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I don't think any longer any significant change can happen from top. From politicians.

Not only they lie to get elected. Even if they are trustworthy, they get stopped by the corrupted and/or idiotic majority of politicians. Alternatively they are blackmailed or they otherwise lose touch with reality and solid principles.

Unless you're a dictator kind of like Nayib Bukele, it's impossible to pass reasonably swiftly what is actually good for people.

But #bitcoin will fix it from the bottom whether they want it or not.

Alan ₿ 2y ago

True, you can’t vote your way out of tyranny. But you might as well vote for the least tyrannical candidate on offer

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nothenry 2y ago

Alternate view: by voting, you’re putting energy into the system, thereby legitimizing it.

Alan ₿ 2y ago

Vote by mail is ~2 mins of energy. Worth it imo.

Not voting does nothing

Natestr 2y ago

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is nothing.

Alan ₿ 2y ago

Harder does not necessarily mean better

graycat 2y ago

That is what the voluntaryists argue. I’m not convinced that casting a vote endorses the legitimacy of the government when the government doesn’t allow you to exit. The reason I don’t vote is because it’s an action that has no effect.

Petroit 2y ago

How many minutes or hours it will take you to vote? Could this time be better, more efficiently and with greater impact used by...whatever #bitcoin related?

That's how I look at things.

Alan ₿ 2y ago

Vote by mail takes ~2 minutes

Petroit 2y ago

We don't have that in my country. Either way...the last elections were probably the last I attended. There is no "lesser evil" over here.

Alan ₿ 2y ago

Fair enough

2e202d92... 2y ago

I will cast my vote for the cream of the crap

graycat 2y ago

Is Robert Kennedy the least tyrannical candidate? He’s called for jailing “climate deniers” and shutting down corporations and think tanks who disagree with him.

https://youtu.be/41yJTxrPFhM

https://web.archive.org/web/20170404102453/http:/www.ecowatch.com/jailing-climate-deniers-1881958645.html

2e202d92... 2y ago

Fair questions. If he is just another poser - albeit one that appeals to bitcoiners and libertarians - I'd want to expose him all the same as the other fakes. If he is indeed The One - a Bitcoiners Neo - I'd want to know that, too.