Comments by "Mark Armage" (@markarmage3776) on "Lex Clips"
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A version of history recognized by literally no one. If Kievan Rus is the earliest State, the sovereignty over the entirety of Kievan Rus territory lies with the eventual Tsardom of Russia, hence Russian Empire, at least the "Russian" part of the empire, and of course Russia.
The capital of Kievan Rus moved from Novgorod to Kiev, such as the move of the ruling family, the Rurik Dynasty and then after Kievan Rus fell, the ruling family moved again to Moscow and their kingdom remains there till today.
Rus does means Russia, or Russia is the most powerful and the most legitimate successor to the Rus name. Deal with it, this is recognized history by over 80% of global population.
Lithuanian did not liberate the Rus land, Lithuanian took over and conquered it for a period of time, in case you don't know, the Polish and Lithuania Commonwealth is of course another war waging kingdom that took territories by force. And that part was purchased back by the Russian "Empire", buying back their own rightful territory.
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I think 2000 years of failure in invading Vietnam probably taught them a lesson. The same goes with Korea.
Taiwan doesn't belong to China because it used to belong to China. Taiwan belongs to China because it has always belong to China and the Chinese people. Overwhelming, extreme majority of history, it belongs to the Chinese people, aka tha Han race, speaking Mandarin, celebrate Chinese Festivals and customs. They are the same people separated by a civil war of ideology, they're not 2 separate set of people.
Come on, man, go learn some math. That island has and always will be part of China. On Taiwan itself, there are 2 set of opinions, one wants independence, but the other one, a significant one, maybe even the majority wants to rejoin China mainland.
Why don't you show some respect?
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@bigmitchtv3922 Yeah, not really, buddy. Modern civilization of the overwhelming majority of the world has absolutely nothing to do with Greek or Rome.
Because the overwhelming majority of the world, most specifically India and China have their own history and their own system of politics.
Now that might hurt your feelings, but that's the truth, especially the Chinese, if there was a fight, both on land and at sea, the Chinese Empire would have destroyed the Romans. The population size difference is gigantic, even in ancient times.
Roman Empire is one single place conquering and forcing others into servitude, while China really is one cohesive unity, at least in national identity.
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@Bob First of all, IQ data in the US is not how it works. The test is not normalized at all, especially the language test. Because by simple math, a person speaking 2 language divide their brain into 2 section, each account for a different language, therefore the proficiency will be less than a person only knowing one kind of language well. Chinese American speaking 2 languages will have a harder time speaking English because Chinese or Mandarin is infinitely more complex, more complex language equals more work.
IQ tests are really bad inaccurate research.
Is there a difference between genetics, yes. Even within the same race, every individual is different. But they're all roughly equal if you account for the same environmental factor.
The top 1% of the smartest Caucasian has nothing over the top 1% of the smartest Asians or the top 1% of the smartest African.
Throughout the courses of history, the development frontier of science varies all around the world because each area over the globe develop at different rates. Sometimes the Egyptians were the smartest, sometimes it's the Indian, sometimes it's the Chinese, sometimes it's the British, sometimes it's the German, sometimes it's the Jewish people, sometimesit's the American. The IQ level and result afterwards based greatly on environmental factors, pal. Keep it real.
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@biswaroopmaiti2943 South China Sea is not a territory with people living there, it's an area of water, and honestly, the ownership of that area of water can not be based on historical precedence, if there were lots of people living there, the story would be different.
Regarding your argument about "same people", you're totally false.
Korean Peninsula is one people, they're one people divided, not 2 set of people, everybody there knows this. Their goal is reuinification, it's just that they can't right now.
You'll need better details for the Central Asia.
Israel and Palestine is the same, they are one set of people living on that piece of land, peacefully, one piece of land having multiple religion co-existing. It's the outside interference of Western Superpowers, originally British and then America that messed up the entire place.
