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[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

It almost doesn’t matter whether someone calls themself a Nazi, a communist, or a nationalist. The structure of power has already been conceded. Once you accept the idea of a leader or a state with absolute authority over the individual, the labels become interchangeable.

If Hitler had woken up one day and decided that nationalization should be done in the name of the proletariat rather than the Volk, nothing in his system could have stopped him.
If Stalin had decided that class identity should be replaced with racial identity, nothing in his system could have stopped him either.

Because once you erase individual rights, the borders between ideologies dissolve. The dictator’s whim becomes the law. The ideology just becomes the aesthetic justification for power.

The real issue isn’t:

• Nazi or Communist
• Right or Left
• Nationalist or Internationalist

The real issue is:

Is the individual protected from the state, or is the state allowed to rule the individual?

If the state outranks the person, you have already accepted the principle that made both Hitler and Stalin possible. You have already surrendered the only safeguard that prevents atrocities.

This is why debating labels is a distraction.

The danger is not the branding.
The danger is the concentration of power.

Once a system allows a government or ruler to override individual rights, everything else is decoration.

The only real defense against tyranny is the recognition that:

No person, no party, and no nation has the right to own the life of an individual.

At that point, it doesn’t matter what color the flag is.

[Poloniex Exchange @Poloniex]

17 years ago today, Satoshi released the #Bitcoin whitepaper.

What a legend! 🙌

[edmanikas @edmanikas]

Amazing work!!!

[Elena Tsourdi @elena_tsourdi]

https://t.co/djWXVy3CsB We investigated the effects of vitamin D3, omega 3 fatty acids & exercise on serum levels of sclerostin and bone turnover markers in a randomized control trial of healthy active elderly individuals in 5 European countries-results of the DOHEALTH trial

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

✨ 12 years ago today, Hal Finney made his final post on the #Bitcoin forum before logging off forever

Gone but not forgotten 🧡

[edmanikas @edmanikas]

@elonmusk

[edmanikas @edmanikas]

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