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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @028559d218 10h \ parent \ on: The Bellamy salute and Nazi Germany culture
When your fellow Americans turn on you and they will eventually because
you're different
you opted out of the 'nonsense' they bought into or
maybe just because you have Bitcoin...
You will think wow I was really stupid. I should have been less trusting, and more critical of the information around me.
The power of governments to invade peoples lives, to make life extremely difficult, and to exert the 'power of the state' is ginormous. It's very big.
Is "the government" coming after you or me? No as individuals no I think that's silly. But have we sleepwalked into an anti-privacy surveillance state? Yes. And the only way to possibly change that is to first recognize what's happened and take it seriously. We don't want any politicians with as much power and influence as governments have right now.
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Dude I watched some of this. I know it's trying to be funny... but it's not.
Snowden tried to warn people, back in the 2010s about governmental surveillance in the name of 'freedom' or 'fighting terrorism' or whatever and today essentially nothing has changed if anything it's gotten worse.
Ross, who Trump said he would pardon (Trump doesn't even know who he is) is still in jail. Why? Because Mr. Trump doesn't care about him. But he pardoned 1500 loyalists who will now probably do anything to support the president now that they are free.
All the Kamala rainbow flag jokes won't help... when noone and I mean no-one in traditional society has ever even heard of Bitcoin for peer to peer or MoE transactions.
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You are arguing with a ghost man. I think we agree like 99.9%.
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