THREAD: Unless you think $XRP is actually going to zero (spoiler- it's not), it doesn't make much sense at all to sell here. "But Credible, I can put the money elsewhere and it will make me money! Why hold this rotten, centralized, scam coin! It's just going to go down (cont.)

forever!" Well good sir, let me put this into perspective for you. Even if you think $XRP will never see ATH, or even past $1 again, chances we see a dead-cat bounce at the bare minimum, are high. Aside from the fact that we are now in a full fledged bull market, we can (cont.)

see that sell pressure on XRP is waning at this time- not just on the BTC pairing, but also the USD pairing. Bullish divs are popping up everywhere, across all TF's. This indicates that at the very LEAST, we will likely see a dead cat bounce here shortly (if not reversal) (cont.)

. So, lets take the chart below for example. If you hold here, even a dead cat bounce to .40 would increase the value of your position by near 100%. If you moved your funds elsewhere, say ETH for example, you would need to ride ETH from current prices of $750 to (cont.)

$1500 just to get the same rate of return. Or, you would need to ride BTC from $28,000 to $56,000 to get the same rate of return. Do you see what I am trying to say? The ONLY reason you would be selling here is if you think that there is actually a decent chance that $XRP (cont.)

Believe me or not it doesn’t matter. The January 6th elector ballot count is going o go down as the greatest troll oof all time. You may or may not know, but the Vice President gets to count the electors. That’s the one thing the Constitution makes crystal clear. Apparently, the

One of my areas of focus in 2020 was to scale the size of our content business across platforms.

Here is our year in review 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

1/ Everything starts and ends with Twitter for me.

Jan 2020: ~ 300k followers
Dec 2020: ~ 430k followers

I do over 100 million impressions per month and will continue to use Twitter to drive traffic everywhere else over time.

2/ The daily letter that I send to investors allows me to have nuanced, more analytical conversations with people.

Jan 2020: 38,500 free subscribers
Dec 2020: 102,000 free subscribers

The open rate is around 35% and the click through rate is around 10% when I email everyone.

3/ The podcast is where I get to learn from the world's smartest investors and entrepreneurs.

Jan 2020: ~ 200k audio downloads
Dec 2020: ~ 1 million audio downloads

We have published 450+ episodes since inception and will do a few hundred more in 2021.

4/ This year was the first time I focused on YouTube, which is a highly underrated platform.

Jan 2020: Under 8k subscribers
Dec 2020: 135k subscribers

People watched 3.2 million hours of video content on the platform and we hit the goal of 10+ million video views for 2020.

“We have been reduced to a community of paranoid hypochondriacs, afraid that every breath will kill us” - Rabbi Chananya Weissman

“that the most basic human contact is an unreasonable roll of the dice, that everything we once considered normal and even obligatory must be off limits indefinitely – in some cases even forever.

This is insane. This is against everything the Torah teaches us.”

“not denying that covid is real & should be taken seriously. At the same time, I am denying...the angel of death is roaming among us, felling people left & right like Biblical plagues. This is not a Biblical plague. There are a million ways we can die...covid is just another 1.”

“I don't want to get it, and I don't want to give it to anyone else, but the terror that we have been living with for the last year is unjustified. Because of this terror, one third of Israel is currently living in poverty, with many others barely hanging on.”

“Drug and alcohol abuse are up; domestic abuse is up; suicides are up; social workers are overwhelmed; elderly people are dying from loneliness; children are traumatized; parents are falling apart; thousands of businesses have closed forever; and so much more.”

Here's how the UK's situation will change after the transition period ends, compared to our former EU membership...

(Come back to this thread. It will keep growing!)

