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2026-01-19 21:18:12 UTC

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Bring Back 3 Branches of Government

2026-01-19 21:16:40 UTC

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Well as much as I think he's right he DID bet on Theranos.... 🙃

2026-01-19 18:25:08 UTC

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Methinks this might be a dead project. I was using Pokey for a while but uninstalled it because there hasn't been an update since July.

2026-01-19 18:18:49 UTC

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These are the ones that are like, 3 hours long?

2026-01-19 18:02:04 UTC

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Did not realize that. I assumed the location was required for the Geochat, which I don't care about. Didn't know that was important for BLE...
Reading around it seems like Android 12 might be introducing some more fine-grain control on that, which would be good...

2026-01-19 17:47:51 UTC

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Wait, why do you require location enabled to use the "mesh"?
I agree with some of this.. always thought the Mesh was the useful part, but only in an emergency. The chat pretty much just duplicates 1000 other things, poorly...
But IDK about "honeypot"... Isn't this all open source, at least the Android port by @nprofile…xdky ?

2026-01-19 16:22:06 UTC

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Don't need to calculate capital gains on Tether #thereisolvedit

2026-01-19 16:05:36 UTC

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Wen US military ordered to fire on civilian population? And how many on Nostr will cheer for it?

2026-01-19 16:04:42 UTC

> This explains much of the drive to transform Facebook from a platform that shows you the things your friends post to a platform that mostly shows you things that "content creators" post. Your friends aren't motivated by the dangling possibility of viral dollars if they get you to "engage" with their posts, but for content creators, your engagement buys the groceries and pays the rent. By swapping out your friends and replacing them with people who are highly motivated to "engage" with you, Zuck gets a lever he can yank to get his users to arrange their conduct in ways that goose his growth.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/billionaire-solipsism/#:~:text=This%20explains%20much,goose%20his%20growth.

2026-01-19 16:01:27 UTC

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Like "I'm not going to run away... What Life Lesson is that volcano that's about to blow up going to teach me??"

2026-01-19 06:47:47 UTC

TFW when we made it through the whole weekend without the Emperor deploying his Sadaukar Legion to either Greenland OR Minnesota 🙂‍↕️

2026-01-19 02:42:10 UTC

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That was nuts... well, all these people get to freeze their butts off for another period I guess 😆

2026-01-19 01:33:22 UTC

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The technical wizardry of these games never ceases to amaze me... 🤯

2026-01-19 00:51:50 UTC

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And, there's Decentraland today... Which is an attempt to merge these ideas with Blockchain

2026-01-18 22:35:24 UTC

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This whole "moment" fascinates me. Post-COVID, pre-AI... Silicon valley needed to grasp onto something, and I guess this was it?
What was hilarious was people looked at this and went "hey where are the legs?" and then like 2 weeks later Zuck came out with some Demo with legs, except it was fake.
I still think there's something to VR / Metaverse concepts... Just seems to have had a "false start" here.

2026-01-18 20:24:13 UTC

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This book is amazing, sort of "neo-lovecraftian" horror...
"What if a math equation became sentient and started eating people's brains?"

2026-01-18 20:21:24 UTC

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LOL he's making housecalls now?

2026-01-18 19:26:50 UTC

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Oh Soooo we're doing this for Europe?? 🙃

2026-01-18 17:33:34 UTC

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To be clear, I think there's a very low probability of any of this being true. But it's fun to think about. 😄
The push for Greenland specifically just never really made a lot of sense to me... People seem to be "projecting" complex geopolitical motivations onto a President and administration that never really seemed to have a coherent worldview or ideology, particularly with respect to foreign policy...

2026-01-18 17:29:46 UTC

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Coulthart repeatedly claimed that there are large pieces of NHI Tech and/or facilities that exist in places of the world where they are isolated but too large to move, so no world government has been able to relocate them to secure facilities...

2026-01-18 17:28:00 UTC

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Now it's time to get into recent #ufo lore, particularly some of the claims by Ross Coulthart, the journalist who was involved in breaking the story of DOD whistleblower David Grusch...

2026-01-18 17:26:21 UTC

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Yet when it comes to Greenland, all of this vague talk about how we "have to have it" to save the "planet", how we can't let Russia or China get it, etc etc... I just feel like if it were about the oil or the rare earths, he would say it.

