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U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor

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Post by anigbrowl »

rchaud wrote: post #36

One thing wasn't highlighted in the alleged suicide note was the line 'we must secure the existence of our people and a future for our children'. That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie, even without the 'fall of western civilization' rhetoric earlier. They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.

Also, the bit about 'the industrial revolution and its consequences that have been a disaster for the human race' slightly paraphrases the opening of Ted Kaczynski's manifesto Industrial Society and its Future, which is quite popular with accelerationists and eco-fascists due to his relative success as the 'Unabomber'.

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Post by aokiji »

anigbrowl wrote: post #70

Five people died, including two police officers This is inaccurate. One police officer and 4 of the rioters died on the day of the incident. Another Capitol police officer subsequently committed suicide at home for reasons that are at present unclear.

When psy-ops are executed, much like Clinton's bodyguards, people often lose the will to live. With three gunshots to the back of the head.

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Post by ajkdhcb2 »

technonerd wrote: post #76
ajkdhcb2 wrote: post #33

I hope this will get attention. Just so more people will realise that bitcoin is dangerous to use and accept because it is not private. Even if youre doing nothing wrong, would you want to unintentionally receive funds linked to this?

Dangerous to use if you're not careful. I guess that is one of the many downfalls of not having secure defaults. Taproot and Schnorr are slowly coming to bitcoin. But would this blog post even exist if they had used a coinjoin/payjoin or lightning?

It is essentially certain that strong privacy will never come to bitcoin. Taproot and schnorr will make no meaningful difference, unless you mean it will assist people in doing atomic swaps to a private currency like Monero. Average people will never make the effort to do expensive (or cheap) coinjoins that will make them look suspicious. Lightning network does not have strong privacy guarantees and it continues to struggle to gain adoption, safety and usability.

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Post by naoske3 »

rchaud wrote: post #36

One thing wasn't highlighted in the alleged suicide note was the line 'we must secure the existence of our people and a future for our children'. That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie, even without the 'fall of western civilization' rhetoric earlier. They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.

>That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie

Where? Do white people and their children don't deserve a future?

Think wisely, because the answer will expose why some people believe this so called "conspiracy theory" of white replacement.

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Post by three_seagrass »

vorpalhex wrote: post #52
matthewbauer wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terrorism is "Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience". Trying to coerce / kidnap / etc. Congress people sounds like terrorism. They don’t have to be successful.

> Terrorism is a form of warfare in which a social movement that opposes the state directs violence toward civilians rather than the military or the police. https://www.britannica.com/topic/collective-violence/Coups-r... Even your own definition doesn't apply - the insurrectionists weren't a subnational group (they don't have a cohesive identity other than sharing a common cause) or clandestine agents.

The people invading the capitol last week definitely had a cohesive identity. You can call them MAGAs or Red Caps or even Trump supporters, but their cohesiveness was strong enough to drive popularity for a social media platform (Parler).

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Post by hertzrat »

matthewbauer wrote: post #44
vorpalhex wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's insurrection. Terrorism would be if it was against civilians with the intent to cause terror and mayhem.

Terrorism is "Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience". Trying to coerce / kidnap / etc. Congress people sounds like terrorism. They don’t have to be successful.

That applies to a lot of situations if taken literally. You have to use a lot of care when labeling somebody with such a charged word. We wouldn’t want to see a bunch of rioters from sent to Guantanamo.

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Post by mothsonasloth »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #78
LatteLazy wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those who don't know this reference... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

It's disgusting how such primitive people can still exist in our modern world. Yes, we have many people doing horrible things all over the world, but people being vile because their ancestors had less sun than others is a special kind of pointless stupidity.

>It's disgusting how such primitive people can still exist in our modern world.

What a snobbish and elitist thing to say. Try saying that to the Sentinelese or Amazonian tribes that still don't have contact with our messed up globalist world.

One of the reasons we are living in this chaotic time is because of a growing middle class elite living in metropolitan areas who are either unwilling or incapable of understanding people outside of their bubbles.

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Post by smcl »

three_seagrass wrote: post #77
ajkdhcb2 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cash is private so it doesn't matter. When you pay with it, nobody knows where it came from. You can have extreme inconvenience for being linked to illegal bitcoin transactions.

Eh, I usually don't like comparing bitcoin to cash, but you can be inconvenienced with cash as well. I had a roommate who had >$100K tied up into an online poker platform, which was frozen for months because the platform was doing some illegal activity.

That's not quite "cash"

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Post by capableweb »

rchaud wrote: post #36

One thing wasn't highlighted in the alleged suicide note was the line 'we must secure the existence of our people and a future for our children'. That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie, even without the 'fall of western civilization' rhetoric earlier. They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.

I'm not sure if you were the one butchering the quote, the author butchered it or if the author wrote it wrong on purpose. Laid out like in your comment, there isn't anything wrong with the line. "our" could refer to humanity.

For reference, the famous quote that is VERY similar is "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children". Notice the missing "white" from rchauds quote.

Again, not sure if on purpose, or who butchered it, but it might not mean what you think it does.

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Post by jacquesm »

rchaud wrote: post #36

One thing wasn't highlighted in the alleged suicide note was the line 'we must secure the existence of our people and a future for our children'. That language should be a pretty clear indicator of where this person's politics lie, even without the 'fall of western civilization' rhetoric earlier. They always seem to use the same exact verbiage.

It's a variation on the theme 'purity of essence', satirized by Kubrick and originally promoted by a crappy painter from Austria.
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