I never said that being the same people stop conflict, because countless factors contribute, but it is an unequivocal right for them to be reunified. Honestly most of the things you said are messed up not because of the people there, but by foreign interferences, from British colonization to Cold War between superpowers. So again, if you just stop interfering, they'll move towards the same objective.
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Look, the books, that specific book in that chapter is wrong, because they failed to acknowledge in the contaminated pool of applicants.
If you lock a genius up in the mountains, no education, no exposure, he or she will score insanely low on those IQ tests.
You have certain degree of education, it is equivalent to a certain minimum score. You re-examine the data today and the Chinese will crush the US pool of applicants. Not because the Chinese are inherently better at anything, but because they went through a far rigorous educational system.
There is always difference among groups of people, but that's overwhelmingly due to differences in environmental factor.
The top 1% of the smartest Caucasian, Asian, African are roughly equally smart with negligble differences.
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When you stop building infrastructure for 40-50 years, your technology lag behind, homie. The fact that the newly built houses are still made of wood showcase America inferiority in technology.
Furtuhermore, I don't know where you get the nonsense of latrines and no running water, if that's the case then it's an extremely small percentage of the total population there. Because like you said, in the newly built cities, the infrastructure are so advanced that there are no latrines. Their schools and hospitals are not built with cheap material, I don't know what propaganda source you're quoting from, but their schools and hospitals are built using normal steel and concrete, far cheaper than in the US because they make those materials themselves with government subsidies.
It is you who have a lot of misinformed opinions, a lack of understanding in mathematics and physics. Please, stop living in the 1970s, get back to reality.
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@mirzabaig4711 I don't think you understand how economics and human behavior works, pal.
The world already has a store of value, that's in hard limited commodities that are reasonably well distributed. It's called gold and oil. Real things that people have confidence in for centuries, and with oil, decades to come.
Now the value of gold is actually full of make belief because it does nothing, but overwhelming majority of people believes in it and it has been used for hundreds of years.
That's why it's valuable. You believe in this fictional reality where Bitcoin will replace gold, but you give no reason why would anybody choose bitcoin over gold.
They possess the same characteristics, except that bitcoin is wasting energy way more than it should, so even if there's a replacement of gold as a store of value, it will be one of the alternative coins, that uses less electricity than bitcoin.
But they key is this, why would people choose a new store of value method that introduce instability to their lives? They already have one, right now. It's gold.
Proposing a new theory with absolutely no reason of why the theory is correct is just insane.
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@hipsonsogbo Keep it real, homie. Dogecoin or bitcoin or another kind of shitcoin.
It can't serve as a store of value because that depends on the value of belief. There's no reason for nearly 7 billion people around the world to wake up one day and say, hey, we already have gold and things but let's change it to bitcoin or any of the other shitcoin. The point of a store of value is that the confidence in it is stable, and that stable nature makes it very very unlikely they people just adopt a new one for no reason.
And it can't serve as a mean of transaction , at least bitcoin can not, is because it's reserves is unfairly distributed among's people. That's why in every kind of revolution against an unfair regime, the newly formed government issued their money instead of using the old currency. If it's not fairly distributed, it can not be used. Or at least, it has to be fairer than the current system, and it is not.
Bitcoin or dogecoin, altogether, they're just shitcoin.
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@chesshooligan1282 Have you ever paused to consider that the people in Africa doesn't really care that much about chess?
No chess youth training and therefore the number of people playing the game is less?
Over the last 100 years, the number of Russian chess champions are ovewhelming, does that mean Slavic origin people are smarter than non Slavic origin people?
You use a ridiculous set of standards. People in Africa has far bigger concern than playing chess.
The same goes with Fields Medal Winner, for the last 100 years, a lot has been going on in Africa in that span, darling, that entire continent is not even a peaceful continent yet.
The same goes with the Nobel Prize. All of those things existed within the last 100 years, the human race have existed for over 4000 years.
A lot longer before that, Egypt is the cradle of civilization. The Alexandria Library, scholars from everywhere travel to Egypt. So back then does it make the Egyptian the smartest people on Earth?
