If you're a bystander to a war and happen to get caught up in it like the Gulf States are right now, no one is going to protect you. These security guarantees, formal and informal, are not real. Downtown Dubai can still get destroyed and your economy destroyed for a generation, because who's going to stop it? You're on your own. So countries that feel they're sincerely on their own have every incentive to have the most effective deterrence possible. And that would at this point be nuclear weapons.

So you're going to see a lot more nuclear-armed states in the next few years without question. So if the point of this was to preserve the status quo on nukes, it had the opposite effect. But the point of this was not to preserve the status quo at all. It was to overturn the status quo, to usher in a new age. That's the point of this war. This is a pivot in history, and a lot of the people supporting it know that.

Now they're really in two groups.

One are people motivated by religious impulse that would include some Israelis, some religious Jews. Not all, but some. And that would include some Christians, Christian Zionists. And both groups believe that they're helping to accelerate the end of history. Armageddon, the end of time, the return of the Messiah, you know, however you want to describe it. But both groups believe that history is linear. It began in one place and arrives at another with the return of God to earth. And then history ends and we are redeemed or damned, depending. So that's the basic idea.

And both of these groups seem under the impression that they can force God's hand, that they can bring this about through an act of will or violence, which is to say, both groups believe on some level that they are God, which they are not. They're not in charge of history. And you can't force God's hand. He's in charge. You are not. But both groups have lost sight of that.

So that's their motive. And then there are secular boosters of the war, promoters of the war, planners of the war. And their vision, while not strictly speaking religious, is not really so different. They would like to usher in rule by technology, whether that's mass surveillance, whether it's transhumanism, the merging of man and machine, but the rule of the earth by technology. And there are a lot of people who want this, and a lot of people who think it's inevitable.

And this is the moment where that age of history begins with this war. So again, this is not a war that is confined to the region. This is not a war between the United States and Israel and Iran. This is not a war designed to prevent a rogue state from getting nukes. It was never that. This is a war designed to usher in a new age of man, a new period in history, a new world.

And so wars like that are fundamentally theological in nature. That's theology, whether it's secular or religious, it's still theology. These are articles of faith. This is an eschatology. And wars like that aren't resolved quickly, because we're talking not just about disarming a madman. We're talking about changing the nature of life on this planet forever.

Watch the full monologue here: https://youtu.be/bET0_ROWVAw

So, if you have questions about this war, whether it's in your interest, your country's interests or not, that's never a question that's occurred to Ben Shapiro. Is this Good for America? It's really not a consideration. But if it's under your consideration, if you've raised that question, you are tantamount to a Holocaust denier. You’re insane, you're a crazy person. You probably think the moon landing was fake and 9/11 was fake.

But there is a pretty easy way to settle any debate about 9/11, which is by declassifying the millions of pages of classified documents that might explain what 9/11 was. But that's never under consideration. We could end this debate right now. We won't, of course.

But you're a bad person. And above all, you are a disloyal person. Disloyal to the United States. You are “rooting for Iran to win.” You're part of the grievance party. How dare you complain? How dare you have grievances? Pretty weak, coming from a guy who literally knows nothing about the rest of the world at all.

So you know, you can get annoyed by it. At some point, especially if Iran wins, people like that will double their calls to arrest anyone on the other side. They're already calling for it. “These people should be investigated. Anyone who's against this should be investigated. They should go to jail.”

Their ideological opponent should go to jail. Who's the totalitarian here?

And you'll hear a lot more of that. But you will not see people pay a ton of attention to yelping, childish yelping like that, totally uninformed screaming like that, ever again.
Because again, this conflict has entered what the military refers to, euphemistically, as the kinetic stage. People are actually firing munitions at each other. So it kinda doesn't matter what people on the sidelines say at this point. This is a hot war and it will be decided by force.

We've exited the part of the exchange where it's two guys in the parking lot. “What'd you say? I'll mess you up!” And we've gotten to the part where one guy just punches the other guy in the face and keeps going unless he is stopped.

So that's exactly where we are. So it doesn't kind of matter what you said before the punching started.

Not that Ben Shapiro has any experience with that, but it's just true that once people start hurting each other, words matter less. And the dominant party will emerge victorious. That's exactly where we are.

Watch the full monologue here: https://youtu.be/pcc5jUcORUY

CURIOSIDADE: 🟠 Em 2014, a Dell aceitou o pagamento de 85 #Bitcoins, equivalentes a US$ 50.000, por um pedido de servidor.

Hoje, esses 85 #BTC valem US$ 5,8 milhões.

Fonte: https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/2021323075791298661?s=20

@OplanoB
#bitcoin

Das eigentliche Problem am Fiat-System ist nicht nur Inflation.

Das eigentliche Problem ist,
dass es Menschen innerlich klein macht.

Ein Geldsystem, das dich permanent enteignet,
erzieht dich automatisch zu kurzfristigem Denken.

Du sparst weniger.
Du planst kürzer.
Du wirst abhängiger.
Du gewöhnst dich daran,
dass man große Entscheidungen lieber anderen überlässt:
Banken, Politikern, Experten, Institutionen.

Fiat zerstört nicht nur Kaufkraft.

Fiat zerstört langsam auch das Gefühl,
wirklich für das eigene Leben verantwortlich zu sein.

Und genau deshalb ist Bitcoin so viel mehr als nur „hartes Geld“.

Bitcoin konfrontiert dich wieder mit einer Realität,
die die meisten Menschen verlernt haben:

Dass Eigentum Verantwortung bedeutet.
Dass Freiheit Risiko bedeutet.
Dass niemand kommen wird,
um dein Geld für dich zu retten.

Bitcoin macht das Leben nicht bequemer.

Aber vielleicht ist genau das seine größte Stärke.

Er macht Menschen nicht kleiner.
Er macht sie erwachsener.

https://x.com/i/status/2033870086503649354

O verdadeiro problema do sistema Fiat não é apenas a #inflação.

O verdadeiro problema é que ele diminui as pessoas interiormente.

Um sistema #monetário que te desapropria permanentemente,
educa-te automaticamente para um #pensamento de curto prazo (Preferência Temporal Alta).

Tu poupas menos.
Planificas a curto prazo.
Tornas-te mais dependente.
Habituas-te a deixar as grandes decisões para outros:
bancos, políticos, especialistas, instituições.

O Fiat não destrói apenas o poder de compra.

O Fiat também destrói lentamente a sensação de ser realmente responsável pela tua própria vida.

E é precisamente por isso que o Bitcoin é muito mais do que apenas "dinheiro forte".

O Bitcoin confronta-te novamente com uma realidade que a maioria das pessoas esqueceu:

Que a propriedade significa responsabilidade.
Que a liberdade significa risco.
Que ninguém virá salvar o teu dinheiro por ti.

O Bitcoin não torna a vida mais confortável.

Mas talvez essa seja a sua maior força.

Ele não diminui as pessoas.
Ele torna-as mais adultas.

https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/2033870086503649354

#Matrix@TutorialBTC