El Salvador VS Europe

What worries me isn’t an openly hostile state. It’s the smiling one.

The one that calls surveillance and control ‘protection.’

Everything unfolding today was described in advance. Not by politicians, but by the Cypherpunks.

It was all written in the Cypherpunk Manifesto. This is exactly how it was supposed to go.

So I educate myself. I take initiative. I go peer-to-peer.

I’d be more afraid if my government pretended to be my friend.

I’d rather see the cage being built than be told I’m already free while it closes.

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Imo its good to have that in the back of your head. What I mean it's healthy to have some distrust.

I've thought about this a lot... from my perspective, wherever you are, you are always in the purview of some state, required to abide by certain rules. And those rules can be changed overnight. Or with a new president. Or with a revolution.

I've been in Europe most of my life. I don't like where we're going. I've never been to El Salvador. I like where they seem to be going. Yet, I'm fully aware that either of those ships could turn to a different direction at any time.

So there is no certainty. There is no peace. There is no libertarian / anarcho-capitalist paradise. Could there ever be? IDK. I maintain hope. But hope has broken my heart many, many times before...

For now, we remain underground. We make due with what we have, and strive to evolve it into what should be.

Why do people see at El Salvador as a freedom state? It is a dictatorship. I really do not get it. Bukele is open about it to be a dictator.

Benevolent dictators is the best you get at state level lol