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You don’t get to call yourself anti-state one day and cheer for the state’s violence the next.

A lot of “conservative” bitcoiners who talk nonstop about freedom have shown their hand when “government agents” killed Americans and the responding with excuses, instead of outrage even in the facet of blatant corruption and violations of the1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments.

That isn’t decentralization. That’s not “opting out.” It isn’t even logical or defensible. That’s brand loyalty to power, bootlicking sycophancy.

Rights don’t exist for comfort or hobbies. They exist for when authority overreaches and accountability disappears. Thise first two amendments? Those are how the Founding Fathers armed us all against authoritarianism.

Ethos is choosing principles over outcomes. Blind loyalty is choosing power because it feels familiar.

Pick one. If it’s loyalty, you were never a bitcoiner.

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Matthew Kuraja
Matthew Kuraja

If you enter a contract with someone else I am not a party to, then that agreement does not involve me. Whatever guarantees it describes are not extended to me. It wasn't crafted for me. When the Framers deliberated over the final draft of the Constitution, they were Americans hashing it out for Americans. Not for people of other countries. The 2nd Amendment protects the right to bear arms. But that doesn't mean if the Chinese Army invades our 50 states that we cannot in good conscience attempt to disram them. Our Rights were not made for invaders. Whether someone charged our shores from their Navy vessel or they smuggled their child across the border, they're both invaders for entering our country without consent. They're both here for our resources by any means possible.

Jim Craddock
Jim Craddock

You must have a different version of reality than me. I saw a VA ICU nurse attempt to help a woman up and then be executed after being beat and disarmed. I see these things daily now - violations of people's rights. Citizen's rights. You fail to realize that you are cattle. You are fuel for their fires. You are nothing. We are nothing until we stand for something. They've decided that laws no longer matter and they will provoke and instigate with violence to sell a narration. They want people to stand up and push back. We should. The first people doing it should be those Don't Tread on Me motherfuckers. The 2nd amendment guys. But, they cling to guns and are really just weak assholes that want to wave guns around and see guns waved around - so they choose the side that won't get them killed, even though that's the wrong side. The 1st amendment people? They know it. They see it. The people that know what the 9th and 10th amendment are for, they know it, they see it. Let me tell you your future: Democracy is over. They can take whatever they want from you, whenever they want. No one will come help you when they do. If you think parties and elections matter, you are wrong. Power and money matter now. That's it. You know the real tell? The first time Trump every dropped the con was at the Ford Plant when he flipped someone off. Never drop the con. He finally did. He isn't who you think he is, unless you think he is a raping, murdering, pedophile. Then you'd be right, but I'm confident you don't see that. So, make scapegoats out of immigrants if you want. That's certainly what he wants. That gives him the power to have a $90 Billion ICE budget for one year. He can hire all the thugs and criminal to provoke peaceful citizens. They just see dollar signs and someone to unleash their weakness upon. I've never believed in guns. Why? I realize the futility of citizens fighting someone with budgets that run in the hundreds of billions, monitoring networks, vpns, spyware, with superior hardware and gear. Guns are never going to win you your freedom from internal Authoritarianism. You are cattle.