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Economist Steve Keen says Bitcoin will go to zero because it uses too much energy. He also admits he was offered Bitcoin at £1 per coin and didn't buy it. The man predicting zero has been wrong since the beginning.

Prior to trading I was a plumber for 10 years. When I was a plumber doing service calls, I’d always tell clients I had “cousins” who did junk removal. I was the “cousin”. 4–5 hour jobs. $600–$800 per cleanup.
Clients paid dump fees + gas. At the most I’d charge $1.5k a day depending on how big the project was. Landing the job was never an issue because my plumbing work + vibes always showed for it. 7–8 jobs a month just off “referrals” mostly in wealthy neighborhoods. Old money. Remember this was “extra” income. As for man power, I’d call the homies, pay them $40/hr, knock it out, everyone ate. 7–8 years ago, that was real money to me. Honest work. People sleep on trades… -plumbing -electrical -hvac -carpentry -auto mechanic -etc There’s serious money in real skills. One thing for certain, two thangs fasho, If I wasn’t trading, I’d still be doing something hands-on

It’s day 33 of the war, and my hometown is still being heavily bombed. Iranians are only now, with great difficulty, realizing that for all these years, they have essentially been living inside a massive military base the size of a country. They’re finally understanding why Iran, despite all its resources, has remained so poor: because all the money has been spent preparing the regime for its apocalyptic final war. None of this is defensive. It’s all offensive. After every strike, Israel posts reports in Persian explaining exactly what it has hit. The main reason for cutting off the internet is so that people won’t see or understand what’s really happening. Underground missile cities, bunkers built beneath residential neighborhoods, tunnels upon tunnels upon tunnels. It’s horrifying. This regime must go. #IranWar‌ #ThankYouTrump‌

now this is living

Hayek was asked to leave “a statement for the future generations.” His response is brilliant: “Modern civilization which enables us to maintain 4 billion people was made possible by the institution of private property. It is only thanks to this institution that we achieved an extensive order far exceeding anybody’s knowledge.” “If you destroy that moral basis, which consists in the recognition of private property, we will destroy the sources which nourish present-day mankind, and create a catastrophe of starvation beyond anything mankind has yet experienced.”

I can't breathe. 🤣🤣🤣

The real question is how a dirt poor family from Afghanistan can come here with nothing and within 10 years own a 2.5 million dollar mansion while young Americans can't even afford a shitty starter home.

Some heroes wear capes — Chief Aaron Edwards wears blue.

The fact that calling a terrorist attack a “terrorist attack” has become controversial in the US tells you how far we have fallen This isn’t a right or left issue, it’s a literal terrorist attack where bombs were thrown by 2 ISIS inspired Islamist men Say it for what it is.

Liberal white people will literally tell you to stop being “Islamophobic” while Muslims launch bombs over their heads… We’re dealing with the dumbest people to ever exist

My biggest regret among many was not believing in myself more.

Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them. And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy? Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?

Every single socialist experiment in human history has collapsed into the same predictable pattern: economic devastation followed by authoritarian control. From the Soviet Union's bread lines to Venezuela's hyperinflation, from Cuba's emigrant rafts to Cambodia's killing fields—the results are as consistent as they are catastrophic. Yet somehow, each new generation of collectivists insists their version will be different. Meanwhile, the Austrian School predicted this outcome with mathematical precision. Ludwig von Mises proved in 1920 that rational economic calculation becomes impossible without market prices for capital goods. Without private ownership of the means of production, there are no genuine market prices. Without market prices, central planners cannot allocate resources efficiently—they're literally flying blind. What appears to be "planning" is actually chaos disguised by propaganda and enforced by violence. And when the inevitable shortages begin, the state has only two options: admit failure or double down with force. They always choose force. British pedophile John Maynard Keynes and his disciples promised a "middle way" between capitalism and socialism, but their interventions merely delayed the reckoning. Every welfare state, every central bank manipulation, every government "stimulus" brings us closer to the same endpoint. The difference between social democracy and full socialism isn't one of kind—it's merely one of degree and timeline. But the most damning evidence isn't theoretical—it's empirical. East versus West Germany. North versus South Korea. Cuba versus Chile. Hong Kong versus mainland China before 1979. Every controlled experiment in human history proves the same point: economic freedom creates prosperity, while state control creates misery. Socialist true believers can dismiss Austrian theory all they want, but they cannot dismiss the mountains of corpses and the millions of refugees fleeing their utopias. Venezuela had the world's largest oil reserves and still managed to create toilet paper shortages. That's not bad luck—that's economic law in action.

Dear feminists. Trump just freed the most oppressed women on planet earth And you hated it.

Iranians thank Trump in the best way we can… By honoring him with dance.

Anthropic hates Western Civilization

Perplexity just became the the first Al company to truly go head-to-head with the Bloomberg Terminal... Using Perplexity Computer (with no local setup or single LLM limitation), it was able to build me a terminal with real-time data to analyze $NVDA using Perplexity Finance:

This is a Mindset MUST-watch. Bookmark and share. 📌 We can become exactly who we want to become. We can control our thoughts. We can control our mind. We can make that 8-year version of us proud! Having this perspective at age 22 is just awesome. 🥇

Gavin "I Grew Up Poor" Newsom was in the SF Chronicle 1991 "Children of the Rich"