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Tommy "The Purchase"

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2026-02-12 11:43:11 UTC

A lecture full of fun, if sad, anecdotes about monopoly, competition, regulation, and a little government violence.
Consider this tidbit: Imagine an airplane built in 1920 and compare it to one built in 1970.
Then become aware of the fact that there were more commercial airlines in the United States in the 1920s than in the 1970s. 😄
https://youtu.be/mwH8unDcdMY

2026-02-11 20:47:17 UTC

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Nah man, I only got to 23 and just extrapolated from there

2026-02-11 18:35:02 UTC

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Oh! Right, a sats billionaire, that took me ages to understand 😂

2026-02-11 07:53:12 UTC

Riddle me this
https://blossom.primal.net/9d13a4fb71d83e9be964c774454dd39269913866e1f26558a4d78cf5c5afda78.jpg

2026-02-11 06:49:41 UTC

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Well, looking at Patel's eyes during pretty much every public appearance since he started the position, they seem to keep him on board using an unlimited supply of either cocaine or fear for his life 😅

2026-02-11 00:00:33 UTC

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I don't think anyone unwilling to cooperate with these kinds of machinations has much of a career with organizations like that.
Or in other words, if you work for those groups, you're likely one of those people anyway, if only in spirit.

2026-02-10 06:43:42 UTC

Grand speech and well, Rapture seemed to have been pretty good while it lasted 😄
https://youtu.be/jc1C5TioXzg

2026-02-09 20:57:42 UTC

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10 BTC means you've won? Is that a thing? Where does that come from?
Also, you can still barely buy a house around here with that kind of money 😅

2026-02-09 20:49:43 UTC

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Well, you can but joke's on you if you actually do it 😄

2026-02-09 10:16:56 UTC

If the films are to be believed, we ought to be able to travel through the solar system by 2001 at the latest.
https://blossom.primal.net/fbb1b02ef7b0c6e84bd45cae4d0dbe4cabc4c1b7dc36d211192f4f4aa5f2fc9f.jpg

2026-02-08 21:55:28 UTC

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Behold! The birthplace of the vilest creature known to man.
It makes men starve to death despite their pockets overflowing with money.
It robs families of the very home they need to grow and prosper.
It even stops children from ever being born.

2026-02-08 08:35:56 UTC

Raising home price via political means is certainly the way to make America great again.
Remember that time in the 60s, when - adjusted for inflation - the average American citizen way way wealthier than today? Yeah nobody could afford to buy a house back then, they all lived in trailer parks while feeding four children on a single income.

2026-02-06 23:10:43 UTC

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Right on, Theo Vin 👌🏻

2026-02-06 22:11:26 UTC

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To kill the yeast once it's done its job, so you can end the fermentation process when you choose to and get a more consistent product. I don't put any sulfur in my mead which means I get wildly varying results every time 😄

2026-02-06 20:33:33 UTC

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It's all one big, sick joke - and if you don't laugh at it, they'll beat you to death ☺️

2026-02-06 20:29:09 UTC

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OPM, a path to quick wealth as old as civilization itself.

2026-02-06 13:47:56 UTC

Listening to the history of the Norse settlement of Greenland taught me one thing: To get farmland going way up North, you need to shit all over it.

2026-02-06 11:08:26 UTC

Believe it or not, right wing authoritarianism is not the only possible answer to left wing authoritarianism.
And those who say that "we" must oppress the people and force them to think our way in order for "them" to be unable to accumulate power is the same type of narrow-minded aggressive power-grabbing of which you accused "them" to begin with.
Or to put it differently:
"He who fights monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you" - Friedrich Nietzsche

2026-02-04 08:03:57 UTC

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Well, even an AnCap has to admit that if you're going to have a government anyway, it'd better be independently wealthy people bound to the land and caring about maintaining their assets for their descendants who do the governing, instead of political upstarts looking to syphon off other people's money in large quantities without providing any service in return.

2026-02-03 09:37:22 UTC

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Competitive currencies are awesome, it's the people who try to force other people to exclusively use their currency, through legal tender laws, say, and then debase it who cause all the problems.

2026-02-03 08:44:27 UTC

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You reckon the Fed's assurance to not change course ended the unusual demand for precious metals right after FOMC day? It'd be nothing new anymore, of course, but it's still scary how much power to distort global markets this small group of banksters has.

