Danamic

Fully agreed. I'm a designer, urbanist, building ecologies of architecture. I have changed my goals and trajectory to now explore how I can help X-Musk build future cities. Ecology is a biological life-support system unique to Earth so far as we know. I'm betting there is value in bringing it with us on our multi-planetary journey.

Libertarianism in theory requires Lee Kuan Yew in practice. Order and borders are prerequisites for liberty and prosperity. Tolerance and internationalism enables trade and capitalism. Pragmatism about the scope of the state minimizes the scope of the state.

They are not progressives - they are Marxists. They are not liberals - they are Marxists. They are not democrats - they are Marxists. They are not working class - they are Marxists. They are not free thinkers - they are Marxists.

"End-to-end encryption is only for criminals." Yet: Diplomats use encrypted cables. Military requires encrypted networks. Banks mandate encrypted transactions. Encryption protects value. If powerful institutions encrypt everything, maybe your communications have value too.

Singapore transformed from a malaria-infested trading post into the world's fourth-largest financial center in just five decades—and free markets did every bit of the heavy lifting. When Lee Kuan Yew took power in 1965, Singapore had zero natural resources, rampant unemployment, and racial tensions that made Detroit look peaceful. Instead of following the Third World playbook of central planning and import substitution, Lee did something radical: he unleashed capitalism. Corporate tax rates dropped to 17%. Foreign investment flowed in without bureaucratic strangling. Private property rights became sacred. The government stepped back and let entrepreneurs build wealth. But here's what the statists always miss when they credit Singapore's "smart government intervention"—every successful policy Singapore adopted eliminated barriers rather than created them. Free trade zones. Minimal regulations on business formation. English common law protecting contracts. Zero capital gains taxes (still true today). When you remove the state's boot from the economy's throat, miracles happen fast. The results speak in the only language that matters: GDP per capita exploded from $500 in 1965 to over $70,000 today. Port traffic grew 50x. The financial sector now employs 250,000 people in a country smaller than New York City. You can start a business in Singapore in one day. Try that in France or Brazil. And before you credit "Asian values" or geographic luck, remember that Singapore sits next to Malaysia and Indonesia—countries with similar cultures, better natural resources, and dramatically worse economic outcomes. The difference? Malaysia and Indonesia kept their socialist policies while Singapore chose Austrian economics without knowing Mises existed.

Dear Elbows Up idiots, The crisis that Canada is facing isn’t Donald Trump. It’s not tariffs. And it’s not climate change. I know you want it to be - but it isn’t. The crisis Canada is facing, is you. You are the ones who decided to vote for someone you knew nothing about. You are the ones who voted for someone who couldn’t care less about Canada. You are the ones who voted for a complete moron who has destroyed international relationships - specifically with the US - because “no deal is better than a bad deal.” And you’re praising Carney for doing so because you’re all a bunch of ridiculous rejects who watch endless CBC reporters cheer while Carney throws the future of Canada into a ditch because orange man bad. This is what you voted for because you are all filled with a never-ending amount of blind hatred for a man you used to admire while sitting on the couch watching The Apprentice. And now Canada is falling to pieces, which doesn’t bother you one bit because you now view failure as success - because it makes it easier for all of you to live with yourselves knowing what you’ve done. Knowing that you’ve bankrupted your children and your grandchildren; knowing that your grandkids are already tens of thousands of dollars in debt to the government; knowing your adult children will likely never own a home and may never move out of your dreadful basements because they can’t afford to pay rent. And I guess that’s fine because your kids are so screwed up they don’t even know what bathroom to use. But that’s ok, because Canada has been flooded with immigrants who bring little to no skill with them while living in hotels paid for by taxpayers which makes you feel good because virtue signalling is the only thing you have left to give. And then there’s the economy - which is now so bad it’s being considered a “human rights crisis,” which also doesn’t bother you because who cares about human rights when you can’t even define what a woman is. Overwhelmed food banks? Who cares? Homeless veterans? Who cares? Families taxed into poverty? Who cares? A housing crisis? Who cares? Drug addicts everywhere? Who cares? “Who cares?” would be your battle cry if you didn’t already have the stupidest battle cry in history - Elbows Up! And speaking of Elbows Up…all of you are still pretending to boycott all American products - which is basically impossible - while complaining daily about Trump and the US on this AMERICAN PLATFORM and gushing about how you’ve cancelled your trips to the US and are vacationing in Mexico which now just happens to be the largest trading partner with the US. And when you’re not “sticking it to Trump” with your ignorant views, you’re complaining about the Alberta Separatist’s movement (a movement which is not new) and pretending we’re traitors for wanting a better life and our own country because you voted repeatedly to destroy Canada. And you did that because you are the traitors - every last one of you - but you’re too stupid to realize it and you’re so filled with hatred that you can’t see the forest through the trees. So yeah, it’s you. It’s all of you. You’re the crisis.

