It's bugging me now too

Is it 'I See You'?

This is how I use nostr

"As though the masses can’t tolerate people of disparate means living side by side."

The masses don't tolerate people of disparate means.

They want me to pay "taxes". Well, what about "no".

Basically a lot of people here sounds like communists themselves — they want to encourage people only to accumulate wealth in secret, as though the masses can’t tolerate people of disparate means living side by side. As though the point of freedom tech is to secure your bag and disappear into your citadel.

Instead of walking down the street in broad daylight, going zero fucks what anyone thinks about it because you earned it, and it’s freedom tech which makes it very hard to confiscate.

Didn’t mean to re-post, that last reply from the poster calling me a spook which is beyond retarded and the puerile Twitter equivalent of calling someone with whom they disagree a racist, but to quote it.

Don’t conflate the right to privacy with a choice to hide the fact that you are using freedom tech. You absolutely have a right to privacy and use freedom tech privately.

But how much more powerful is it to use it openly and for the state for find out they can’t stop it.

100 percent agree you should have the choice to conjoin. No objection to that at all. I don’t care to out anyone.

I’m just saying the message is backwards and a drag on the purpose of the tech which is freedom.

I’m not taking issue with Matt (I don’t know him.) I’m disagreeing with the message in that particular post.

Calling me a spook is weak. Like some wokster on Twitter calling someone with whim they disagree a racist. Disappointing to find that same mentality here.

I agree with this — war is only one lens through which to view it.

But the metaphor isn’t important.

The point is while some people really do need to be anonymous, on the whole it’s bad game theory. For each anon individual, it’s helps them in the short term to evade the wrath of the state. But by being anonymous, you perpetuate its frame and empower it.

That’s why they censor and why they punish those who speak out: because they want people hiding and afraid. They don’t want people openly defying them.

If you’re the deep state you want a fearful and hiding population, only dissenting in secret. Last thing you want are people doing it out in the open because that’s contagious.

Here’s an unpleasant fact to contemplate:

You can be killed. Easily.

You can be killed on the street by a drug-addled psycho, you can be killed by the police for non-compliance.

You can die of a heart attack or cancer or medical error (three leading causes of death in the US), and you will definitely die of something one day. That is a given.

But that is not a good reason not to stand up for your rights openly and fight for them.

Kant’s Categorical Imperative: Act Only On That Maxim You Would Will To Be A Universal Law.

In other words, do what you’d like to see everyone do. Do you think people should stand up to the State’s overreach? Or grumble about it powerlessly behind an anon handle and let it happen?

You choose how it will go by your own actions. You create the ethos of the world.

No, Satoshi needed to be anon. He was birthing system-destroying new freedom tech. He was the ultimate spy.

We are not spies. We are soldiers. And you want the enemy to see the size of your army and decide to negotiate peacefully.

You seem to think hiding is necessary for freedom. I don’t. The State is emboldened when people hide. When people tell it to fuck off, it shrinks into irrelevance. By fearing it and hiding from it, you make it stronger.

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?

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.

I read a lot of headlines and stories, and the message is FEAR, FEAR, FEAR, BE AFRAID, LOOK HOW POWERFUL THE ENEMY IS, LOOK AT ALL THE WAYS THEY WILL VIOLATE YOUR RIGHTS, and the message is so often.

"Here are ways to hide and only pretend to comply in real life while secretly defying authority." It’s the Anne Frank model of resistance, hiding in the basement while any compromise of op-sec can do you in and ruin you.

The alternative — the one that wins IMO — is the Rosa Parks model where you just stand up and say no, in plain sight, and they realize you are not going to budge, and the freedom tech gives you the power to resist, and they stand down.

Instead of hiding and worrying, you are relaxed and transparent.

You don’t broadcast your personal affairs to the world, but if someone wanted to find out roughly the net worth of some powerful person today in fiat that’s relatively easy to do, and that’s not a problem.

Disagree.

You *can* use conjoin if you want to, or have some important reason to, but the point of bitcoin IMO isn’t to be secretive about your wealth.

If you live in a nice house or drive a nice car, people will know you are wealthy anyway, and there is nothing wrong with being wealthy. You don’t need to hide it as though it’s something to be ashamed of.

The point of bitcoin isn’t to hide who you are or what you are doing, it’s to be able to be it and do it, whether or not people want to permit it or approve of it.

You want to hide it if the communists can otherwise seize it. But the point of BTC is that it’s not seizable by the communists and therefore defeats communism.

I see a lot of this “freedom tech” being touted as the ability to hide from he authorities, when instead I think the message should be it gives the power to be right in the sights of the authorities but they’re powerless to do anything about it.

The real fuck you isn’t, you don’t know who I am, it’s you know exactly who I am, and you can’t do shit about it. nostr:note1lr7cahh2mdsrpv3n3ftqw7nsuz3ql3r77z0y9k0f7raczky4hk4qy3hhv3