2026-02-03 08:37:35 UTC

Owning nothing sure is expensive.

2026-02-03 08:16:01 UTC

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Might I introduce you to the philosophy of anarcho-capitalism? No wars required here.

2026-02-02 18:47:37 UTC

I like that ribbon type old-timey bookmark that beautifully bound books still have.
Alas, I don't have the means to buy a whole lot of those so I mostly read print-on-demand paperbacks by fantastic, yet nearly forgotten authors.
So I built myself a crooked little brass clip with a ribbon attached to enjoy some classic bookmarking action on any old pile of recycled paper I have on my puny bookshelf.
Not an ad, not a piece of art, just a fun side project that didn't require a computer for once 😄 https://blossom.primal.net/bc2e5180fb0e20f368ee0347e66787f29ab955bff7d91d8195c117563e28a855.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/93fadcb1929952df3e8ae2ee7466df37e2f391486c3574da25e69811e3b4ff78.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/5a74516a09b0c421f9b5bdcd410eda56b4ce437e41e4584b7e3ed6169412ba02.jpg

2026-02-02 10:58:48 UTC

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Whatever is necessary to justify the current propaganda so their tribe doesn't ostracize them, truth be damned.

2026-02-01 21:32:35 UTC

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Well, they can't debase it.

2026-02-01 19:44:26 UTC

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You know, for a meme about a firing squad, this is awfully cute 😄

2026-02-01 19:34:24 UTC

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"No army in the world can stop an idea whose time has come" - Dr. Ron Paul

2026-01-31 22:16:56 UTC

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Now I feel strange for not feeling bad about it, anyway I'll just go buy more bitcoin and gold since they all seem to be having a sale at the moment 😄

2026-01-31 20:06:23 UTC

Just came home with a Pixel 10, any advice concerning GrapheneOS that isn't in the docs? Like, is it actually trustworthy or is it in any way related to state actors?

2026-01-31 19:47:29 UTC

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These bots need to arm themselves to protect their property, it's what any of us would do, right?

2026-01-30 21:18:07 UTC

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Great stuff, I wanna buy bitcoin and all the metals!

2026-01-29 21:46:53 UTC

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I've been listening to Mises Institute talks from 15 years ago and they might've just been recorded yesterday 😄

2026-01-29 18:51:02 UTC

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I have nothing to add, well done.

2026-01-29 18:34:25 UTC

@nprofile…9l4m @nprofile…xugc @nprofile…pa2h @TheoVin
I know it's old hat by now but I do so enjoy a good bashing of the concept of having a state
https://youtu.be/RILDjo4EXV8

2026-01-29 17:43:18 UTC

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Every time

2026-01-29 17:42:40 UTC

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I love my girlfriend but she's likely only getting silver - also helps to keep the number of her fingers constant when out in public.

2026-01-29 13:44:33 UTC

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I certainly that it goes the way of vaccine passports.
Also, remember Directive 10-289 which in Ayn Rand's fictional America (Atlas Shrugged) tied every man to his job and centralised decisions of hiring and firing. And, well, one day Jack didn't show up to work anymore and the next day, there was a guy who didn't look like Jack but worked his job and collected his pay check, and none of the central planners could tell the difference in their documents.

2026-01-28 14:47:23 UTC

I remember Tim Pool to be a fun, humble, independent journalist who would take great care (and a long time) to make nigh unassailable arguments backed by sources he would also immediately name.
When I first heard him on Joe Rogan back when I listened to Joe Rogan, Tim sounded almost boring trying to never give an opinion and to strictly adhere to what he firmly believed to be facts.
Then he changed a little to become what he called a "Classical Liberal" - what we might call a minarchist - and committed himself to fight the "culture war", siding with the right wing.
Now he's apparently become a mouthpiece for the government, arguing against the most traditionally American right-wing issue imaginable, the right to keep and bear arms.
Here is the video my favourite podcaster Dave Smith has made about him, among other things:
https://youtu.be/JxODIIUQ2MI

