purpose to short bitcoin/keep the price in this range and buying large sums of it OTC at these prices. IOW, you pay the $10M a day or whatever it costs to keep the price in the 80s, and you buy 1-10K coins/day at a small premium to spot OTC. If you didn’t pay to short the spot price, the OTC price would be much higher. When there are no more OGs unloading OTC, they will pull the short and price discovery will return. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Almost everything npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss seems like manipulation, too tight to be organic npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss the range-bound price action is fake as fuck npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss My friend injured his Achilles heel, was walking around in a boot. I asked him: “Would you say that’s your Achilles heel?” npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I go there way more than that. Actually far less annoying now that I’m not paying for it. But it really should be done 1-2x a day to try and discern some signal. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss It’s intermittent, like some posts get no views, but others have more reach than was previously possible. Either way the check was a worse scam than Somali daycare centers! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss think you'll be okay if there's a toilet nearby npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Maybe the reason they were so slow to go after the daycare fraud is most of the medical system in general is fraud. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss when EU capitulates probably npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss they can’t pay it back now without risking systemic collapse apparently npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Appreciate this idea of block time being a framework to understand the nature of time itself (which is impossible to do directly given any measurement of it takes too much time) and the implications this would have for quantum computing and the FUD comcomitant to it. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Ever feel like you’re just going around in circles? #nevent1q…w9ax npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Why you shouldn't listen to football experts -- same reason centralized planners always fuck things up. https://v.nostr.build/IuxGNa9kyJNTZh54.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss New Real Man Sports podcast: https://rumble.com/v7356fu-week-16.html excerpt: https://v.nostr.build/6dEySpteXkWhdfEB.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Just asked Grok whether this was true, it said no, then I asked it for the area of an infinity many sided polygon with radius 1, and it said π and conceded. #nevent1q…uleq npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss A circle is just a polygon with infinitely many sides. Prove me wrong. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Which is totally fine of course, but also just another belief you have. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss This is axiomatically correct. And there are religious traditions (particularly eastern ones) where doubt is the path. Total doubt, not just of religion, not just of atheism, but of everything. Doubt of the “I” that pops up in your mind out of habit. Doubt of words that one uses to name one’s feelings. There is nothing “wrong” with believing the Bible. There is nothing right about it. It’s just another belief that is also subject to doubt. We don’t know shit. And we don’t even know that we don’t know shit. Doubt that too. #nevent1q…va7s npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss covid vaccine side effects remind me of when I used to collect baseball cards in the 1990s. All the companies came out with these sets where there were special “rare” cards, say 1 in 500 of a player that would be signed by him or have a little piece of his jersey or baseball bat (some shards) attached. Out of the pack these were worth like $500 back then, so you were playing the lottery by buying them. After a while, though, you realized that so many companies were issuing so many sets that these “rare” cards were actually not so rare. They could just issue a new premium “glossy” set with the same dynamic. So every year, there were like 30 different sets, each with this “rare” version for each star player. That’s when I stopped buying them and wished I had spent the money on cards that were actually rare from the 50s and 60s. Each side effect could be unlikely in particular person, but collectively it’s not rare at all. And even the particular ones aren’t nearly as rare as they should be. Incidentally this lesson re the cards also kept me away from shitcoins which is the same principle. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss classic overestimation of the State and its competence. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss yes npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Imagine you were totally surveilled but did not know it. Lived your life as freely as if no one were watching. Contrast that with living your life as though totally surveilled even though no one were actually watching. Just passive data collection in which no one was interested in you particularly. Yet you were super careful just in case, made sure not to post anything controversial under your own name. You could say the first person is naive, that it’ll come back to bite them. But the second person is already in a prison of his own construction whether the threat turns out to be real or not. By contrast, the best way to imprison someone is to do so while encouraging him to believe he’s free. That way he never tries to escape. The one who knows he’s in prison must be held there by force. So there are four possibilities: 1. Believe you’re free, you are free. 2. Believe you’re free, but adopt all the dogmas and limitations as instructed, become the most easily jailed. 