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This is going to be the ONLY thread you need regarding the tariffs. Read it. Bookmark it. -- The wrong question: Are Tariffs good or bad for America & the economy? -- The RIGHT question is: What are we optimizing for? Is it stonks? GDP? Cheap iPhones? -- If so sure: keep the borders open and your cash flowing overseas -- Or is it People, Nation. Beauty? -- If so, there’s another approach. -- GDP is stupid metric anyway. What good is it if your people are miserable, your kids mutilated, your jobs shipped out, and your streets lawless. -- If materialism is your metric, you’ll get a culture full of consumers, gamblers and fake wealth. (PS - for my Bitcoiners out there, it’s not only the money printer that creates this). -- If you optimize for People, Ethnos and Nation (with Economics as a tool not a goal) you get something deeper and richer. You get real wealth.

All the Tariff worriers are stuck in a paradigm that is no longer prevalent (bookmark this). They are measuring success or failure by metrics which no longer matter, ie "GDP" and "Stonks go up" "See - Trump crashed the market - it must be a bad think bc muh free market said so" "tariffs are taxes, and taxes bad" ""supply chains are too complex. If we want nice things, we need -- I'm a free-market / Austrian Econ supporter but before I am that, I support the spirit, soul, people and culture of the West. -- Only when a culture and its people are strong, can an economy flourish for the long term. -- If you weaken them both, for the sake of increasing GDP (which is a fake & ghey measure of progress anyway) or 'stonks go up', you ultimately erode the very structure that makes a free and functional market possible. -- America and the west in general has weakened itself over the last 50 years (especially) by taking the easy way out. It decided to tax its own people and import everything (including people) from outside. -- What tariff-worriers like the growth & tech bros like @balajis miss is that winning is NO LONGER about GDP and stonks, nor is it about how many pointless things a consumer can buy at Walmart. 98% of modern consumerism is bullshit anyway. "oh but iPhones are going to go up to $2000!!" So? Why the hell does anyone need another iPhone? The last one worked just fine. -- Bitcoiners who are up in arms about the tariffs are hypocrites. They talk about low time preference but refuse to acknowledge the fact that THIS is true low time preference behaviour -- Short-medium term Pain, for true long term gain that is BEYOND just economic. -- The tariffs are part of a much larger play to Make America Great Again, not just Wall Street -- Asset prices coming down another 50% is a HUGE positive, and so would cutting out 50% of the nonsense "goods" that are imported from all over the world. -- I've lived in many, many countries and I can tell you, even those with tariffs have what you need locally. -- And seriously. What's more important for the REAL America?? 1. Making sure that Wall Street and Silicon Valley make more money because the companies they've invested in can streamline operations & cut costs through imports & off-shoring? or 2. Making sure that the things that really matter locally (food, energy, housing, etc) are affordable, local and become strong on your OWN soil? ___________ -- The game is changing. -- Winning is more than just about "money" now, and it is going to take an incredible amount of courage and long-term vision (low time-preference) to stay the course. -- So far, @realDonaldTrump is the only man with the balls to do this, and I hope he continues it -- What will help also is if he abolishes the IRS and all the other nonsense internal taxes. This will offset the rise in costs for HIS people (which is, after all, whom he represents). _________ -- FWIW, there's obviously a lot more going here. This is brinksmanship at its finest. The Tariff's are neither for everyone or forever. They are strategic as much as they are necessary to change the world order & the metric by which winning is done -- The trade relationships to emerge from this new order of things will shape the new world. It's an exciting time to be alive. _________ -- Yes. I stole @uberboyo's format for long form posts.

So my latest essay got taken down by medium for “hate speech & climate denial” 😂😂👌 Now you know it’s worth reading. Link in bio..

On July 13th 2024, something unforgettable happened. It wasn’t the assassination attempt on @realdonaldtrump (many of us knew it was coming)... but what happened AFTER that will live in our collective unconscious for eternity. A Thread, on the act of COURAGE 🧵👇

It’s time to take the fight back to them!

This is El Salvador. In 2019 it was the most dangerous country in the world. Less than 5 years later, it is considered the safest in the Western Hemisphere. What made this possible? How could a small nation succeed where those with more resources failed? Why are countries like the UK and the US less safe than El Salvador? A thread 🧵👇

In The Bushido of Bitcoin I add two more virtues: 9. Responsibility: (責任, sekinin) If courage is the ability to act, responsibility is the obligation to bear the consequences of one's actions and the fulfillment of one's duties. It's about owning your decisions and their impact on yourself, others and society. 10. Excellence: (優秀, yūshū) Excellence is the genesis of virtue, psychologically, emotionally and etymologically. It is the separation from average and the energy of vitality. Excellence  pushes boundaries, establishes new standards and is the driving force of progress and beauty.

