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bravery | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 I find these kinds of comments disturbing in their nihilism. So what do you propose?
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Jeff Swann | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Recognizing that politics is generally just a scam to get the slaves to keep voting for new masters is not nihilism. Wasting money & time on politics is not ever going to change anything for the better.

Building technologies that free people from govt controls. Doing productive things to help your friends & neighbors while teaching them about govt corruption & freedom tech. Building a family & raising kids who are happy & productive & anti-authoritarian are the primary ways we improve the world. Politics is downstream from all of that. The political landscape will change once the people already have.
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Chris Liss | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There are three choices: Trump, RFK, stay home. You can argue over which one if you think it’s worth your time, but pretty much anyone who is paying attention and isn’t brainwashed will choose one of those three. Not sure which I will choose myself, not sure it matters that much.
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bravery | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This is a good response, and thank you for that. I disagree that politics is completely a scam though. Good people can achieve change through politics, even if it is very difficult. US has an amazing opportunity right now with RFK, and people should recognize that opportunity and not waste it.
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Jeff Swann | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 RFK will fuck everyone over too. And he is mentally retarded when it comes to economics & guns & all sorts of critically important issues.
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bravery | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There's that nihilism again. RFK has integrity, maybe you've been mislead about him. I suggest watching the "Who Is Bobby Kennedy?" video. On guns he has said he won't take anyone's guns away (except in the hypothetical but impossible case where everyone in Congress somehow manages to agree on a bill)
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Jeff Swann | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's not nihilism to have a low opinion of someone who supports the US funding a foreign genocide, while also basically being economically socialist, & caught up in the climate scam, & too stupid to understand the basic need for tools of defense. The fact that he has to promise what he won't do because he is opposed to guns is pretty good evidence that he is retarded.

Even with all the bad I was half interested at first, but the support for Israel's war crimes killed it.

I like Vivek, but the reality is that it makes no sense to place any hope on any politician. The political system is a waste of time. Bitcoin, P2P projects, self hosted Ai, 3d printing & home manufacturing, open source gun designs, & other open source hardware are far more important than any politician.

The first step to defeating any enemy is to stop funding them. The only way to really win is to give people the power to successfully engage in tax protests, whether its done loudly or quietly, that is the real measure of freedom.