3. Believe you’re unfree, force the jailers to expend maximum energy to keep you captive. 4. Believe you’re unfree when you are actually free, jail yourself. The psyop pushes people to 2 (normies) and (4) paranoiacs. But you really want to toggle between 1 and 3, wherein you live your life without worry and to the extent you personally are involved in some totalitarianism (e..g, covid), you are non-compliant and therefore expensive to those foisting compliance on you. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss haha — I’d buy anything at this point myself npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss excerpt 2: https://v.nostr.build/WYfh7nTgLMA4yFS9.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss New podcast: https://rumble.com/v72vrou-extent-of-the-theft.html Excerpt: https://v.nostr.build/5F75nzkzmRcgxvxY.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss No, the laws against murder are clear, obvious and just, provided due process is in place. But if it’s speech, then it’s for the citizens themselves to handle. The Constitution accounts for all of this. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss The argument is not whether in that instance the speech is harmful -- it surely is. The argument is whether we tolerate that harm vs allowing bureaucrats to use that harm to silence dissent. I would punch that guy in the face, and he could sue me, or I could be prosecuted, and when the facts came out, I’d probably be let off with the most lenient sentence for doing so. But we don’t want the state weighing in on the speech. We as individuals can shame people for bad speech or even get violent, if necessary, but the government MUST stay out of it for society to be livable. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss New Real Man Sports podcast: https://rumble.com/v72ulx0-week-15.html excerpt (about Shadeur Sanders) https://v.nostr.build/CnLKYdKVPGR2CviZ.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Was gonna post questioning why people in the UK are tolerating this insanity from their government, but I know some Brits who are fine with it and think I get why. They are the people with all the correct beliefs. They believed in funding Ukraine, in taking the mRNA of course, in gun control. They already enforce a strict adherence to rightthink lest they be socially excommunicated which for them seems worse than death. So if they’ve already gone that far to police themselves, they have zero concern about being arrested for posting something. In fact, their right-think is a testimony to their place in society. The people who might run afoul of the authorities are low class or idiots who should know better. Maybe arrest is extreme, but no worse in their minds than the social excommunication they most fear. Even speaking up about it would risk social condemnation, and since they’re NEVER going to be the target of this, why risk it? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Didn’t realize @npub1lrn…qnw5 was being serious. #nevent1q…nhqr npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss haha, can't say, don’t follow him, but funny if true. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I think the effective tax rate on productive people is probably north of 90 percent when you include Federal, state, city, sales, capital gains (which has already been income taxed) and property tax (property that was bought with after-tax dollars.) Then you factor in the inflation (debasement) tax (2-10 percent, depending on how you measure it) and also the (38T!) national debt for which you are on the hook in terms of future inflation. Basically, I think it’s probably the case that 90 percent of the nation’s productive capacity is flat out stolen and redistributed via government programs and NGOs to allies of the regime. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Gonna create a nostr nym under which I’ll post GM, pura vida and other kumbaya shit so no one will ever be able to link me to it IRL. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss everyone is persuaded it's not worth the risk, and freedom of speech dies npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss A person who would say anything she was told to say, zero conscience beyond approval from her social and professional orbit. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss real talk! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss We're having our annual Christmas party this year. Wife and daughter are in charge of the invite list. I just go to the farmer’s market and buy the ingredients for large cauldrons of beef stew I make — one of them with chilis, the other mild. Anyway, it’s this Saturday, and was driving with my 13-YO daughter, asked her which of her friends she invited. (Thought she’d say like 4-5 people.) She rattled off a list of 15-20 people. Our apartment is comfortable for three of us, but it’s not especially large. So I asked my wife how many people she invited? She said she’s sure a lot of them won’t come even though she says that every year, and every year almost all of them do. Then she says, I’m sure they’ll be staggered, not all there at once. Again, not true from my experience as EVERYONE is there at around 9- 10 pm. Last year, the kids all had to go out to a small local part because it was too insanely crowded. This year, I expect 30-40 percent more people than last, especially kids. Wife who gets more stressed out by hosting than I do, I’m realizing, is in total denial too. Will be interesting to see how it plays out. