And violent rebellion when all else fails. That's what the founding fathers intended with the second amendment. The problem is times have changed a great deal in the last 300 years. In the late 1700s, every citizen was armed, and with the same weapons technology as any government army troop - the musket. That's simply no longer the case in the twenty first century. A relatively small percentage of the population is armed now, and NO citizen can come anywhere near matching the firepower at the government's disposal. Attack helis, fighter jets,  tanks, napalm bombs, and so on.

The harsh reality is that if our government decided to become hyper-tyranical tomorrow,  there isn't a damn thing Johnny Gun-nut could do to stop them other than throw his life away for the cause. And that sacrifice would be in vain unless there were witnesses who brought it to media/net attention.

In the gunpowder age, our best defense against tyranny WAS a well armed populace.
Our greatest weapon against tyranny in the information age isn't a gun, it's information. It's the internet,  it's the cameras in our cell phones and the speed of information. Truth is a far more powerful ally to liberty today than bullets ever were. Keep that in mind if you want to be taken seriously by anyone when debating this issue.

TL;DR the second amendment is obsolete. Sorry, fellow Americunts, but that's reality.

My sincere apologies if I hurt your feelings. I can be a little blunt sometimes, and other times a downright asshole. It's a flaw, I'm human after all. But seriously, ifyyou're that thin-skinned, an adult Internet forum might be the wrong place for you. I've heard Christian forums set up for children are much less tolerant of meanies like me.

I might be more polite when you stop being a hypocrite. And you replied anyway.

I regard all my fellow non-millionaires as the peasants we are. If this bothers you it's because you've been Indoctrinated into a politics that serves the Interests of your masters, like all the other temporarily embarrassed millionaire peasants. If it doesn't bother you, good for you. But you're still a brainwashed
Disenfranchised peasant.

But you're right about copyright/patent. Technology will be the death of them, just as the rapidly developing compassion-politics of the information age will spell the end of capitalism.

Those rules are excellent at serving the interests of the rich fucks that make the rules.

You think the rules are made for your benefit,  peasant?  You probably believe in the legitimacy of modern "representative" democracy,  too. The one where the reps are all millionaires and billionaires and those being "represented" are overwhelmingly poor and middle caste.

It's going to be about your intellectual cowardice and disdain for open discourse.

And about how capitalism is a living nightmare for billions of human beings,  and a torture + death sentence for hundreds of millions of children who starve each year. And anything else I feel like educating you privileged fuckwits about.

The same thing I did yesterday and the day before. HODLED!

Potential? Try 60-80 million usd per coin. But that's probably 20+ years off still.

If there was some cosmic force affecting probability in extreme cases,  we'd know it by now. This is classic pseudoscience.

Continue holding. Like a boss.

Conveniently ignoring the fact that our capitalist corporate elite have been fighting tooth and nail to debase the internet for the last decade..

Not zombies,  X-men. Because only a fictional speed-mutant could be fast enough to walk into a bullet. I for one think we should support our hyper-militarized, poorly trained, low IQ police force in their just and righteous war against our mutant oppressors.

"just doing our jobs" was the Nurembeg defense. It failed.

OWS = a tremor before an earthquake.

This is the major difference that some people in this thread seem to be missing. Tomorrow the FED could decide to print 100 million dollar bills and effectively rob the wealth of all holders of dollars worldwide via massive inflation of the supply of dollars.

Bitcoin makes that an impossibility,  it represents a true democratization of money,  and that property is extremely valuable - I would argue priceless - to every human being not in control of fiat printing press.

It's worth having a poorly distributed wealth concentration if it means we get A global money supply with democracy baked into the code as eternal law. We can and will solve the inequality problem later.  Got to cross that bridge when we come to it, mass global adoption.

Each day we allow governments to continue having nuclear warheads ready to launch against civilian populations we reaffirm our insanity and powerlessness against state violence.

The only ones voting no here should be corporations.

Hell no, we hijacked this thread fair and square. You cannot simply steal it back from us!

Also capitalism sucks the cheese from a goat's ballsack.

You got that backwards. The police are supposed to protect and serve,  follow due process of law, and escalate to lethal force ONLY when they or other bystanders are in mortal danger.

A criminal should expect to be treated exactly as the laws of the land say he should be. Unless that criminal is a black male in racist as fuck middle America,  in which case he should regard police as enemy combatants. Kill them before they kill you.

Yes, it's also one of the reasons the modern world makes us so miserable.  The loss of once ubiquitous platonic affection (non-sexual contact), which all primates are hard-wired for, causes a great deal of suffering for modern people. It's worse for men, because of the fragility of western masculinity.

Not because capitalism is the worst, although it is pretty awful. But because civilization socially evolves over time. Barbarism -> slavery -> feudalism -> capitalism -> whatever comes next.

I have absolutely no doubt that our grandchildren will inhabit a kinder, more compassionate world than we do. Barring any apocalypse scenario.