Bukele only needs to become slightly more authoritarian for that house to become a liability instead of an asset.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a house in ES too, so congrats on that! It's just not an unconfiscatable asset like Bitcoin

☝️ This, and I'd like to add that you should do proper utxo management. 10 years from now, the fee environment is likely to be quite high and you don't want to end up with many 0.0001 utxo's. DCA until you have a decent amount, and then withdraw to cold storage

The EC president is proposed by elected politicians and then elected by elected politicians. Plenty of elections involved there, although no direct ones

However, there are plenty of examples of directly and democratically elected dictators, so I don't think it's really relevant.

Most importantly, leaders' actions determine whether someone's a dictator or not. Centralising power, silencing criticism, capturing the judiciary, locking up the opposition, those are pretty clear indicators.

And finally, for some strange reason dictators respond very poorly to mockery 🤔

I'd strongly advise to NOT take your normal phone into China. Literally everything will be monitored there. Buy a cheap second hand phone, transfer your SIM or use another one, install just the apps you really need, and a lightning wallet

The proposal will never make it through the European Council because, ironically, it can (and most certainly will) be vetoed

I do understand where the desire comes from, with corrupted semi-dictators like Orban blackmailing everyone else with every single vote that requires consensus. More centralisation is not the right answer though

Small nuance here: the ECB is only buying up some countries' bonds, and intentionally NOT some other countries' bonds to prevent the yield spread between the fiscally sound Northern and fiscally unsound Southern euro area members growing "too big" (i.e. reflecting the real default risk).

This basically means citizens from the northern Member States are paying a higher than necessary interest rate (via taxes) and the inverse goes for citizens from southern Member States. Essentially a wealth redistribution from North to South

It's euphemistically called the "Transmission Protection Instrument" 🤦‍♀️

Predictable that you'd double down on the propaganda when you've just been debunked

Thanks, another excellent example of how you've been manipulated. The cover on the left is fake and has been going around for 10+ years. It's an edited version of the april 2007 cover, where the real headline was "The Global Warming Survival Guide"

Proof: https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20070409,00.html

Times response to the meme: https://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/

It did, because of soot (the same climate science explains this). Global cooling was never a rage

Not knowing those names while trying to have a debate about climate change is like trying to debate relativity with someone who doesn't know who Einstein was

It's OK to be ignorant, but maybe be a bit more humble about it

In 1954 the fossil fuel backed "Air Pollution Foundation" funded some of the most foundational climate change research, including Keeling's early work...

This is funny 😂

FFS man, please go back to school

Arrhenius was almost spot on on radiative forcing in the late 1800s.

Fourier, Foote, Tyndall? I suppose those names don't ring any bells? That's all 19th century physics you get in early high school

Feeling triggered today, are we?

Calling for people you disagree with to be debanked? What kind of bitcoiner are you 🤣

Showing your true colors now... authoritarian anti-freedom hack

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups

But if you insist on calling me things, anti-authoritarian or classical liberal would be more fitting. Authoritarians from both the left and the right should be strongly opposed.

Lol, even oil workers call it fossil fuel. You're just triggered too easily

Regardless, it's well documented how propaganda and a corresponding push for deregulation on climate has been funded by the fossil fuel industry for over 25 years

Oh, I totally agree.

The difference is that I acknowledge this shit is happening on both sides, whereas you choose to align yourself, quite uncritically, with the Murdoch / Koch / Fox news / Fossil propaganda.

Nah, I just know what I'm talking about. You should try it too, it's fun!

Work hard, stay humble and stack sats. Don't fall for easy money schemes

What has Klaus Schwab ever done to hurt you 😜

Don't get me wrong, I think he's full of shit, like many of the people he brings together every year, but the conspiracies about Klaus and the WEF are vastly overblown and fall apart as soon as you start asking critical questions. The WEF is much more of a symbol of a disfunctional society than a cause

Sure, former president of the United States, real estate billionaire, but not elite? That's the funniest thing ever

He's as fiat as they come and he's just as much of an authoritarian as everyone he accuses of wanting to take away your freedoms

Don't fall for it, don't play their stupid game and opt out