Marakesh 𓅦

Christ Follower • Truth Seeker • Freedom Lover

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2025-05-08 17:51:29 UTC

To avoid financial collapse "...the US would need a leader willing and able to:
"* Return to a limited constitutional government
"* Shut down the 750 military bases abroad
"* End entitlements
"* Dismantle the welfare state
"* Repay a large portion of the national debt
"However, that’s a completely unrealistic fantasy." –Nick Giambruno
https://internationalman.com/articles/the-two-catalysts-driving-the-next-great-monetary-reset/

2025-05-04 15:20:07 UTC

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Just as there is Christ and anti-christ we might say there is a true church, and a false, anti-church. By their deeds you shall know them. One says love your neighbors like you love yourself; the other kills their neighbors. Which is truly following Christ?

2025-05-04 14:12:11 UTC

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https://following.space/
And you can edit using @nprofile…s8dt

2025-05-04 13:49:07 UTC

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Could we accurately say that Bitcoin IS currency on Nostr?
@nprofile…e3uc

2025-05-04 13:44:46 UTC

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Don't blame Christ for what Antichrist did.

2025-05-04 12:26:18 UTC

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Do abortions count as child sacrifices?

2025-05-04 04:21:21 UTC

Listening to this now and it's a good episode so far! Live free or die! Is New Hampshire actually the freest state with the most liberty-loving Americans? They have the most guns per capita, and may be the most polite as well.
I could maybe get with the idea of keeping the US federal government (versus scrapping it all together) if it only consisted of the military, and it's sole job would be defense, as Eric Forte states. No offensive wars, no entangling alliances, nor going off to fight monsters abroad, or "making the world safe for democracy," or "nation-building." No black-ops or interfering with other nations who have not attacked US. The 50 states would handle all other internal matters. At the Federal level, you would basically have a night watchman state. I don't know that a president would even be necessary, though certainly the military would have a commander-in-chief, who may not necessarily be a civilian. I could see this appearing to be a military dictatorship, but if the military had no authority internally, unless it was necessary to quell domestic insurrections, then perhaps it might not be so bad.
If the federal government collapsed I've always wondered about what happens with the nukes, so perhaps keeping at least the military for national defense might be tolerable. The federal government would basically just be a military alliance of the 50 states.
https://fountain.fm/episode/lfL9Vy7cGi5IxEjBT1Ox
#nevent1q…sk67

2025-05-03 20:34:37 UTC

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Beast.
But it's funnier when that's what I would also call the little French bulldog I want to get 😄

2025-05-03 20:30:01 UTC

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It's not Nostr-based, though, is it?

2025-05-03 19:54:00 UTC

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To me, it's about as useful as when I hear people argue about sports. You're not in the game yourself, you're a spectator, and what you think has about the same impact on the outcome.

2025-05-03 16:16:45 UTC

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Oh, that figures. Been meaning to watch that sometime. Thanks for the endorsement! 👍

2025-05-03 16:10:17 UTC

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What movie is that?

2025-05-03 16:07:07 UTC

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Some have said the late 1800s to early 1900s was when Western civilization reached it's cultural apex and that we have been in decline ever since.
Just look at old photos of people out in public all dressed up in hats and suits and dresses vs. the pajamas and yoga pants and sweats, etc. that people wear when they go out today.

2025-05-02 20:02:19 UTC

"FDIC insurance covers about $11 trillion of deposits, but the institution has assets of only $137 billion. That’s about one cent on the dollar. I’ll be surprised if the FDIC doesn’t go bust and need to be recapitalized by the government. That money—many billions—will likely be created out of thin air by selling Treasury debt to the Fed." –Doug Casey
https://internationalman.com/articles/unsound-banking-why-most-of-the-worlds-banks-are-headed-for-collapse/#:~:text=FDIC%20insurance%20covers,to%20the%20Fed.
The U.S. #GovtIsTheProblem

2025-05-02 18:14:13 UTC

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I know it's a protocol, but let's not be in denial. My 40 days off Nostr helped me deal with my addiction 😄

2025-05-02 14:20:01 UTC

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You mean you don't do social media BESIDES Nostr?