2026-01-18 17:26:01 UTC

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Trump's never been shy about the naked resource grab of Venezuela... Explicitly said "it's about oil".

2026-01-18 17:25:36 UTC

OK crazy theory but hear me out: Greenland push is about alien tech. (See below)

2026-01-18 17:11:29 UTC

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What's funny about the copper obsession is that where I am at least, that's what drug addicts are tearing up public infrastructure to look for...

2026-01-18 16:35:44 UTC

#nostr Web client gripe: Don't create some "curated" section for users. (A) it's a black box algorithm and (B) there isn't enough content on Nostr anyways to have a "sports" section or whatever you're trying to do with it. You know who you are...
Just give me (a) a following feed and (b) the ability to compose lists of npubs and/or topics. That's much easier and much more powerful at the end of the day than whatever you're trying to do with your "curated" or "for you" sections...

2026-01-18 16:23:20 UTC

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"oh no the LaGrange points" 🤣

2026-01-18 06:09:28 UTC

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Also on Voyager... Lon Suder played by Stephen Dorif

2026-01-18 05:16:56 UTC

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Pardoned Jan 6 rioter

2026-01-18 01:49:33 UTC

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You don't think that Zuck sees himself this way when he's doing his Joe Rogan Jujistu or whatever?

2026-01-18 01:47:08 UTC

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Andreas Dorkolopolous

2026-01-18 01:46:23 UTC

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Tell them about Nostr, I'm sure that'll be some trouble 😄

2026-01-18 00:34:37 UTC

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This is qualitatively different from (say) BlueSky which is still de-facto operated by a single company.

2026-01-18 00:33:07 UTC

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The extent to which you can get "banned" on Mastodon is only one server... And there are hundreds if not thousands of different active servers, as I've seen as I've interacted with people across the bridge. Practically everyone that I followed has been on a different server.

2026-01-18 00:27:27 UTC

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Yep, aware of #mostr and #momostr -- had the pleasure of being cussed out by the Dev of the former for pointing out its issues 🙃

2026-01-17 21:58:50 UTC

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Cool, thanks... you could encourage it to ask for Zaps, thereby paying for itself 😁
Great service, BTW... It brings me endless amusement how pissed off people get just by having citations to the "conventional wisdom" thrown back at them.
It's like OK if you're going to believe in "scamdemic" or "white genocide" or whatever, at least have the self-awareness to understand that those aren't majority-held positions...

2026-01-17 20:51:31 UTC

@nprofile…4nw3 are you down? @nprofile…x307

2026-01-17 19:52:52 UTC

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For first world adoption: De Minimus, de minimus, de minimus.
Bitcoin could have been 10x where it is today if it wasn't for the ridiculous ruling 10 years ago that so much as buying a cup of coffee is a "capital gains event" that has to be reported on taxes.

2026-01-17 19:42:25 UTC

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Despite being a poor neighborhood, it's very colorful and socially vibrant... Always curious about those clotheslines, are those shared or is it just one side's clothes? Are they on a pulley system or something?

2026-01-17 18:53:31 UTC

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This is why I think it's better to reach out to #mastodon ... (A), these are people who already understand the value of social media decentralization, (B) they have no easy way of monetization to begin with (they tend to have to say "visit my patreon" or whatever), and (C) we can kinda-sorta actually communicate with them over the bridges, unlike X or Bluesky.
Just like it's easier to onboard people to Bitcoin who already have "broken money" than already have access to 1st-world financial products, it will be easier to onboard to Nostr the ~millions of Mastodon users who have zero means of monetization.

2026-01-17 18:21:34 UTC

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Yeah I'm speaking to you from Nostr LOL... On the other bridge, not by Gleason

2026-01-17 18:18:38 UTC

I guess ICE has an official #bluesky account now... And that's generating some controversy in #mastodon space about the *other* bridge, i.e. brid.gy between those two protocols.
#nevent1q…lj0j

2026-01-17 18:11:49 UTC

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Yeah I've been an advocate for better bridging, this seems to have been a hot topic back in 2023 but both sides of the Bridge seem pretty "luke-warm" about it these days.
Nonetheless I managed to browbeat Alex Gleason (he runs Mostr) into getting it fixed recently, so there's that :)
I know there have been some objections to the npub long usernames, but the bridges still generally present your NIP-5 username (i.e. "Globe99") as the primary user handle, with the npub as the "address".
Honestly I don't think this is the biggest problem... People on both sides are upset at the political / cultural attitudes on the other side.

