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 Both the left & right support digital IDs

It's critical to the UN tyranny agenda, that the CBDC is linked to some form of digital ID

Donald Trump markets this as "input output biometric ID", to stop illegal immigration.  He used to be for a physical wall, but now it's facial recognition, backed by Palantir AI with Peter Thiel giving him money.

The left markets this as "vaccine passports", to save lives from horrible infectious disease.  And to distribute "universal basic income".

It doesn't matter what form this ID comes in, please my brother and friend, resist it with everything you got.

They will promise you money.
They will promise you access to something.
They will promise to solve immigration.

But the only thing it will solve, is their current problem of free speech.

[Shoutout to the: Independent Media Alliance, with Whittney Webb, Ryan Christian, and Iain Davis.  We stand with you] 
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 Resistants is futile if an alternative is not presented.

There are real world problems that IDs solve. If there is no alternative then the gov controlled, privacy eliminating id will win since it would be pushed as the only solution. 
 There already are physical IDs.  Digital IDs do not solve any problem that physical IDs do not... but open the door for many nasty things 
 Online actions. For instance, online voting. Or access to private information.
Bank identification.

We can say: Let's all use Monero. But gov are not going to adopt a system that they can't tax.

I wish we can go all in with a libertarian gov. That is not going to happen. What we can do is push gov and society towards liberty. For that you need an alternative to bad ideas. 
 I don't think that Libertarians and conservatives should support online voting.  It should be using physical ID cards that already exist in-person.  They don't even do ID for voting now, and the physical cards exist.

For bank identification, when you register a bank account, you already have to show physical ID.  Why do you need it every time you login, if you already showed it to set it up?  If you're talking about security, there's already yubikeys and 2FA.  There is no logical reason government digital ID is more secure than yubikeys, but the risk to freedom is massive 
 You are not wrong.

Still there is always the question, why at this digital age do we need to do things physically?

Using that question socialists will push a digital id.

You (and I) might not like non in person voting but right now the US is stubbornly allowing Mail voting. When the criticizers will point out to how unsecure that is, the socialists will pull out digital IDs.

The best way to go, is to prevent digital IDs. The second best is to offer a privacy respecting alternative. 
 "Whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you." (Albert Nock)

They will promise anything you want to hear. But lsooner or later, they will use that power against you in ways you cannot even imagine.  

You're absolutely right, resist it with everything you got.
 
 I agree that that is why gov are pushing digital IDs.

If we want to stop them we need to understand how they are pushing this. Right now they are finding problems and claim that only their digital ID will solve them.

If we want to stop them, we must present alternativs.