2025-05-02 13:50:00 UTC

Politics aside, that one man can decide on behalf of over 340 million Americans is absurd, and I'm not talking about Trump. Trump was at least elected, for what that's worth, and was the choice of millions of people to pursue many of the policies he's pursuing. But here we have single individuals, not elected by anyone, but rather selected by partisan politicians, enforcing their political preferences on everyone else.
https://fountain.fm/episode/aLP5Xs0lNZdTGoS455OS

2025-05-02 12:45:45 UTC

Why pretend there is a such thing as an independent judiciary when the courts are themselves a part of the government, often judges in their case (meaning the government is a party in a case, and also the judge), and are of course political, appointed by politicians, in a highly politicized process?!
https://fountain.fm/episode/aLP5Xs0lNZdTGoS455OS

2025-05-02 12:29:08 UTC

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More and more need to wake up to this fact

2025-05-02 12:25:26 UTC

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🤡 Putting their brand at the end is ridiculous, too. But I suppose truth in advertising is desirable.
The CCP probably thinks of itself as the biggest superpower on earth, in terms of population.

2025-05-02 12:09:29 UTC

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Right. I believe the anarchist position would be no state, and hence no state intervention/anti-trust regulations. If crApple violates anyone's natural rights, one should have recourse to a truly independent, non-state arbitrator/court.

2025-05-02 11:50:07 UTC

The U.S. #GovtIsTheProblem
#nevent1q…wtpr

2025-05-02 11:31:05 UTC

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I generally practice this. But if an insect invades my space, if I can't easily remove it, I kill it. May God forgive me if this is wrong.

2025-05-02 11:26:03 UTC

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Why don't "trans" people (which is just a fiction; one cannot actually change from one sex to another) play in their own leagues, against each other? I hate to see them hurting women and robbing them of their trophies.

2025-05-02 05:41:04 UTC

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"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
–Gladiator

2025-04-29 18:09:30 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/KjFgkM6i2wwhFK68.png
I think this key management issue for Nostr is still a problem that would be great if it can be fixed. I realize that with other platforms someone could compromise your identity by getting your password, as often happens due to hacking, but then you have the option to just create a new password, and you can continue to use your account/profile. Unfortunately we don't have that right now in Nostr.
I wonder if it would be possible that when someone creates a new Nostr npub that they are given say 10 private keys/nsecs only one of which will work at a time? 🤔 The others would be reserved in case they are ever needed due to an nsec being compromised.
Just tossing out an idea. Don't tell me why it can't work, tell me how it can be made to work 😄
#nostr-ideas #asknostr #askdevs

2025-04-29 14:44:15 UTC

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They briefly touched on 9/11

2025-04-29 14:42:39 UTC

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The Spotify crowd has some interesting comments...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3o2LXsf8H7tQWcZS2CjV5J

2025-04-29 14:22:43 UTC

This was a good interview! I listened to it twice. She defines who "They" are, and their plans to run your life, if not make sure that you are killed off while they escape and achieve immortality. It's pretty sci-fi, if you're into that.
https://fountain.fm/episode/uvzTf0xNTTDOPl293QzW

2025-04-29 06:34:55 UTC

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Not specifically, though she does mention how that digital currencies are part of the control grid the bankers are creating.

2025-04-27 14:23:41 UTC

I just discovered this cool and trippy #tunestr (thanks YouTube music!)
I don't smoke weed, but if I did this is what I would listen to while doing it 😄
https://song.link/y/pP7TIGCa8AI

2025-04-27 01:14:38 UTC

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Looks like he has a bionic eye 👀

2025-04-26 22:22:37 UTC

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And you think Elon Musk doesn't know this? 😄

2025-04-26 21:06:56 UTC

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Why do you think Venus is a better candidate for terraforming?

2025-04-26 18:48:35 UTC

This is the most metal song I like, and you REAL metalheads probably wouldn't even consider it metal 😂
https://song.link/s/4xgfzXkQ1QyhHlLaf80RUR
#tunestr

2025-04-26 16:47:14 UTC

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Are all cats created equal?