- UK can negotiate its own trade deals
- No more automatic participation in new trade deals reached by the EU

- UK gets to keep fish equivalent to 25% of the catch EU boats previously caught in UK waters, staggered over 5.5 years
- Costly export health certificates for fishery products
- Inbound and outbound customs and regulatory checks (UK side will defer some of these temporarily)

- Stringent rules of origin and local content requirements
- Loss of freedom of movement for UK citizens in the EU and EU citizens in the UK (Ireland excepted)
- No Erasmus programme
- No equivalence decision for financial services

- A border down the Irish sea between NI & GB
- No access to the Galileo military
- Temporary agreement on data, which expires in 6 months
- 2 parallel trademark systems, requiring firms to file twice in the UK and the EU

- 2 parallel product conformity assessment systems (CE and UKCA), requiring firms to file twice in the UK and the EU. One year grace period (with exceptions).
- 2 parallel chemical regulatory systems (REACH and UK REACH), requiring firms to register twice in the UK and the EU

1/7: I understand that #Ripple's selling concerns many people. But the question is... how do you responsibly distribute Ripple's 50B $XRP? Ripple holding so much #XRP is one of the biggest complaints about XRP and why so many people don't like it and may also prevent ODL adoption

2/7: Escrow was introduced to help this, but that $XRP is still in Ripple's custody. They really need to distribute it. But how? Ideally, it should already have already been done years ago, but you can't go back in time to do it. @JoelKatz has talked about this challenge before.

3/7: So we're against them holding it and we're also against them selling it. So how do they distribute it? They can't give it away, who gets it, how do they choose? Giveaways this late in the game also negatively affect prices. Higher supply = lower demand = lower prices.

4/7: Ideally, they would only distribute this to Financial Institutions for use in #ODL, but unfortunately, there's not enough demand for the utility of XRP through ODL. Perhaps because Finacial Institutions don't want to hold it/use it due to regulatory uncertainty.

5/7: As I see it, there are a few options for distribution:
a) Incentivize the use of ODL despite regulatory clarity - such as giving incentives to #Moneygram,
b) Lock it back up in escrow, effectively reducing supply, but giving #Ripple custody.

@republic alwyz stand for truth bcz
#RepublicWontCompromise

#RepublicWontCompromise
bcz @republic is feerless

#RepublicWontCompromise
bcz @republic has gutts

#RepublicWontCompromise
bcz @republic can fight against injustuce

#RepublicWontCompromise
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There is nothing "secular" about New Year's Day. It is based on the Gregorian Calendar, named for Pope Gregory. The change from Julian Calendar was made due to the shift in Easter. Motivation for this New Year date was also religious.

#SayNoTo31December
https://t.co/SkhSy86UOe

The New Year was shifted 10 days to account for Easter. Why was this particular day chosen? After December 25 for (fake) Jesus's Birthday, they counted forward to when Khatna happens.

"New Year's Day" is about the foreskin.

New Year's Day is actually Jesus' "Feast of Circumcision" secularised into the Calendar.

No surprise, since "secularism" itself largely means secularised European Christianity. We have holidays on Sunday (Church holiday). Tuesday would be

You can wish #JesusKhatnaDivas on "New Year's." The bizarre Christian superstitions about the "Holy Prepuce" included the theory by a Christian theologian that it ascended into heaven to become the rings of Saturn. Till it was "found" in Italy. No joke.

The Indian Constitution actually adopted the Shalivahana Shaka calendar (and also limited English for 10 years). We did not expect the colonial dynasty ruling India to actually implement all this. But what about "cultural nationalist" BJP? @narendramodi

As is traditional for this time of year, and more in hope than expectation, my top ten trade / Brexit hopes for 2021...

1 - The UK Government ditches the unnecessary secrecy and engages much more openly with business, NGOs etc about their priorities, and reflects them

2 - Parliament steps up its game on government scrutiny beyond select committee reports and starts expecting answers on why priorities have been chosen, why trade agreements with which countries, what the content should be etc

3 - UK business do their best to keep on exporting and importing, innovating and partnering, to overcome the new barriers in their way, and also to keep shouting for government to remove barriers as they arise

4 - Brexiteers show even the vaguest hint of interest in the views of those who continue to want strong ties with the EU, rather then repeating over and over again, to even the vaguest hint of criticism, "you lost suckers, get over it"

5 - Remainers, rejoiners and the like stop talking quite so much about how the 2016 referendum was stolen from them, which is becoming both history and suggests that 17 odd million people were conned

(NB not confident on the last two)

As the transition period ends, the #BrexitDeal applies from tomorrow. But there's also a parallel significant legal change - most of the rest of the withdrawal agreement starts to apply. A thread on the legal issues in the rest of that agreement.