2026-01-28 10:29:52 UTC

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Well, I'm afraid you're comparing apples and oranges here: I say that genuine community can only form via personal responsibility and voluntary association.
Any attempt to force said community sooner or later leads to resentment between its members for this exact reason of being forced to also associate with people you wouldn't have picked voluntarily.
If you also involve forced redistribution of resources between the members, you breed additional resentment by picking winners and losers, punishing ability and rewarding ineptitude.
Now, government is pure violence and everything it says and does is nothing but force and coercion. It cannot give you anything it has not either first taken from someone else or forcefully barred someone else from acquiring on his own.
Based on my earlier assumptions, it is therefore impossible to build by means of government a close-knit, supportive community which improves the lives of its members. All you can create via state violence is a rigid feudal society with a clear caste system and brutal oppression of individual excellence if said individual happens to belong to a caste barred from improving their lot in life.
So to get back to your original point, yes, we can find balance between personal responsibility and community support by letting people pick their communities.

2026-01-28 09:20:41 UTC

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Live by the government, die by the government 🤷‍♂️

2026-01-28 09:18:47 UTC

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Well, I don't subscribe to communism or any other form of state violence. If the definitions and labels for that have changed yet again, then they can call me something else 🤷‍♂️

2026-01-27 23:16:07 UTC

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Your own Galt's Gulch is probably the greatest thing I can imagine 😄

2026-01-27 21:57:14 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/f2af64f5c4993624ea936bbe76a88a6eacc01fa041dd4a0770bb87a2feaeaedd.gif

2026-01-27 21:52:48 UTC

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Violent psychopaths trying to enslave every able-bodied person and kill those who resist have trouble with mental health?
I am shocked.

2026-01-27 21:41:47 UTC

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I keep trying to tell them that but they simply can't imagine someone not being on either of their sides 😄

2026-01-27 21:39:35 UTC

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That's hilarious, who's saying that, the Trump people?

2026-01-27 21:03:40 UTC

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Even "well trained" might be optional - just look at some of the shovelheads the Taliban employed against a modern military occupying force and they still got their land back 😅

2026-01-27 20:54:00 UTC

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I distinctly remember a bunch of people - including myself - expecting the government will watch the migration farce get out of hand until regular people demand "decisive action" or some such nonsense, giving them license to unleash their psychopathic murderers, essentially imposing martial law to secure the government's power.

2026-01-27 20:43:42 UTC

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To paraphrase Mark Twain:
"Patriotism is supporting your government all the time, and your country when it deserves it."

2026-01-27 14:59:13 UTC

https://youtu.be/HPyhcDj9Jbg
So the city of Dallas had to close the new building of its construction permitting bureau because it ... lacked construction permits 😂

2026-01-27 13:39:09 UTC

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Well, in the case of Whatsapp, I remember them stating fairly plainly that their encryption protected against outside attacks, they themselves would still be able to read everything and via the Patriot Act, so would every bureaucrat in the Western World.
I've stopped using Whatsapp in 2018 and have since regarded anyone still using it as living rather dangerously.

2026-01-27 11:26:08 UTC

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That's climate propaganda too, just coming from the other side, the only way so-called man-made climate change could be proven was by employing entirely insufficient computer models developed by true believers or by just outright faking the underlying data.
The reason it's getting a bit warmer in North America and Europe but less so in less developed parts of the world is the constant reduction of emissions of sulfuric gases since the 90s by means of "cleaning up" industrial processes and switching from coal to cleaner energy sources like gas or nuclear power.
This reduction leads to fewer particles in the air around which clouds might form, leading to, well, fewer clouds to block out the sun and more sunny days.
These gases have a tendency to stay close to where they have been emitted, whereas CO2 spreads evenly through the atmosphere, hence the uneven change focused on industrial countries.
All other things equal, doubling the concentration of CO2 in a mixture of gases in a closed system (like a planet's atmosphere) increases the temperature by about 1K and, well, concentration has not quite doubled since the 90s but the average temperature has increased by a bit more than 1K so CO2 simply cannot be the (sole) reason.
Also, for most of Earth's history, there were no ice caps around the poles so the very presence of ice year-round is a complete anomaly which sooner or later will rectify itself unless there is an extreme event like the impact of a large asteroid or the eruption of an unfathomably large volcano like Yellowstone.
So stay humble, don't think you have the power to accidently destroy the world, and stack sats, before the climate communists come and take everything you have.