2025-04-26 16:45:04 UTC

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> And that is what I took away from the book - we aren’t headed to a world without rulers, that’s just not on the horizon for any of us alive today.
I happened to read a passage of Scripture yesterday that drove this home to me:
> So Moses appealed to the Lord, “May the Lord, the God who gives breath to all, appoint a man over the community who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.” (Numbers 27:15-17)
Humans are like sheep, herd animals. They will always have leaders. The best we can hope for are good and fair leaders. I believe anyone who is your leader should be chosen by you, not imposed upon you. Democracy imposes it's will on the 49% (and actually more when you look at the % of who actually votes) who didn't choose that leader or policy or whatever. Governance should be voluntary, as I see it. You could live under the rule of a king for all I care, as long as you choose that king, and can cease to be his subject if you wish. The moment some system of government or some ruler is imposed on you, you are no longer free, despite what the official (patriotic) propaganda tells you.
I've been meaning to read this book, so thanks for the reminder and endorsement.

2025-04-25 16:28:29 UTC

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Your evidence?

2025-04-25 16:28:05 UTC

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My sister recently surprised me by saying she believes EVERYONE is on the autism spectrum... 😮

2025-04-25 14:32:49 UTC

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If they could charge you for sunlight and even for the air you breathe, they would. Rentseekers seek rent. Parasites gotta eat, too. At your expense.
J.D. Rockefeller once said "I would rather earn one percent off one hundred people’s efforts than one hundred percent of my own efforts."

2025-04-25 14:09:23 UTC

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"You will own nothing..." said Klaus Schwab,
but will you be happy?

2025-04-25 14:01:54 UTC

> "For most of American history, I think housing prices were something like 3 or 4X median income, which sounds very affordable. Today it's about 11X median income, and housing is consistently rising in price faster than the inflation rate. Now obviously that's not sustainable. At some point nobody can afford a home anymore."
–Kallan Welsh
https://fountain.fm/episode/vZWSOeK0vagBs0RWBM9O

2025-04-25 06:35:20 UTC

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Was this the military using Bitcoin to prepare people to accept CBDCs?

2025-04-25 06:30:46 UTC

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Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.

2025-04-25 06:27:12 UTC

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Do you support abolishing the State of Israel?

2025-04-25 05:50:41 UTC

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How do the birds know to do this? Is it just instinct? Or do they learn it from other birds?

2025-04-25 05:45:23 UTC

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Has Trump done any evil these three months that you've seen?

2025-04-25 03:42:12 UTC

#TodayILearned if the next Pope chooses the name Sixtus he would be Sixtus the Sixth. 😄
#TIL
https://fountain.fm/episode/B1FfmpGKWPyJoMLTSkgE

2025-04-25 00:11:44 UTC

For those who think this is too extreme, I believe there is a difference between GOVERNANCE, which IS necessary (rules and order) and GOVERNMENT, which I would call involuntary, imposed governance. Mankind still lives under the delusion that we must have involuntary governance, imposed by force instead of freely and individually chosen on the market.
#nevent1q…2p73

2025-04-24 23:46:45 UTC

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Yep, Lincoln followed in the footsteps of King George III, but this time the Americans in the South failed at their second secession attempt.

2025-04-24 23:30:13 UTC

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Manifestly so. By definition government is slavery.

2025-04-24 23:16:55 UTC

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Thanks for sharing!

2025-04-24 23:05:41 UTC

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> "Ultimately, the explanation here is that our metabolisms have been completely and utterly decimated over the past 100 years."
https://w3.do/OKOgNrA3
I think they didn't need to exercise to the extent we do today because they naturally got more exercise just in the course of everyday living. They walked more, had fewer labor-saving devices, did more by hand, and yes, industry wasn't yet sickening and killing them to the extent it seems to be today.

2025-04-24 22:51:16 UTC

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Can you elaborate on this? I'm against intellectual property laws, but I favor being sufficiently compensated for your work.

