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Published October 22, 2025
Disclaimer: These are opinions, nothing I say should be considered financial advice.
I have done a few "weekly round up" newsletters before just for fun. But I have decided to get more serious about the newsletter, so this is the official launch of the best newsletter ever. I was encouraged to go ahead when I recently read another newsletter, a paid one, that covers privacy and realized it was 90% fluff and 10% actual content. I can do better than that.
I had also been hesitating on this because I don't know if Paragraph is the platform I want to grow my audience on. Once I told the founder of Paragraph that I thought having regular ol' paid subscriptions as a feature was more important than having "creator coins" or "content coins". He said that Paragraph wasn't going to make it as just the "crypto version" of Substack. He said they needed to differentiate themselves if they wanted to grow. I can respect that, but I also think that the world needs a decentralized censorship resistant alternative to Substack. That quality alone would differentiate Paragraph. Paragraph should put the basics in first and add all the fancy shit later, in my humble opinion. I should be able to easily let someone subscribe to a premium version of my newsletter and pay with crypto. They shouldn't have to buy an illliquid coin just to support me that I then have to dump on them in order to actually receive any support. I may be jaded from getting rugged from like 300 versions of crypto social media over the years, but I really don't like the coin everything approach (feel free to buy my creator coin though I'd rather you just send me the ETH directly to thoughtcrimeboss.eth).
Paragraph forged ahead with the creator coins and post coins, and so far it doesn't seem to be working out for them. I'm not seeing any significant volume on any Paragraph tokens at all, and this is several months into this experiment. Could it end up working better than normal subscriptions? Maybe, I don't have a crystal ball, but I doubt it. Keep in mind that it is easy for me to criticize from the sidelines, I don't know anything about running a start up, and I get the feeling that Paragraph felt it needed to innovate or die so they made a move.
If people start reading this free newsletter, then at some point I want to start a paid newsletter, and I hope Paragraph offers that option by then. If not I am just going to export my subscribers and start publishing elsewhere. The only problem is I can only export the subscribers that signed up using their email, many of my subscribers signed up with a crypto wallet. I don't have any way of exporting those but I guess I could try to contact them onchain.
Here is my vision for what the newsletter will eventually become;
*Free version that is basically just a digest of my tweet threads from the last week or so.
*Paid version for anywhere from $5-$15 a month where I share interesting content from others, commentary on that content, and exclusive content of my own such as;
~actionable guides to opting out of and avoiding the system entirely, protecting your privacy, security, homesteading, and using cryptocurrency.
~commentary on recent events
~reviews of protocols and products
~some sweet, sweet alpha
Why should you listen to anything I have to say?
~I know what I am doing, for the most part, although there is always more to learn and as I learn more I can teach more.
~I have lived outside of the system for a long time successfully. You can just opt out, there are ways around everything, and I know many of them. I haven't had a bank account in over a decade.
~I know how to protect my privacy online and offline and I can teach you how to as well. I went full anon online many years ago and have learned a whole lot in the process.
~I started dabbling in crypto in 2017 and progressively increased the time I spent in the space. I cut back my day job to weekends only two years ago to immerse myself in crypto even further. You learn a lot over 3 cycles, but I am not rich yet so apparently I have more to learn. That's okay at least I can tell you with certainty what NOT to do, even if I don't know what TO do.
~Not really a reason but just so you know, I have a dark sarcastic sense of humor you may or may not enjoy. I always forget to use emoticons when I'm being sarcastic so people often think I am being serious when I'm just being an ass.
~I have a deep passion for these topics and will do my best to bring you content you can use to improve your own freedom and privacy.
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Ok, let's get to it. I'm going to put the political rants at the end of the newsletter now so that if you are just here for the crypto and privacy content you don't have to suffer through my slightly unconventional thoughts on politics.
Well I survived the worst crypto crash ever in terms of liquidations. I did get liquidated on a small perps account in the process, lost some ETH paying insane gas fees to add collateral, and of course got wrecked on my shitcoins. But it could of been much worse for me, as it was for many people, so I am grateful.
