Lying only exists if something's that's spoken of is demonstrably untrue with intent. In fact, a lot of peoples' lies aren't actually lies. They're mistakes from being uninformed thus there isn't any intent to say something that's false. Ignorance is human nature more than anything.

Lying is part of a politician's nature, though 

They have the perfect opportunity. Ron DeSantis, former U.S. armed forces member and Harvard Law graduate. Someone that's actually competent. I'm worried that the neo-MAGA minority of the Republican party will elect Trump in 2024 to be the nominee. DeSantis might not even run if Trump is on the ballet because Trump usually destroys anything and everything that opposes him. So he'd be willing to destroy one of the best potential Republican nominees if it meant he could have his way.

Biden won the election barely sentient. Trump should have won this walking away even with his normal antics. But as I mentioned, the propaganda arm of the democratic party (ie nearly all MSM organizations) was too powerful. They have too much sway in these elections and have nailed the propaganda wars down to a meticulous science.

I remember when George Floyd had his run with fentanyl laced pills causing his demise, how the MSM demonized Trump for enforcing law and order after left wing domestic terrorists began to torch cities in the name social justice. If the media can fool the average American that violence and lawlessness is okay as long as it's in remembrance for a BLM martyr, they're dangerous entity that deserves scorn and contempt. That might say a lot about the American populace, being so malleable to the MSM narrative put in front of them, but propaganda is effective, even on an educated demographic. That's why it's dangerous.

The Democratic Media Industrial Complex is a powerful machine, and it works. Some voters feel buyers remorse, at least that's what they're telling the pollsters. Biden's polling numbers are abhorrent.

It just means they were duped into thinking orange Hitler and his mean tweets were the end of civilized society; and the only way out was to vote for democratic politicians that were going to use the government to fix all their problems. Trump wasn't wise enough to circumvent their tactics.

Russia didn't expect the international response nor did they expect such high resistance from the Ukrainians. This was supposed to be easy. Putin is also approaching senility. When has a dementia ridden leader been successful at war?

Also recall this proposition: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/india-budget-proposed-a-30percent-tax-on-digital-asset-income.html

India wanted to tax crypto at 30 percent. Not exactly a coincidence. The general flow of events is demonize/spread misinformation of crypto first. When that doesn't work, they will force compliance through regulatory governance and high tax rates. End goal is to prop up fiat, and CBDC's will eventually replace fiats as it allows for easier control of the money supply and more reliance of citizens on government.

You seem to be approaching the education from a technical perspective and I'd agree that's important, but I'd also implement basic economic theory into the discussion; some teachings that might include decentralization as it relates to the economy would be useful.

Bitcoin is a currency, after all. The technical hurdle is one to overcome, but it seems as if most people don't understand why an economic system rooted in decentralization would be more favorable for economic growth than a system of top-down government control.

I'm sure their logic involves the anonymity of crypto being used to evade law enforcement, and acts as a prison sentence enhancer. That is to say, these folks believe crypto currency is inherently anonymous (not entirely true) and that a criminal using crypto currency makes that person even more nefarious.

You can tell these folks don't like crypto, clearly.

AI is so far off that you won't need to worry about robots replacing humans any time soon. Those 60 million jobs that were lost were transformed into new jobs. As technology advances, so does the skillsets required to make a competitive wage. You can't merely use the exact same skill set over decades without making adaptions consistent with technological innovation.

Once we get to the point of true AI and human replacement, then you might worry. UBI is up for discussion.

EU & NA countries had inflation issues prior to the war because of irresponsible COVID policy and money printing. Bitcoin's deflationary by nature, and normally the price of goods should be controlled strictly by free market supply and demand. The problem with COVID involved the government stepping in and creating debt for themselves by stimulating the economy through money printing. Increase the money supply, and the demand will increase. If a country, hypothetically, were using a crypto currency based system, they'd think twice about locking down the entire economy because they don't have the ability to lend themselves free cash.

So you would expect prices to soar if Bitcoin was the main central currency in any country, but you'd also expect those prices to reasonably stabilize/decrease following supply normalization. Inflation is the rate of price increases so even if the war is resolved and the supply chain is corrected, the money's already been printed. The prices don't go back down.

Targeted inflation rate is at 2% every year. The least Bitcoin would do is not lower your purchasing power by 2%.

California wants to embrace crypto currency and regulate it...I am skeptical. How often have government regulations been taken too far and caused deleterious effects because of incompetence or power hungry politicians looking for control? They might try lowering their tax rate if they were serious about being a cryptocurrency hub. But they need all the tax revenue they can get so they can waste it on government bureaucracy.


Newsome will take a good headline when he can get it considering his poll numbers are in the gutter.

