But...bbut...does not matter what party you vote for in the U.S., none of them are going to end welfare, SS, or funding pensions. They'll just keep printing moar fiat to pay into it.

The Republicans won't end it.

The Democrats for shit won't end it.

The only party that has a snowball's chance in hell to end it, the Libertarian party, no one will vote into office.

Not to mention, the vast majority of Boomers I have met in my lifetime said that they voted against the raising of taxes (through parties or reps) at every step in their lives. But with such a corrupt political system, they were going to go up regardless.

Hawaii, but then you have to deal with the volcano situation.

I'd look at southern states like Alabama, Louisiana, or Tennessee. Maybe Utah as well, they are fairly pro-Libertarian.

"Asset price inflation". Aka "Minsky Melt-up".

Don't you just love all these guys that rage quit BTC for some shitcoin fork(ABC, BCH, BSV), but still deeply care about Bitcoin's future price development?

The U.S. stock market so divorced from underlying fundamentals it's not even funny anymore.

That's entirely possible, the whole market just feels lifeless.

No real volume of players in this market rn, in fact haven't been since last year. They sold in May and went away.

I don't forsee any action until later in the year.

Can't wait to see how this is going to go over in Japan or France, lol

OT - Police story time:

"There's a case from Georgia from a few years ago - and down in the same area where Arbaury (sp) was "hunted like an animal" - of a white man killed in a mistaken no-knock raid, just like Breonna Taylor in Louisville.  Cops kicked in his door in the middle of the night and the man had the nerve to dare to defend his home, got shot multiple times.  And nobody in the media here or nationally gave a damn about it.  The man's name was David Hooks in Dublin, GA, if you want to look it up. A meth addict had stolen a car from Hook's home and got caught in it by police in possession of drugs. The addict claimed the drugs were in the car when he stole it, and that was the reasoning the police took to raid Hooks' home. After they raided the house and killed him, they found exactly ZERO drugs anywhere on the property."

And this event never made it to the front page of *any* MSM website at the time. Why?  

Yep, just like you said, police situations like this one happen nearly every week somewhere in America, or somewhere in the world.

The difference is that the MSM has the power to *choose* whether or not to keep media coverage of those events repressed/invisible, or bubble them up to the surface (front page) at just the right moment. They also have the power to then hype it into the stratosphere.

Would the MSM highlighting this police situation have worked as well if done last year, or the year before that, or the year before that? Would it have made the same impact on the public?

Nope. Because everyone had a job then, unemployment was at an all time low, people were being told the world economies were recovering, and the stock market was flying to new ATHs. The powers that be know not to piss on that parade while positive sentiment is ripping higher and higher. Best to wait until after the crash to fan the flames of racism, social injustice and inequality, which are always there under the surface, waiting to come roaring out again.

The people are constantly being played like a fiddle, and it seems to work every single time. We've seen FUD work to crash the Bitcoin market, and to increase the ongoing bear market. Why then people can't see the same forces at work in the larger world, I can't understand.

To paraphrase Satoshi, "If people can't see it for themselves, I don't have time to explain it to them".

FTFY. Doesn't ID the person behind the wallets. And also here's the thing about that "feature"...

This exposes the truth right there, that Covid-19 lockdowns were political/agenda-driven. Because risk of transmission isn't selective.

I hate it when people make broad statements like this and just walk away.

Care to explain what you mean in more detail?

Exactly, Mark gives absolutely no evidence or even detailed opinion to support why it's "not fungible" and "can't be a replacement for the current system."

But I know why. He's just a mouthpiece for the system. Because 90% of Bitcoin is already in the hands of people outside the "system", and that's why they don't want to use it.

The banking institution(s) that are literally fucking over every person in the world are now virtue signaling.

Condescending and ironic doesn't even begin to describe this.

Don't get me wrong, I love the (meaningful) protesting, I love the energy and spirit, really I do.

But as always with youth, the energy is always misdirected to a place where it will do little good.

Instead of marching on Washington D.C. en mass and going for the national "photo op", have 10K+ people instead march directly to the street of each of their respective Senators' houses. Camp out on their front lawn (figuratively of course), block their street with a list of specific demands, and tell their Senators that if they don't help draft and pass legislation to change those things, they are voted out in the next election.

If protesters aren't affecting or inconveniencing the Senators' lives directly in some way, nothing will change. Senators probably don't even have time to watch TV, so with a march on Washington they can just choose ignore it.

Seriously I gotta ask, how old you?

Look up "Million Man March". Happened 25 years ago.

And guess what? Nothing changed after that. Nothing. In fact things got worse.

"But this time things are different".

I heard their accounting dept wrote down your coffee purchase as 5000 sold.

Jobs report negative, stock market soars.

Jobs report positive, stock market soars moar.

Fiat printer goes brrr.

Such sophisticate.

Bear whales right now