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Politics & Religion / Re: Mexico-US matters
« on: February 17, 2025, 05:14:07 PM »
My family comes from a country that was at war with drug cartels and insurgent groups for over 60 years.

What was learned there is that you can't finish them with all the bombs and tanks in the world. Or raids, or Delta, or SEALS.

Can't even kill them with FID or COIN. Well you can but it takes about half a century.

A war with them wouldn't look like two uniformed militaries fighting on a battlefield.

A war would look like Pablo and Jorge kidnapping a US servicemember's daughter in a beat up corvette on her walk to school.

Then chopping her up in a Motel 6 bathroom.

Like I said, not opposed to some sort of violent solution if it's done right. But I encourage everyone to be mentally prepared for that kind of fight happening within US borders if we take it there.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Mexico-US matters
« on: February 17, 2025, 05:02:36 PM »
I can foresee more than a few ways this could, uh, go south, though it has likely occurred already. Hopefully this is more of a shot across cartel bows strongly suggesting they mind their p’s and q’s:

@bennyjohnson
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🚨BREAKING: Mexican Senate gives green light for U.S. Special Forces to enter Mexico and take on cartels which Trump has designated as “terrorist organizations.”


Not sure who's idea this was but this is going to go fucking horribly.

We're basically providing training to the cartels but with more steps.

This already happened with SF bringing guys to Fort Bragg to give them FID and COIN training. Shortly after they turned into Los Zetas.

Not opposed to some kind of action being taken against cartels but this is just stupid. Hopefully this is just a PR stunt.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Trump Administration 2.0
« on: February 14, 2025, 08:23:39 AM »
-Happy about his economic policy. I like the deregulation of crypto. Additionally, bitcoin will have significant, potentially vital national security implications in the future.

-We'll see about his international policy, depends mostly on Syria for me. If he pulls out, I want it to be done in a way that ensures that a genocide and massacre of our allies that bled for us does not take place and Hamas or ISIS are not allowed to resurface. This part is a question of honor for me. I do not want to see what occured after Afgh withdrawal with Biden happen again under trump.

-I would like very much to see the Afghan commandos we promised to bring home, brought to the US. Currently they are being hunted and killed by Taliban and are still in hiding. This is another major issue for me, as I see it as a fundamental question of honor. Biden administration dragged their legs on this and many died as result. I'd like to see Trump set an example.

-Not happy about the divisive politics and insulting other polititions on the other end of aisle. I'm a big fan of tribalism in nationalism and social groups (Marc's included). Promotes coehesion.
But in the context of politics, not a fan. Taken too far promotes social breakdown and breakdown of national identity

-Happy about government reformation. I'm not sure if it's being done right, we'll see, but overspending is certainly an issue.

Something needs to change, and regardless, it will due to current global circumstances. Whether the change will be net positive or negative is yet to be seen, but I'm open to giving him a chance.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Syria
« on: February 13, 2025, 08:56:04 PM »
Some things to consider if Turkey establishes regional hedgemony

1. Turkey actively harbors and supports Hamas. Financially and militarily. HTS has voiced support for Hamas publicly.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/10-things-to-know-about-hamas-and-turkey/
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/11/israel-calls-ankara-close-hamas-offices-turkey

2. Turkey has provided implicit support to ISIS (allowed, possibly facilitated regional oil sales and smuggling) and it's also deeply suspected (open source) that they have provided material support as well. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Former ISIS leader) was found and killed 19 miles from the Turkish border. The general area he inhabited there was a heavy Turkish military presence which raises some serious questions. The logic of this is they see ISIS as a counter-hedge against the Kurdish SDF in the NE of Syria.

3. Current HTS leader, and leader of Syria was previously a member of ISIS and Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups that conducted attacks on US personal. In regards to TFSA, waging war against Kurds in NW Syria; Turkey has provided implicit support, and explicit support to TFSA (TFSA are also Jihadists and a very, very large number of Al-Qaeda affiliates-currently being used to fight Kurds in NE Syria).

4. This is where it gets very interesting. A large number of Kurds who are affiliated with SDF related political parties (HPD in Turkey, PYD in Syria) are highly sympathetic with Israel. This is because when Turkey is/was bombing civilians in Kurdish regions, Palestinians said nothing, and did not support them. Additionally, Palestinians deify Saddam Hussein which is the Jewish equivalent of deifying Hitler. There is a statue of Saddam in the west bank for example. He is seen as a hero, almost Godlike figure among many Arabs and Palestinians.

