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26 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 2 Jul \ parent \ on: Are your properties really yours? AskSN
Thanks! I get what you mean now! I think there's quite some merit to that thought, except maybe the reproduction mention: it's only easy to reproduce the key to a utxo if you know it or if you can break the cryptography.
Awesome. Would you say that in BR, the return of high-grade socialism is mostly a reaction to the alleged corruption of the previous lower-grade socialist regime?
No, unfortunately people tend to forget history very easily. Since the republic was always pure socialism and statism, like every state everything is based on coercion and general control over the population. The degrees have always varied — there were two dictatorships if you don’t consider that we’re always under someone’s rule, dictatorships with complete and blatant restrictions of freedoms and natural rights. Seven or eight monetary standard changes. The only revolutions here that tried secession were always crushed with extreme violence — the most famous being Canudos.
What happens is that in recent years people have become more politically active, but tend to always go towards the statist and dichotomous side of things, only selling power alternation in the 21st century. No one here truly wants freedom — they want a state, a state with members from a political side they agree with.
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I've really noticed that here in Brazil: everyone is either a PT supporter or a Bolsonaro supporter.
And they care little for their freedom.
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I've felt like that for many decades now: come election time the choice always feels like evil vs different evil. The only exception I've seen, where there was an actual significantly lesser evil was the German branch of the Pirate Party to the EU. But iirc they got decimated last elections.
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The truth is, I don't know much about German politics, but I am convinced of one thing: our freedom must begin within, both mentally and spiritually. It shouldn't depend on whether the right or the left governs. Sometimes one party gives us a little more space than another, but the key is not to depend on any government to live with dignity.
Personally, I felt trapped in Cuba. I reached 30 feeling like I hadn't achieved anything, and the worst part was feeling like I was condemning my son to the same thing. That's why we made the decision to leave, to seek a little more freedom and build a life with more options. Because in the end, no one is going to give you freedom: you have to pursue it and, above all, protect it.
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Oh the point of that party wasn't politics in the traditional sense (also not really German, but for EU). They acted like a check by providing a measure of transparency to the EU back when they were in, and voted against many of the privacy-invasive proposals.
The problem I see is that politicians will never say no to more power, and will often not let go of power voluntarily. So you can vote but often there are only overall net losses to vote for. But being oppressed is even worse and so is corruption siphoning off your hard-earned freedoms and possessions.
in the end, no one is going to give you freedom: you have to pursue it and, above all, protect it.
This. But it also means we cannot make it happen for others other than by inspiring people to do the work for themselves.
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Exactly. Freedom is not inherited or imposed, it is awakened.
Only real example can inspire it.
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