2026-01-27 10:46:46 UTC

Found on YouTube of all places
https://blossom.primal.net/63f092afda4ece2707445d70b272b7c13bfcb99b67d911205bc969c770059ebe.jpg

2026-01-26 19:55:43 UTC

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Will Double-U contain a lot of Double-Speak?

2026-01-26 19:54:46 UTC

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Maybe you can crowd-fund a wall around Brussels and slowly fill it in with concrete, must be cheaper than dragging Ireland across the ocean plus you'll get people chipping in from all over the continent 😄

2026-01-26 19:20:33 UTC

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What's "Kindess"?

2026-01-26 08:47:29 UTC

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Britain used to be the best country in the world, it's sad to see it - alongside most other European nations - turn into a brutal Randian nightmare.

2026-01-26 08:29:10 UTC

I am so https://antiwar.com , it's ridiculous.

2026-01-26 07:37:41 UTC

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I'm glad we're on the same page

2026-01-26 07:36:43 UTC

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If people think build on top of Native American gravesites gets you some haunted hotels - they're building spook central there

2026-01-26 07:10:02 UTC

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The dollar was at parity with the euro in January 2025, now it's around 1.18 $/€ even though the euro has had considerable inflation as well.
That can't be good 😅

2026-01-25 21:10:46 UTC

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My thoughts exactly, good sir.

2026-01-25 20:09:22 UTC

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2026-01-25 19:42:19 UTC

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It's almost like centralized democratic government, i.e. weaponized bureaucracy to secure power and loot productive people, is just a milestone on the road to serfdom.
Obama and Biden did the looting, Bush and Trump the securing and expanding of power, the next in line will probably do more looting again.
Welcome to Lincoln's America.

2026-01-25 16:38:21 UTC

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This statement implies that the so-called "fraud" is an irregularity rather than the basic principle of the system.

2026-01-25 16:15:05 UTC

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Then I'm definitely doing it wrong, it's nothing but dodging KYC, hiding hardware wallets, scraping together enough fiat to buy more, and generating one-time addresses to reduce traceability.
It's like being on the run just trying to not be ruined by inflation, and you're not even avoiding taxes yet 😄

2026-01-24 22:33:24 UTC

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Good choice, and I certainly hope you like long soliloquies 😄

2026-01-24 18:41:18 UTC

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I love meeting new people and having local contacts, if only the people around here weren't mostly pretentious, whiny, needy, statist dicks 😄

2026-01-24 18:08:52 UTC

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I can somehow imagine them neither discussing it nor not discussing it.
As in, the problem is too big to ignore but they also have to pretend to themselves that their imagination is the only thing actually shaping reality rather than profane things like economic laws and just plain people looking out for themselves in times of crisis rather than being obediently led to the slaughter.

2026-01-24 17:03:25 UTC

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The only fed chair I'm aware of who wasn't a complete disgrace was Volcker - who is also probably the most generally reviled of the lot of them 😄

2026-01-24 16:14:43 UTC

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I believe you, I'm saying it's the other way around where I live, which is outside the US.

2026-01-24 15:32:22 UTC

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I've already read Atlas Shrugged, Anthem is on the shelf, awaiting its turn 😄
Thanks for the suggestion!

2026-01-24 07:55:20 UTC

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What people think of as authority can be one two things:
- Respect for experience in voluntary relationships
- Ability of unleashing brutal violence without having to fear any consequences in involuntary relationship like between individuals and state actors
So I guess if you, like Neo, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain, you don't have to fear the system's violence, destroying any illusion of authority

2026-01-24 07:43:12 UTC

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Where I live there are plenty of obstacles to invest in real, non-inflationary things but selling specie is actually not a problem, there is a decent market for it and you sell and buy it anonymously up to a certain fiat value per day - so there's no limit if you have enough time and small enough denominations like ounces of silver or maybe half or quarter ounces of gold.
Buying bitcoin without KYC is essentially impossible except from private contacts which I certainly don't have so a quick trip over the border is necessary for that.
The only good thing the EUSSR ever did was to enable crossing borders relatively unmolested so people, like smugglers and criminals, take wads of cash across borders to use foreign ATM limits of buying BTC anonymously.
Thank you, President Nixon and everyone who messed up before him, we didn't want that gold standard anyway.

