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 Weird, state doesn’t usually try to assassinate its own. 
 IT IS INSANE THAT VOTING MACHINES ARE NOT OPEN SOURCE. 
 It’s insane the US has closed source, proprietary voting systems, we can’t trust or verify.  Now I’m in the paper ballot with ID camp, but IF WE MUST use electronic voting, then the code should be open source. 
 In America we don’t have socialized healthcare, but we also don’t have free market healthcare, we have a Frankenstein combination of both where we get the worst case scenario of both:

A. Insanely expensive
B. Long wait times 
 If BTC hits $70k this week we're following everyone who replies to this.
 
 Why not anyway? Zaps seem higher stakes 😉 
 Amateur Conspiracy Theorist Ruin Conspiracy for the masses. 
 Whoops! Gotta be careful when you tap those buttons, enjoy those zaps! Probably need a confirm button or something @primal 
 This zap business is remarkably fast! 
 Shouldn’t you be on Facebook or TikTok since  it’s clear you support state sanctioned political persecution over freedom? 
 Respectfully, Elon is doing more for freedom at great personal risk than almost anyone else in the world. 
 Buying X and opening public discourse as well as fighting against multiple country censorship regimes are not just talk. 
 I don’t need to believe, I have lived experience : I have far more access to dissenting information than I did before Elon purchased X, starlink works pretty damn well, cybertruck is not for everyone but it’s more interesting than ford or Chevy are making, I’ve seen more rockets land themselves than blow up, I’ve gone through a tunnel he bored in Vegas, and I saw video of a chimp play pong with it’s brain. None of that happened before Elon. 
 Can’t fault the guy for seeing a grift and taking the free money, BUT it’s a good sign for the future of crypto protections. 
 Jeff Bezos calls work-life balance a "debilitating" phrase. TIAA's CEO calls it a "lie." Microsof... 
 There is no definition that fits both yours and your employers satisfaction. 
 The fine for people using VPNs to access it is crazy.

And the judge really does look like a comi... 
 I’m wondering when the tipping point occurs when citizens just lose their shit, pick up any weapon they can find and do a French style revolt. 
 iOS 18.1 beta 3 is very good. 
 Minus that whole Google spying thing. 
 ill be posting here more with you trend setting degenerates.

 let me introduce myself:

In short I'm a populist, I haven't exactly made up my mind what that Is, but I try to hold the position that enables the Individual to flourish over corps, gov, and the Borg. I'm like a libertararian with more empathy and national pride. 

ill be voting Trump for the sole reason the gov can't get away with what theyve done to him, I'd prefer Vivek If II werent for thay however. 

lookin' forward to hangin' out, hopefully there Is more diversity of thought than Reddit. 
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 Seems odd to give a mainstream perspective, if we wanted that , we’d just read New York Times , cnn, etc. 
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 he was a practicing divorce lawyer in Canada