Those insane gas fees weren't even on mainnet either, they were on an L2. One thing I did notice during this crash/liquidation event and others is that out of all the Ethereum L2s, Optimism always seems to be the most stable with less gas spikes than any other L2. I don't know why that is, especially considering Base and BOB are both based on the same tech as Optimism (I think, OP stack right?).
Another thing the crash reminded me of, is always have some dough ready to go and stink bids in place, to take advantage of insane opportunities like this. I did not have any stables on an exchange ready to go, and anything on chain was dicey during the event, so I got to just watch and when it got really bad I just kept saying to myself, I need to buy these alts that are getting nuked 75%. I did not though, and missed out on generational wealth again. However, I also went to sleep that night without wanting to blow my brains out, thanks to the fact that the majority of my portfolio is Bitcoin. I have kept it that way for years now. I know Bitcoin will be here tomorrow, and the next day, and even with the worse liquidation event in crypto's history Bitcoin didn't even get below 100k. Just think about that for a second.
Now that every bit of leverage has been ripped out of the system, crypto has had a hard reset of sorts. Maybe we will get a nice Santa Clause rally in December, but I think we might be chopping sideways for a while while we heal from this nonsense. A whole lot of traders, even ones who weren't completely degen and were using conservative leverage, got completely wrecked. I have never seen so many "I lost everything" posts on my timeline before (I also realized how many people don't know about the age old wisdom of "don't keep all your eggs in one cross margin basket"). We need new money to come in, because a lot of the money that was in the system has been evaporated.
Here is an interesting, possibly biased, take on the Binance depeg that caused the flash crash:
Considering the focus of this newsletter, I have to at least mention the absolutely massive rally in ZEC (Zcash) that has taken place. ZEC was trading as low as $20 as recently as April but in late September it broke through $60 and proceeded to rally almost 500% from there in just two weeks. It topped out at almost $300 the day after the flash crash when the rest of the market was wrecked. (Update it made a new high above $300) I did a post on why I thought ZEC would moon when it was still around $117. Almost the entire privacy sector in crypto has also done well as the new meta seems to be privacy. This was kicked off by the ZEC pump which was in turn kicked off seemingly by Naval and Mert starting to shill it, combined with a major decrease in ZEC inflation and sell pressure. Not going to lie, I am enjoying this because every other meta I have traded in crypto doesn't excite me like "protecting privacy to resist the oppression of the state" does. I mean think about how lame some of the other recent metas have been, "BNB chinese character meme coins, onchain pokemon cards aka Real World Assets", "creator coins", "content coins", crypto ETFs, centralized decentralized perp dexes, etc etc. None of these have much to do with why crypto exists in the first place or why it is really important. They are just ways to extract more money from people. Is the ZEC pump just a ploy to extract money from people too? Maybe I don't know, but it has gotten the entire fucking timeline talking about privacy and that's a good thing. ZEC has plenty of issues but I think a lot of their community has their hearts in the right place and instead of hating on them we should be working alongside them.
I have to say I am kinda disappointed in the endless ZEC hating coming from the Monero community right now. I would consider myself a member of that community. XMR is my favorite cryptocurrency, has been for a long time, and I use it almost every day. My opinion on the matter is that there isn't that many people in the world that even give a shit about privacy and freedom AT ALL, so the ones that do need to be united and working together not arguing with each other. Constructive debate is fine, but a lot of these posts I see just make me think, "Oh this person is just pissed they have a bunch of Monero and it didn't have a massive pump." Monero is still one of the best performing altcoins out there, and it is okay if someone else's privacy coin pumps more than your privacy coin. Price is not the only metric after all, Monero still has more usage than Z-Cash, a larger market cap, and is the preferred token for Darknet Markets for a reason. Z-Cash has good privacy tech too, and trust me, there is room in the world for many privacy coins. The thing about privacy is that various people have very different threat models, and different coins can cater to different threat models. Also keep in mind that because of Monero's larger market cap, it is harder for it to have a massive pump like ZEC did. It requires more money and Monero isn't listed in very many places. ZEC was starting from a very low point, so it was easy to pump it. Don't worry though, Monero's day will come.