Kid, you need to learn to distinguish is what is really intelligence, what are meaningless titles.
An award, chess player, Nobel prize, Fields medal, they're just awards in particular field, most notably awarded to people with discovery, not intelligence.
Go study real science and you'll see how accidental discovery plays a massive role in those awards, not intelligence, hard work and discovery.
The Nobel prizes have only existed for 120 years. During that 120 years, colonialism, world war and terrorism destroyed 2 major continents in Asia and Africa.
The reason America has the most Nobel prizes is not because Americans are the most intelligent, it's because shortly after the Nobel Prize was invented, 2 massive world war happened and America was protected due to it's geographical location. The European intellectuals immigrated to America, bringing along their education and research works, thus make America has the most Nobel Prizes, but the origin of such intellects and knowledge comes from Europe, and even before that, the Europeans took their knowledge from the Egyptians and Indians.
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@chesshooligan1282 Go learn some math, darling. The one clinging onto the lie here is you. The achievement and advancement of science and engineering has very little to do with intelligence level, it has a lot to do with the appropriate external environment and funding.
Those universities built on the wealth you stole from other continents, the privileges and perks of oppression fueled the future generation of scholars.
Before America, it was British, before British, it was France, before France, it's Italy and Spain, before that, it's Rome, before Rome, it's Greece, before Greece, it's Egypt, China and India.
Knowledge is passed down from all over the world, every continents, every race made their contributions. It's the eventual brutality and outstanding military individuals that shifted the power of balance.
The only reason America is at the privileged of funding every single student loans as well as acquiring the latest scientific equipments to their labs has nothing to do with American's intellectual superiority, it's because American government manipulated the currency via their petroleum policy that gives America a surplus flow of wealth.
Just like how America got to the Moon, via a German scientist.
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@chesshooligan1282 Again, kid. All of those fields are measured within the last 100 years and in the last 100 years, things are going on around the world.
You dumb Americans are bad in geography and history.
But anyway, by including computer science, you made a horrible mistake.
The most sought after computer engineers are always Indians, Palestinians as well as Iranians, and right now even Chinese.
So there, your argument falls apart, the newly excited field of computer science in a way showcases the superiority of another race compared to Caucasians.
But again, that's not inherently due to race nature, it's because those specific countries intentionally focus on that field training. Again, field specific achievement.
Don't use metaphor when you're incapable of understanding them, kid.
Comparing between races is not comparing between humans and cheetahs. It's like comparing the Northern Africa rhino with the Southern Africa Rhino. Barely any differences except in the numbers.
Go learn some real math, kid. You've been destroyed.
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@Leo-xj8hw That's the wrong point, because that's only one test and it made no sense for him to score 124. He literally teaches the things that require that ability to score high on those tests to understand.
So again, go learn some math, little darling.
The "test" is literally just a collection of questions that people think shall correctly estimate one's intelligence. There can be many type of test developed by many researchers, some of the tests may even be physics or mathematical tests, which also indicates a very high intelligence and Feynman shall ace those tests because he literally does those tests everyday in his classes and his research.
So pal, whatever the case is, if the test is correct, and if Feynman did his best, it's impossible for him to score low.
Like I said, the explaination is that Feynman didn't take the test seriously. And you shall need more than one test to proof something. So keep it real and go learn some math.
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@Cyzs66 You need to stop taking your sources based on their organization names. If they do not disclose their methodology, their data pool, then whatever organization they are, their claims are just claims. Unverifiable, untrustworthy.
So at least that claim has no basis. You found the wrong information. Go there, visit the place, talk to the people in multiple regions, you'll see. None of them wants war with China, meaning that by default reunification is the only way, because that island for the last 4000 years has been an inseparable part of mainland China, they share the same language, customs, history.
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@biswaroopmaiti2943 I don't think you know anything about that region history, little buddy.