2026-01-17 17:54:50 UTC

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@nprofile…cyvr wasn't there something like "read to relay" that did this?

2026-01-17 17:50:10 UTC

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I think we're only starting to realize how much things will shift in the global order now that the *threat* of US tariffs, which used to be just a threat, now turns into a reality as Trump issues them left and right with little coherent order.
As @nprofile…cgzg points out, these tariff threats were the only thing keeping anti-circumvention laws in place. Now that the tariffs are here, what incentive does Canada / EU have to (say) maintain US software copyrights?
You can extend this line of thinking out to banking surveillance... drug war... etc etc

2026-01-17 16:59:51 UTC

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He wants to come in and say hello! 😄

2026-01-17 12:09:14 UTC

One of my favorites in the series so far... Hard not to go to weird places with a ventriloquist dummy 🙃
https://youtube.com/shorts/cQWyJC1cONg?si

2026-01-17 11:53:17 UTC

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Oh actually nvm they use Amber on Android

2026-01-17 11:48:45 UTC

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Does Fountain still require a raw nSec to login?

2026-01-17 11:47:28 UTC

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@nprofile…e3m6

2026-01-17 11:35:27 UTC

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Exactly. Molecules don't have politics.

2026-01-17 11:26:00 UTC

I guess ICE made it to BlueSky, and the Fediverse has opinions...
#nevent1q…5d72

2026-01-17 04:16:44 UTC

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If you share a planet with them, you share an internet with them. How you engage with them is your decision. That's what freedom means.

2026-01-17 04:09:57 UTC

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Say, list of hashtags.
Or better yet, a set of kind 30xxx list of hashtags / npubs.
For instance, a "topical" feed for "sports I'm interested in" might be hashtags
NHL + TampaBayLightning + NYislandsrs. But not "LA Kings"
And just text notes, no reposts. And filter everything for Web of Trust > 1 or whatever.
Only Coracle can do anything close to that.

2026-01-17 02:42:39 UTC

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Tried Jumble... Kinda "meh." Probably the fewest custom feed options of any of them?
Jumble was always introduced to me as the "relay browser" client.... a remember earlier in the year when everyone was like "this is how you Nostr, pick a limited set of curated relays"... that to me feels like Mastodon with extra steps.
Give me All the Relays, with a client that gives me extensive options for filters.

2026-01-17 02:35:37 UTC

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I really like the "deck" milti-feed construction.... Allow for lists of hashtags and you'll already be ahead in my book 😄

2026-01-17 00:23:46 UTC

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Oh I guess this is hard mode?.didn't know 😅

2026-01-16 22:14:55 UTC

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"Brilliant! You can just abduct Maduro and you'll get a Nobel Peace Prize for sure!
Do you want me to construct a 3-part email to send to the Secretary of War?"

2026-01-16 22:08:52 UTC

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To state the first point again... The most important thing is to deliver value. If you're not valuable, then they'll just say "oh too short" or "don't like his tie" or "see this thing he said 10 years ago? no way".
But if you're actually delivering value, a LOT of that can and will be forgiven.

2026-01-16 22:06:32 UTC

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Grand Vizier Graham of the (future) American Empire will have your head for that!!

2026-01-16 22:02:12 UTC

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I don't think any AI's going to be 100% on that... And in any job situation, one has to assume that the value of one's labor to the prospective employer allows for at least some amount of "benefit of the doubt" in terms of things you might have said in the past with the full expectation of pseudonymity.
There's a science fiction novel trilogy called "Lattice" that imagines a future where someone invents a machine that can visualize everything that's ever happened, anywhere on earth, for all of time... down to the thoughts in someone's head.
It creates some interesting problems, but it's also showing how society kind of just adapts to it.

2026-01-16 20:32:55 UTC

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Start with "decentralized social media"... If that's a bridge too far than you've already lost them.
If that's something they even remotely care about you've got an opening. Mastodon is a meaningful comparison point.

2026-01-16 20:31:19 UTC

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This is a feature I specifically go to Amethyst for.... Some npubs I follow (particularly bridged from Mastodon), this is like 90% of their posts.