@Cole_Walmsley Strong position

I've never seen anyone make this Bitcoin argument before: People see Bitcoin as a replacement for fiat. But what if you flipped it around? What if fiat was the replacement for Bitcoin? Imagine Bitcoin is the monetary standard. It’s the money that’s been normal since birth. Decentralized. No one controls it. Can't be inflated. Runs on math and energy. Same rules for everyone, no exceptions. Now someone walks in and pitches you a replacement: "We're going to let a small group of bankers and politicians control the money supply. They can print as much as they want, whenever they want. It'll lose purchasing power every single year. And if you don’t play by their rules, they’ll fine you, penalize you, or throw you in jail.” Would you opt in? Would anyone? The only people that would opt in are the bankers and politicians, the same people who decided that fiat would be money in the first place. Think about that. You never had a choice. You were never given a vote. It was only up to them. Fiat — by decree. The fiat system goes back over 100 years — and central banking goes back even further. That system has entrenched itself into society. It’s created economic schools around its ideas. It’s built entire industries around profiting from it. And it’s made itself the default so no one thinks to question it. Bitcoin is not the crazy idea. Fiat is. It’s just been running so long that people have normalized it, so when an alternative monetary system pops up, people call it crazy. When you flip the script and view the world from the Bitcoin lens, the ridiculousness of fiat becomes obvious. Simply stated... If Bitcoin had come first, nobody would agree to fiat.

More to come about the Hanseatic League! Very interesting part of history.

Nice! The Hanseatic league influences my thinking in many ways. Some years ago, I met a Lübeck bürgermeister, also sitting President of the 'New Hanseatic League' - a bold attempt to revive the league inside the current State system. Well-intentioned, but missing the key: sovereignty beyond the Nationstate. The Hanza had a unique urban perspective - small trade-driven enclaves in port cities that were respected as "outside" the rule of local law (regional kings, city-states, etc) - bound and protected only by the principle of the alliance. I was hooked after discovering how young and untested Nations actually are. We are taught that Nations are natural, universal, real things. We blur lines between modern Nations and historical countries, as if the two are self-similar. That the Nation simply a tool to keep out evil, anarchy and chaos. Except the Hanza were vastly more stable as a decentralized non-territorial alliance for 500yrs. Nations, by contrast, have only been tested for 200yrs, and already been responsible for two visible world wars, several invisible ones, the GFC and approaching fiat collapse, and a global (federal) reserve system that eats all sovereignty. However: There is no reason to think Nations aren't just a bubble. And tension is mounting. Can we rebuild decentralised alliances again post-Nationstate?