Chinese and Vietnamese are not the same people, the Vietnamese people have a significant amount of independence in the last 1000 years, 7-9 times defeating invasion of the Chinese Empire. They are very closely related in terms of customs and traditions but they're 2 separate people with their own distinctive writings, languages, cuisine.
China was ruled by the Mongols for the less than 200 years, and by the Manchus in less than 200 years, and in both of those reigns, the Chinese Han people were still the overwhelming majority of the population and their custom remains the dominant customs.
The Manchus that ruled China were turned into Chinese, the same with the Mongolians that tried to rule China, they adopted Chinese customs and abandoned their original customs.
Go learn some history, you're wildly ignorant about this and it's just sad.
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If you lived in China for only 2 years, you're worse than a tourist, you're an ignorant person who probably didn't know that much about anything that matters. You came, you didn't do anything significant and you left.
High speed train doesn't come from Japan or the US, kid, being the first one to make it doesn't give you sole ownership over it, they've studied your old technology and they've surpassed you, except for the current Japanese trains, they're the world leaders on this. But on the matter of volume of trains built at a low cost, the Chinese are the unequivocal leaders. And homie, I guarantee that the number of experts, engineers, smart people there, even that accounts for just 5% of the population there, that's more than enough to outweight the number of equally smart people in North America and Western Europe combined.
You're living in a fantasy, go to any University in the Western world, any of them, the best students, the best faculty members, at least 50% of them are Asian and possibly 10% of them are Chinese. The same with any large tech companies, maybe even more.
You have this weird delusions about your own signifance based on nothing but bad Hollywood movies. Keep up with the time
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@olorin3815 Buddy, those dynasties always recognize themselves as continuation of each other, do you get that?
There has always been one China, ever since the Qin dynasty, different names of Dynasties, same country, same culture, same economics, same language. The wars they have between themselves is to unify the country back to one, buddy, you need a better education in history, buddy. Those wars are between different warlords governing districts within China to see who rules over China, there was never a time where they consider themselves separate countries conquering other places. There is one people, one country. Unlike the "Romans".
All big empires have some sort of infighting, peak for peak, there's no discussion, the Chinese Empire stood on top of human civilization for about 30% of recorded human history.
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@iamyoda66 Buddy, you might live under that delusions, but that's not the truth. There's no Western system in China or India, here's a clue for a simpleton like you, just because they name it one way doesn't mean it's like that.
You have to learn to be a bit more sophisticated.
Technology is not exclusively Western, buddy, technology and knowledge belongs to mankind, and it was contributed equally by multiple countries throughout history, for example, you are using the Arabic numeral system, among which there's a zero first contributed by the Indian, and then the trigonometry identities also contributed by the Indian, and the knowledge was replicated and transported throughout the world by sea faring, which is only possible via compass invented in China.
Keep your head down, sad lay person.
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@guacamole456 No, Japan doesn't build house with wood, pal. This isn't the 1700s, The only reason, if there's any why the Japanese would build their houses with woods is to maintain tradition, they build their traditional house with woods, because their traditional houses with traditional techniques uses wood.
Meanwhile in the US, your houses have no tradition, you're just building it poorly, due to how the construction companies are not focused into one but spreaded out throughout the country.
If the Earthquake is in 2008, then the hospitals and schools that collapsed there was built in the 1990s or early 2000s. That's 23 years ago or more. Catch up with the time, homie. China now and China 23 years ago are vastly different.
It is you who needs to study math, physics, basic logical thinking ability before making any claims. And furthermore, that one corruption scandal at that one province at that one time doesn't represent the entire industry of a country of 1.4 billion people. This is where math comes into play by the way.
Just because there are a school shooter in the US then you would conclude that the entire US is filled with child murderers?
Come on, homie.
Here's a simple example for you, their train station is more impressive than your airports, and I mean it. It's not even close. The Chinese currently holds the records for some of the most impressive engineering features in the world, for example, out of the world 100 highest bridges, 40 of them are in one single Chinese province, and they're all built over the mountainous area.
Look, pal, this isn't even debatable, unless you're totally blind, the difference is too big.
