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  • flamingleg@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldButtcoin
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    16 hours ago

    the early plan for btc was to break the spine of central banking cartels and to eventually threaten the reserve status of the greenback. 2008 was still fresh in our minds, and back then it was fashionable to blame fiat currency and the pratcise of fractional reserve lending. The original ‘zeitgeist’ movie was a big influence on the whole scene.

    Eventually people began to figure out that btc was most likely a vehicle for oligarchs and elites to shelter their assets from the next financial crash which killed the libertarian enthusiasm for the project. Now btc is exclusively for tech-bros and other finance-adjacent types just trying to personally enrich themselves.






  • a january 6 except for real? there would be some poetic justice in that particular imperial boomerang returning home. But nah your glow-agencies have probably gamed things out enough to avoid that. I’m thinking they keep doing damage control and limping along until a combination of natural disasters and geostrategic blowback makes things unmanageable for the elites who lack the foresight to abandon their sinking ship.

    Rolling waves of general strikes have real potential also.

    Progressives never really got their version of a tea-party, and occupy never really fulfilled its potential. It could be that a new popular force will emerge to replace MAGA which inherits from these unfinished projects.

    Occupy would be especially salient given dedollarisation and the inevitable crash which will happen along the way. Even Normie’s are expecting air to crash and watching gold prices lol



  • i understood your point very well. My point (which i deleted because other commenters had already made similar points and with more detail than i was planning) is that your example of a victory is in fact a loss.

    Mumdani is a release valve to stop radical change from happening, a compatible liberal gatekeeper who will take the passion of his electorate and destroy it by a thousand disappointments.

    He is a democrat, who surrounds himself with zionists. The only radical thing about him is his identity. He is a muslim Obama, a brown-face genderswapped AOC. He is there because of his identity and his vibes.

    If Bernie had won Iowa and if the DNC was at all democratic in its internal processes (superdelegates, ticket-splitting, pied piper etc) then i would share some of your optimism for internal change. We don’t live in that world. A world where people like MTG are allowed to evolve beyond partisan lines, where Massie is able to defend his constitution…

    I also don’t want to blackpill you guys into inaction, so i’ll finish this mostly redundant post by saying the american people seem ready for change. The numbers of people hitting the streets to fight ICE is inspiring, and a much more concrete reason to hope than a bunch of exhausted and politically illiterate new yorkers protest voting for a god damn fucking democrat.



  • did you read the link i provided? in case the implication wasn’t clear i’ll say it explicitly. Viruses which are virtually nonexistent (not circulating in the population) can be induced in a population by vaccination itself (in rare cases when using an attenuated virus).

    This means there is a risk, especially for viruses like polio which basically don’t exist anymore, that a vaccination program will generate polio cases which then spread and create a new outbreak of polio.

    Those recent outbreaks of polio were thought to be from an unnecessarily aggressive vaccination program, at least that’s the reporting i encountered.

    I haven’t done a risk calculation, i don’t claim to be an epidemiologist or to know at what point this exotic risk outweighs the benefit of herd immunity. I suspect that calculation depends on things like exposure points in the population, general immunity, and the %of people already vaccinated historically.

    It’s definitely a real effect (i linked directly to the american CDC) and it should be included in any discussion concerning virtually dead viruses. It hasn’t been made up by ‘antivaccers’ and for me personally i don’t even bring this up in those kind of spaces because i don’t trust them to parse this level of nuance and contradiction to be brutally honest.

    The risk profile probably varies virus to virus also.




  • you’d think that with the vast increase in prescription rates of SSRIs and other antidepressents, that there would be a commensurate reduction in population-wide depression. But no, if anything the more antidepressents are prescribed, the more general depression you get in the population. Same thing with suicide rates. This is correlation and not causation obviously, but it still suggests that antidepressents are not doing what they are advertised as doing.

    I’ll just cut straight to the assertion, which seems obvious enough to not require more explanation.

    Mental illness is not biologically determined. It is socially determined.

    At best antidepressent prescriptions mask the underlying cause of symptoms. At. best.