The citizens' rights provisions of the withdrawal agreement (on EU citizens who moved to the UK, and UK citizens who moved to the EU, before the end of the transition period) start to apply.

Annotation and detailed analysis of those provisions here:

After today, UK citizens newly moving to the EU, or EU citizens newly moving to the UK, are in principle governed by national law (partly harmonised by the EU, on the EU side).

However, the #BrexitDeal contains some provisions on visas for service providers.

The #BrexitDeal also refers to the matching unilateral decisions of the EU and UK to waive a visa requirement for short tourist visits. Analysis of the EU law on that issue here:

UK citizens resident in the EU on the basis of the withdrawal agreement (or who move to EU in future) should be covered by the EU law on long-term resident non-EU citizens, which provides for a limited form of mobility between Member States. Analysis here:

Share wildly. The anti trans (and anti VAWA, Equality Act) Heritage Foundation 'feminist' group, Women's liberation Front (WoLF), has issued its media guidelines.
This will become the standard for the trans hate groups and anti trans media (eg BBC, The Times,The Australian).

1/n

(1) It erases intersex people and even the word "intersex". Intersex people to referred to as "men or women with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD)"
(2) Wants conversion therapy done on trans youth.

2/n

{3) State that "Primary sex determination occurs upon fertilization and is determined by the presence or lack of a Y chromosome."
(4) Always misgender and deadname trans people.

3/n

(5) Use “cosmetic body modification”, “cosmetic genital surgery”, etc rather than “gender reassignment surgery”.
(6) Make it clear when trans people are victims of male violence it is by romantic partners or when they experience violence as a result of being in the sex trade.
4/n

(7) Use "“About 10 percent of murders in the US are committed by women or men who identify as women” rather than “About 10 percent of murders in the
US are committed by women”
(8) Not to conflate women’s sex-based rights with discrimination against trans-identified people.

5/n

#RepublicWontCompromise
bcz @republic allwyz stand for ssr & disha

#RepublicWontCompromise
bcz from day one @republic z with us

#RepublicWontCompromise
bcz @republic alwyz support ssr the truth

#RepublicWontCompromise
bcz @republic alwyz bcm the voice of truth

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Isn't it likely that the Antichrist only comes to convert everyone into their own antichrist?

The New Age and Word of Faith "Christian" movement all teach of self divinity.

What does the Bible say is the Temple of God?

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16 KJV

The Antichrist sits in the Temple of God.

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV

Why would anyone think the Antichrist would build a temple?

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 7:48 KJV

The Antichrist wants to dwell in the Temple of God which is the believer.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians 3:17 KJV

It never happens. A thread.

Many must be familiar with "it never happens". When you bring up women having concerns about Self ID and allowing potentially abusive males to have access to female spaces and that it will lead to violence or worse "It never happens".

When evidence is shows "It never happens" MAY turn into "It's an isolated incident" before defaulting back to "It never happens" for the next time the argument crops up. This complete apathy for a very real concern is deliberate. It's framed as if having these concerns...

makes a woman illogical. Because "Trans Women are Women" it's just another woman being excluded. Not an intact male, not just any male who decides to identify as a woman. I've watched women point out the percentage of sexual abusers who "transition" to be in women's prison.