The Chinese infrastructure today makes the US look like it's 20 years behind, and it is, not just in bridges, but buildings, highways, rails, ports, EV facilities, even internet.
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@guacamole456
sure, if you want to make the argument of cost then it's shocking how your country can't seem to manufacture steel and concrete at a low price. So thank you for proving my point there. Inferior technology.
Excuse me, do not confuse partnership with "supervision". It's a partnership that can be replaced if the US companies don't want to join. Depends on the kind of industry, the Chinese have their counterparts or they can use other country counterparts. America doesn't have monopoly on any industrial field, pal.
Regarding to your argument about US infrastructure upgrade, that's a horrible comparison, because even the upgrade cannot match up with the Chinese tech.
Yes, China has a boom, meaning that for now, they're the dominant force in civil infrastructure. You can wait 50 years and then maybe America will be the dominant force. But not now. Right now, you're not even second best.
And by the way, civil infrastructure doesn't go through cycles, it goes through cycles if there is a breakthrough or rapid change in technology. And there is major change in the last 30 years. But nobody knows if there's going to be a rapid change in the next 30 years, throughout 4000 years history, maybe houses in 1440 doesn't differ that much from the buildings in 1490
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That's not how it works, little dummy.
The great minds of history have been everywhere around the world, depending on which places have the best condition to develop, the best minds have been Egypt, China, Greek, Rome, Europe, America.
The only reason great minds now come to America is because of America safe conditions during the second world war, which drives the best mind from Europe to America and they stayed in America and develop the necessary conditions for equality great minds to come to America since World War 2 till now.
The Pinnacle of human civilization changes from time to time, doesn't mean people at those places are superior of any means.
Go learn some math, little darling.
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@theoafman9068 Sure, Buddy. You're getting your info from Hollywood movies, wake the hell up.
HIV in Russia is nowhere near large enough to affect the life expectancy at the large of a gap. Please go study some math.
Like I pointed out, Rural Russia means including those gigantic Republics up in the North, and the Eastern part, which are like twice the size of Rural France.
Developing that gigantic of an area at that extreme climate is 10 times harder than developing rural areas in France. Or America.
You playing game at easy mode and then you claim achievements, that's absurd.
You compare cities because that's where it's cutting edge, it's the future trend. If your logic is that your country is superior in every way, shouldn't your cities be superior too? The cities are where the playing fields are leveled. No tremendous geographical challenges, people from around the country poured into the cities. Compare the cities, that's the heart of civilization.
Like I said, stop playing the game in easy mode and then brag about it. Anyone can develop rural America or rural France, it's cake walk, but rural Russia, buddy, the area of Russia that lives under -30 Celsius all year round is larger than Germany and France combined. And yes, there are people there.
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@Sausyyt Buddy, what you know is propaganda or just plain false history. Get a grip, nobody in the world recognizes that version of the history
Because yes, Kievan Rus is the first state, and yes, the ruler of Kievan Rus eventually created what turned into Russia. Which means that the people of Kievan Rus and the people of Russia are the same people, ruled by the same "royal line" and "royal family". Speak roughly the same language, because otherwise why would the ruling family of Kievan Rus created an entirely new language for their new kingdom?
So congrats, you just admitted that you are Russians. Because Russians is the name used to called the successor of Kievan Rus.
And Communist Regime is not Russia, Russia existed long before communism and it will exist long after communism is gone. Get over it, whatever your grandpa experienced is nothing compared to 1000 year history of that region.
Congrats, buddy, join the motherland and stop betraying your own history.
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@hipsonsogbo That's another falsity. Gold can be moved easily already because in every single country, they have their own gold exchange and precious metal shop.
A store of value is supposed to be only used in the worst case scenario, so the "speed of transaction" is totally an unnecessary feature. Is that the best argument you can come up with?
Your baseless assumptions of bitcoin being a better system that will be integrated into society is laughable, because you have no argument to back it.
