Jonas Andersson
@Jonas747505
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Random dude on the internet. Love music! RTs are not automatically approvals.
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Joined November 2013
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
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Speech is not violence. Speech is the only alternative to violence. Those who cheer the use of violence to silence speech will beget more violence, and that is their aim.
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“If I can’t define the edges, I deny the core.” yes, it's called the "this contradicts my political beliefs so I instinctively reject it and will say whatever I need to wiggle out of it" fallacy. and by 'fallacy' I mean "commonplace political dialogue". > “This core challenges
“If you can’t perfectly define this category such that there are no ambiguous edge cases, then it doesn’t exist” should count as a fallacy. You can never do this for things that exist in physical reality. All categories are approximate and have edge cases. We still need them.
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Two years ago, @JeffBooth challenged me to say why the ultimate environmental benefit of Bitcoin is how it replaces the fiat economy's incentive to consume and waste, with a Bitcoin incentive to think about tomorrow and save Took me two years Jeff, but here it is!
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"Trust Trump's plan" = ignore the growing panopticon
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-REAL ID enforcement -Surveillance stablecoins -AI Biometric entry/exit systems -Palantir building a master database -FedEx trucks equipped with license plate readers -ICE using facial recognition to monitor online dissent 2025: Directed by Orwell, produced by Palantir.
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Europe’s Wealth Exodus Is Just the Beginning 1/ First they said inflation was “transitory.” Now they say tax hikes are “temporary.” Next? Confiscation.
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🚨 Diversification is dead. Markets move on something far more powerful: liquidity. Forget the headlines— Here’s the playbook to front-run the future: [🧵 thread]
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🚨 The American Dream is dead. This isn’t opinion. It’s a pattern that’s been repeating for 100 years. Everything you were told… was a lie. [🧵thread]
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“Without free speech there is no true thought.” — Jordan Peterson
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I've been thinking about nostalgia lately. Not just any nostalgia. The nostalgia we'll feel for RIGHT NOW. Why? Because we're living through the final days of a world before ubiquitous intelligence Let me explain 👇
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It’s my perception that many people have a very hard time separating what they want to happen from what is actually going to happen. And I think this may be deeply ingrained in the human psyche as both a long term defense mechanism against threats to personal liberties as well
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If you didn't speak out against *both* woke censorship and Trump's attempts to suppress criticism of Israel at universities, you're not a genuine free speech advocate. You're just a partisan hack who pretends to care about free speech when it suits you.
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Are you correcting this person to reveal the truth or to make yourself feel smart? Or worse, to make them feel stupid?
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@elonmusk Nah. Let's terraform our own planet first, clean the oceans, repopulate collapsing ecosystems, and become the stewards of evolutions here on Earth. Send the robots to Mars and have AI prepare it for our arrival.
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Here's a thread about social media decentralization. A couple years ago, I tried to "like" one of Doomberg's posts about a platform, and I literally saw the heart fill up, and then drain out of it like blood. I'd never seen that before. Twitter said me liking that was disabled:
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“We should view our government the way we should view a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he’s friendly and cuddly shouldn’t blind us to the fact that he’s still got teeth and claws.” — Walter E. Williams
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"The day you sign up for a new format, global, editable, biometric digital ID, that’s the day that any possibility of a continuing, free life, free from perpetual interference and increasing control over every aspect of your existence, ends." https://t.co/7X1ZNG59VF
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