21 sats \ 12 replies \ @kepford 8 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: I didn't vote yesterday. meta
Voting is just one form of action. If you believe it is significant, more power to you. If all you do is vote and you think that is making some sort of difference I don't know what to tell you.
It's a proxy for participation.
I agree that it is inadequate by itself, but that doesn't mean that doing of nothing is a serious position.
Bitcoiners are uniquely qualified to go cause a scene particularly in local settings and shake up the clown world. The people running your town/county/state are losers and dumb as shit, so go get in their face and make them uncomfortable.
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LOL, not voting does not equal doing nothing. You are generalizing. Doing nothing is doing nothing.
Do what you believe regardless of cultural pressure. Build wealth. Build community. Build resilience. Vote with your time, talent, and treasure. Real power is not in checking a box. Its not a huge sacrifice to vote so if you think it makes a difference by all means join everyone else and vote for one of the two candidates that you disagree with.
Bitcoin is hope not democracy.
Now if you want to try to convince me to vote in a local election I might be more inclined. Local politics can make an impact. But I would say get involved in making your community better first.
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Its not a huge sacrifice to vote
Exactly, so vote and force them to cheat. Then catch them cheating.
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I spend a lot of time refusing myself, reading books, learning about history, learning about money and economics. I also build things with my hands and work on the water. I work with a lot of different people. The real human action is outside of politics.
I even served in the Virginia Army National Guard for 5 years. I'm not ignorant of how the government works. I'm not that far from DC. I guess so I have to say it's that what I know reaches to the top and they are so corrupt that playing their game only extends the pain.
If you look at Washington DC from the Lincoln Moment on a map to the East you will see that is an occult playground.
Congress has fascii flanking the chair of the speaker. Lincoln at his memorial is resting on the fascii. None of this is accidental. The Washington monument is the eye of Horis on the pyramid. If you claim to know the issues then why not understand the machinations?
Participating in the clown 🤡🌎 is delusional for me. For someone else it might be fulfilling.
I like meeting and working with other people, doing business and making their lives better. Having humans who are corrupt control the other humans is stupid.
Here's a nice video that explains the truth.
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It isn't about cheating. The game is the illusion. To keep us focused on these clowns. Make them irrelevant to your life. A politician only seeks to make themself needed so they will always be "fixing" crap that doesn't need fixing. The whole structure is set up with bad incentives.
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It's not a game, it's war.
This is the battlefield we've found ourselves on.
You're being shot at even if you don't like it.
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So voting for the gunman makes it better?
The Buddha had a great teaching regarding the man who intellectualized his own fate. The man was shot by an arrow. The healing doctor wanted to take the arrow out. The man who was shot insisted on knowing who shot him! What was the man's cast? Was it even a man? All kinds of nonsense questions. Then the man who was shot died. None the wiser.
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It was obvious by your OP that you're the kind of person ready to just lay down and die. No need to reiterate.
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Wow, they've done a number on you. I'm aware I'm being shot at. Building a citadel. I don't allow the enemy to set the terms. I set my own terms thank you.
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Citadels are a fun larp for the I am very smart crowd.
I too take preparedness seriously; it will be helpful through the coming manufactured crisis leading up to the next fake election.
But the hubris of such dismissiveness will be a painful undoing in time.
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You are making a huge assumption. You assume there is someone I want to vote for. There isn't. Also, I do not believe in democracy as a valid form of government. I do not wish to further give validity to this system by participating in it. That's why I used the Mass analogy. I do not believe in the god of democracy. I get all that you are saying. You sound like a younger version of me :)
I was hard core into politics and making a difference for years. I watched both parties say they would change things... and things stay the same. At least the things I care about. At some point I realized its all a distraction from what really matters. Your own life and building something better. We won't change this system. It has to be replaced. Bitcoin is a huge part of that.
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I realized its all a distraction from what really matters. Your own life and building something better.
It's not an either or. People really around self-made candidates.
If there's no one electable options on your ballot, that's your fault for not putting one on it.
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