The Hanseatic League solved commercial disputes for 400 years without a single government court, police force, or regulatory agency—and they did it better than any modern state system. From 1159 to 1669, German merchants spanning from London to Novgorod created the most sophisticated private arbitration network in history. When a Hamburg trader accused a Lübeck merchant of breach of contract, they didn't petition some distant king or wait months for bureaucratic tribunals. They brought their dispute before merchant courts staffed by actual businessmen who understood trade, contracts, and reputation. These arbitrators rendered decisions within days, not years. The enforcement mechanism? Pure market discipline. The League maintained detailed records of every merchant's behavior and shared this information across all member cities. Cross a Hanseatic trader in Bergen, and you'd find yourself blacklisted from Riga to Bruges within weeks. No bailiffs, no jackbooted enforcers, no violence—just the inexorable power of reputation and voluntary association. And it worked spectacularly. The League dominated Northern European commerce for half a millennium precisely because merchants trusted their dispute resolution more than royal courts. But here's what modern lawyers and judges will never tell you: the Hanseatic system resolved disputes faster, cheaper, and more accurately than contemporary government courts. Why? Because the arbitrators actually understood commerce and faced real consequences for bad decisions. Screw up a ruling as a Hanseatic arbitrator, and merchants would stop using your services. Screw up as a federal judge today, and you get lifetime tenure. The League died when centralized nation-states crushed private governance with military force, not because their system failed. Every blockchain arbitration platform and private dispute resolution service today merely rediscovers what German merchants perfected 800 years ago.

My world view is simple. Free people build better countries than governments do. I believe in low taxes, small government, personal responsibility, property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of enterprise, and the right of people to build a better life for themselves and their families. I believe hard work should be rewarded. Success should be respected. Merit should matter. Ownership matters. Families matter. Strong communities matter. I do not believe the government creates wealth. It can only tax it, regulate it, waste it, or get out of the way and let productive people build. I believe the best society is one where a normal hardworking person can earn a living, buy a home, raise children, save money, and move forward with dignity. Less bureaucracy. Less dependence. Less theft through tax. More freedom. More building. More ownership. More accountability. That is my politics. That is my economics. That is my moral view. A free, responsible, property owning society will beat a dependent, overgoverned one every time.

All I see when I come across this stuff is a woke ideology protecting itself from those that may dare to ask questions or challenge its leftist dogma. It’s weak and pathetic.

What people think MMT(Modern Monetary Theory) is: - "Free money" without consequences - Smart economists who found a cheat code - Modern breakthrough in monetary theory What MMT actually is: - Repackaged chartalism from the 1900s - Government printing press with academic lipstick - The same inflationary destruction that bankrupted Weimar Germany in 1923 MMT advocates tell you deficits don't matter because government creates money. But Venezuela's government created bolívars too (and look how that ended). You can't print wealth into existence—you only steal it from savers through currency debasement. The math stays brutal: every dollar they conjure dilutes yours.

A left wing politician calling a business or individual “greedy” is one of the strangest things in modern politics. The government already takes close to half of what many productive citizens earn once you combine income tax, GST, fuel taxes, rates, and countless other levies. They then spend that money however they see fit. But if someone builds a company, creates jobs, takes risk with their own capital, and keeps the profits they earned… suddenly that person is called greedy. Think about the logic. The individual earns the money. The government takes a large portion of it by force. And the individual is the greedy one. There is nothing greedy about wanting to keep the rewards of your own work. The truly dangerous idea is believing the state has a moral claim to everything you produce. Free people building businesses is what creates wealth in the first place. Without them there would be nothing for governments to tax. Calling the creators of wealth greedy while consuming their output is not moral clarity. It is economic illiteracy.

The Opera House in Budapest Hungary

Do you remember this ,Ontario? Before the Liberals pushed invaders into rural communities destroying our way of life

One of India’s most eminent cardiologist’s, referencing Pfizer’s former Chief Toxicologist alludes to the fact that the Covid mRNA jabs may be behind a surge in cancer. Thank you for speaking out Deepak 🙏

This is insane. The BBC just dropped a propaganda film where an English extremist is sniping a child on an illegal migrant dinghy. 1. There are NO children on the boats 2. There has NEVER been an attack on an illegal migrant, they attack English children

There you have it. Democrats won’t fund DHS/TSA until it’s clear ICE agents won’t show up at polling places to stop illegal aliens from voting. They might as well announce they’re cheating with a bullhorn.