This makes a very large number of secular Kurds largely unsympethetic to Palestinian aspirations. The nuance is that more religious Kurds tend to sympathize with Palestinians because they view it as an Islamic struggle. The "good news" here is that the majority of Kurds are largely secular or moderate Sunni Islam (and the most secular group in all of the ME), but there is a very small minority that is extremist and align with Islamic groups.

This sympathy for Israel among such a large number of SDF aligned Kurds has provided for an opportunity for partnership, which SDF and Israel appear to be exploring now.

5. If Turkey successfully captures NE Syria using TFSA proxies, it is very likely that an ethnic cleansing and genocide will take place. This hinges upon the US staying in the region. Because as long as they are in the region, Turkey will be afraid of targeting areas with embedded US troops because of the potential for retaliation.

There is a saying among Kurds: "Ez bi azad nejîyam, lê ez ê bi azad bimirim". Translation: I did not live with freedom, but I will die with it. The SDF will fight to the death, and civilians there consider it a great honor to be killed by Turkish drones and artillery because they see it as an opportunity to show the world what Turkey is doing to them. Civilian protesters are doing this right now at Tishrin Dam and deliberately putting theirselves in harm's way. They have a deep sense of honor that is hard to put into words, but essentially this means they'll fight to the last person. They see dying in battle as the highest honor. But without US support, they will likely be massacred.

6. If Turkey establishes a hedgemony, Hamas will likely continue to have a foothold in the region and receive continued support. Additionally, if Kurds lose control of the region, ISIS prisoners will be freed and regain power, resuming coordinated strikes on the USA and other western countries.

Full disclosure for the sake of honesty: I, like many others within US gov who've interacted with them have a pro-Kurdish bias, and have a strong desire to see them succeed. keep this in mind while reading

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Politics & Religion / Re: US-Russia
« on: March 24, 2024, 12:37:37 AM »
ISIS-K, probably operating out of Afghanistan or Turkmenistan. Makes sense they were the ones responsible given proximity and activity.

ISIS sleepers in Syria are inactive because YPG/SDF are suppressing them, but they've picked up a bit since operation Olive Branch, when the Turks got their proxies to push into Kurdish territory. They also have African affiliates but ISIS-K is most active right now.

These are the kind of people that don't deserve to exist on this planet, I'd kill them for free, and wouldn't feel guilty about it.

To be honest, I know a lot more about the Syrian IS affiliates, but their ideology is the same everywhere. Some people are way past redemption and need to be put down.

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I suspect he's positioning El Salvador to be a tech hub to attract entrepreneurs and tech talent and such. Same manner as Abu Dhabi. I think they both will be quite successful, a bit more than I'd like. They may end up "brain-draining" the west of the next generations of Elon Musks and Bill Gates.

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Politics & Religion / Re: The War with Medical Fascism
« on: March 16, 2024, 12:52:39 AM »
It's coming out now that there were a lot of foolish decisions that were made that in hindsight may have caused more damage than helped. Consequences of the vaccine, isolation, ect.

It is a combination of COVID being made a political issue (I wish that had never happened) and the pharmaceutical industry driving everyone off a cliff in the name of profits. Similar things happened in the past with different consequences (the opioid epidemic, the culprits just now coming to public attention via movies, ect.).

I spent about a year in the Caucasus region and they were doing just fine without the vaccine, and the people seemed a lot less miserable.

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Politics & Religion / Re: The Politics of Education
« on: March 09, 2024, 05:28:46 PM »
I would really like to see a shift away from 1 sided-ideological discussion within University. Some classes felt like leftist-indoctrination, and University as a whole was a dissapointing experience.

The objective should be critical thinking and the pursuit of truth, regardless of political inclination. If the truth lands on the right or left, then it shouldn't be distorted in favor of one side or another, just left alone.

While I found the ideological indoctrination distasteful, I'd also like to keep the pendulum shifting to something resembling *conservative indoctrination*. What I'd really like to see is intellectual diversity encouraged within Universities, because open and diverse discussions across ideological boundaries facilitates the pursuit of knowledge and truth.

No one should feel like their grades or employment are at risk for challenging the dominant ideology within an institution.

Peter Boghossian was a teacher and friend of mine who lost his job simply because he encouraged an unbiased, critical thought-approach to education and exposing a biased peer review process within the gender studies department. The irony is that he was a democrat, but portrayed as some sort of nazi by them as result.

His firing, as well as Bret Weinstein and Jordan Peterson's expulsion represent a definite departure from the pursuit of free thought and open discussion: which serve as the foundation of the pursuit of knowledge and truth.