ZEC's rally is a good example of why I should find assets everyone hates on and buy the shit out of it then and not after everyone is shilling it again. When everyone was constantly hating on ETH not long ago it was a good time to buy. Same thing happened to PUMP. Go against the consensus. No this doesn't mean your memecoin that died 6 months ago is going to rally because everyone hates it now. Find something that everyone hates on AND has some kind of actual use/revenue/etc. Even though it's up bigly, I think ZEC's rally might continue, I thought $100 would be a resistance but it blew through it like it was nothing. Looking to buy a dip for sure. -It's on almost every exchange so any normie can ape in -All the ZEC people have to do is push the narrative that it's like buying Bitcoin for $100 w/ some privacy since they have the same supply 21 million. Normies who missed BTC but are too risk averse to ape into memecoins might jump on this. -Bitcoin is boring now, it's wall street, it's corporate. ZEC is just cypherpunk enough to be "cool" but not cypherpunk enough to get delisted like Monero. -They suddenly have big names on Twitter shilling it (Naval and Mert) -There's the whole NEAR intents thing too, interoperability... -BCH has the same supply and widespread availability but no real narrative. It has a 11.7 billion dollar market cap and ZEC is currently 1.8 billion. Room to run... All this together sounds like the necessary ingredients for a face ripping multi month rally. What do yall think....... And what's the next hated asset I should be buying NFA I have no idea what in the fuck I am doing
I also made a good call on $NPT, a much smaller privacy coin. I got in around $4 and it 3xed from there. It was the only altcoin that I noticed was almost entirely unaffected by the flash crash. That is probably because it is only listed on one small non kyc exchange, Safetrade. I wouldn't deposit your life savings on there if I were you, but it's still worth a look, even at the current price of $11. One of the founders has done some foundational research in the field of cryptography, and his papers are cited quite often.
Here's a post on why I still think Monero will continue to do well compared to other altcoins. Full Chain Membership Proofs are live on testnet now, and this post also goes into more detail about that.
Apparently it's that time in the cycle where I'm buying obscure microcap privacy coins on weird exchanges. No liquidity you say? I'm a degenerate pleb buying $50 clips I don't give a fuck about liquidity. Just bought something called Neptune Cash (@seagodcrypto on X) today. I am not reccomending you buy anything I have no idea what the fuck I am doing. This is purely for fun because I enjoy geeking out on different protocols especially POW ones. My 5 minutes of research determined that they aren't a scam. Their website literally looks like a website designed by real cryptographers who are too busy doing cryptography to worry about marketing and pretty websites. POW privacy coin with some interesting quantum resistant cryptography. Currently trading at around 10 million market cap. High FDV because most of the supply is unmined. I might start mining it for kicks idk. Now that it's privacy coin szn I am going to have fun researching random privacy coins like it is 2017.
Here is a much better post on the Monero bull case by some guy I just discovered on X and it is the most well articulated and insightful investment thesis for Monero that I have ever heard. Read all of it, than go stack some Monero.
Paxos accidentally minted 300 trillion PYUSD. Yes that's trillion with a T. I think this is a great demonstration of the hidden dangers of centralized stablecoins. If every PYUSD is supposed to be backed by a dollars worth of assets, one person shouldn't even be able to mint 300 trillion unbacked PYUSD with a single transaction. You would think that in the year 2025, they would have some kind of safe guard mechanism built into a smart contract that prevents minting unless reserves are proven. Apparently, that is not the case, and a rogue employee could completely destroy the value of PYUSD with the click of a button. Don't forget that they can freeze your PYUSD anytime they want for any reason that they feel like, same as most stablecoins.
So North Korea is storing it's malware directly on the blockchain now.
DPRK has begun hiding malware on blockchain.
Brazil is, still, going after self custody of cryptocurrency. This time they are targeting stablecoins. If you can't self custody your stablecoins, what is the fucking point? This kind of dystopian nonsense is happening all over the world.
