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Or any other tax. Taxation = theft We know we don't have the right to steal; so, how could we possibly grant the right we don't have to the state? Where does political authority come from if it doesn't come from me or you?

V true for India. The root problem is Indians accepting state control over themselves…and worse, imposing it on others. Tariffs, unions, zoning, NOCs, govt jobs, reservation, price controls, MRP, subsidies, deficit spending…and at the root, money printing to sustain it all.

To trans people and well-wishers, Let's keep building our own paths outside systems that don't respect us. Let's earn p2p, support each other through mutual aid, protect our savings from inflation, and live on our own terms. Nobody has a claim on your life or your earnings.

I will provide: Comfy space. Beautiful scenery. Endless tea and coffee. Wonderful friends. We can watch movies, read books, play with animals, go to the beach, stay home and play video games.

Noelia Castillo, IF YOU SEE THIS REACH OUT TO ME. You are ALLOWED to postpone this. I WILL FLY YOU OUT TO AMERICA and host you here.

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One of the best vindications of capitalism is that just 1% of hourly workers earn at or below the federal minimum wage. Market forces push up wages without the need for regulation.

> take birth as trans Another Indian with a ration-card view of rights in big 2026. Someone exercising self-ID isn't aggressing on you. If you oppose reservation/entitlements, it makes no sense to oppose self-ID. Property rights are the foundation self-ID is based on.

This👇 is the question politicians have no incentive to address. Reservation/redistribution expands the state's leverage to police identity. Why want that? A smarter way to address poverty is reducing dependence. Bitcoin lets us fund mutual aid without censorship.

@prcWrites @venturetwins > not a fair fight 😂😂 bruh, just put down the phone

Personal responsibility matters, but when one side is an individual, and the other is a system optimized by the smartest minds with billions of data points to influence behavior, it’s not a fair fight. Even China treats this as a system-level issue with guardrails on Douyin. Not saying we copy that, but pretending this is purely individual choice misses the point.

I don't want to be an asshole here, but I'm worried we're losing the concept of personal responsibility

It's easy to mock the optics of the leftist activists' recent mission to Cuba. ("Fun, too!") But there's a more basic criticism that risks being overshadowed. I haven't seen a single participant — not the young activists who went, not politicians like Ilhan Omar who support them — so much as pretend to pay any lip service to most basic, fundamental fact about Cuba: It is an authoritarian state. The ruling Communists are the only legal political party; all others are outlawed. All candidates for office are nominated by the party, most run unopposed, and many get 99% of the vote. There is not a shred of independent media. The country has over 1,000 political prisoners, including — to take one at random — a woman sentenced to 15 years in prison for streaming images of protests on Facebook. I'm confident that mainstream economists are correct that Cuba's Communist economy is responsible for its poverty, and that the U.S. embargo is at best an aggravating factor. But YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT to acknowledge the most basic political reality about the country. And that's simply something you have to do, if you speak publicly about Cuba, and you want what you say to have any shred of legitimacy or moral authority.

@Ngorongoro64516 Yes, some will still fund govts and whichever authorities they see as "saviours" from "those evil others." Most I believe are like me.😎 I ain't funding that.

@Ngorongoro64516 The issue isn't criminals using Bitcoin or fiat. (They actually prefer cash over a transparent ledger anyway) The issue is governments funding MICs, wars, and other boondoggles by inflating fiat. Can they do that with money that's actually bearer money?

Bitcoin is one way to prevent human capital from being diverted into building weapons.

@Ngorongoro64516 Well, tricking wallet holders into installing malware? or printing fiat? Which one scales to fund wars and boondoggles voters never consented to?

@UTXOghost Fortunately for them they don't need to print if they can solicit from those sympathetic to their cause or do the North Korea method of hacking and attempting to mine

@Ngorongoro64516 Well then good luck to warmongers trying to print more bitcoin

@UTXOghost Bitcoin would be more convenient to facilitate arms and mercenary transactions discreetly and there's nothing inherent to virtual money's frameworks that prevents warmongers from taking advantage of them

A small vendor in Machakos put up a ‘Bitcoin accepted here’ sign. While others debate online… real adoption is happening quietly. 🧡⚡🇰🇪🌍🔥🔥 #Bitcoin #MachakosBitcoinAcademy

How it feels knowing my Bitcoin can’t be printed away to feed the parasitic class.