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Yes, but pseudonymity only allows you to say “illegal things” without getting caught. The goal is to make it illegal to punish people for speech and for that you need enough people to say things under their real names. I have no problem with people saying things without getting caught, but IMO the ethos that ends this is enough people with their real names attached telling them to fuck off. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Great way to steal a car too #note18mj…a40s npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss the camera is a nice touch npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss at least know you're at a store #nevent1q…2egp npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Was gonna go out and do something today, but this post really inspired me, and now I’m good. Sorry to be a bit of a troll, but there is really nothing that can be said that can cross the gulf between reading online and action. Basically, ANYTHING you read online is just reading online. There is no advice anyone can give, no analogy anyone can make. As soon as you open the browser you are toast. And if you’re reading this, too late! #nevent1q…dalx npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss yeah, this ain’t stealing a loaf of brad npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss apparently! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss can't be that much money for a low-level drug-runner npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Kind of dubious about this new pipe bomber, some Antifa lunatic. Too on the nose, too convenient after they ID’d that former capitol police officer/current CIA woman last month whose alibi was she was playing with her dogs. Was it just a coincidence some rando placed pipe bombs during the Jan 6 op? I shouldn’t even post about this because the number of conspiracy theory rabbit holes just makes my head hurt. It’s like nothing official ever happens that makes sense. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss New Real Man Sports Podcast with my friend who turned 50 today: https://rumble.com/v72ljjk-week-14.html excerpt: https://v.nostr.build/82DeHhO72UnaiTHR.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss new podcast: https://rumble.com/v72l8z6-sour-grapes.html excerpt: https://v.nostr.build/drZ4v9B7kpFglTEs.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss People are like: “Fix the money, fix the world.” And “MSTR is a shitcoin, it creates nothing of value.” Dude, MSTR is raking in billions in fiat every week and converting it sound money. It’s telling the normies, you might not believe in sovereign money, but if you use your fiat to buy some, I’ll give you 10 percent tax deferred forever. IOW, he is building a tool to get normies to put their fiat toward sound money whether they believe in, understand or are interested in it or not. Naive retards are like, “we just have to get the average person to understand the perils of fiat money creation and the downstream effects.” The average person does not give a fuck and cannot be bothered. You must offer people what is in their interest, not convince them that it is “morally” right. In fact, seeing fiat/bitcoin as a *moral* question is a real impediment IMO. People, being retarded, want to believe they are “good”. So just like some neoliberal who hates “transphobes” and loves oppressed people and illegal immigrants in order to feel good about himself, even the bitcoiner fancies himself “good” for loving sound money and rejecting fiat. You are not “good” for being on Team bitcoin or Team Jesus or Team Gay or whatever. It’s all fake and pathetic. You are not good for your “correct” beliefs or your lack of wrongthink. That is all just some bullshit you tell yourself to prop yourself up. It’s fake. The reasons for wanting sound money to prevail are not because that makes you a “good” person. It’s because it is in your self interest to live in a thriving, prosperous society where value is exchanged voluntarily and based on merit. One where governments and NGOs are not siphoning off some giant percentage of the energy to control and destroy you. It is in your interest. IMO, MSTR is one of the biggest catalysts toward that interest. I could be wrong, of course, but if I am wrong, it’s not because “fiat = bad, and stocks are fiat.” Of that I’m certain. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Disagree — there is a lot of value, I’d bet eventually most valuable company in the world, in converting the old system to the new. What he’s doing is saying, “I know many people don’t have the conviction in the asset that I have, so here’s what I’ll do — pay you 10 percent tax deferred interest — way better than a bank — and take the 30 percent per average year gains and take on the volatility.” What that does is hasten the transition as billions (eventually trillions) in normie money flows into BTC without having to convince them of its value proposition. He’s built a massive adapter from one system to another without which the flows would be delayed by years or maybe decades. People aren’t going to do it for the sovereign money, but they will do it for a better return. If you are against the fiat system and its nth order effects, you should be rooting for Saylor IMO, not against him.