What we desperately need is a decentralized private stablecoin backed by native crypto assets such as Bitcoin that is uncensorable and impossible to mint without collateral. Maybe we need a "slightly unstable" stablecoin that doesn't market itself as a stablecoin to get around regulations. It's more a wink wink this isn't a stablecoin kind of thing, it's a value storage coin. Back it with Bitcoin collateral, make it entirely decentralized, private, and censorship resistant. You can redeem it for real Bitcoin at anytime. Well actually that might work better with Monero and some kind of second layer built on top of Monero since Monero has no smart contracts or tokens. Otherwise the state can just blacklist any Bitcoin associated with the unstable stablecoin. People need a way to store value privately without volatility. Some volatility is ok, even if the unstable stablecoin fluctuates by +/- 5% as the value of the collateral moves up and down, that is ok. People will be willing to accept that for the benefit of being able to have a completely private stablecoin. I think Zano has a private stablecoin called FUSD but it has no liquidity (very little anyways), and Zano's privacy tech needs some work. I don't know, I'm just trying to think of some solution to the financial surveillance state, and privacy L1s are only one piece of the puzzle.
Speaking of self custody.....the banks, wall street, and the state all want your Bitcoin. The last thing they want is people self custodying Bitcoin. That's probably one of the reasons why the SEC approved in kind transactions for Bitcoin ETFs. What does that mean? It means that you can send your spot Bitcoin to Blackrock or whoever and receive shares of their Bitcoin ETF in exchange, without taking a tax hit in the process. I can see why this is tempting to some people, managing your own Bitcoin security isn't the easiest task in the world. Trying to keep your Bitcoin safe on your own can be scary. It seems so much safer to just let Blackrock keep it safe for you, right?
Wrong.
This will make it extremely easy for the state to seize your Bitcoin for any arbitrary reason. The state seizes people's assets and cash for ridiculous bullshit reasons all the time today, and in the future it will probably get even worse as we slide deeper into tyranny. The only way to keep your Bitcoin safe from the state is with self custody and not KYCing your wallets. Do not be tempted by the custodians...ETFs take away most of the value proposition of Bitcoin. It neuters Bitcoin's ability to resist state oppression. Not your keys not your coins.
Large investors are increasingly converting their Bitcoin holdings into ETFs, with BlackRock alone facilitating over $3 billion worth of BTC-to-ETF conversions.
Monero is getting added to Thorchain, so soon you will be able to trustlessly swap Monero into several other cryptocurrencies on their DEX. Thorchain is doing this entirely on it's own, without any funding from the Monero community. I remember back in the last cycle or so, Thorchain was supposed to add Monero and backed out because they were scared of compliance risks or some bullshit. I don't remember the exact details, but hopefully this time around they follow through with it. I used to own RUNE, the token for Thorchain, but thankfully I sold it for a nice 5x because its gone down 90% since then. I am interested to see if Thorchain finishes it's Monero integration before or after the Serai Dex is launched by Luke Parker. Serai has been taking a really long time to come to fruition, so it's good to see that another option is coming.
More developments in Monero, dealing with spy nodes.
One of the best use cases for private digital cash like Monero is microtransactions. XMRchat is enabling this with excellent UI, allowing anyone to tip creators and leave messages easily and quickly. The tips and messages appear immediately, which is perfect for streamers. Imagine Youtube super chats, except decentralized and XMRchat doesn't take a cut. I created a XMRchat page if you are feeling like showing me some love.
https://xmrchat.com/thoughtcrimeboss
Random Privacy Tip:
If you have a Linked In account, your data is going to be used to train AI models if you don't opt out.
To opt out navigate to Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Toggle off "Use my data for training content creation AI models."
Germany has decided not to support the draconian chat control law in the EU, which would of required a backdoor to scan all encrypted messages in apps like Signal and Whatsapp. This was one of the most insane anti freedom measures I have seen this year, and there has been a bunch. Thankfully, without Germany's support, the Chat Control proponents no longer have a majority.
Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 
Ring cameras are adding facial recognition and giving footage to law enforcement. At one point Amazon said they were no longer going to be sharing footage with the police, but 18 months later they teamed up with our least favorite company Flock Safety, to do exactly that.
Amazon's Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.
The UK is trying to force Apple to put a backdoor into their encryption, again.
New order in September narrowed access request down to data of UK citizens.
