Civil Discord

DeFi-Curious, Defying Science

El Salvador Accepts BTC as Legal Tender! Now What? 

https://decrypt.co/73125/el-salvador-approves-bitcoin-law-btc-is-legal-tender 

We Discuss: 

• Merchants (including Tesla) operating in El Salvador now have to accept Bitcoin as payment. 
• What does this mean for capital gains taxes? Independent contractors with U.S. citizenship who are paid for services in El Salvador? Where is our amicus brief? Get excited. 
• Why are Latin American countries leading the charge?
• DeFi vs. CeFi vs. C-Sharp-Fi, and the global financial ecosystem
• Why the revolution will not be centralized
• Amanda & Maurice on rules without rulers
• Why does Elizabeth Warren hate sustainable currency mined with sustainable energy? https://www.coindesk.com/volcano-powered-bitcoin-mining-goes-from-twitter-idea-to-state-policy-in-el-salvador 
• Amanda recommends: Raoul Pal on the Exponential Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJrla31t8I 

 

Gavin with the Good Hair: Loves Platitudes, Hates Science

https://deadline.com/2021/06/gavin-newsom-state-of-emergency-californis-june-15-1234769594/ 

We Discuss:

• Gavin’s good hair
• Why you should care about Friday headlines
• The pandemic that wasn’t (more than a few months long) 
• Increased deaths from things that aren’t Covid: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-finds-deaths-heart-disease-diabetes-climbed-amid-covid-u-n1270260
• Policies that would have actually helped people of color
• Maurice explains: Policies that would have actually helped people of color

You Had ONE Job…

An episode in which the only people doing their jobs well are a group of tweens selling lemonade. 

 

Fasci’s Fiasco & Media Malfeasance

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins  

We Discuss:

• Are the emails a ‘smoking gun’? Did we learn anything new? Should we care?
• From ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’ to ‘I did not fund gain-of-function at that laboratory’
• How the journalistic profession moved from inquiry-modeling to narrative-priming

• Why Anthony Fauci isn’t evil

 

Hacking Meat-Packing

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-us-meat-plants-stop-operating-after-jbs-cyber-attack-2021-06-01/

We Discuss: 

• Was this related to the pipeline hack? Another hostile foreign outfit? 
• Does Maurice still think both were inside jobs? 
• Is Amanda, a vegetarian, secretly behind this? 
• Is there a relationship between this latest attack and rising prices across multiple industries?
• Why does one company being hacked affect prices across an entire industry? 

 

First, They Came for the Lemonade Stands

https://www.bdtonline.com/news/health-dept-shuts-down-four-tween-cousins-lemonade-stand/article_fd3ab80c-b682-11eb-a9c8-a74211d758cb.html 

We Discuss: 

• Was this about safety, or taxes? 

• How people can stay accountable in a world without business licenses 
• How overzealous licensing laws disproportionately affect low-income communities
• “We can work for ourselves, and not work for other people”

Let’s All Move to Honduras!

Join us as we discuss a charter city idea that people are trying to build in Honduras. Are Aliens taking over? If so, what do they want?

 

Let’s All Move to Honduras!

• https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/prospectus-on-prospera 
• https://open.spotify.com/episode/2kDtBhXgxRBYc7B1w2bDuf

Links to the Israel-Palestine discussion

• Part One, “Territorial Sovereignty and Encroachment” https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/10-jewish-palestinian-questions-a-jew-ish-libertarian-perspective-part-one 
• Part Two, “Ethnic Cleansing and Postponing Elections” https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/10-jewish-palestinian-questions-a-jew-ish-libertarian-perspective-part-two 
• Part Three, “Death Tolls and Holy Sites” https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/10-jewish-palestinian-questions-a-jew-ish-libertarian-perspective-part-three 
• Part Four, “The IDF, The Press, and the ‘Moral High Ground’” https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/10-jewish-palestinian-questions-part-four-and-an-inconclusive-conclusion

CDC Does More Flipping? Who Could Have Called It?

The CDC changes its mind again on mask, vaccines, and how to respond. Did anyone see this coming? Also CPI rose more than the expected rate, what does this mean?

Crypto? What Do You Know? Ok Boomer!

States are actually making some good decisions, decision that Maurice can actually get behind (HUGE Surprise!) What does Bill Maher know about Crypto? Is he just mad that he didn't get in sooner?

Someone Caught Covid... What does this mean?

Teachers are refusing to go back to work after a vaccine. One of your host actually tested positive. How do we react? What is the end goal here?

Derek Chauvin, Is this Justice?

Join Maurice & Amanda as they discuss recent events, and provide a take that may cause you to think? Derek Chauvin... Innocent? Guilty? What does this mean moving forward?

Who Are we? Why Are We Here?

Join the host as they discuss why they have created this podcast. Get to know a few of the concepts, beliefs, and how they feel about moving through this journey that we call life.