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IMF and El Salvador

During all these years of self-education and search for the truth, which by the way led me to Bitcoin, one of the things I learned is that the IMF is the monetary instrument used by the US to subjugate countries and take away their national sovereignty.
The most significant case of our time was Japan, many do not know the history, and as it is somewhat long and complex I refer you to the great documentary “Princes of the Yen”.
If there is one thing that “Bitcoiners” are guilty of, it is naivety. Bukele has made a pact with the devil, Bukele is not as good as you think, he is just a politician, if he had really been smart and had thought about his people, rather than asking for a loan to the IMF he would have opted for the old tactic of save and do not spend what you do not have.
Oh yes, now he has bought 10 more bitcoins, as if he spends the 1400 million in Bitcoin, so far the IMF has already had its way with Bitcoin.
I repeat, if there is one thing Bitcoiners are guilty of, it is being very naive. There is no good politician, you understand? Neither Trump, nor Milei nor Bukele, they are all shit, and Bukele only uses Bitcoin as propaganda, nothing else.
You can argue whatever you want, but surely you don't know what it means to pact with the IMF nor how bad this institution is, before giving your opinion about how good Bukele is, study what the IMF is, study how it has subjugated countries and study what happens if you breach your agreements with the IMF.
71 sats \ 0 replies \ @Shugard 7h
I repeat, if there is one thing Bitcoiners are guilty of, it is being very naive. There is no good politician, you understand? Neither Trump, nor Milei nor Bukele, they are all shit, and Bukele only uses Bitcoin as propaganda, nothing else.
YES!
Bukele may be better than the alternative, but he is certainly not one of the good guys as most bitcoiners believe. His mass incarcerations are also very questionable. And his re-election story is also very shady. Power corrupts and he is basically a modern day dictator in El Salvador. Just because you (the average bitcoiner) like him doesn't mean it justifies the concentration of power in one man. Never give up your freedom and give it to a guy who wants power. And he definitely wants power!
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126 sats \ 2 replies \ @Lux 7h
you spelled zionists incorrectly
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Got a problem with Zionists?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 4h
What do you mean?
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I am no longer shocked when a "Bitcoiner" becomes "successful" and ends up crashing and burning....
I wish they didn't get so caught in their own ego and could stay on the path of providing value permanently -
When I look into the future I am trying to build on Bitcoin - I guess I see a different goal than simply accumulating all the Bitcoin I can....and I see it more as a record of value exchanged and less as an "asset or commodity" to hoard or HODL...
I don't think I am crazy here - but I would rather be known for having provided more value to more people than for having "acquired" more value than others -
I don't think most people see it this way yet? I think many politicians and many getting into Bitcoin look at it as something else still.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 6h
I recently got into an argument with someone over Milei. I was told that Milei was an anarcho capitalist....
The head of the state.... an anarchist.... Come the fuck on.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joda 3h
Years ago I thought El Salvador would be a Bitcoin utopia by now; it's clearly not-- if anything Bitcoin may have less acceptance and interest than two years ago.
Bhutan and US States creating Bitcoin reserves is much more interesting to me now. Apparently the world really does need to go through Store of Value phase before Medium of Exchange.
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The promotions made by the IMF over the years since its creation: lying, stealing, killing, manipulation, intimidation, manipulation and suffering
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Skipper 3h
There is no good politician
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i was listening to Nat Brunel interview max Keiser recently and while i enjoyed the interview in general, the amount of Bukele sucking was very off putting
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This world is like an onion, with layers of lies and deceptions
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @jgbtc 5h
It's unfortunate that the people of El Salvador didn't embrace bitcoin more. I keep hearing adoption is very low because people either are too poor to save anything in bitcoin, or are just uninterested. Either way, an incredible opportunity was missed. If widespread adoption occurred and a significant percentage of the population had stacked, the current situation would be very different.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Skipper 3h
adoption is very low because people either are too poor, or are just uninterested
because the people are stupid and don't bother to spend 10 hours studying btc , they rather be poor and blame the rich
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What do you mean "too poor"? Bitcoin should be usable by both the rich and the poor.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Skipper 3h
depends
if you are extremely poor (making single digit $) per week , you won't be able to afford btc(or open your own LN channels) due on chain tx fees and small UXTOs.
you will be forced to use custodials
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Well, this is a failure of bitcoin then unfortunately. But if bitcoin can't handle this case, you can still can use custodians as you said.
I wrote somewhere something vaguely related that it is that base routing fees make sending very small number of sats too expensive, but I was immediately attacked for, quote, "missing the plot". Go figure.
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Bitcoin adoption will never come from a gov declaring it "legal tender". That's a total bullshit.
As i always said:
What does it means that? A sovereign individual is responsible for its own actions and do not let anybody to govern him.
When people will fucking understand this simple fact, then we can talk about adoption. Until then is just bulshitism.
All these Bukeles, Mileis, and Trumps are just politician liars. People should stop giving them attention and stop being fucking slaves. You don't need any gov to tell you what you should use as money. You use what you want and fuck'em'all.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 6h
Well... the International Monetary Fund is a bad idea from Bukele, that's true!
But what that man did with the criminal gangs and murderers who were taking over that country was incredible!! That man will go down in the history books of El Salvador as the person who freed them again!!
As for security, he changed the course of that country forever!
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The only way is individual change in the Hoppe way. Can't have hope in politics. Only thing we can do is try to wake up as many as we can, always remembering that the masses will always be the masses, freedom if for the few wanting to listen and practice it.
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As much as i love Bitcoin, the end goal it’s an utopia, its just deep web with extra steps, the flaws of the both internet and mobile networks are not secure by design, in order to achieve what all bitcoin maxis want you will need to reshape all from 0, but of course blindly thinking that all shitcoiners are bad it’s not good for the brain, for example what is bad of Vitalik saying “we need one phone one node”? Can you apply that to Bitcoin? Starfish network design, Of course that’s the true decentralization, but again as much as you will combine and try to do something innovative the end goal and human nature will make the road paved with good intentions and will end up bad, as much as i love bitcoin, everything in life it’s a pyramid scheme, pioneers will always be there and DCA on btc it’s compound interest in its purest form if you analyze it, funny, According to the biblical account in Genesis 11:1-9 (funny equal 21), the tower was intended to reach the heavens and serve as a symbol of human pride and unity.
Now if the bad actors join, the role of maxis probably in the future will be to maintain en equilibrium between good and bad, but for how much time can they do that, you will end up like a theological monk end materialistic thinking just to maintain an order so, Vatican 2.0, mathematics it’s a belief system it’s a religion, the AI just pretend it’s logic, ritual of work it’s active and very strong.
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. Albert Einstein
which reminds me the Iggy Pop lyrics: "The fish doesn't think. The fish knows..."
Memorization of things without understanding its indoctrination.