Adam Butler
@gestaltu.bsky.social
CIO of ReSolve Asset Management
The evidence supporting therapeutic benefits of entactogens and psychedelics vastly exceeds any evidence of negative effects.
Remember Alan Watts: “You’ve got to go out of your mind to come to your senses.”
Remember Alan Watts: “You’ve got to go out of your mind to come to your senses.”
June 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The evidence supporting therapeutic benefits of entactogens and psychedelics vastly exceeds any evidence of negative effects.
Remember Alan Watts: “You’ve got to go out of your mind to come to your senses.”
Remember Alan Watts: “You’ve got to go out of your mind to come to your senses.”
Circling back to bsky after a few months and find Travis building cool software with AI. Someone else who gets it. Awesome.
June 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Circling back to bsky after a few months and find Travis building cool software with AI. Someone else who gets it. Awesome.
China is crafting a multipolar economy rooted in sovereign development, technological self-reliance, and coordinated diplomacy—backed by real productive capacity, not nostalgia.
Without structural change, tariffs are just noise on the way down.
Without structural change, tariffs are just noise on the way down.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
China is crafting a multipolar economy rooted in sovereign development, technological self-reliance, and coordinated diplomacy—backed by real productive capacity, not nostalgia.
Without structural change, tariffs are just noise on the way down.
Without structural change, tariffs are just noise on the way down.
Tariffs are a nationalist reflex in a system still ruled by Wall Street.
Meanwhile, China isn’t trying to revive the old order—it’s building a new one.
Meanwhile, China isn’t trying to revive the old order—it’s building a new one.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tariffs are a nationalist reflex in a system still ruled by Wall Street.
Meanwhile, China isn’t trying to revive the old order—it’s building a new one.
Meanwhile, China isn’t trying to revive the old order—it’s building a new one.
American workers aren’t “too expensive” because of wages or tariffs—they’re crushed by debt, rent, insurance premiums, and financial extraction.
The real drag isn’t a trade imbalance—it’s the US financial sector bleeding the real economy dry.
The real drag isn’t a trade imbalance—it’s the US financial sector bleeding the real economy dry.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
American workers aren’t “too expensive” because of wages or tariffs—they’re crushed by debt, rent, insurance premiums, and financial extraction.
The real drag isn’t a trade imbalance—it’s the US financial sector bleeding the real economy dry.
The real drag isn’t a trade imbalance—it’s the US financial sector bleeding the real economy dry.
China doesn’t redirect finance toward industry.
They don’t insulate key sectors from speculation.
And they do nothing to make U.S. labor uncompetitive.
They don’t insulate key sectors from speculation.
And they do nothing to make U.S. labor uncompetitive.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
China doesn’t redirect finance toward industry.
They don’t insulate key sectors from speculation.
And they do nothing to make U.S. labor uncompetitive.
They don’t insulate key sectors from speculation.
And they do nothing to make U.S. labor uncompetitive.
But the material base for that dominance—productive industry, global goodwill, internal unity—is gone.
Without changing the parasitic structure of the US financial sector, tariffs are just symptoms of decay.
Without changing the parasitic structure of the US financial sector, tariffs are just symptoms of decay.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
But the material base for that dominance—productive industry, global goodwill, internal unity—is gone.
Without changing the parasitic structure of the US financial sector, tariffs are just symptoms of decay.
Without changing the parasitic structure of the US financial sector, tariffs are just symptoms of decay.
6/6 Tariffs Alone Won’t Build a New Order—They’re Clinging to the Old One
What the U.S. seeks with tariffs is not a new system—it’s a restoration of lost dominance.
What the U.S. seeks with tariffs is not a new system—it’s a restoration of lost dominance.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
6/6 Tariffs Alone Won’t Build a New Order—They’re Clinging to the Old One
What the U.S. seeks with tariffs is not a new system—it’s a restoration of lost dominance.
What the U.S. seeks with tariffs is not a new system—it’s a restoration of lost dominance.
China plans in decades, not quarters. It integrates trade, infrastructure, education, and labor development under a unified vision—driven by statecraft, not market speculation.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
China plans in decades, not quarters. It integrates trade, infrastructure, education, and labor development under a unified vision—driven by statecraft, not market speculation.
The U.S. has none of this. It operates on quarterly earnings and election cycles, not national development horizons.
Tariffs without structural change are just nationalist theater performed for a decaying electorate.
Tariffs without structural change are just nationalist theater performed for a decaying electorate.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The U.S. has none of this. It operates on quarterly earnings and election cycles, not national development horizons.
Tariffs without structural change are just nationalist theater performed for a decaying electorate.
Tariffs without structural change are just nationalist theater performed for a decaying electorate.
5/6 No Strategic Depth
A tariff is a tactic, not a strategy. Real development requires control over finance, coordinated public investment, long-term technological goals, and the insulation of key sectors from external shocks.
A tariff is a tactic, not a strategy. Real development requires control over finance, coordinated public investment, long-term technological goals, and the insulation of key sectors from external shocks.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
5/6 No Strategic Depth
A tariff is a tactic, not a strategy. Real development requires control over finance, coordinated public investment, long-term technological goals, and the insulation of key sectors from external shocks.
A tariff is a tactic, not a strategy. Real development requires control over finance, coordinated public investment, long-term technological goals, and the insulation of key sectors from external shocks.
China offers what the empire never did: infrastructure without subjugation. It doesn’t ask for loyalty—it offers co-development under shifting global terms.