2026-01-16 20:29:21 UTC

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Nope, and that's the point... "Posthuman". Whether that's exciting or terrifying is your choice!

2026-01-16 19:43:01 UTC

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lol what chodes

2026-01-16 18:54:10 UTC

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Yeah I wish I could give more specific feedback. Clients can definitely go the other direction and get too cluttered with UI, which isn't the problem here...

2026-01-16 18:52:11 UTC

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Finally, Nosotros has probably my favorite UI of any Web client. Simple, uncluttered, but reasonably easy to access what you need.
However, lots of basic features still aren't present. For instance, "@" mentioning in composition window, which on most clients pops up a general search of all npub's, *only* shows your follows. It's not clear even how to access your follow list!

2026-01-16 18:49:57 UTC

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Nostria still feels like a "beta" product, with a bunch of features that are being rolled out in a semi-working / broken state... Although there seems to be a pretty active development effort.
However, lots of issues with speed with this one. Even basic following feeds can take loooong time to load in my experience.
Also, I'm really skeptical of "black box" "for you" and "discovery" feeds that Nostria sets up by default. I'm sure I could technically dig through the code on GitHub to discover how you're calculating these things, but you should really tell the user how it works at least, or expose settings to control it.

2026-01-16 18:41:56 UTC

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Coracle's still the top dog IMHO for (a) it's extensive feed customization options and (b) the ability to use NIP-51 (kind 30xxx) lists, which bafflingly very few other clients seem to use.
OTOH, the UI feels... dated, and it seems to have a lot of problems loading NIP-5 profile data in certain contexts.

2026-01-16 18:39:21 UTC

Web client round up -- Still switching off between #coracle, #nostria and #nosotros in roughly that order....

2026-01-16 18:30:45 UTC

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Years ago, the series "American Crime Story: OJ Simpson" had an interesting take on this issue. Of course, it dramatized the crime, the legal saga, and etc.
But there was this coda to the story, where after the court case was over, and OJ was exonerated etc... He found himself isolated from all of the LA/Hollywood social circles that he previously had. People wouldn't come to his parties, would avoid him at other social events, etc.
To me, this is a sort of "decentralized justice." State systems will say one thing, but the people will say another.

2026-01-16 18:10:08 UTC

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2026-01-16 17:52:54 UTC

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Packers fans be like "oh come on you wimps" 😄

2026-01-16 17:50:00 UTC

Whenever there's an X outage... https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/af92154b4fd002924031386f71333b0afd9741a076f5c738bc2603a5b59d671f/694496560101c02f3c0395ec528afd541e685e361476f9d5385a06d99e5f0c56.webp

2026-01-16 15:49:15 UTC

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inb4 he gets the sharpie out to scratch her name out and write in "TEH DONALD"

2026-01-16 15:48:35 UTC

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Free cheeseburger?

2026-01-16 14:58:22 UTC

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There's one I watch where the host clearly tapes them separately, because her hair is different every time

2026-01-15 23:42:34 UTC

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@nprofile…zu3m whaddya think of one of yours in Starfleet?

2026-01-15 23:31:58 UTC

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Oh come on... There are fewer people on Secure Scuttlebutt.... Right? 😅

2026-01-15 21:54:55 UTC

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Good time to clean the house! 😅

2026-01-15 21:43:51 UTC

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Yeah I think in hindsight Millennials have been a particularly "boozy" generation, but I'm glad to see the emergence of more options for non-alcoholic "social drinking" out there... I.e. Mocktails, functional beverages, etc...

2026-01-15 21:36:40 UTC

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If you're trying to make a new social media network in 2026, and it's not at least "Fediverse-grade" decentralization... what are you even doing?

2026-01-15 21:12:01 UTC

Hey, who's ready for more Digg? This time with 100% more AI! 🤨
https://gizmodo.com/digg-relaunches-from-the-grave-with-some-ai-enhancements-2000710736

2026-01-15 20:43:11 UTC

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A "partisan/paramility force"? Are you kidding me?
Who are there commanders? What is their HQ? Command structure? Who's givingng orders, and where is the evidence of those orders?
This reminds me of recent Congressional hearing where they tried to ask the Noem goons "so... Where is antifa headquarters?" And the goon just stammered.
I've been at No Kings marches. These are 10s of thousands of ordinary Americans concerned about the direction of the country. Sure they're liberals and I'm a libertarian but I share many of their primary concerns.
I would humbly suggest that you're living in a right-wing information bubble if you really believe that Antifa or whatever constitutes anything like an actual, seriously organized left-wing militia... At least in the US

2026-01-15 20:08:42 UTC

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Don't forget the Gnomes of Zurich... Bigfoot probably has something to do with it too

2026-01-15 20:07:47 UTC

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Are their actions justified? In either case?

