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SatchmoNakamoto@stacker.news
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Father, node runner, philosopher, programmer.
The behavior of Western Bitcoiners the last few weeks makes clear that the future of Bitcoin lays in the hands of the Global South. The Bitcoiners in the West still have the imperial wool over their eyes and spit out Victorian era arguments for neo-colonialism without realizing it. #bitcoin #nostr #palestine #gaza
Got a chance to see some old friends last weekend. One is now a general counsel at an early stage crypto NFT startup. I made sure to show him Nostr and chat him up about bitcoin and decentralization as much as I could. His company has their own blockchain they are trying to sell along with NFT’s and other 2017ish blockchain shit. Hilarious lol My friend is extremely smart and capable, but is still under the impression that Eth is “completely decentralized”. Even after mentioning the change to proof of stake and how that’s obviously not a decentralized structure, he still didn’t believe me but I could see his mind chewing it over. I even threw out my favorite line: “So, proof of stake has stakeholders, right? Ok, therefore it is not decentralized. When have you ever heard the term “stakeholder” in a decentralized context?” 😂😂😂 I’m about to send him a list of Nostr links and a link to some gifted sats for him to pay him back for breakfast. Only time will tell if I changed his mind. #crypto #nft #shitcoins #decentralization
I’m not sure if people get it, but hate speech is in fact free speech. Doesn’t mean you can’t respond though. #freespeech #speech
Yea, don’t worry Europe and Israel. The US has your back, we know how to fight terrorists. #europe #terrorism #israel #palestine image
In case anyone in Europe wants to know why the wave of immigration started. #europe #immigration #terrorism image
#palestine #gaza #israel "I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population. There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel. I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians. And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true." -Dr. Gabor Mate’
Mainstream news seems to be confused about why anyone would support Palestine. #palestine #gaza