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 Things won’t improve materially until bitcoiners start wielding political power 
 People can drink now because we found a political solution to prohibition not because people built more speakeasies 
 Would the political solution allow alcohol consumption if people had lobbied for it, but not built speakeasies? Would the law change if people argued against it, but obeyed it? 
 if the political process was an effective way to constrain the state we wouldn't need bitcoin in the first place.  
 The need for bitcoin in principle has nothing to do with the State and more to do with the limitations of gold. That bitcoin and gold help escape actions made by the government is a tangential benefit. 

All we have is the political process for what actually matters. Politics is how humans live together. Bukele is the best example of what can be accomplished by wielding political power. Bitcoin didn’t magically fix the rest of the central american countries and it won’t the rest of the world. El Salvador didn’t need another mixing service or monero, it needed good leadership and political action. Same goes for every country 
 “PoLiTiCs dOnT mAtTeR” 
 *Or use Monero for their spending to fuck government in all possible ways. 
 This is the case for MOST things.
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