That one was so sad. Those cops ought to burn.
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Joseph Lamantia: Serial Killer
Remember, it’s perfectly fine to be a mass murderer as long as you get a job as a government employee first.
Cop Kills Man
Hands up, don’t shoot. Says here the guilty murderer cop, Joseph Lamantia, once murdered a man with a spatula. This victim had no weapon at all. I hope his sister is proud of herself for calling the Gestapo to murder her brother.
RIP Neil Sheehan
The Indian Wars
With the Indians vanquished at Wounded Knee
The Empire shone from sea to sea
But we could not rest
Let salt stop this quest
For in far off lands there were more Indians to free
We needed to liberate Cuban Indians from Spain
Lucky for us — a travesty on the Maine!
We promised them freedom
But that’s not for heathens
So their new masters we became
Far away in the Philippines
We dispatches a squadron of Marines
The Indians of Manila
Turned into Guerrillas
And forced us to liberate them by any means
South of the border, Indians got out of line
Thinking owning their own land was just fine!
So we set up a school
To teach them who rules
And sent them a Condor to ensure they’re supine
In Vietnam the Indians resisted
Through a Phoenix the bad ones were listed
Three million lay dead
Three countries in shreds
Orange and Napalm greatly assisted
In Iraq we had global remit
Sanctions were harsh we have to admit
The price was steep
Indian life not cheap
But we think the half-million definitely worth it
Now the Great Plains are Afghanistan
The new Indian we call Taliban
Why we’re there no one remembers
Didn’t something happen once in September?
One things for sure — it won’t end in our lifespan
But the final war is yet to be fought
As empires collapse and lose their support
When the average man finds out we’re bankrupt
Trillions in debt — his temper will erupt
When austerity starts to be felt
With instructions from Washington to tighten one’s belt
The people of these United States you’ll see
Are the final Indians we’ll have to set free
Cops Shoots Unarmed Woman at Point Blank Range — Some Leftists Celebrate
Dan Cohen is a good dude. But check out the comments. Police brutality is apparently awesome, as long as it’s a white right-winger getting some.
GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: Police fatally shoot a Trump supporter inside the Capitol building. This is a sickening crime that should be prosecuted as such. pic.twitter.com/X8JK7HplJ7
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) January 7, 2021
Today’s Riot
Okay, this was funny though
I’m swamped editing the book, but just a couple quick things about today’s riot at the capitol:
Biden did not steal 5 states. Trump lost. That’s the deal.
Trump’s refusal to concede and long delay before telling people to go home today is a goddam disgrace.
Still, the media claiming this was a coup and an insurrection is overblown. The few who broke in were no armed, organized militia. It was just amped-up mob members acting out. Not a justification, just real context.
The silver lining of the crisis of confidence in America’s rotten institutions is seriously tempered by the fact that the marginalized’s first premise is bullshit. Also the whole thing has a potential of destabilizing relations between Americans in ways that could really be harmful.
If it wasn’t for George W. Centrist Establishment Jr.’s catastrophic presidency there never would have been the disaster of Barack Obama or Donald Trump in reaction to that. The wars, the economic crises, the lockdowns, the blatant lies and corruption of America’s most important permanent institutions has lead us to this. We needed libertarianism. We got neo-liberalism and boy look at the mess we’re in now.
Crypto Is Money
Crypto is all over the news right now. Look one way and you will see news about the wildly high dollar value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Look another way and you will see news about Ripple, Coinbase, and the state war against crypto. I read about as much crypto news as I can find, but the strangest posts about crypto are those I find on social media.
There is widespread obsession with the price in dollars of cryptocurrencies. You will also regularly hear terms like “investment” and “diversity” and “capital gains” in relation to crypto. I find it frustrating, to say the least.
Cryptocurrencies were created as currencies, not investments. They solve problems that have never before been solved. Until now, there has never been a way to instantly send money to anyone in the world, person to person, without any middle man. With cash, you can do person to person payments easily, but you can only do it locally. With money transfers or card payments, you rely on multiple banks and middlemen to get money from point A to point B, and a bank is always left holding the money, not the individual. Plus, it takes multiple days for a transaction to close.
Gold is great as well, but it has the same usage problems as cash. It only works for local payments, otherwise, you have to trust multiple middlemen. Plus, it has the added problems that it is heavy and difficult to store, plus it is much less divisible than cash unless you are using gold powder and scales, but who has time for that?
People who obsess over the price of crypto and who think of it as an investment completely miss the point. Crypto prices will go up and down in relation to fiat currencies. The big spikes generally come from traditional investment money which shows up just long enough to build a big bubble then gets pulled out at the top causing the dollar value to crash. Sure, cryptocurrencies with limited supply have the potential to steadily go up in value over time as fiat value falls, but ultimately that is irrelevant in terms of day to day usage.
If you want to get rich quick off of crypto, good luck with that. You probably won’t. If you want to diversify and invest in crypto like stocks, you may or may not get the return you hope for. If you are hodling tons of crypto and begging others to do the same, then you are missing out on the real benefits of crypto and are no different than any NPC out there living under the thumb of the state and its tightly-controlled and surveilled financial system.
So, stop asking for permission from corrupt financial institutions to use your own money. Stop using systems that you know are being watched and controlled by the state. Stop trusting dozens of financial institutions with your money.
Instead, be free. Use crypto to accomplish what can only be accomplished using crypto. Pay for goods and services directly, hold the keys to your money yourself. When you use cryptocurrencies as money, the temporary value in terms of fiat becomes dramatically less important. Break free of thinking of crypto only in terms of fiat, because it is far better than fiat.
Sure, no cryptocurrency is perfect right now, but that isn’t a problem. They are each a step in the right direction. Do you not use SSL/TLS when you browse the web? Sure, TLS isn’t perfect, but it is our best option on the clear web right now. When a better alternative arrives, then we can use that instead. Technology is never in a finished state. There is always new innovation around the corner. What we do is use what we have available to us and grow and adapt over time. It works for internet protocols and it works for cryptocurrencies as well.
The best days of crypto are ahead of us, not behind us, and it has nothing to do with the fiat value. The value of cryptocurrencies is in their usage as money.
Originally posted at: https://technoagorist.com/49
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