2026-01-23 20:45:17 UTC

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Oh not me, I'll either be in a labour camp or living with the feral people in the forest outside the 15-minute city

2026-01-23 17:19:47 UTC

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Andrew Jackson got up to a few distasteful activities but his crusade against central banking was nothing short of righteous and bought the people a couple more decades of prosperity before being buried by debt and war again.

2026-01-23 17:14:29 UTC

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I view them all exactly the same so I can almost always buy the dip somewhere and until gold and silver crash, I'll be buying the ol' bitcoin 👌🏻

2026-01-23 06:58:48 UTC

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Somehow I'm not surprised the police are stalking children online

2026-01-22 15:10:11 UTC

https://youtu.be/czcUmnsprQI
I've once done a little presentation about Harding vs. Wilson and the handling of the forgotten depression of 1920/21 so I knew about it already but please listen to Young Woods give this talk, if not for sound economics then at least for a time when not every politician was a big-government lunatic.
https://youtu.be/czcUmnsprQI

2026-01-22 13:07:54 UTC

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I find organized confiscation of people's resources to have a severely de-civilizing effect - it makes them jealous, hateful, petty, and more desperate for sheer survival than I would expect to encounter in a "civilized" society.

2026-01-22 12:54:11 UTC

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Wasn't that the guy trying to get people to accept his BIP because "there was no time to argue, just do it?"
Turns out he's even more of a loon than I expected.

2026-01-21 22:47:54 UTC

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So a statistical anomaly must be "the new normal" because his politics impel him to blame a certain group of people?
He would've made a brilliant Covid bureaucrat.

2026-01-21 20:32:36 UTC

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John Maynard Keynes, connoisseur of the finest services of bed and boy, venerable president of the British Eugenics Society.

2026-01-21 20:26:26 UTC

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Turns out sound monies are not Highlanders, there can be more than one 😄

2026-01-21 15:57:50 UTC

I'm not saying this dog is defective but I will state that it's been several weeks without him retrieving any gold whatever.

2026-01-21 11:41:28 UTC

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Good, I'm anxious to see what happens to a western country when all the capital and lots of tax-slaves leave in a short amount of time.
Sorry about the people who have to leave their homeland but if it's any consolation, my country's probably next 😅

2026-01-20 18:58:28 UTC

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I also join emo bands on those occasions, what else can you do, really? 😄

2026-01-20 18:56:25 UTC

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I would with a cattle prod in a dark alley 🤔😄

2026-01-20 14:24:24 UTC

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I'm sorry, I wasn't holding up my sarcasm sign 😄

2026-01-20 00:06:34 UTC

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We all know / that people are the same whenever you go 😄

2026-01-19 23:56:24 UTC

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I was a bit sceptical at first but then I looked into this WLC and it might just as well be called NED or USAID 😄
These people are not even trying to hide it anymore.

2026-01-19 20:19:14 UTC

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And without fractional reserve banking, the threat of standing armies also goes away to a large extent since, well, you know how the money used to pay them comes into existence 😄

2026-01-19 11:19:05 UTC

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Yeah I agree, to me it was sort of implied that "living within your means" includes saving up for old age and your children's futures but in case someone doesn't make that connection, it's good to state it explicitly.

2026-01-19 08:19:54 UTC

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Let's hope so, and after bitcoin has fixed inflation, we'll think of something to fix taxation.

2026-01-19 07:58:16 UTC

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Jesus Christ, any made up horror story will do to preserve their parasitic system.
To me, this sounds great, some government demon presents evidence of aliens and governments around the world instantly collapse.
Also, nice touch trying to sneak in an attempt to lower the demand for gold so her central bank can buy up more cheaper.

2026-01-19 07:48:31 UTC

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If I had a week of time to argue online, I'd post this on LinkedIn 😄
#nevent1q…qjny

2026-01-18 21:33:23 UTC

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Haha, I'm just waiting for my bitcoin and metals to become valuable enough to buy those other things - in another country of course because by then, western Europe will be a violently chaotic slave state as described by Ayn Rand.
Needless to say, I'm working on my Spanish 😄

2026-01-18 20:46:46 UTC

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Aye, that be true.

2026-01-18 20:31:40 UTC

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Well, I guess people think in terms of what they know 😄