While Washington is building walls and bombs, Beijing is building roads.
While Washington is building walls and bombs, Beijing is building roads.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
China offers what the empire never did: infrastructure without subjugation. It doesn’t ask for loyalty—it offers co-development under shifting global terms.
While Washington is building walls and bombs, Beijing is building roads.
While Washington is building walls and bombs, Beijing is building roads.
U.S. tariffs serve as a catalyst—forcing nations to confront the costs of dependency.
You can’t sanction the world and expect loyalty in return.
You can’t sanction the world and expect loyalty in return.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
U.S. tariffs serve as a catalyst—forcing nations to confront the costs of dependency.
You can’t sanction the world and expect loyalty in return.
You can’t sanction the world and expect loyalty in return.
4/6 Tariffs Accelerate Revolt in the Periphery
Global South countries now face a choice: remain subordinate to an extractive system in decline, or align with emerging centers of capital and sovereignty.
Global South countries now face a choice: remain subordinate to an extractive system in decline, or align with emerging centers of capital and sovereignty.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
4/6 Tariffs Accelerate Revolt in the Periphery
Global South countries now face a choice: remain subordinate to an extractive system in decline, or align with emerging centers of capital and sovereignty.
Global South countries now face a choice: remain subordinate to an extractive system in decline, or align with emerging centers of capital and sovereignty.
While the U.S. imposes sanctions, China builds supply chains—promoting yuan-based trade, launching competing platforms, and embedding itself into Eurasian, African, and Latin American trade corridors that bypass Western chokepoints.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
While the U.S. imposes sanctions, China builds supply chains—promoting yuan-based trade, launching competing platforms, and embedding itself into Eurasian, African, and Latin American trade corridors that bypass Western chokepoints.
Each new tariff drives targeted nations to reduce their dependence on the dollar, build alternative institutions, and deepen regional alliances.
Tariffs fuel the very breakup of U.S. financial empire they’re meant to defend.
Tariffs fuel the very breakup of U.S. financial empire they’re meant to defend.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Each new tariff drives targeted nations to reduce their dependence on the dollar, build alternative institutions, and deepen regional alliances.
Tariffs fuel the very breakup of U.S. financial empire they’re meant to defend.
Tariffs fuel the very breakup of U.S. financial empire they’re meant to defend.
3/6 Trump's Tariffs Undermine U.S. Financial Hegemony
In weaponizing trade, the U.S. is hastening the decline of its own global position.
In weaponizing trade, the U.S. is hastening the decline of its own global position.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
3/6 Trump's Tariffs Undermine U.S. Financial Hegemony
In weaponizing trade, the U.S. is hastening the decline of its own global position.
In weaponizing trade, the U.S. is hastening the decline of its own global position.
Firms are expected to serve national development goals, not extract maximum short-term profit. Capital is subordinate to the strategic needs of the state, not the other way around.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Firms are expected to serve national development goals, not extract maximum short-term profit. Capital is subordinate to the strategic needs of the state, not the other way around.
The American elite seeks to contain economic fallout without altering the structures of class domination that caused it.
Tariffs that protect monopolies without discipline simply create new rentier fiefdoms.
By contrast, China disciplines capital.
Tariffs that protect monopolies without discipline simply create new rentier fiefdoms.
By contrast, China disciplines capital.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The American elite seeks to contain economic fallout without altering the structures of class domination that caused it.
Tariffs that protect monopolies without discipline simply create new rentier fiefdoms.
By contrast, China disciplines capital.
Tariffs that protect monopolies without discipline simply create new rentier fiefdoms.
By contrast, China disciplines capital.
2/6 Preservation of Class Power, Not National Industry
These tariffs aren’t about rebuilding the economy. They’re about protecting the profit margins of bloated monopolies that hollowed it out in the first place.
These tariffs aren’t about rebuilding the economy. They’re about protecting the profit margins of bloated monopolies that hollowed it out in the first place.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
2/6 Preservation of Class Power, Not National Industry
These tariffs aren’t about rebuilding the economy. They’re about protecting the profit margins of bloated monopolies that hollowed it out in the first place.
These tariffs aren’t about rebuilding the economy. They’re about protecting the profit margins of bloated monopolies that hollowed it out in the first place.
While America played empire, China played industry.
Now one prints sanctions, the other prints steel.
Now one prints sanctions, the other prints steel.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
While America played empire, China played industry.
Now one prints sanctions, the other prints steel.
Now one prints sanctions, the other prints steel.
Meanwhile, China played the long game: investing in productive forces, building industrial ecosystems, and shielding its economy from Western financial capture—ensuring that sovereignty over industry remains a matter of state strategy not market whim.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Meanwhile, China played the long game: investing in productive forces, building industrial ecosystems, and shielding its economy from Western financial capture—ensuring that sovereignty over industry remains a matter of state strategy not market whim.
After decades of outsourcing and gutting public infrastructure, the U.S. is now trying to patch up a decaying economy with trade barriers.
It’s not reindustrialization—it’s damage control.
You don’t regrow a burned down forest by fencing off the ashes.
It’s not reindustrialization—it’s damage control.
You don’t regrow a burned down forest by fencing off the ashes.
April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
After decades of outsourcing and gutting public infrastructure, the U.S. is now trying to patch up a decaying economy with trade barriers.
It’s not reindustrialization—it’s damage control.
You don’t regrow a burned down forest by fencing off the ashes.
It’s not reindustrialization—it’s damage control.
You don’t regrow a burned down forest by fencing off the ashes.