“Most Americans have an instinctive, unstated pride — and even gratitude —about being American, because we know that we live in a country that is unique to ensuring that our lives are free of tyranny and oppression. And while our system of government has exhibited an extraordinary stability and resilience— remaining firmly in place through a civil war, two world wars, and all sorts of internal struggles and conflicts —there is no guarantee that it will last forever.” -Glenn Greenwald in How Would a Patriot Act?

Happy Halving Nostr fam! I hope your next 210,000 blocks are even better than your last 210,000 blocks!

I don’t know who Dan is, but he hasn’t sent me Sats so he doesn’t exist to me.

H/t @Daniel aka Bitcoin Gandalf View quoted note →

Muun with 2 U’s Braiins with 2 I’s Faaans with 3 A’s

CLOWN WORLD 🤡 🌎 HAS NO PEAK BECAUSE FIAT CAN BE PRINTED TO INFINITY! ♾️ CC @Marty Bent @ODELL

“In an authoritarian state, rights derive from the state and are granted to the people. In a free state, rights derive from the people and are granted to the state. In the former, people are subjects, who are only allowed to own property, pursue an education, work, pray, and speak because their government permits them to. In the latter, people are citizens who agree to be governed in a covenant of consent that must be periodically renewed and is constitutionally revocable. It’s this class, between the authoritarian and the liberal democratic, that I believe to be the major ideological conflict of my time—not some concocted, prejudiced notion of an East-West divide, or of a resurrected crusade against Christendom or Islam” -@Edward Snowden, Permanent Record