Big news from Graphene OS! I am very excited about this. Graphene is breaking out from being solely available on Google Pixels. If you don't know what Graphene OS is, it is a degoogled FOSS version of the Android operating system that currently only works on Pixels. It makes your phone very private. Without it, even if you tweak your privacy settings, Google still gets a lot of information about you and everything you do on your phone.
The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.
This gentleman, No Name Coder, developed his own AI police detection camera that is supposed to be able to identify police officers and vehicles. He tried to do a Kickstarter but they said nope, "too risky for their platform", but he didn't give up. I have not tried this out and have no idea if it works. It is $300+, but if I get one I'll let y'all know how it goes. This is a great example of why I have hope for humanity despite the transition we are seeing into a dystopian surveillance technocratic state. The same advanced technology the state uses against you can also be used to defend against the state. It just takes brave people willing to develop these defensive technologies.
Another great example of an anti surveillance tool is the Reflectacles. I finally got a pair of the IR Cloak model. They are very well made, durable sunglasses that will help protect you from facial recognition cameras. I may have shilled these before but why not shill them again.
And yet some more people fighting the good fight, here is a great video about some anti license plate reader tech this very smart gentleman developed. Shoutout to @barrydyne on farcaster for reminding me about this video.
In less hopeful privacy news, in 2026 Texas will began to require age verification to download ANY application from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. Since this post I have seen reports that Google and Apple are suing Texas over this. If this goes through, you will have to use a FOSS app store like F-droid to download apps without KYCing (if F-Droid is still available in 2026, Google is trying to kill all avenues for sideloading including F-Droid). I think people should be doing that anyways, but they shouldn't be forced into it. Many apps aren't available on F-Droid which means you would have to sideload the APK, and sideloading might not even be allowed on Android in the future. I don't think you can sideload Iphone apps, so you would just be fucked if you have an Iphone. Also, if you are forced to sideload every app you want to use, that opens you up to attack if you accidentally sideload the wrong APK. (an APK is just a android phone application file, and sideloading is directly installing the APK without using the Google Play Store or FDroid.
Texas is trying to destroy app privacy for everyone.
It's not common to agree with them, but this is nice to see!
Remember when Vietnam froze 3 million bank accounts of anyone who refused to provide biometric information? It's not going so well.
Aztec Network wants you to KYC.
Discord had a massive leak, proving once again why IDing everyone is stupid and dangerous.
PROOF OF AGE I.D PHOTOS HACKED - 70,000 STOLEN
Flock Safety is one of the scariest companies I have ever encountered, I would put them in the top 5 of companies that are leading us to a dystopian 1984 style surveillance state. They already have a huge network of security cameras, license plate readers and gunshot detecting microphones. Now those microphones are going to start detecting human voices, if it hears someone scream for instance, it will call the law. This sounds like an absolute recipe for disaster and overpolicing. People scream all the time without an actual crime or any danger taking place. But what might of been a peaceful situation with a mildly upset person can quickly get violent and fucked up when you add trigger happy cops to the equation. Any technology that calls the police without human input is extremely dangerous because many of our police officers are extremely dangerous individuals with little accountability.
Also why do I have the feeling that in ten years there are going to be armed Flock Safety drones zipping around murdering people for littering? I mean who built this fucking company anyways? Out of all the start up ideas you decided on "help build a dystopian police state" as the one you were going with? What is wrong with you? I bet they do coke with the Clearview AI people on the weekends and spy on random people for kicks.
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adopt it: detection of "human distress" via audio.
Digital IDs are spreading rapidly across the globe, soon you will be required to have one just to work in the UK and Switzerland has also approved them. I wrote a good thread about how dangerous this is, check it out.
ICE (Immigration Customs and Enforcement) in the United States has been building a massive surveillance system. Whether you support Trump's immigration policy or not, this is dangerous because I doubt a surveillance system this powerful is only going to be used against illegal immigrants. When the state gets power like this, it always ends up getting used on people outside of the original target groups. At the same time, they are cracking down on counters to ICE. Meta closed a Facebook group where 80,000 people were sharing information on ICE agent sightings, and Apple removed an app that tracked ICE agents. They are allowed to track us and violently kidnap innocent people but when the people try to protect themselves by sharing information, they are shut down immediately.