I've seen them told they're being hysterical, that they're endangering trans people. The argument is very clever, they frame it as an attack on what most people think of as trans people ie someone who has transitioned completely. They never frame it as some...

bloke with a beard, a cock and balls and a history of wrongdoing. "IT NEVER HAPPENS". So recently something very interesting happened on Twitter. I saw @helenstaniland responding to a post

1. There are exceptions to every rule, but I don't think even those who hate Rahul Gandhi or the dynasty react so viscerally to them as those who hate Modi, especially the Lutyens cabal, only because Modi treats most of them like they don't exist. The Lutyens ecosystem is rattled

2. since Modi arrived because it has failed to housetrain him like they had done with so many others including ABV & LKA. In 6 years they've tried first to change him and then to destroy him. But he's still here and that should tell them Modi is like no one they've seen before.

3. Every attempt to destabilize Modi has failed. Starting from award wapsi soon after he took over, letters by retired babus, the continuous refrain about "unsafe India" , the engineered protests, riots after CAA-NRC, getting lobbies from abroad to give their one cent's worth,

4. the attempts by sections of the media to link every murder, lynching, rape, assault and 'love jihad' to him, and now the farm protests, like he was some kind of Darth Vader/Hitler/Devil combo who ran an evil empire. It has failed each time, and has made Modi even stronger.

5. Sure, Modi's governance model is not without its warts. But which govt in independent India has been flawless? Sure, there are undesirables in this govt just as there were in previous ones. But all of them were voted to power by the people. That's Indian democracy. Who do we

2020 has brought many challenges and with them - a large volume of #disinformation. Here’s our recap! (THREAD 1/20)

In late JANUARY we collected the first examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation spinning conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19. (2/20)

In FEBRUARY disinfo outlets kept amplifying conspiracy theories about COVID-19, no matter how ridiculous. The @WHO warned that the pandemic was accompanied by “infodemic”: an unprecedented flood of false or inaccurate information about coronavirus. (3/20)

In MARCH Josep Borrell, the head of the European External Action Service, warned: “disinformation can kill”.

In APRIL global activist network @Avaaz found that harmful misinformation on coronavirus was shared over 1.7 million times on Facebook and viewed an estimated 117 million times. (5/20)

Classical #Liberalism gets mocked a lot but it's a very powerful and valuable idea and generalizes beyond human beings.

A bunch of agents with come together and create an agreement to follow rules which move them out of bad Nash Equilibria, but with some remaining freedom.

A "Bad Nash Equilibrium" is a solution to a game where everyone does what is personally best for them, but the overall result is extremely bad for everyone. Rules/Laws are typically designed to get us out of these

In the past, societies often took extreme measures to keep people out of bad Nash Equilibria, such as cutting people's hands off for stealing, or stoning adulterers to death.

It is good that we don't brutalize people to fix collective games. Classical #Liberalism is good!

But something has clearly gone wrong. The #Liberal order in The West is being replaced by the #Woke.

What exactly is #Woke, in terms of game theory? That's more complicated.

Classical #Liberalism is something like this:

"Apply the minimum amount of coercion necessary to get society out of bad Nash Equilibria"

Yikes. I’ve had a bit of a shitty night. Woke up from a dream where I was sobbing - proper distressed, inconsolable body sobs - about work. I was living in a tiny cramped flat with my deceased family members, with no room. People from work were coming in and out & I felt >

> ashamed and I was trying to say that I used to live on my own in a bigger flat and not share a bedroom with my siblings & live with my Mum but I couldn’t. There was a new manager who came to see me and somehow bizarrely ended up in my bedroom waiting for me and it felt >

> intrusive & shaming because she saw my poor living conditions and I knew she would have been told by management that I was unstable/troublemaker/no good/rubbish. So then I cried and cried and cried and cried (to show how stable I was 🤣) and then I woke up 😳😳😳 >

> also random ppl I work with, coming in and out of my home, making snide remarks about no wanting to be there. All the time I felt embarrassed because it was small, cramped, dark, full of people. Ugh. Woke up mid cry and felt awful. That wasn’t quite it though... before that >

> I’d woken up just before 7am, wide awake, with vivid thoughts. The thought was of my (now deceased) brother. I remembered a time around my Mums funeral when I went to pick him up and he was slurring, all over the place, couldn’t stand up. So I took him to the Doctor. >