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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reacts-musk-epstein-files-2082274

What the fuck? https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-term-constitution-22nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578

Do you dislike a Republican form of government or just describing the death of the American Republic?

Anonymous speech has long been a US tradition. Alexander Hamilton wrote most of the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym, Plubius. The Bill of Rights was adopted because a group of anonymous writers wrote about the dangers of a central government. The first Amendment to the Constitution of The United States of America reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." This is the essence of freedom folks. Legal immigrants are being deported for asserting..."the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." What the fuck? Anonymous speech is important. It's not just about LARPing anymore. People in the United States of America are being arrested for speech. That's unbelievable. First they came for the Tornado Cash deveopers and I did not speak out-- Because I was not an etherereum user. Then they came for the Samourai Developers and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a privacy advocate. Then they came for the Legal immigrants... This is not TDS. It is about the freedom of speech. It's about the Bill of Rights and the tendency of executive power growing more and more after each administration. If our government will not grant our right to free speech, then we must speak anonymously. That's what makes #nostr so special. No emails. No phone number. No KYC. No getting to the El Salvadorian Gulag for writing. "If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to." Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto The freedom of speech is fundamental to an open society. Those of us who wish to have an open society NGMI on corporate platforms. Anonymous speech on a public protocol like nostr is a way to keep privacy, while maintaining the power of "...freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

In the 1990's, many of my Republican scout leaders would say, although Hitler was a monster, he did a lot of positive things for Germany like the Autobaun and Volkswagen. I find myself thinking about this more and more. Many of the executive orders benefit me and my family. I support many policies like cutting government spending. I was a big fan of the bipartisan balanced budget in the 90's and think the national debt is the biggest threat to the dollar. I think the cuts are necessary, but there is just one problem: I don't think the executive branch of government should have absolute power. I was too young to vote for Ross Perot, but loved his message about NAFTA sucking jobs away from America and I was a fan of George Bush's attempt at the privatized Social Security, but he did not sign an Executive Order to do it. It went by the wayside after 9/11. So did the 4th amendment along with many of our civil liberties. The rhetoric claims to support the 1st amendment because of religious freedom, but legal immigrants no longer enjoy the freedom of speech without the threat of deportation? It doesn't matter if El Salvador gets to stack $20k worth of sats for each prisoner- It is not a just law. The TikTok thing also bothers me. I don't use TikTok. I don't like the idea of giving my data to the Chinese government and I'm not a lawyer, but I disagree with the Supreme Court ruling on TikTok. I think code is speech, and TikTok writes code. Therefore this code should be protected by the first amendment. Nevertheless, I am having a difficult time understanding how a bill banning the app, signed into law by a sitting president( the fact that he was our enemy is a moot point), and upheld by the Supreme Court can be overturned by Executive Order for 75 days. Biden had an Executive Order that forgave student loans. The Supreme Court ruled it was unconditional. What if Biden signed an Executive Order saying 5% of student loans will be forgiven after the Supreme Court's decision? Would Republicans have been okay with this? I somehow doubt it. I wouldn't be okay with that either even though it would save me money. Dan Carlin released a political podcast about this a couple weeks ago. It's the first one in Three years. He's influenced my thoughts about Executive Orders for years so I tend to agree with historical political takes. https://fountain.fm/episode/nBjlZbNlOKGfCJCeL9GD Carlin says Trump is becoming autocratic. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, wrote letters warning against autocratic leaders. It makes sense, given that the root word of Republican is Republic. Backlinks No backlinks