Bitcoin will never be used as the primary means of exchange, because it violates one of the first principle of money.
It's distribution doesn't fairly represent the value of labor among people. A bunch of useless people like you will be given infinite monetary power overnight for doing absolutely nothing, just because you hog a bunch of coin early. That's not going to happen, that's the human nature.
The only way a crypto currency can be accepted as a means of transaction is when a government adopts it, and the government only adopts it if it's in their favor, or their people's favors. As in it brings them back the same or more benefits than fiat. The US will have gone bankrupted 20 years ago if they can't print more money, why? Because that's the only thing the US can do when they promise endless social security programs to undeserving people. People believe in US military superiority and they believe the dollar will never fall. Because if America loses it's superiority and the dollar is rejected, there will be chaos around the globe that the value of currency is the least of your concern. You think printing money is bad? You don't understand society, kid. Printing money is the only thing keeping America alive. America is taking the global economy hostage with it's military intervention tactics, it's politic interferences tactics, all to keep the dollar important, so that they can print as many treasury bonds as they want because they know other countries need the dollar.
Legacy finance doesn't rob people, the people had voted on for legacy finance, and they will support it for as long as they could because to an overwhelming majority of them, the undeserving ones, without the ability to create infinite free money in the fiat system, there's no way they can keep the social security trap alive.
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@hipsonsogbo No, pal. In El Salvador they adopted it because it's El Salvador, it's a country that nobody really cares for and they elected a frat boy as President.
GDP is measurements of production power, not anything else, and El Salvador uses the dollars.
They accept Bitcoin but nobody in that country uses Bitcoin to price things, they're too poor for it. Anybody who uses Bitcoin for payment in the last year just lost 70% of their values. You can't use it as payment if their prices fluctuate by a few percent everyday.
So go learn some math, darling. El Salvador is the example of how you shouldn't be implementing cryptocurrency into the legal system.
It is unfairly distributed Because dummies like you probably hog a decent amount of them for doing nothing. And we don't have any intention of giving you great monetary power.
If you have to take El Salvador as an example, you're either really dumb or really desperate.
El Salvador is a transition to nothing, it's an example of a pipe dream gone wrong. The job of the government is to help the people, to bring education, healthcare systems, trade regulations. Accepting a new means of transaction does absolutely nothing for their country, the people are still poor and low level workers so go learn some math, pal.
That country is encouraging their people to pour the money they needed into speculative assets, there's nothing good about it. The ones who purchased Bitcoin in the last year lost most of their money, and they need every cent of it. It's not a rich country, it's El Salvador, not Monaco.
So go learn some math, pal. You don't understand the fundamentals of economics and human behavior, that's why you think the world will gladly give you infinite monetary power by adopting a means of transaction that creates absolutely nothing.
If there is a legal crypto means of transaction, it won't be your shitcoin.
If you don't like Dogecoin, how about shib coin? Limited amount, totally useless.
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@hipsonsogbo Again, the net gain of the total investors are zero
Just like the recently collapsed Luna tokens, FTT tokens, just because something is traded by a bunch of dummies do not mean they're in any way "valuable".
You're treating it as a commodity, and in commodity, there's a thing called bubble.
Your argument applies with Tulip flowers as well, because prices going up therefore you're always correct.
Do you see how sad that argument is?
Your argument of bitcoin forever was said when it's at 30 thousands, and then 50 thousands, and then it collapsed to 17 thousands. Who's the ignorant one when you're regurgitating arguments that you don't understand one bit?
Even the biggest Bitcoin believers Michael Saylor knows that Bitcoin is not a means of transaction. At best, it's a store of value, it's crypto property. unfortunately for him and for you, most people right now don't have enough money to store their values, they're racking up on debt. Bitcoin right now is a commodity, it's an unregulated securities, in the last year, it's down 64%, so pretty sure currently it's a horrible way to store your value. High volaitlity means it's gambling.
Go study some math, darling. You're a crippling gambling addict, nothing good can come of that.
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