I wrote a hand written letter to my attorney general a couple years ago, "you can pry my money from my cold, dead hands," over them trying to collect on a fraudulent debt.
I openly have criticized our last four presidents on the internet, with my own identity, to the public.
I have been publicly openly against covid mandates and vaccines for years now.
I have donated money to Donald Trump.
And here I am. Not being held in a prison. I've gotten banned from a few websites, but I am still a free man.
Where we are sucks. Our economy is broken, our democracy is broken, and we have taken a *hard* authouritarian swing under an illegitimate president.
I'd still rather be here than in fucking China, any day. A million times over.
I can admit America is in a very bad, dark place, while also acknowledging that we are only taking a few plays from China's totalitarian book. We aren't there yet. But if things don't change, we will be before too long.