These freedoms and principles are the very things that separate our country from authoritarian regimes like China or Russia, and give it strength, and it's very concerning to see them degraded within higher learning institutions.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Rules of the Road/Fire Hydrant/Self Intro
« on: March 08, 2024, 05:17:29 PM »
Hello everyone, a friend of Crafty. Recently got to speak to him for the first time, but the first time I became aware of him was seeing a "gathering of the pack" video and saying "this is the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen." Followed the group for about 10 more years. Crafty is a hero of mine because of all the times he went out of his way to look out for our US servicemembers and selflessness he showed in doing so. If you knew me, you'd know the safety and prosperity of those who serve-especially military- come first in my life, and I'd do anything to protect them. If you look out for them, I will have the utmost respect for you.

I'm what you would call a radically free thinker, and have friends from all sides of the political spectrum because I think it's the best way to understand the world as a whole. In regards to the political side of things, I prefer not to attach my identity to any side, to avoid any in-group biases that emerge. However I love to hear others opinions without judgement because it helps me form a more complete version of the world.

That said, my favorite people in the world tend to be libertarian because they tend to be very open to new ideas and are quite intellectually flexible. But really, regardless of what you believe, if you are a "think outside of the box" kind of person, and display a high level of intellectual flexibility and free thinking that goes beyond party lines I'll probably be very fond of you, regardless of ideology. The way I approach the world is rather non-partisan and perhaps something akin to Smedley Butler or Jim Mattis.

I'm a linguist for a section of the US government (DoD, various military branches), and work as an advisor when people need cultural expertise or Kurdish speaker. Haven't done anything particularly special or exciting besides for wait around.

A little background on how this adventure started, I witnessed the Yazidi genocide over the news in 2014 and (due to family members working in Government) felt a sense of responsibility for what played out and dedicated my life to preventing something like that from happening again. A year or two later, I heard about some volunteer groups of former US military and medical experts who were traveling to join the Kurdish forces in the fight against ISIS as well as provide medical support and assistance (similar to what US citizens are doing in Ukraine atm). I had some medical experience so I volunteered to go myself. Knew if I could keep even one of our guys safe, it would be worth my life.

Long story short I couldn't go because it put my family member's security clearances in jeopardy (gov doesn't look lightly on foreign volunteers), so I stayed in the US for their sake. But I guess I caught someone's attention at some point because I'm a linguist/advisor now. As crafty recently told me: The adventure continues.

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Great note by Stackhodler.

https://twitter.com/stackhodler/status/1766045760477372603

I 100% agree with this, especially now. Macro models and previous cycles used to be more or less reliable, but the ETF's completely threw a wrench in everything. Short term analysis doesn't work at all now, nothing works really. I always tell people when they ask, I only know what will happen over the next 4 months (the price is going to go ballistic, due to the fact that it broke historical resistance and there's no longer any upward foundation holding it back).

Beyond that, there's no previous models that make any of this situation even remotely predictable.

Personally, I'm relying on real time indicators like selling when retail is fully fomo'd and following the whale wallets; selling when they start to sell. Real time indicators are the only reliable metric at this point. Because we're not doing the standard BTC cycle thing anymore.

Maybe things will be clearer in hindsight, but whatever this is, it's something completely new and is probably going to surprise everyone in many different ways, myself included.

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Woof Blue Light-- good to see you here.   Please take a moment to introduce yourself at:

 https://firehydrantoffreedom.com/index.php?topic=961.550

Will do!

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Welcome aboard, Musashi. BTC is time.

Some are starting to suspect it's also power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfYDSE7T_cQ&t=20s

There's an Airforce major named Jason Lowery who presented a thesis that bitcoin will be used as a means to wage war in cyberspace. Honestly, his explanation may be a bit too convoluted than it needs to be, but I don't really blame him, it's a fairly abstract idea.

Essentially, BTC will act as a means of exerting soft power through resource application. BTC will kind of act like the cyberspace version of "gold", and other web3 networks will resemble nations with their own local currencies (XRP, Polygon, Polkadot, ect.).

You can exert power over other nations and actors via BTC by using transactions as sort of a defensive paywall (you send BTC to address 1 from address 2 and we sent it back along with access).

That's the simplest way of explaining it, but don't take it as gospel, I'm gonna have to read his book to confirm this is the proper interpretation, probably will try to contact him and talk about it someday if I get the opportunity and the right lines.

I suspect nations are going to start buying up BTC in the future as well, just a matter of time. There are some rumors that an oil state is doing just that right now in fact. Just rumors. Fatwah committees in Oman and UAE just recently declared BTC halal a year and a halfish ago, so it wouldn't be too surprising. If it's true, I'd guess Dubai, Oman, or Saudi Arabia based on Fatwahs and recent legislative regulations.