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.
"We are going to do everything in our power to fight this," says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that Meta had complied with its request to take down a page on its Facebook platform that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago.
I'm kind of regretting finally getting rid of my hoard of old magazines and newspapers. At least I kept the books. I think those old magazines and newspapers may have represented valuable training data for AIs. I had no idea so much of the world's data is undigitized in 2025, and getting destroyed at a rapid rate. We are losing so much because idiots like me are throwing it in dumpsters. I was obsessed as a kid with recording and saving everything (I was a weird kid). Everyone should hoard information and data if they can. The new normal is to keep all data on the cloud, and stream all media from the cloud. This makes it easier to lose things forever because nobody has a copy of them.
Some examples of why you should download everything:
One day without warning Micheal Bazzell, the world's number one expert on all things privacy and author of Extreme Privacy, decided to delete most of his old Extreme Privacy podcast episodes (I still have a bunch of them saved somewhere, but only because at the time I was trying to save data and wanted something to listen to on the way to work, not because I thought he would erase them). If you didn't download them when you had the chance, you lost access to some of the most valuable privacy related information from the fields most skilled expert.
During the height of cancel culture a few years ago, some episodes of Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and many other shows, were deleted from streaming services forever. There was no warning. They were just erased from the collective consciousness like they had never existed. What was the reason? They were too "offensive". It's a fucking comedy show, it's supposed to be offensive. I don't remember the justification behind all the deletions, but a few episodes in particular were deleted for containing blackface when the characters were reenacting a parody of the Lethal Weapon movies.
Archive.org does it's best to save web pages as often as possible and to preserve as many books as possible. But they are a small non profit with huge bills and are constantly under legal attack. It's almost as if someone somewhere doesn't want people having accurate history. The less data people save, the easier it is to change history and the narrative about history to suit those in power's desires. Without offline knowledge, the State can just flip the kill switch on the internet and you would be cut off. Which they just did in Afghanistan, cutting off the only source of education for the women who are stuck there under Taliban rule. Hard drives are cheap, use them. For extra points, stick a few in a good faraday bag to protect them from EMPs or Solar events.
via Forbidden Knowledge News: James joins Chris Mathieu of Forbidden Knowledge News to discuss the most recent Corbett Report documentary feature, Dissent Into Madness.
The US Government is very skilled at propaganda and are known to use it and to help dictators use it throughout the world. If you don't think they are also targeting Americans with propaganda and disinformation, I got a bridge in Alaska to sell you. Here Reason talks about the recent Washington Post article exposing some of this propaganda machine.
The Pentagon spends a lot of taxpayer money on propaganda worldwide. Some of it is coordinated with Middle Eastern dictators, 'The Washington Post' revealed.
I keep seeing signs of economic problems ahead for the United States....normally that would just lead to a normal ol' recession but when you combine it with trade wars and extreme polarization and unrest among the population, what you get is a powder keg waiting to explode. When people aren't able to feed their families, when it gets to that point and god willing it doesn't, that is when people get desperate and start burning shit down. I don't like it.
The Trump administration is now blowing up boats without even trying to arrest the occupants first. They just skip straight to murdering them. They say they are "narcoterrorists" smuggling cocaine. I say human life is more valuable than stopping some cocaine. Does cocaine hurt some people and occasionally kill someone? Yes. So does alcohol to a much worse degree. Nobody wants to execute liquor store owners without a trial, even though the alcohol they sell creates more misery and death in the world than cocaine does.
The war on drugs is a very important issue to me, that's how I eventually came to believe the things I believe today. When I was 12 or 13 years old I discovered erowid.org at a time which I knew so little about drugs that I thought marijuana and pot were different drugs. All I knew was that drugs were all bad and would kill you, I went through DARE like many of my generation. One day I discovered a text file online that went over psychoactive plants that were legal such as morning glory seeds, kratom, and kava kava. My mind was blown, there are just plants out there that are drugs but aren't illegal? This led to erowid.org and me discovering that my school and the government were just outright lying to us about cannabis by saying it was an addictive and dangerous gateway drug.