Bitcoin promotes freedom, but it isn't an absolute path to freedom. You're still subject to the jurisdiction of your local government. Right now you're witnessing the attempt of most governments to regulate bitcoin by requiring registration information of miners and crypto users or taxing it at exorbitant rates. Bitcoin makes financial regulations easier to circumvent, but again, you're bound by law. Now, you're not bound by the government's poor decision to handle monetary policy, though. Whatever your local government might do to drive the currency into the ground has no consequence to a self reliant crypto user.

Rather a moot point. Of course thrombosis is rare. Thrombosis was an unforeseen consequence from the alleged Safe and Effective™ vaccine. FDA uses VAERS, something only the conspiratards used, to demonstrate negative health outcomes of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The vaccine clinical trials did not offer long term data; it was irresponsible to suggest every 5+ year old receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

By the way, therapeutics get pulled from the market all the time for causing severe negative health outcomes or death. You don't talk about mass vaccination and make the concession that some portion of the population will die as a result of the vaccine as a silver lining. That's insanity. When therapeutics are causing people to die, they get pulled from the market immediately. It's not a success story that *only* a small portion of the population died as a result of vaccination.

Mass vaccination was an experiment. No reason to get vaccinated if you've already had COVID. No reason for the young and healthy to get vaccinated. They knew that. Anyone who had seen the data was fully aware.

Breaking: FDA limits EUA on J&J vaccine citing blood clot concerns.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-limits-use-janssen-covid-19-vaccine-certain-individuals

Not shocking at all, FDA cites VAERS (the so called unreliable self reporting system) as their evidence for increased thrombosis risk according to their fact sheet: https://www.fda.gov/media/146304/download

"Safe and effective," the experts alleged, without long term safety data or any analysis of the relative risk of COVID-19 for the young and healthy versus the relative risk of potential side effects.

IMO the lists of challenges people face are so large that climate change is near the bottom. I don't disagree that it's a hurdle but the public perception challenge for Bitcoin is the volatility, and that only can get solved with mass adoption. If Bitcoin could be ran off of cow dung and hamster wheels, I'd imagine a hamster rights advocacy group would come out of the woodwork to advocate for hamsters' rights to spite crypto. It's never just about saving the environment, it's about pushing an anti-crypto agenda.

Gender neutral terms now conflating leftist politics and basic biology. Bizarre.

Your article cites this important story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10449589/Clay-County-school-suit-update.html:

12 year old attempts suicide by hanging twice after 'months of secret meetings about her gender identity'.

This is really only the beginning. The indoctrination campaign of the left is rooted in shoving their politics down other peoples' throat, including children. It won't be years until the pendulum swings back. Woke gender theory will be viewed the same as lobotomies some number of decades from now. The only issue is how many lives will irreversibly be damaged before such nonsense stops.

15% volatility is still significant. It's not particularly safe even if you can truly predict the market because of the inherent risk involved. If there's mass adoption one can reasonably expect the volatility swings to decrease, but until we get there, it's one of the major challenges crypto currency faces. I don't think people can adopt crytpo currency with the expectation they must predict the market in order to protect their purchasing power.

They've used this excuse before because it's palatable to most people that don't think past what the government tells them. Most people are willing to give up most of their liberties in the name of safety, so any false promises that the government produces will be done under the name of safety, including crypto regulation. Some European nations have invoked the same arguments citing terrorism as their reason for regulating crypto currency, when no such evidence exists of widespread crypto use amongst these people. They're just interested in the tax money.

Bitcoin doesn't have to use renewable energy sources as long as it remains energy efficient relative to any other financial systems. The question of energy consumption isn't premised on anything other than hyperactivity for the green sectors (financially motivated actors, is my guess) or the usual green sector hippies that wants the world to sacrifice energy consumption for the sake of saving some endangered species of giraffe in a place no one has heard of. The latter folks don't encompass crypto's main critics, to be fair.


The attacks would continue even if crypto currency were completely sustainable. Out of all the angles to attack crypto, energy consumption is by far the weakest and most illogical. Don't expect these people to be arguing in good faith.

First of all, limit any social media activity. The depression and suicide rates of children growing up in developed worlds are partly blamed on social media. I'm sure there'll be psychology studies that demonstrate the long term negative effects of social media within the next decades as the current generation of children grow up with universal internet access, but take my word for it that there is no net benefit of children using social media unfettered. If you want children to be thick skinned, try not sending them to an indoctrination camp (aka most modern liberal arts institutions of higher learning).

Wikipedia's also has been censoring a lot of content as of the last few years. They seem to taking the woke stance most corporations are, placing sustainability and "green energy" above all else.


Seems to be the root of most virtue signaling. Displaying sanctimony to create a false impression that they're the good guys. Meanwhile, the financial hit they take from eliminating cryptocurrency is <0.10%. Give it some time and I'm sure they will reverse their position as crypto becomes more mainstream and acceptable as a payment method.

Wikipedia still accepts paypal, by the way. Talk about "inherently predatory."