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"We're going to run the country until we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition." "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in and spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, and start making money for the country. We are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so." - President Trump.

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Translation: "We're going to install a puppet dictator so we can run the country like a business and collect all the money, all while exploiting the people and ignoring their human rights. You know, slavery."
↩ replying to John Satsman
I joined right out of high school and I'm in my 40s now. I didn't know as much about the world when I was a teenager as I do now. I learned, I woke up. Even back then, I wasn't in a war zone and didn't necessarily agree with all the things the military did. How do you feel about being judged by what you did or thought 20-30 years ago?
Geopolitics is a bitch. They probably should have let Russia into NATO back in the 1990s. A CIA backed ruler in Venezuela prevents a China / Russia ally in the region. That's all I can think of. I still don't like any of this. Governments are bullshit.
Maybe the killer app for Nostr is governance? This NIP proposes a category of solution to the centralization problem, especially suited for big stuff like Linux & Bitcoin to Boards & HOAs to Olympics & FIFA to Academic & Medical Journals to States & Nations.
GitHub
NIP-XX: Quorum for centralizing decentralized organizations by taylorphillips · Pull Request #2179 · nostr-protocol/nips
This NIP proposal sketches out the concept of a quorum for centralizing decentralized organizations in a framework that is maximally flexible &...