it doesn't fundamentally matter, the table is tilted in our favour against them... banned, taxed, regulated, all three are being tried but banned is a total failure already, taxed is basically not enforcable, and regulated isn't gonna make a stick of difference without a one world government, which is also impossible because if it could be done, it would already have been done and bitcoin would not be part of the story
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The state moves from a position of powerlessness to total power over a population by splitting the population. When some people comply, the remaining noncompliers are easier to target. Their laws don't have to make sense, and they don't need total compliance. They move by gradations of compliance. That's how rugged frontiersmen turn into suburbanite tax cattle, over just a few generations.
you know enough history to know that no regime lasts forever
they always overreach, the cronies get more and more graspy and the oligarchs genetic lines degrade and then add to that, natural disasters and fundamental economic failures caused by a system based on theft to pay for the unendingly growing appetite for moar of the ruling class
we are in the last stages of the anglo-american imperial regime, and besides this fact alone there is also the problem that all their fantasies about biometric brainwashed AI controlled 15 minute cities full of pods - is all going to come crashing down when the global power and comms grids are literally set on fire by a superflare or micronova, that is long overdue
in 1914, the Ottoman Turks lost control of Bulgaria and all of the rest of the yugoslavian republics... for decades the bulgarians had been growing extremely tired of being robbed point blank for every bit of wealth they had, and eventually that regime was overthrown, those who were fighting for sovereignty of bulgarians were extremely popular and everything the turks did to try and maintain control just made their problem grow worse and worse until one fine day, now i may be getting the year wrong, but I am pretty sure it was january 14, the turkish army was marching towards Sofia, just starting the climb up to the plateau via a little town I used to live in, called Belovo (logging town, has a huge paper factory up the river) and they were cut down by hundreds of bulgarian farmers and loggers who were sick to death of being shat on by the turkish empire and sent them packing, and of course it helped that the turks didn't get help from the russians soon enough because after that day, it was all over, bulgaria was again sovereign after 400 years, and around 700AD (685 i think) there was Tsar Simeon who founded what went on to become the Bulgarian Empire which itself also failed, I think after that the Serbs took over and then the turks rocked up and took over the whole balkans
point i'm trying to get at is that these power structures are inherently unstable and can't last more than - well, about 15 generations, after which point they collapse, and the system we are in now, was founded by the British Empire in its second epoch, which birthed the USA because the previous epoch had got so bad that a huge exodus of people fleeing for a frontier went to north america, and then they coopted that, and that whole scheme of puppet vassal regimes and whatnot began
lol and the romantic notions people have about the USA lol
they kicked out the british empire and then became worse, i mean, way way worse now than it was prior to this supposed "revolution"
whatever they think they are going to do now, fundamentally there's no way they can make it last, and there's no way to enforce it, and the tighter they grip at it the faster it will slip away
it's not optimism that i'm expressing here, it's the inexorable path of power towards the most decadent and from there to collapse and reset, new game starts