When countries enshrine their right to discriminate based on gender in their constitution, what do private citizens do? They do what people have always done, they look for ways around unjust laws. In Afghanistan, women are not permitted to go to school, start a business or even have a bank account. As a result, underTaliban rule, most women are unbanked. To make matters worse, Afghanistan’s currency devalued 50% between 2021 and 2022. Eighty-five percent live on less than $1 a day, and 80% of school-aged Afghan girls and young women are out of school. One such group who found a way around this was Afghanistan NGO “Code to Inspire." (see image below). It’s an all-female coding school in Herat, Afghanistan, founded in 2015 by Fereshteh Forough. The project teaches Afghan women and girls to code and build real software apps. They specifically use Bitcoin transactions to pay students and graduates directly, send donations, and teach financial independence. This is especially critical because traditional banks are often unavailable, restricted for women, or intercepted and frozen by the Taliban if attempted with potential consequences for both the receiver and sender (especially after 2021). The NGO uses Bitcoin for donations because it cannot be intercepted by the Taliban. It is not the first time Bitcoin has been used in Afghanistan. Afghan entrepreneur Roya Mahboob had earlier founded Citadel Software in Herat, Afghanistan in 2010. Source: cordmagazine.com/business/entre… The company employed mostly women (about 85% of staff) to build websites, apps, and digital services. Because Afghan banks often refused to open accounts for women or blocked transfers, she began paying salaries directly in Bitcoin starting around 2013. For her work, Roya received the inaugural Courage in STEM Award in 2011, and was Named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013 Source: lsc.org/gala/roya-mahb…. Finally, Digital Citizen Fund, also set up by Roya, (digitalcitizenfund.org) trains and employs more women using Bitcoin payments. Source: wired.com/story/roya-mah… and lnkd.in/e3pydfZP Digital Citizen Fund played a critical role during the Taliban takeover, using Bitcoin to deliver aid post-Taliban takeover. This fund was credited with preventing families from starving. Source: forbes.com/sites/laurashi… Why Bitcoin Outperformed Stablecoins in Afghanistan and other authoritarian regimes Stablecoins, reliant on centralized issuers and dollar-backed banking rails, faltered in Afghanistan’s . U.S. sanctions froze $7 billion in central bank funds, which cut off the dollar liquidity needed for stablecoins like USDT. While Forbes India noted isolated cases of stablecoin use for salaries, most Afghans found them unusable. Also sanctions blocked fiat conversions and the Taliban’s November 2021 foreign currency ban further restricted access. Bitcoin, by contrast, once again thrived precisely because of its decentralized design: no intermediaries to freeze transactions, no KYC that risked exposing users and a global network that resisted shutdowns. In short, where stablecoins were hobbled by their ties to traditional finance, Bitcoin enabled direct, pseudonymous transfers. In the West, we tend to take a non-discriminatory banking system that (generally) cannot be turned on private citizens for granted. For the 11.3 Million women living in Afghanistan, and the more than 4 Billion people around the world living in authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes, without a stable currency and often without good banking rails - Bitcoin often finds itself providing a lifeline, or at the very least a freedom-line.

@pranesh So instead of letting the state continue its dependency trap, it's increasingly important to build permissionless alternatives like free markets and mutual aid on Bitcoin.

@pranesh Really appreciate you always raising pertinent questions, Pranesh. Yes, while self-ID is a negative right; redistribution via identity (reservation, healthcare, etc) is not. Refusal to acknowledge this lets the state continue classifying people and pit them in zero-sum games.

Right to self-ID isn't something the Court "gave". It's a basic negative right. Like speech, property, self-defence, privacy. This is just people asking to be left alone. I made a song on this idea.