- The communist Chinese poisoning me with a bioweapon

- Burning alive in a nationwide wave of arson across a hundred cities

- Rioters beating me to death because I took a wrong turn

- Corrupt federal police hitting me with military intelligence weapons made in the aftermath of the twin towers blowing up

- Dying in prison just because I'm not part of the club, whether or not if what I do is moral or lawful, makes everyone wealthy, or is just fun.

I fault no one for fighting back. Why take damage just to stay still? I fault no one for ambition and personal gain. Blue jays squawk and throw stones because they know what cats do to them. And it's really rich for Berkeley to say this. Burn down the city and beat people to death in the street. The next morning, write about what a good person they are. Completely forget about the people they've killed. It's an old racket and doesn't work. You die bitter. Pulitzer did the same exact thing.

I know that a lot of people here have fantasies about becoming one of those yada yada ya.... But it is not good. Our system where huge resources go to a self selecting elite and the rest of us are left with the crumbs is going nowhere good and I keep as far out of it as I can.

I do not want to live in a shack in the woods, so I have to engage a bit. But as much as possible and practical, I do not.

I've allowed politicians to get away with a lot of bullshit, but if they come after my PC and homelab, it's time to water the Tree of Liberty.

Yes, yes i'm sure if it wasn't for those greedy corporations we'd all have more time to run hedonistic treadmills, and our lives would be meaningful. what are you going to do about it, nerd?

so save your comments for reddit, and i'll save mine for /dev/null. maybe dang will pipe this one for me!

Renouncing my US citizenship too. This is all too disgusting.

It doesn't take resolve, only 100s of hours of learning and contemplation.

I'll die on this hill, and there's many more like me.

No, I won't live that way. No, I won't think that way. No, I won't become a mindless zombie, thinking only what your ideology says. No, I won't work to trap everyone else in society in the horror of your socialist "paradise".

No. Just no.

(I'd really like to say something much stronger, but it would be highly against site guidelines.)

Burn, loot, and murder your way to trillions. Now yell at your victims when you need their help. No thanks.

If you want authority, don't do this:

run an attack ad where plastic surgeons act like disease researchers

give a covid exemption to rioters

get caught doubling covid numbers in Florida

surrender without firing a shot

print yourself rich

Do you really want to do this? Lead America? Or do you just want to eat, steal, get high, hump each other, break things, and murder people?

You have no idea what runs through my head sometimes. No idea. If I ever decide to get "dirty", it won't be to your benefit, in any way whatsoever. If I can't obtain power fairly and rationally, I am very unlikely to use it fairly and rationally. I'll use it to screw you over and make myself and my allies rich on your suffering. That's what people with power do now, and I have observed it to be a successful stratagem so far.

The government is running out of opportunities to present arguments against the possibility of me forming or joining a rebellion composed of strange bedfellows. Every time it changes policy to become more hostile to traditional American ideals, it is prying another board off the portal to the abyss.

Don't tell me to stop watching the circuses and go join one. I'll just nail down the tent flaps and set the big top on fire.

If you don't want me to be a walking time bomb, stop tolerating blatantly unethical behavior in your government and your political parties. Now. For me, it is a beauty contest, and the loveliest of the pageant participants is, at best, a "4". And for some reason, the crown keeps getting taken by someone who is a "1" or a "2".

Perhaps I have just lived too long in places with notoriously corrupt government.

I have friends and acquaintances who fled, or stayed and had their eardrums blown out by flash-bangs at protests.

My friends' student was raped in prison for attempting to "take control against her own corrupt and bloodthirsty government", as you put it.

Where were you in 2020? What domains did Namecheap drop then at a week's notice?

Now you are preaching to the choir (i.e. the very "IT-shniki" whose support for your position was never even in doubt), and calling them too apathetic or too meek or too unworthy.

I get it: you see suffering, in your own ranks, you have power and you want to use that power to do good.

But please listen when we explain to you that you're revelling in scoring on your own net. This action hurts your own team and not the opposing one.

I hope other follow. Maybe they'll finally get off their couch, turn off breitbart, and actually do something positive and productive with their lives.

Addendum:

To the down-voters: I thought part of this 'movement' was to get rid of political correctness. So, please let me take advantage of my new found right to say what I really think - what many people have been secretly thinking but have been too polite to actually say. Let's put it all out on the table. Wasn't that one of the big motivations to begin with?

I no longer believe in pretending in the good faith of posters here on HN. This kind of anti-social clap-trap is dangerous and stupid.

I will do everything in my power to fight Wall Street, by which I mean I will help their candidate into the Whitehouse.

But there is no place to go. The global status quo has me trapped here as a prisoner. There will no escape, no relief, and no freedom. I am and shall always be a slave of some State; I can only pick my poison.

These words will ring true, for some, in every corner of the world. But by all means, continue to ignore, marginalize, and exploit us. That surely will end well.