So I know this goes against everything we talk about here, BUT maybe we should come up with our own $NOSTR shitcoin and use the money to fund open source and Bitcoin developers?! 🤣😂
My friend posted this and it really encapsulated what I was feeling yesterday.
Still curious as to why Israel and Ukraine situations are viewed so differently.
- Both are imperfect countries, but they broadly share the same values of individual freedom, representative democracy, and rule of law.
- And they are both longstanding American allies
- Both are sovereign territories invaded by barbarians
- Those barbarians share none of our values (eg. try being a woman under Hamas; try criticizing Putin in a newspaper in Russia)
- Those barbarians killed, tortured, raped, pillaged, plundered, kidnapped Israelis/Ukrainians
- Both Israel and Ukraine fought back against the invading barbarians (Israel with more success, wiped out almost all Hamas leadership; Ukraine has caused Russia to lose way more troops than it has lost, and it has stopped the Russian Invasion)
- The support in the U.S., and the support abroad, for the two countries is very different
- I strongly oppose the two on her murdering, kidnapping rapists side.
- I strongly support the imperfect liberal (classical sense) democracies who are our allies
What am I missing?
This feels like we’re in one of the Jurassic Park sequels where a lot of us were like “hey let’s not try this again because last time the dinosaurs got loose” but other people were like “well, maybe the dinosaurs won’t get loose this time.