Yes, we discussed Lowry's book a while ago. Nation State Game Theory is coming soon. Edward Snowden says a large nation holding BTC in their treasury will be declared this year.

Yes, it's a very interesting thesis. There was a period of time where the DoD asked him to take it off the shelfs and the only way to get the book was to shell out 5k on ebay. Not sure if that's still the case.

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Welcome aboard, Musashi. BTC is time.

Some are starting to suspect it's also power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfYDSE7T_cQ&t=20s

There's an Airforce major named Jason Lowery who presented a thesis that bitcoin will be used as a means to wage war in cyberspace. Honestly, his explanation may be a bit too convoluted than it needs to be, but I don't really blame him, it's a fairly abstract idea.

Essentially, BTC will act as a means of exerting soft power through resource application. BTC will kind of act like the cyberspace version of "gold", and other web3 networks will resemble nations with their own local currencies (XRP, Polygon, Polkadot, ect.).

You can exert power over other nations and actors via BTC by using transactions as sort of a defensive paywall (you send BTC to address 1 from address 2 and we sent it back along with access).

That's the simplest way of explaining it, but don't take it as gospel, I'm gonna have to read his book to confirm this is the proper interpretation, probably will try to contact him and talk about it someday if I get the opportunity and the right lines.

I suspect nations are going to start buying up BTC in the future as well, just a matter of time. There are some rumors that an oil state is doing just that right now in fact. Just rumors. Fatwah committees in Oman and UAE just recently declared BTC halal a year and a halfish ago, so it wouldn't be too surprising. If it's true, I'd guess Dubai, Oman, or Saudi Arabia based on Fatwahs and recent legislative regulations.

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https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtUhx4XAwKlQg1hwX1ByFxsikWB4?e=FtGZkd

Friend of Crafty's here. Honored to be let in. If the topic of Bitcoin interests you, I wrote a paper covering the dynamics and cycle history (see link above).

Mostly macro and technical analysis. If you look at page 18 you'll see a break from the fibbionaci channel. This indicates a break from the pattern of previous patterns. I suspect that it has to do with the Bitcoin ETF that dropped in December. This indicates a potential supercycle, left translated cycle, or something else. As such, I've shifted my strategy to utilize realtime indicators such as RSI data, Stock to flow models, simple moving averages, interest rate vs risk on asset correlations, liquidity cycle/bitcoin cycle overlays, whale metrics, and google trend data.

I saw what's happening as a potential outcome. So I built in adaptability into my investment strategy (see page 22: offsetting blackswans/risk management). My personal investment strategy is based around leveraging liquidity drips, and investing in layer 2 and 3 networks built on layer 1 networks with high survivability (like Hbar, has many partners in the defense industry like Boeing as well as google and others-they will rely on this network for infastructure and won't let it die).

I started with 10ishk$ in december, I have approximately 43k now (not cashed out). So it's been working out fairly well.

In regards to bitcoin: The universe consists of networks and cycles at a macro level, and energy and frequency at a micro level. This cycles expand and contract like they are breathing, and their expansion and contractions effect other networks and the cycles within them, depending on how closely they are correlated. This applies across domains. According to Strauss–Howe generational theory, every 100ish years we experience major shifts in the established systems, and chaos occurs (a reorganization of these networks). These are "phasal shifts". In phasal shifts, asymmetric strategic advantages lie in the hands of smaller players who are the most adaptable (due to rapidly changing environment) and able to identify the highest points of leverage for maximal ROI.

While some see chaos as a threat to established systems, or something to be viewed with fear, phasal shifts offer opportunities to smaller players, if they can identify points of leverage. In economics we are seeing a phasal shift from traditional sources of power (banking, ect.) to decentralized digital networks (de-fi, bitcoin). The highest points of leverage for smaller players are the emergent networks that have highest levels of survivability (this offsets risk) and growth potential (this is the level of leverage). The optimal strategy for a smaller player (someone who's not a gazillionaire like Elon musk or Jeff Bezos), is to identify the highest points of leverage in these emergent networks and hop on the ride.

Cross domain application: This applies to all things. In Judo, for example the highest point of leverage for a smaller judoka is to create chaos in the enviornment (pull opponent off balance), then leverage it with their own weight and body mechanics. In relationships: A smaller player may not be able to pick up the phone and call Elon Musk or Bill Gates, but do you know what he can do? Wait for a transitional environment (emergence of AI for example), then identify, make partnerships/friendships with the future Elon Musks of that domain.

"If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything"

-Miyamoto Musashi

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