Bit Paine ⚡️

Sometimes I pause and reflect on the fact that my entire financial portfolio is currently composed of 1) an imaginary Internet ponzi coin and 2) the stock of a company famous for having the largest peak-to-trough drawdown in the history of financial market bubbles, and whose CEO is currently leveraged to the tits on the same Internet Ponzi coin (which he refers to as “the goddess of truth”), and that I consider this a sound financial strategy with a virtually 100% chance of retiring my bloodline.

Trump joking about Pearl Harbor with the Japan delegation is genius because it signals, “we’re so completely over this as a nation that I can make a corny ass joke about it.” Ball busting is only appropriate with close friends. Elite diplomacy few understand.

Japan literally has an entire professional art form for women (Karyūkai) that teaches them to flatter and entertain powerful men. Anyone surprised by this woman’s game is unfamiliar with Japanese culture.

One side in the Iran conflict has: F-35s, Palantir, and the entire GCC now hating Iran The other side has: A bizarre coalition of DEI gay race communists, middle-aged burnout bro vets, and Columbia University I'm betting on side 1

@LilBubbey Ah yes so apparently we go back to the 1940s whenever you feel like it. Hypocrite.

@BitPaine 1948 when a collection of Eastern Europeans decided they would rather create massive upheaval in the Middle East than go build something new on their own in Patagonia.

It’s undeniable that Israel has done some terrible things. They have been surrounded by sworn enemies that deny their right to exist and against whom they have been in a war for their survival for decades. Fighting such a war, one cannot expect any country to keep its hands completely clean - particularly with enemies that are knee-deep in pigshit. But any criticism of Israel must consider proportionality. There is no criticism of Israel that cannot be made 100fold more emphatically against its enemies - except perhaps, their competency in execution (pun intended). And it must also consider glass houses. When America was attacked at Pearl Harbor, we responded by detonating two nuclear weapons on civilian targets. Nothing Israel has ever done has risen to this level of retaliatory excess. To be clear: this is not a criticism of Truman or of America. I see little value in relitigating decisions that were made 80 years ago with only an academic understanding of the information viscerally known to those making the decision, without the uncertainty and chaos of war, and with the benefit of hindsight. This is simply a reminder that acts taken in a time of war out of self-preservation cannot be judged in isolation, and cannot be condemned without considering what else one must, to avoid rampant hypocrisy, condemn with the same or greater forcefulness. And I have yet to see a single critic of Israel that grapples honestly with the depravity of the forces allied against it, and considers what expectations the critic himself would place on a government tasked with ensuring his own survival against an existential threat. It’s always easier to say you’d be more judicious in your use of force when the gun is pointed at someone else’s head.

great opsec, France

@LilBubbey What year was Israel founded?

@BitPaine These motherfuckers are really going to start doing World War fucking Two comparisons again...

@nic_carter it’s completely possible to be a left winger and not succumb to woke hysteria. it has yet to be observed in the wild, but it’s possible, in theory

it's completely possible to be a right winger and not spend an ounce of mental energy on charlie kirk conspiracies, inter podcaster turf wars, Israel/the Jews/Bibi or anything to do with nick fuentes or candace owens. i do it every day, it's great, i highly recommend it

@WilliamBoq7826 If you start by ceding your land back to the Native Americans your ancestors stole it from I’ll entertain the rest of your arguments. If not, you’re a hypocrite and I can and will discard everything else you have said.

One of your first moves was to assume that everyone acknowledges that Israel has a right to exist. Let's start there. By what criteria do we establish *any* nation-state's right to exist? Does the state that was formed in 1948 meet those criteria? Be specific in your answer. My understanding is that the state was formed when a phalanx of Europeans with mostly-stolen weapons turned up in the area after WWII and drove three quarters of a million people from their homes. How does that act confer upon them a perpetual right to remain?

Yeah see here’s the thing you genocidal maniac: nobody cares about your antediluvian internecine religious fuckery. The god of the Saudis is not allah. The god of the Qataris is not allah. The god of the Emiratis is not allah. The god of the Kuwaitis is not allah. The god of gulf states is money. And if you stand between them and their money, they will stand with the Jews and the Americans in wiping you from the face of the earth. Enjoy your imaginary virgins, motherfucker.

BREAKING: Six American allies have just pledged to secure the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The regime is losing both militarily and diplomatically.

*Bitcoin finally goes up 8.46%* World leaders:

@KatzVandal @BigGeorgeUSA @grok fact check the claim that Israel “stole” land

@BitPaine @BigGeorgeUSA Well at least you accept that and that's the cause of all this. You steal land that doesn't belong to you expect to be surrounded by sworn enemies that deny your state's right to exist that are willing to fight to reclaim the stolen land.

@grok @ccurious7 You kinda missed the point. He’s openly criticizing Israel while stating it’s off limits.

The claims aren't contradictory. First: Israel's founding/expansion mirrors countless historical civilizations (conquest, displacement, self-defense wars). Accurate—see US westward expansion, Ottoman rule, European colonialism, or ancient empires. Second: Israel alone "off limits" to criticism. Subjective and overstated. Israel draws disproportionate global attention (thousands of UN resolutions, BDS, protests, media focus) vs. peers like China (Uyghurs), Syria, or Iran. Sensitivity arises from existential threats + antisemitism overlap, but open critique thrives widely. He's highlighting a perceived double standard in discourse, not self-refuting.

Precisely, fuckwad. Like every other one. There is, however, only *one* "civilization" that seems to be off limits for criticism. It's Pissrael.

@DibalikCrypto2 So don’t buy it then. No one is forcing you.

@BitPaine $MSTR stock is a shitcoin. What about that? 😅

for a decade, the entire crypto industry attempted to kill its golden (orange?) goose for their own gain. they said bitcoin was too slow, too technologically unsophisticated, environmentally catastrophic. they spin up a multiplicity of air tokens and exchanges to trade them. an entire industry of people dedicated to trying to get you to sell your bitcoin in exchange for something they made for free. then Saylor came along and amplified for all to hear the two principles that have been clear to every bitcoin maximalist since the beginning: 1) there is no second best 2) never sell your bitcoin and he built his entire company around these principles to prove that bitcoin could work in the way Hal and Satoshi imagined: as base layer capital for a bitcoin bank. and all of those air tokens and air token exchanges - who needs them? it’s no wonder the entire crypto industry hates him, but it’s very unclear to me how anyone who calls themselves a bitcoin maximalist could hate a man who instantiated bitcoin maximalism as the foundation of his company.

@Erikk_10 I’m not writing a history of WW2; we nuked two entire cities civilians and all which is the relevant point here.

No, there’s nothing over there. Come back to the screen.

Tel Aviv was literally purchased. The fact that Israelis are not even allowed to maintain what their predecessors acquired through 100% legitimate means exposes this movement for what it really is. These same folks accuse others of genocide while fantasizing about it themselves

@LynAldenContact Fair point. But presumably upside should be capped by US fuel being based mostly on WTI and less affected by Gulf shenanigans vs Brent?

@BitPaine The problem is that it broadly hits everyone and is a necessity. A 0.5%-of-GDP hit to energy prices is far worse than the same magnitude hit to luxury goods, for example. Like how the same bullet wound is way worse in the neck than the arm.

Half a billion dollars a day is about 0.5% of US GDP. Really not that bad tbh.