The state doesn't protect you from violence, the state IS institutionalized violence. #memes

The biggest fraud is taxation itself. The state has made you a free range slave and convinced you it's neccesary. The services they provide do not justify what they steal from you. It's a con job designed to extract wealth from you and give it to the ruling class. #politics

Government contracts and welfare programs will always be rife with massive amounts of fraud. So much stolen money is coming in via taxation and money printing that the Government as a whole could care less if a % of the money they have stolen from us is then stolen from them. On a more granular level, government employees don't have the same incentive to care about catching fraud that a private organization's employees have. It's not like the Government will go out of business if they aren't vigilant about catching fraud. It's not their money, and they will get a paycheck regardless. Also, a lot of the time the employees are in on some fraud themselves. #politics #news

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The people who keep saying the Samourai devs were "asking for it" because of some tweets they made in the past are using the same logic as someone who claims a rape victim deserved what they got because they wore revealing clothes. No one deserves to get kidnapped, bankrupted, and put in a cage for writing code to help protect privacy. It really doesn't matter what they did or didn't say in the past. The only people that deserve to be in a cage are the criminals who refer to themselves as the state who love to destroy people's lives for imaginary crimes with no victims. if there was no victim, there is no crime. #FreeSamourai

Being a "law abiding citizen" isn't a good thing. It means you care more about words on a piece of paper written by corrupt politicians than morality. It means you are not to be trusted. It means you can't think for yourself.

Pray for the many souls who are spending Christmas in prison instead of with their families because a state says they committed a victimless crime. I say if there was no victim, there is no crime. That should be obvious to society. #FreeSamourai

Break out of multiple choice mentality, stop voting for Democrats or Republicans, and learn to think for yourself. Having a choice between two slave masters doesn't mean you are free. #politics #anarchism #voluntaryism

Axon is now building police body cameras with built in automatic facial recognition. Walk by a cop, get scanned. They built these despite their own ethics board advising against it. If your profit is dependant on creating a Orwellian dystopia, maybe you should consider other ways to make money. There are a few local jurisdictions in the United States that ban facial recognition, but outside of those cities, we will probably see this spreading soon. It needs to be stopped.

Are hashtags cringe on Nostr like they are elsewhere, or are they considered acceptable to aid in discoverability? #asknostr

Everytime we swap a decentralized permissionless cryptocurrency into a dollar stablecoin backed by US Treasuries such as USDC or USDT, we are helping to fund violence and oppression. Stop and think about this the next time you swap. I am personally going to try to use USDC less and do whatever I can to work towards a world in which lots of people opt out of the dollar in all it's forms. I want to see merchants who accept BTC or XMR, and then keep it instead of converting it into dollars or stables. The power of the ruling class is in the money, that money is backed by nothing except people's trust in it. If the people wanted to, they could pull the rug out from the oppressors by simply opting out of the dollar en masse. This was never possible before Bitcoin, gold was an option but it is too hard to verify, divide, and transfer. Now we also have Monero, which has all the power of Bitcoin plus fungibility and scalability. For the first time since the creation of state money, the power is in the people's hands, we just have to use it. #bitcoin #monero #countereconomics #optout #stablecoins

Wtf is this bullshit I just want to send someone ten cents.

During the American Revolution even the most ignorant peasants understood that someone taking their money from them without their consent was unacceptable. Now most people accept the state taking 40-60% of our money through taxation (add inflation and it gets worse) and using that money in ways we never consented to, such as funding wars and sending our money overseas. It also funds such wonderful things as illegal government surveillance, imprisoning people for having the wrong plants, and poisoning people with experimental vaccines. The colonists revolted over a tiny tax by today's standards, meanwhile we are practically enslaved and we just roll over and let the state fuck us in the ass with no lube as they whisper some bullshit about a "social contract " that you are supposedly bound to based solely on where you were born. You are not even allowed to exit this contract, if you leave the country you still have to pay taxes no matter where you reside. Only one other country (although a third will be soon, France I think) does this. Take a moment and think about how fucked up it is that you have to work to fund evil instead of funding your own family. Some idiot in the peanut gallery is going to say it's not enslavement because we elect representatives who then decide what the funds are used for. To that I will say, the majority of those who actually vote pick representatives who never represent their actual interests and instead lie their faces off to get elected. After election they proceed to serve the interests of corporations and the ruling class. In a representational democracy, the minority and those who don't vote have no input, and most voting Americans are quite literally stupid thanks to the horrible indoctrination camps known as public schools. So when you subtract non voters you have a minority of the total population choosing corrupt politicians based on feels who then spend our money on evil. There is no representation. It's all fake. It's a LARP designed to make you feel better about your enslavement. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #taxes #politics #taxation