Once I realized they were lying about this, I started to question everything. At the time there was very little support for ending the war on drugs despite it being the obvious solution, but there were these people called "Libertarians" who supported ending it. By the eighth grade I considered myself a Libertarian because they seemed to be the only ones who weren't falling for the bullshit. (I have since moved on from Libertarianism to Voluntaryism, but I still have a fond place for it in my heart)
Support for ending the war on drugs is much more widespread today than it was when I was in middle school, back then you got laughed at for even suggesting the idea. Reforms started to take place here and there, but too many people make money off of the war and politicians are now using the new boogeyman of fentanyl to ramp the war on drugs back up, just like they used crack to do so in the early 90's. The Trump administration has taken this so far that they are now just blowing up suspected cocaine smugglers without even trying to arrest them first. They have added drug cartels to the list of "terrorist" organizations. This is the recipe for a new forever war. I mean the war on drugs was already a forever war in a sense but now it's becoming an actual armed conflict between two very well funded opponents that could go on literally forever. Hurt a cartel and it might temporarily raise the price of drugs. That rise will give other cartels more profits and power that they can use to defend themselves with. It will never end. As long as there is demand, there will be a supply, it's just a question of how many dead bodies will be created in the process.
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
So maybe you don't like the way things are going in the so called "land of the free", and are considering leaving for greener pastures. Oh you think you can just leave? You are a slave, you can't just leave the plantation without the master's permission. Roger Ver found that out the hard way, even though he paid his exit tax when he renounced his citizenship, the state still came after him for more money years later. The second round of extortion ended up yielding 48 million dollars for the government and Roger Ver can now finally be a free man. Regardless of how you feel about Mr.Ver, you should still recognize that he didn't do anything deserving of the kind of prison time he was facing. You see, if you leave the United States and don't renounce your citizenship, you will still be taxed on any income you earn. The United States is one of two countries in the entire world that continue to tax their citizens who live abroad. It is free range slavery. There is no other word for it. If you do renounce your citizenship you have to add up the value of all your assets, and pay a percentage of the value to the state. It's like a capital gains tax on gains you haven't realized yet. I am glad that Roger Ver will stay out of prison considering he didn't actually harm anyone, but I am disappointed that the state has 48 million more dollars to fund their criminal activities with.
The 9th Circuit just overruled the lower court's ruling blocking Trump from deploying National Guard Troops in Portland, OR. Meanwhile the 7th Circuit has upheld the lower court's ruling their blocking deployment of troops to Chicago. The idea that Portland is a war zone in need of domestic troop deployments is absolutely ridiculous.
The justification for the Portland deployment was a protest at the ICE building back in June in which some glass was broken and ONE federal agent was injured. Most of the protests have been peaceful. Apparently one officer being injured plus maybe a few hundo in property damage is now justification for DOMESTIC TROOP DEPLOYMENTS! What in the fuck. I don't know if some people realize how quickly this can go horribly wrong. This is how authoritarian regimes take and hold power, by using the military to quell dissent. By using jackboot masked thugs to snatch people off the street based solely on how they look. Pushing the laws to the absolute limit to maintain the appearance of legitimacy while exploiting loopholes to gain more power. Suppressing speech and using threats to silence enemies.
Military troops are only meant to be deployed domestically in emergencies, such as a natural disaster. They aren't meant to be policing protests and doing domestic law enforcement ops. What those on the right who are cheering this on don't understand is that the precedent set by court rulings such as the 9th Circuit's ruling gives the executive branch too much power over the states. That might be great when your team is in charge, but what happens when the Democrats are back in charge? They can use that newfound power against you. More power in the hands of the Federal Government is always a bad thing, this isn't a right versus left issue, it is a people versus the Government issue.
Federal appeals judges weighed Trump's plan to deploy Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, a key test of presidential power that could soon reach the Supreme Court.
There was a massive "No Kings" protest in which everyone and their mom showed up to protest Trump and pretend like they care about the constitution all of a sudden. I like the spirit but many of these people unfortunately think the solution is to switch one corrupt party with another corrupt party. I prefer "no rulers" at all thanks.
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