2025-04-24 22:46:01 UTC

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Hmm, who should we believe, Trump or the CCP?

2025-04-24 22:42:01 UTC

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> "Caloric intake was often higher than today for those with access to food, as many Americans engaged in manual labor."
https://w3.do/aG-QAPvA

2025-04-24 00:33:08 UTC

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I'm suspicious of the book of Enoch, though. Off the top of my head, I think the earliest attestation of it is from the second century BC. That's a few millennia after the real Enoch lived, which means the so-called book of Enoch was not really written by him. It should be called Pseudo-Enoch. And the same could be said for the book of Jasher.

2025-04-23 14:18:26 UTC

Meanwhile, I was told the other day that California's highspeed rail boondoggle is now projected to not be completed until 2057!
#nevent1q…pasw

2025-04-23 06:26:41 UTC

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I've read that book. I'm just not sure about the further idea of angels marrying women and having children by them (Genesis 6).

2025-04-23 04:06:55 UTC

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Thanks for sharing! I'm always up for a good treatment of Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 since they seem to present the most formidable challenges to Christian anarchism.
That "Deuteronomy 32 worldview" is still new for me and one I haven't fully embraced yet (from the book's description: "an ancient biblical framework in which the nations were placed under rebellious spiritual powers, while Israel was called to be God’s distinct people). Do you subscribe to this view?

2025-04-21 21:27:11 UTC

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What is your evidence that "Yeshua’s message got corrupted into a religion (by Paul/Rome)"?

2025-04-21 14:57:37 UTC

Well, I see that @nprofile…ud0h has joined Nostr 👍
#nevent1q…x5cr

2025-04-21 14:43:44 UTC

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Ok... I'm not sure I want to know about that! 😄

2025-04-21 14:40:13 UTC

Did I miss anything important in the Nostrverse while I was gone during the past 40 days?
#asknostr

2025-04-21 14:16:11 UTC

"I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever..."
–Jesus, the Messiah
(Revelation 1:18)

2025-03-05 07:59:14 UTC

I just decided to go on a fast for 40 days and 40 nights.
From social media.
See you again after Easter. Happy Lent!

2025-03-05 06:04:24 UTC

Ooh, this would be tough, and I'm not Roman Catholic but I might do this too...
#nevent1q…kk37

2025-03-05 05:31:17 UTC

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😂 https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/114/107/838/723/863/254/original/c790de1838822c90.png

2025-03-05 05:16:50 UTC

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Called Biden the worst president ever.
"Green New Scam" terminated.
Telling it like it is, although while Biden was horrible, others have done far more damage, including Lincoln, Wilson, LBJ...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1621577236/?bestFormat=true&k=nine%20presidents%20who%20screwed%20up%20america

2025-03-05 04:58:45 UTC

Going back and watching this from the beginning since I first caught toward the end. As #Trump entered the House some Devilcrat woman was holding a sign that read "This is not normal." Some guy (Stephen Miller?) snatched it out of her hands and threw away and she stood there looking violated.
A few minutes into the speech, another Devilcrat, one Mr. Green, was shouting and being disruptive and the Speaker of the House had the Sergeant-At-Arms remove him from the chamber. Wasn't expecting that kind of drama! Can't wait to see if anyone else gets kicked out! 😄
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 03:52:05 UTC

#Trump called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" from the podium and the camera panned over to her and she owned it 😂
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 03:39:40 UTC

#Trump relishes playing Santa Claus 😄
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 03:36:44 UTC

#Trump just said autism in children has gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 36! 😱
Tragic if true.
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 02:06:02 UTC

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Trying that right now with this podcast at 1.5x
https://fountain.fm/episode/e1sCwX8sgpRJRCa6AP05
Does anyone find that this causes you to speak faster, too?
#asknostr

2025-03-04 20:31:24 UTC

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Would more relays make it take longer to find notes, potentially?

2025-03-04 20:12:39 UTC

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Or would it end up in Boston Harbor like it was tea?