What made the Samurai one of the fiercest and noblest warriors in history? What made them elite? Like all great Warriors, they had a code. For the Samurai, it was: BUSHIDO What can you learn from this code? A Thread 👇🏽

Most of us are confident that #Bitcoin is going to win… And it probably will. But then what?? Do we just become Lambo bros? The new establishment or a parasitic elite? Or Do we become more? I’ve spent the last two years asking this question. A thread on some of my findings 👇🧵

Clown world, Socialism, Democracy, DEI, Money Printing and any other kind of deranged Leftism cannot persist, not just because it’s ugly, but because it’s entropic. It is self-defeating: like scoring an own-goal and expecting to win the game. ​ The parasitic paradigm we live in has subsisted this long for TWO reasons and two reasons only: ​ 1. There was compounded prior generations worth of capital there to consume. 2. We allowed it. ​ Now that much of the capital available has been eroded, and people can no longer afford things like fuel, food or housing — while being invaded by third-world biomass — Western Man is starting to wake up. ​ It’s about time we got off our asses, and did something about it before it’s too late. The last few generations had their fun, it’s up to us now to clean house. The book I spent the last 2+ years writing, is about exactly this. ​ It’s not about “Bitcoin” — it’s about the fact that we are moving onto a new socio-economic paradigm — and if we are to take full advantage of it, and steer the titanic away from the Iceberg, we MUST: ​ 1. Establish a code of conduct to evaluate men by, so we know who is part of the in-group, and who is not, 2. Become wealthy — peasant revolutions are leftist, and only tear things down, 3. Build for beauty. Economic return is one thing, but pure utilitarianism is devoid of soul. If you want to build for the long term, you must inspire. ​ “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”  — Alexis Carrell ​ Enjoy the latest teaser trailer by @heliand_22 "Beauty Will Save the World" And stay tuned... The Bushido of Bitcoin is coming soon..

130k words. Done. Finished. Writing and editing for The Bushido of Bitcoin are complete. It's now with the typesetters. We'll have a busy couple weeks getting it all ready for print, with a beautiful cover & all. 130k of the hardest hitting words ever compiled into one book, coming your way in less than a month. Thank you to everyone who supported. Can't wait to get this in your hands. _________ Will also start posting on here more. Focused all my writing energy on the book these last few months..

It’s not new. It’s been done over and over again. Great thread from Will, as usual.

If you were ever unsure of whether Ray Dalio was a fraud or not, just check out his latest post on that cringefest LinkedIn. Screenshots below. "Kamala is smart & articulate" "Not sure how far left she leans" This is the face of a traitor to his own people. Disgusting.

The greatest threat to humanity was and always will be the midwits. Unfortunately, this includes 98% of modern scientists. True scientific savants like the Newton's & Tesla's of the world understood that there was a difference between the study of matter, and the study of what matters. The former is empirical in nature, and progressive. You're always improving, adapting, refining, deconstructing and evolving. The latter is Lindy and timeless. The most important principles of life rarely change. Dominic Venner's definition of tradition comes to mind here: "Tradition is not the past, but that which does not pass" __________________ Trying to apply methodologies from the former onto the latter is not only stupid, but will yield sub-par results. Look no further than the lockdowns and transgenderism. Likewise, applying methodologies of the latter onto the former doesn't work well. See the tribes of aborigines who still think the world was created by a rainbow snake. There is a middle way, or more accurately put - a synthesis between both approaches - that requires knowing which questions are best answered (or even asked) in which broad domain. People like @ylecun cannot see beyond their own paradigm and they are prisoners to it. Ironically, this leads them into creating new religions and dogmas like "scientism" and keeps them of the wisdom and answers they purport to seek. ______________ One of the biggest issues we have today is the reverence and authority given to people like this. He's "chief of AI" at Meta - which people think makes him super smart. So they go ahead believing the dumb things he says (like go get boosted), and then to not feel like they were lied to, double down on their support of these new dogmas and become part of the NPC army. __________________ Ancient leaders knew where to put the scientists and technologists. And it was not in positions of ultimate authority, UNLESS they were men like Aristotle who could weave the two dimensions. And even then, it was Alexander who ruled, not Aristotle - and Aristotle today is only known thanks to the spirit and conquest of Alexander. Something to think about....

New teaser trailer just dropped. In time to charge your Sunday... The Age of Fiat is Over. A New Era Begins. . . . . . 3 days left to pre-order The Bushido of Bitcoin. Link in Bio. Made by @heliand_22

The beautiful architecture, sculptures and artwork tourists, museum goers and archeologists the world over admire today, was created by right wing civilisations. The Egyptian Pyramids and monuments? 👉🏽Right wing Those Roman ruins you visit and studied? 👉🏽Right wing All those Greek statues in the museums? 👉🏽Right wing. Those beautiful medieval castles & cathedrals? 👉🏽Right wing. That renaissance artwork, sculptures & culture you love? 👉🏽Right wing. Rome, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were all WAY more right wing than any right wing governments of today. In fact ...We’ve been drifting leftward since the ancient times, with periods of correction back to the right. ____________________________ The right constructs. The left deconstructs. This is not me being an asshole or biased - it's just how the left and right brain hemispheres function, and thus how people with a centre of gravity in either function. The Right is more concerned with the gestalt. The Left is more concerned with things in isolation. The truth is, you need both...BUT... One is the master and one is the emissary (as per the brilliant work of Iain McGilchrist) If we confuse them, we get ourselves in trouble - which is what's happening in the world today at large. __________________ Further clarification for those inclined to yell "nAzI": ➡️There is a danger of a (real) extreme right, that is too rigid, too hierarchical, too stultifying, to strict and too traditional. ➡️This is not only unhealthy, but causes a leftward reaction (eg: boomers). ➡️As we correct the world back toward the right we need to remember to leave room for experimentation and liberty. ➡️As described earlier, previous cultures have been way more right wing than any of the modern ones, so there's nothing to be afraid of moving back there. ➡️To build beautiful things again, we need more excellence (right wing, hierarchical) and less average + acceptance (left wing, equalitarian).

Holy shit.. I made this video at the end of 2020 before I got banned from Twitter the first time.. Found it while scrolling through my old videos on my phone today. Still can’t believe we went through this.