Oddbean

I'm not American, I can't vote. I wouldn't vote for either of them. Many of you have completely caved over politicians. Fragility at it's finest. Sure you can rebuttal with politics care about you even if you don't care about it; but that's for me to accept not for you to dictate. Funny how some Bitcoiners turn into dictators to push "Progress".

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Become your own bank. Separate money and state. Bitcoiners: https://image.nostr.build/392d81dde28c77006f6b535e9316448ea4ac6ebb37933186ea9a1e81f031843b.jpg

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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.

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.

I am proudly in the cult of logic, thank you very much. Regardless of how we anarchists feel about it, the Statists WILL go forward with the US.gov "selection" this year. Current administration: no big deal to attack Moscow with US weapons Kamala = current administration Trump/MAGA-first nationalists: change in policy appearance https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-refuses-rule-out-strikes-moscow-shocking-exchange-ukraines-incursion-kursk

While I agree on the “one issue vote” and the fact that these are the only pro bitcoin candidates (really RFK feels like the only one with any sense of what this is or why it matters), I don’t ascribe to the “not voting is a vote for the other guy” concept. As someone who wants a pro-bitcoin USA, I still haven’t decided if I’m voting. If I was going the “single issue” route though it would have to be RFK

Yeah, but RFKjr isn't on the ballot in enough states to win the necessary electoral college votes to win. So unless there's a 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 push to write his name in, he has absolutely no chance to win. 🫤 I hope I'm overlooking something, though...

There are far more important things that will and can contribute to the success of Bitcoin than voting for a President. Bitcoin is not an industry. nostr:note1tgsr4nqalh02uknzanq2mm6djcqanu5h65fpe3mds4e85wthlsxqzuvt9d

the dems are just payinh lip service to the BTC community. thay are simply trying to get your vote at zero cost, first you vote for them, then won't do anything for you. maybe ir will cost them the election if they undeerestimate the btc voting community