2026-01-15 20:06:00 UTC

The mental contortions that any vaguely #libertarian person had to make to support the current #ice invasion of major US cities fascinate me...
I guess you basically have to presume that the people protesting the invasion of their neighborhoods and abduction of their relatives are somehow, ACKSHUALLY, part of a vast and labyrinthine conspiracy to implement big government, and the jackbooted thugs pepper spraying them are... Actually on the side of "small government"?
I guess it's the same mental framework that casts Palestinian teenage rock-throwers as the "actual" bad guys

2026-01-15 19:49:16 UTC

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THIS ISNT EVEN MY FINAL FORM!!

2026-01-15 19:48:03 UTC

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I'm curious do you think the Iran protests are justified or are they "rioters" too? What makes the difference?

2026-01-15 19:46:54 UTC

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"George Floyd 2.0" what BS. I was watching the Livestream last night. These are people who live in the neighborhood who are *rightly* pissed about a paramilitary force descending on their neighborhood.
NOTHING about what ICE is doing is compatible with a free and prosperous society.

2026-01-15 19:45:25 UTC

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Ooh interesting to see what's in the "sensitive documents"... 😄

2026-01-15 19:39:09 UTC

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"Boo hoo people call me bad names so I open fire."
F these guys. THEY started it. Nothing about what they do is necessary.

2026-01-15 19:07:05 UTC

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Still not "subsidization" by any stretch. Also debatable to what extent allowing people to work for low wages in manual labor actually lowers wages for higher-ends of the workforce...
But let's say it did. That also means that costs go down, because now goods are being produced for lower labor costs. that benefits everyone.
In a post-scarcity world, wages go to zero, but so does cost....

2026-01-15 18:59:16 UTC

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Why wouldn't abandoning the nation state fix it?

2026-01-15 18:44:47 UTC

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"I don't really know how to respond to the idea that anarchy would mean everyone would live wherever they want."
I don't really know how to respond to the argument that this is wrong, considering that this has been the condition of most of humanity for most of humanity's existence.
State Control of movement across borders is a relatively recent invention "up the tech tree" from the idea Westphalian sovereignty. It's by far from some "natural state" of freely associating humanity.
Markets work. Incentives work. People migrate to areas where there is more economic opportunity and/or incentives to do so. This is EXACTLY the same argument for free trade, and it applies in basically the same way.

2026-01-15 18:41:03 UTC

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Oh, the LA riots? An explicit response to State failure stemming from the monopoly of force? Indeed, that sure is an argument against anarchy....

2026-01-15 16:31:40 UTC

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Ok.....? So how does that mean that wages are "subsidized"? Because illegal immigrants use the same roads and plumbing systems as everyone else?
That's not a "subsidy" for their labor specifically because that applies to everyone.

2026-01-15 16:29:28 UTC

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Nobody has a right to keep the price of labor at a certain level to benefit themselves. Societies that allow robust immigration benefit economically, as the USA has shown over 200+ years.
"Push up housing costs" -- debatable that this is happening outside of JD Vance tweets, and besides almost always occurs in a situation where the government makes it too difficult to build
"Overwhelm the infrastructure" -- what are you talking about? in what context have immigrant populations even started to approach more than, say, 10% of the native population for a given country?
"replace the culture with their own" -- most studies have shown that immigrants rapidly assimilate within a generation or two. and besides, government has no role in maintaining "culture" anyways. Nothing about someone practicing their own culture peacefully impedes your ability to practice yours.

2026-01-15 16:16:19 UTC

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"greatest threat to citizens is ending up living surrounded by immigrants and subsequently being economically or violently forced out of their homes."
I grew up "surrounded by immigrants" and my life is far better because of it.
Who's being "violently forced out of their homes"? Aside from the people ripped away from their families by ICE?

2026-01-15 16:11:10 UTC

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How so? An illegal immigrant picks strawberries in California, who's "paying them" other than their employer?