2025-03-04 20:08:28 UTC

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Not a Trump simp, but there is precedent for this type of behavior by the government:
Under the Sedition Act of 1798, a man named Luther Baldwin, while drunk in Newark, reportedly said, "I wish they'd fire the cannons through John Adams's @$*," after hearing cannon salutes for the president. Baldwin was arrested for uttering "seditious words" and convicted for defaming the president and government.
https://reason.com/2009/05/18/how-john-adams-ass-nearly-suff/

2025-03-04 19:38:44 UTC

> "At the end of the Cold War, with its very reason for existence gone, NATO decided to look for other ways of stirring up trouble. First NATO involved itself in the first Gulf War and then it decided its mission should be to bomb Serbia to smithereens – in the name of “human rights.” I agree with the late Sen. Robert Taft, who argued at the time NATO was formed that we should not join the “Atlantic Alliance.”"
–Dr. Ron Paul
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/03/03/suddenly-leaving-nato-is-on-the-table/#:~:text=At%20the%20end,the%20%E2%80%9CAtlantic%20Alliance.%E2%80%9D

2025-03-04 19:21:42 UTC

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I do like that it removes the mandatory Bitcoin acceptance requirements for the private sector, however.

2025-03-04 19:03:35 UTC

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The Devilcrats are the oldest political party in the world, they are masters at manipulation, and they don't give up easily...

2025-03-04 03:34:51 UTC

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This is a pretty wild and tragic story, if you look at the context (and no, it's not about Jesus riding a donkey).

2025-03-04 03:16:44 UTC

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I would have to check back on the podcast I was listening to, but it was some foreign policy guys that would know better than I

2025-03-04 02:16:35 UTC

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> All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, 'Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.'"
–Matthew 21:4–5

2025-03-03 18:56:14 UTC

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I've heard that despite the sanctions Russia's economy has been doing well.

2025-03-03 17:14:26 UTC

What you lack in skill make up in passion 😄

2025-03-03 05:28:38 UTC

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Someone deeper than James Comey could be a lot of people, but I'm thinking Bill Barr, former attorney general, who I also learned today got his start in the CIA.

2025-03-03 04:30:10 UTC

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I think the market would provide. People need security and it does not have to be provided by "government" police who claim to have a monopoly on violence. It would probably be a lot like the private security officers that you see now, that aren't known for killing people the way public police officers do.

2025-03-03 02:58:51 UTC

In 1914 three pennies had about the same buying power then as a dollar does today.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

2025-03-02 16:12:01 UTC

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Ok, Christians aren't literal enemies with each over these differences (and even if they were, they are supposed to love their enemies).

2025-03-02 01:11:45 UTC

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It's almost like Christianity: when folks have so much truth and get so much right it's hard to see them believing even a little bit of error! 😂

2025-03-02 01:04:16 UTC

#TodayILearned Wendell Wilkie was a Democrat only 6 months before he became the Republican nominee for president in 1940!
I also learned that the Democrats are the oldest political party in the world.
#TIL (this is not a recommendation to listen to this episode, BTW)
https://fountain.fm/episode/rbU1GvNRHUbV5oiLNdLJ

2025-03-01 22:10:20 UTC

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We've got to move away from this collectivist thinking. It's why I don't blame "Europe", I try to always blame "European politicians".
Like Patrick Henry said when urging that the U.S. Constitution not be ratified: Where did they get the right to say "We the People"?

2025-03-01 21:45:19 UTC

Welcome to #Nostr!
#nevent1q…8p04

2025-03-01 21:27:58 UTC

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Don't know if this is true, but I wouldn't be surprised if the disloyal opposition is at work:
#nevent1q…d7yt

2025-03-01 21:08:30 UTC

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I don't believe it's money, yet. But one should beware of loving it 👀

2025-03-01 20:54:38 UTC

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Would love to see this on Android, too!

2025-03-01 20:47:51 UTC

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The press was told to leave the room but I guess someone kept the camera rolling 😄

2025-03-01 20:31:05 UTC

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Hopefully the Bitcoin-only, fundamentalist, anti-💩-coin, maxi position will be represented as well.