Nico, I respect and appreciate you, but this is not the way.
Trump doesn't understand Bitcoin, and he's only saying what he's saying so he can get your vote.
RFKjr understands Bitcoin, but he's not on the ballot in enough states to win enough electoral college votes to become president. A vote for him is essentially the same thing as not voting at all...except that you're still bending over for the current system.
Even if Trump really grokked Bitcoin, or even if RFKjr could win, voting for one guy in a massively corrupt system filled with corrupt people who you will never vote for or see, is a waste of time at best. Bitcoin already realigns incentives and starves the money printing beast. Everything else (good leaders, good laws, etc) is naturally downstream of that, and if politicians want to fight against that, it'll only be to their detriment.
But, as @Snowden said at the Nashville conference: go ahead and vote for whoever you want to vote for, but make sure you don't join a cult.
Be careful, Nico. You're flirting with cult territory.
If KKKamala wins we will have nukes flying
And if you don't wear a mask and get the jab, you're gonna kill grandma. 🙄
Whether it's masks and gene therapy on one side, or voting for Trump in order to keep Kamala out on the other side, they're both fear tactics to manipulate us. And I refuse to make a decision like this based on fear (I'm far from perfect with that, of course, but when I catch myself about to make a choice based on fear, I usually try to stop).
Maybe you're right, or maybe you're wrong. Maybe the deep state will make nukes fly even if Trump is elected. Maybe Kamala wins (God forbid), and other people in positions of power keep nukes from flying despite her efforts. 🤷♂️
The point is that none of us know the future, but we do know the past and the present. And making definitive statements like "nukes will fly if Kamala wins," when we actually don't know, is exactly the kind of cultish behavior that Edward Snowden warned us about. So let's focus on what we 𝘥𝘰 know, and let go of what we don't.
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