I understand the point you’re making. Whatever we call it, it’s not free market capitalism, for sure.

I’ve been thinking a lot about terms like “collectivism” and “rugged individualism” - especially as a resident of New York City, which many claim to be the center of capitalism (it isn’t; it’s the center of crony capitalism at best) and which now has a socialist mayor.

My thinking led me to writing this:

https://primal.net/frank/There-Can-Be-A-Warmth-To-Collectivism-nbagt1

Point taken. Thanks for sharing.

Very well put. For the reason you just explained, I recommend that people simply allow Venezuelans to feel the way they want to feel right now.

Ya veo 🤝

I don’t think it’s a matter of that. The bigger point is that Venezuelans are entitled to feel happy that someone who has destroyed the lives of almost everyone in the country is now no longer in charge without people who have no idea what the situation on the ground was like telling them otherwise.

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Including me???

Sure. I think you’re missing the bigger picture, though, which is that it’s quite audacious for Americans to be calling for a dictator to be reinstated while the people living under that dictator celebrate his removal.

*There is

🚨NEW: New evidence shows that the SDNY/DOJ has likely sold the bitcoin that the Samourai devs paid it as part of their plea deal even though Executive Order 14233 mandates that forfeited bitcoin be held in the U.S.’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

And this wasn’t the first time in the Samourai case that the SDNY acted in defiance of federal orders or guidance.

Theres is a pattern of defiance here.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/did-doj-prosecutors-violate-trumps-executive-order-by-selling-the-forfeited-samourai-wallet-bitcoin

Maduro was quite stoic as he addressed the courtroom.

He introduced himself as “Nicolas Maduro Moros, the president of the Republic of Venezuela,” adding that he’d been kidnapped/captured (“sequestrado”) and that he is a prisoner of war.

He was poised and lacked emotion as he said this.