I think my opinion on that is known (lol), so I'll instead point out something tangential that's been on my mind, which is the dual skills of discernment & judgement.
When you're really good at what you do in a communications field, you can sell anything. That's true in advertising, and that's true in geopolitics. You can build a logical (not necessarily 'true') narrative to support practically any desired conclusion, simply by isolating the elements that support you and excluding whatever doesn't.
Some variation of that happens whenever a prosecutor sends an innocent man to jail. We've also seen it in places like the Soviet Union: "You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime," said Beria (their secret police chief).
Not a coincidence that Libra (English: "Pounds/Weights") is the ancient symbol of Justice
I think that 'doing justice' to a person or a situation is a very difficult, borderline superhuman task, since it requires you to nullify inclinations and 'weigh' two sides — one of which you might even hate! Instead of that, we are very practiced at "tipping the scales" (just a metaphor?) where we think they should go. But whenever we do that, we always become a little more dishonest ourselves, and we amplify the "scale" of injustice in the world overall.
Not an easy thing. But I think this is something we should think about carefully, given that the wars of narrative are likely only to escalate from here.
That's my .02!
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Yup. King Solomon has been given a gift of perfect judgement, which actually indicates it's a superhuman skill.
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Okay saying you're a paid troll is a government psyop. Normal people don't say things like that. Normal people don't use specific tactical framing marketing words to talk about something
However, I would say that assuming things you see on the internet are not grassroots, should be the default assumption. Stick with people who can have a conversation with you. Don't judge what's popular based on who's making a quick one time comment.
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Both could be true at the same time
  • Bitcoin being awesome
  • El Salvador being a shithole 3rd world country with a dangerous dictator
Indeed, I do think both are true at the same time. Here is a post of mine from some time ago: Are Bitcoiners too uncritical of El Salvador and Nayib Bukele???
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And what do you think of this? #97082
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I respect different view points but it did not change my mind
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Shared for discussion.
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