Did you notice that before Australia, Canada and the UK went full Nazi, they first banned the guns? They knew exactly what they were doing, and they disarmed their people in advance of enacting policies that would enslave them.
That's why We the People of the USA must NEVER, literally NEVER, not under any circumstances, give up our right to own and bear firearms, including arm braces, suppressors, SBRs, binary triggers and all the other firearms and components in common use today. Because if you start giving away your right to be armed, that's exactly when the government decides you need to go to prison for walking in a forest, or if you condemn illegals who commit violence, or if you hold a "Palestine" sign in a city park, or even if you are just defending your own property against looters or home invaders.
The entire world should have a Second Amendment. Every citizen on planet Earth deserves the right to defend themselves against violent crime and runaway tyranny. Our Founding Fathers knew precisely why the Second Amendment was such an important confirmation of the universal, natural law right to self-defense. It's not about hunting deer. It's about freedom from tyrants.
Honest question to all BTC holders. Doesn't it seem like Satoshi would be very unhappy with the idea that the US Treasury can print unlimited fiat, use that fiat to buy stablecoins, then swap stablecoins for Bitcoin? Doesn't this mean that even though the coin limit of BTC is 21 million, there are no limits on how many dollars can be printed and directed into the BTC demand side to artificially pump up the price of BTC beyond its actual organic demand? This is my biggest concern about crypto today: How it has been co-opted by governments and Big Finance, including the Treasury and potentially the Fed. Many of the largest Bitcoin holders in the world are now governments, including the U.S. government which mostly acquired Bitcoin by stealing it from Bitcoin holders. If they can benefit from pumping up the price of Bitcoin with fiat dollars, then dumping Bitcoin at some point to get a dollar return to pay off maturing Treasury debt, why wouldn't they do that? It seems like an obvious ploy from a dishonest institution (i.e. the government, ANY government). Bitcoin was supposed to be about DECENTRALIZATION from government fiat currency and dollar control. But increasingly, it has MERGED with that system. Surely I'm not the only one concerned about this? What do you think about all this? How do liberty-minded individuals truly opt out of fiat currency manipulation of the value of everything?
I entered a dollar store yesterday for the first time in years, and I was struck by how nearly EVERYTHING sold there causes diabetes, cancer, heart disease, obesity and other chronic degenerate diseases. As long as low-cost box stores are selling 99% toxic crap, America will not be healthy. But the bizarre part is that low-information Americans keep BUYING all that crap! So of course the retailers restock the things that consumers want to buy.
