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I don't want to welcome a world where any government... Has unlimited ability, far beyond what exists today, to target their own citizens even if those rights being targeted are constitutionally protected.

How long would it take... For a government with zero morals or ethics to crush bitcoin? Or try to?

If its not the Republicans then its the democrats and politics doesn't make it right

Want in one hand and shit in the other, what anyone wants is irrelevant.

The only limit on the government is... government. Be that the shadow state, or other state-level rivals, power vacuums get filled. There is no limit to ability because there is no power vacuum. There is always an apex force.

Governments are a thing, they have no morals or ethics. They operate only legitimacy against the shadow state or rivals.

Legitimacy relies upon the population as a force multiplier, that's the closest we get to market dynamics in matters of state, competition for legitimacy

to crush bitcoin?

There's probably a script at the NSA that could do it in a few blocks already, fortunately they created it to replace fiats dying legitimacy.

politics

Politics are the scripted theater to communicate decisions that have already been made, narrative and optics that make the decisions appear legitimate

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Governments are a thing, they have no morals or ethics. They operate only legitimacy against the shadow state or rivals.

This is not what the united states was based upon.

There's probably a script at the NSA that could do it in a few blocks already, fortunately they created it to replace fiats dying legitimacy

If they created it and by extension promote it... Then why the crackdown? Why the KYC? Or extremely complex tax compliance?

Or for that matter why the memecoins or shitcoining?

Politics are the scripted theater to communicate decisions that have already been made, narrative and optics that make the decisions appear legitimate

The US has 3 branches of government, a constitution, and is supposed to be by and for the people politics does not give the powerful the excuse to screw over the powerless.

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This is not what the united states was based upon.

It's exactly what the US is based upon, that American industrialists are a more legitimate governing body than British industrialists.

Do you know who John Hancock is and what he did?

why the crackdown?

What crackdown? all the blocking and tackling to make it an ETF? The comptroller of the currency preparing banks to adopt it longer than most self-proclaimed Bitcoiners have been in it?

To make Michael Saylor, who's office HQ is practically on the CIA campus, the head of a global central bank?

Why the KYC?

KYC is for fiat, that forces globalist / deep state banks to keep records. They don't need KYC for Bitcoin, the chain is transparent.

Or extremely complex tax compliance?

Taxes track FIAT.

Or for that matter why the memecoins or shitcoining?

Even Hal Finney was for shitcoining to teach people the value of Bitcoin, a "collectible".

The government being anti-bitcoin thing is libertarian cope for people that believe in lone wolf fantasies akin to Santa Claus. It's a national security tool. #1438237

US has 3 branches of government, a constitution, and is supposed to be by and for the people

Ever heard of the The Articles of Confederation?

All these things are downstream of power and influence (legitimacy), and thus ephemeral. A shadow state or rival state picks and chooses their rules as they see fit to accomplish their goals. The stage is bigger than what's in-front of the curtain.

politics does not give the powerful the excuse to screw over the powerless
Politics are the scripted theater to communicate decisions that have already been made
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