I'm at this point where I'm like don't tell me your opinion tell me you're running a node lol this simping for bitcoin is only going to get louder as it reaches multi-trillion dollar market size, and these are just the first clowns through the door trying to co-opt it for political points

this ^

I just finished listening to RFKjr's speech and figure now is as good a time as any to continue my little Rant from above :)

I am going to ask that you walk thru two mental models with me....the first is not difficult as it is the world which we all know or knew before Bitcoin found us and/or infected us....

This world is much of what I described above...people fighting for attention, trying to sell you a new invention, that is sure to make your life better for the low low price of (whatever fiat value you want) and (this is the best part) you can save 10% if you pay in Bitcoin or what about this one....I will have to charge you more if you pay in FIAT...

Like what the actual FIAT FUCK WORLD are we Bitcoiners living in???

I get it....I'm not really mad at anyone for operating this way....I mean we have lived in FIAT world for so long that we have literally forgotten how to be human and to care and feel for one another. How to truly try to help each other live the best life/lives we can and most importantly how "money" is not the most important thing in the world. But I digress....

Our world (pre-Bitcoin) was/is one which is clearly to all, going to hell/shit. This is really not even debateable unless of course (you have a tremendous amount of wealth/money and haven't had to ever show "proof of work" for any of it) Otherwise for 99% or likely more of the humans living on the planet it is clear that we are not flourishing but rather we are literally scrambling to kill and/or steal everything we can from each other in the hopes of securing our families ability to continue perpetuating the cycle for longer than anyone else....

That - my friends...my brethren...my compatriots....is what Bitcoin fixes...is the paradigm Bitcoin shifts...is the belief system Bitcoin blows away and replaces with anew....

This brings us to the second mental model....this is one that you may not be as familiar with or as assured of....this is one that is a possibility and not guaranteed...this is one based off not the historical precedence carved into rock over ages but rather the one being carved into the cold, hard, ice that has built up on those eons of history and left frozen in the spacetime of of our collective pasts...the same pasts which nature has had us believe we are destined to repeat over and over and over again until the end of time....

Well, that ice built up and as it built up it got closer and closer to the sun, and it began to melt....and that melt slowly began to trickle down deeper and deeper and longer and longer into the icy depths of the past and slowly it has begun to change the future some of us believe is coming....we have begun to hope beyond all hope that humanity isn't destined to repeat or even rhyme with our past and that we are now able to choose this new path....we are writing a new history....based upon a ledger that is immutable and honest....one that doesn't care what any of its users record on it....it just is....it just is....it just is....much like natural laws.....it just is an honest representation of what was/is transacted at that particular moment of the timechain.

This world that is coming or is here.... simply is not yet recognized by us all... simply will take centuries to even begin to start to understand.... (Remember we have had thousands of years....literally our entire history of civilization, to attempt to make sense of the old world paradigm and here we are 15 years into the new one and some of us have the gumption to state we know what this is....and what it does for humanity??? Come on....I mean sure we are the smartest humans that have ever roamed the face of the planet but fuck we are dumb.... I mean we are literally killing each other daily, we are trying to kill this planets ecological evolutionary biosphere....lots of us believe we are better than others because of the stupidest reasons such as the color of their skin or eyes??? I mean WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK people.....get over your selves....

Shoot - I digressed again.... Much of this past has been built upon the false pretense of value being communicated fairly when in reality it was being manipulated by both or all parties involved in the transaction so that it benefited them the most....and those that came out ahead "won" the biological, reproduction lottery and those that lost....well...you know hos that ends....

We have now entered unchartered territory - we live in a world being rebuilt on trust, freedom and honesty....

We now live in a world that unites, and appreciates and values differences among us.

We now live in a world that records all valuable transactions on a timechain that cannot be altered or destroyed (so long as we continue to protect it).

Run your own node.