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Some combination of XMR <-> BTC atomic swaps (https://www.getmonero.org/2021/08/20/atomic-swaps.html the latter function not being implemented yet) and non-KYC exchanges.


I mean, if your only criteria is the intensity of the quality, then kinda.

But... :

(persecuted journalist)

>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61839256

>https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/07/usa-must-not-...

(jails its opposition)

>https://eu.usatoday.com/storytelling/capitol-riot-mob-arrest...

>"hatespeech" (newspeak)

>fraudulent elections: funny how the concerns that 'half' of the US had with elections were dismissed. Especially when conditions were different, by using a method usually agreed (until now, cuz narrative) prone to tampering. So much for free and fair elections.

So _Zero_ huh?


> So _Zero_ huh?

Zero comparison.

Sure, there's probably a non-zero amount of germs in the pasteurised homogenised and sterilly-packaged milk I buy at the supermarket. So is drinking that equivalent to sucking the pus out of a punctured boil on the arse of a diseased cow?

No. There's zero comparison. None. Zero.

Learn to read, man. If nothing else, it'll make you a better propaganda troll for your Kremlin master.


>Your conclusion that "There is no right to protest anywhere" is simply ridiculous.

BLM rioters did this, and more. Violence + Property damage + Corporate Backing + gov backing. They didn't had their donation money seized,and almost no resistance to establish order.


Yes, the BLM protests are more examples of the right to protest being alive and well.


>it's supposed to be the arbiter of civil rights, fairness, and enablement, with the convenient side effect of enriching a very small group of people who actually pull the strings

so the ends justify the means? Even the premise is wrong


Name a system that doesn't enrich a small group of people when actually implemented in real life. So yeah you pick the least bad of the options you have.

edit: That also includes being stable against competing systems. A utopia that is conquered in 5 minutes and replaced with a dystopia is not a utopia.


Imo let's be real, drop the pretension. I'd rather we get off the notion that these things are possible. I.e. we are ruled by smart people (aristocracy), that enrich themselves, but that are smart and have skin in the game. Rather than dumb (and impressionable) collective deciding in a popularity contest, probably _extremely_ influenced by a 3rd party (media), pretending it's fulfilling its duty, while it's actually falling in some 'cool' 'wolf's' song, that only accomplishes short term gains, while mortgaging our future.

Just drop the pretension.

Edit: maybe I'm schizo-ranting, but in my opinion, this is a very sober/hyperconscious perspective, that should be had by everyone. Not this Plato's Cave bs, that we live in a 'free democracy' where nobody questions status quo, except a minority of right-left non-npc people.


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