Buck Rogers

@DrJStrategy Interesting framework but it overstates US control. Weaponisation of the dollar and seizure of sovereign assets already triggered a structural exit from the Western financial system. Trump isn’t building a new order. He’s removing the last reason the world stays in the old one.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@SantiagoAuFund Any tips to give up sugar? My last vice and it’s been the hardest to stop by far

Sugar

@frankdilo Standard Notes 👊

We built Things, Notion, Todoist... And this person said "nah, txt file is fine" Unironically brilliant. jeffhuang.com/productivity_t…

@sweatystartup Best place to start - The gospel of Mark

About to read the bible for the first time. Where should I start?

@trader_munky $100 is programmed

$NUAI monthly looks like it hasn't even begun yet. All indicators still criminally undersold with MACD just now curling up. This thing could explode above $12 easily from the looks of it.

@pepemoonboy More here

@pepemoonboy $NUAI 50 bagger potential

I’m on the hunt for a new gem to add to my portfolio. Just launched a new account called “Moon Boys” where I’ll be buying $2,500 of a high-risk, high-reward stock every week. If you had to go all-in on a stock that hardly anyone knows about…what would it be? And please, don’t give me names like $AMD, $ROOT, $NBIS, $IREN, $CFIR, $LMND, or $EOSE. I’m looking for real diamonds, the next moonshot. 🚀🌑

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@FitFounder Alcohol

What is something you removed from your life that has made it significantly better?

@Ramky555 @foundmyfitness Thorne

@foundmyfitness Can u plz suggest the best brand of creatine that we can buy

More exciting results from a pilot study on creatine supplementation for Alzheimer's disease. Participants who took 20 grams per day experienced a ~2 kg increase in handgrip strength and an increase in thigh muscle cross-sectional area after 8 weeks. That's without training. These findings complement those of a prior publication showing higher brain creatine levels and improved cognition in the same participants. Definitely an area of research to keep an eye on!

@eddyluxe_ This was very prescient

Unpopular Opinion: Metaplanet is overbought and overdue for a pullback or correction. I know this post will get many angry reactions and challenges to short, but I must be honest. I'm a trader and it's my job to be objective. Let me explain the red flags I've seen this past week: > Metaplanet is up 8 weeks in a row. Its price action and RSI look similar to previous moments before a correction. Nothing goes up forever without at least a pullback from time to time. > Everyone is extremely bullish and any bearish challenge is met with tribal, emotional responses. > Many people who were initially skeptical of Metaplanet have recently arrived in the space. > Metaplanet just announced a buy of 1,111 $BTC, an 11% increase in its Bitcoin holdings, yet the stock is fading, potentially signaling buyer exhaustion. I've been in $MTPLF since $3 (thanks to @ActuallyClimber), so I have a nice buffer in case it does actually pull back. I'm not saying Metaplanet is overvalued fundamentally, but just technically, in the short-term. I won't short, but will be prepared to add to my MTPLF position if there is a pullback/correction. Again, I do like Metaplanet and want everyone to succeed, but it's important to challenge the bullish sentiment from time to time. I hope you don't get too angry reading this. I believe Metaplanet will end the year much higher, but the journey there will probably not be in a straight line.

@chrono_chartist 🤝

last thing. Nothing htf trend has changed..nothing on the levels has changed and nothing on the dates has changed. 3rd to 5th is still in play. A 5% drop does not change ANY of that. I am going to enjoy some more off time. I will update if needed. Respect to all who stands with me.

@ChartingGuy 👍

i have considered this would be small fee like $2 a month and would only include my buys and sells on spot and my occasional options trades i don’t day trade anything much or do futures much so this wouldn’t be a super active subscription btw anyone interested?

@Free_Ross @RealRossU And your mouse? $FIFI

FREEDOM!!!!

@plebHODLBadger @AussieHodl You don’t pay tax when receiving gifts. However if she doesn’t sell immediately and holds it for a while, she will need to pay tax on any capital gains since the time of receiving the gift.

@AussieHodl If I gift some to a relative (to help her with mortgage) do you know if she also has to pay tax on it? pretty sure for me, it is considered same as selling.

No one wants to think of worse case scenarios, but I do. Bitcoin is tax free in Australia if you can live on the tax-free threshold $18,200 per year (typical uni student's budget these days) Bitcoin is tax free for retirees on a pension ($30,000 pa) if you sell <$13,100 bitcoin per year. If you don't have a mortgage, you'll live comfortably. Plan accordingly.

@Bluntz_Capital Which looking better to you brother $SHIB or $WIF ?

this $wif accumulation is gagging for a bust up.

@Bluntz_Capital Yes boss

$pepe has now done a nice 5 up from the lows on ltfs and the pullback from the highs was also a clear 3 wave move down, the push into fresh ath looks like its begun.

@RoaringKitty How about Ross Ullbrichts pet mouse Fifi lol $FIFI

@MustStopMurad How about Ross Ullbrichts pet mouse Fifi? $FIFI

Update on Memecoins' Decentralization Metrics You want to see: - High Median Holder Rank - Low HHI

@based16z Ross Ullbrichts has a pet mouse Fifi $FIFI on solana