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am | 14 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +6 
 #Trump and #Musk aren't libertarians or freedom fighters, this is a scam
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Kevin's Bacon | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah they're definitely playing into the national security apparatus at the very least. I theorized a while ago that that was the main backer behind Trump and the Republicans right now. They genuinely want Bitcoin as a strategic alternative form of power projection, but they are not libertarians at all.
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SteadyTech | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 100 %
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am | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They will try to control it at some point
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The Beave | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 That's my concern.
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9sirtom5 | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 On the other hand in the world we are living is still better for us, peasants, that the masters are somehow balanced, not leaning strongly to one side.
Sure none of them will bring us freedom, but we can find our spots to live more easily than in "one sided" situation under control of one ideology.
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am | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Compulsive liars, we never know what they'll come up with to try to stay there