US citizens and non citizens alike are being randomly kidnapped off the street by masked thugs and scanned with facial recognition. This is what a dystopia looks like. In the Supreme Court case of Bad Elk v. United States, the court made it clear that it was lawful to use force to resist an illegal arrest. Putting on a uniform doesn't give you the right to randomly kidnap people off the street based solely on the color of their skin. It probably wouldn't be a good idea, but it would be lawful to resist an illegal arrest by ICE agents with force. So when does a detention cross the line into an "arrest"? When it is prolonged, when a reasonable person would not feel free to go, when handcuffs or restraints are used. So when they snag a citizen with no evidence of a crime, put them in cuffs, and drive them to a different location before scanning their face, that feels like an arrest regardless of whether the citizen is released after the scan or not. If you are going by the actual law, and we know how much ICE and their supporters love talking about the law as if it is sacred, then it would be entirely legal to resist these illegal kidnappings with force. Unfortunately, the reality is the ruling class and their thugs don't actually respect the law, so resisting with force will probably end quite badly for the kidnapping victim. Best case they win at trial after a long and expensive ordeal. That would be a miracle because almost noone wins at trial in the Federal court system, which is just proof the entire Federal "justice" system is a Kafkaesque joke rigged against defendants in favor of the state. Now the final question is, if your rulers don't respect their own laws, why should you?

The state represents an existential threat to humanity. The number of times nuclear war has already almost occured as a direct result of state action is disturbing.

The state's main mechanism of control is money. They can close or freeze your bank account at any time if they don't like you or your speech. As more people realize this and exit their financial system, the power they have over us decreases greatly. Opt out. Use cash, Monero, Bitcoin, bartering, and gold. Develop or join circular economies within your local community. Buy your food directly from farmers not corporations. Countereconomics has more power to resist tyranny than trying to resist within the system with elections, ballot initiatives, petitions, and protests. There is no more time, the exits are closing, you need to get any wealth you do have outside of the system now and not later. Follow me and subscribe to my newsletter to learn all about opting out and protecting yourself and your loved ones from the technocratic surveillance state. #privacy #optout #monero #bitcoin

The latest issue of Thought Crime Trap House is out. Link is in my profile. Opt out of the system and find the latest in privacy and crypto news plus commentary from a voluntaryist perspective. Included in this issue: -How to subscribe to a VPN more privately? -What's going on with the Tuesday crypto pump? -Monero regains it's top spot from Zcash -New tool for sandboxing potentially sketchy attachments securely -Chat Control in EU news -Potential VPN ban in Wisconsin -Samourai devs sentencing -And more! https://paragraph.com/@thoughtcrimetraphouse/newsletter-december-3-2025

I live my life almost entirely outside of the system with the goal of interacting with the state and it's thugs as little as possible. -No drivers license/car (most encounters with the state occur during traffic stops) -No plane travel or border crossings (this sucks) -No bank account -Self employed -No Facebook or any social media under my real name -No property in my name -Cash and crypto for most transactions, prepaid debit cards for a few -No insurance in my name -No bills of any kind in my name There are some disadvantages to this kind of lifestyle, it's not for everyone (although the more of us that opt out the easier it gets for others to do so) but it is incredibly liberating. Opting out is the closest you can get to true freedom within our enslaved society. We need to build alternative systems and communities outside of the system to make opting out easier for people. No one should have to live as a slave if they don't want to.

On Saturday morning, someone posing as a delivery worker broke into a San Francisco home, tied up the homeowner, and stole 11 million in crypto. I don't think American crypto holders are ready for what's coming in terms of targeted theft/kidnapping/extortion using personal data leaked by both users themselves and companies with poor data handling (*cough coinbase *cough). You got people STILL posting shit like what city you live in, what car you drive, stuff about your kids, when you are on vacation, etc. Even little details can get you fucked. That's fine if you have say, less than 10k in crypto on transparent chains, you might be ok. Anything more than 10k is quite attractive for gangs of semi computer savvy youngins with no moral compass and no money to speak of. Especially with the economy going down the toilet and AI fixin' to drain all the job openings. Just don't be surprised if you ever find yourself getting your ass beat until you give up your keys. It has already started to happen in America and it's only going to get worse. It's never too late to start protecting yourself. Storing your wealth on privacy chains such as Monero or shielded Zcash where a rando with a block explorer can't track down your balances is a good start. Tax loss harvesting might be a good opportunity to rearrange your funds to be more private. Say you are underwater on an asset in a wallet linked to your name in some way. Sell the asset, write the loss off of your taxes, then redeploy the cash in a non kyced wallet by purchasing crypto p2p. Criminals will just see that you once had crypto, and you sold it. They aren't interested in your bank account $$$, they want crypto that can be sent out of your wallet and can't be clawed back. Something to think about. NFA #privacy #bitcoin #security

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An armed robber posing as a delivery worker invaded a San Francisco home, tied up the homeowner, and took the victim’s cellphone, laptop, and $11...

The New York Times and the ICIJ is trying to make money laundering in crypto look way worse than it is right as Congress is debating how to regulate non custodial services. #nokyc #privacy

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The ICIJ has published a series of articles on Bitcoin's use in money laundering, and it mainly operates from the premise that any transaction that...