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Timothy Burchett's avatar

You really see what's coming don't you? No government or person is coming to save us... They pre pardoned Fauci for genocide...

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Telling people to refuse digital ID is pointless in a scenario where there's no support structure for people who refuse. Can/UK/Aus all had large amounts of people lose employment and be put into very difficult situations. If there's one lesson that many people have learned is that opposing these mass agendas is often too costly to bear. How "free" is somebody without an income, digital ID notwithstanding? It seems that people are a lot more interested in pontificating about what they know and can see, rather than actually building support structures to resist tyranny. This is understandable considering how much the system discourages actually building meaningful connections.

Speaking as somebody on the younger end of the spectrum, I think people vastly underestimate the demands the 'freedom movement' puts on the youth that are already struggling with a very predatory economy with little sympathy much less support. So I'll ask again, what opportunities are we working on to help give people a place to retreat TO when digital ID starts becoming mandatory for employment or other necessities? It's important to remember it's not just the youth who are struggling, many older people are being effectively forced out of the workplace with age discrimination.

This isn't an attack on you, you've absolutely highlighted the actual solutions many times. I just want to caution against people thinking "well I won't get it, so I'll be fine." Institutions have a lot riding on the implementation of Digital ID (lots of serious cybersecurity issues have been left un-addressed to create a pretext for it) it's worth considering what capacity actually exists to resist before rushing to condemn people for their choices.

It also helps to be clear that digital ID isn't just a single thing. If Elon Musk truly does turn X into the "everything app" then all the people waiting to refuse a government digital ID while they've already KYC'd on X, will have been tricked into the same thing. Pardon the angry rant, but this has been well understood for years and there has been little to no meaningful movement on this front.

Edit: I have no patience for people who care more about sounding badass over the internet than taking what's at stake seriously.

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