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I struggle with this issue myself — the fear of all the “bad people” doing all this unconstitutional shit, that they’ll eventually come for me.

But I want to live my life with calm, purpose and resolve anyway. I don’t want to hide, and I don’t want to have one anonymous online persona where I’m the real me and a fake terrified one IRL that pretends to go along.

Way too many people in this space hoping to wait it out in the underground bunker while the world burns, maybe they can save themselves and their families in the citadel.

When instead the world is your citadel, and you either defend it openly or you lose it entirely.

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inventor 2y ago

It's either the bunker or jail, your choice.

Reality is a bitch.

This is guerrilla war. Not sure what world you're thinking of, here we're fucked.

Chris Liss 2y ago

I just hear “Fear, fear, fear, be afraid, comply outwardly, only resist secretly, they have all the power, we have none, etc.”

What’s the point of freedom tech with that attitude?

inventor 2y ago

I don't like the "comply outwardly" part, many fall for it.

Also we have a lot of power. We're well aware, look at the bitcoin magazine affair.

You can have a strategy and be fearless at the same time. In fact having a strategy is what makes my fears go away.

I think that you're rationalizing too much and assuming that people in the resistance have fears. We have none. Being realistic doesn't make you fearful. We have something else besides rationality. We have a Fire within.

Low Information Voter 2y ago

I'll stick to defending it covertly :-p

"Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo"

- Murphy's Laws of Combat

Chris Liss 2y ago

Funny, but that’s a good rule for a cause you don’t believe in.

Low Information Voter 2y ago

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines"

- anonymous, demotivational poster

ede3d957... 2y ago

True power lies in being both at the same time. Each approach has certain up- and downsides and we want to combine the upsides.

ede3d957... 2y ago

A more philosophical question:

What is a "real" identity? And is it me?

or more spiritual: Who are you (anyways).

Chris Liss 2y ago

There’s the spiritual question which is important, but that’s not the question in terms of the handle under which you post or the views to which you attach your name.

That’s your representation in the world, and there’s no question what we mean by that.