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Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] John McAfee and the cyber party - Is not voting still more meaningful? probably
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Amir Taaki:
> We need a radical people's movement, and any election platform
> should be a slave to this movement guided by it's radical policies
> focusing on local elections geared towards establishing autonomy
> village by village, town by town, city by city. This is the program
> of Bookchin from "Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview". This is
> the strategy used by Kurds in South-East Turkey now where the PKK
> practically controls the municipalities of the main cities there.
> Elections are not a goal in itself, nor should we focus on any
> "right policies" except devolution of power to a confederalist
> system aiming for eventual self-determination and autonomy of all
> peoples.
>
> veleiro:
>> Last week, John McAfee announced his candidacy for the 2016 God
>> Emperor of the United States under the new wing of the "Cyber
>> party". Ive always liked him for the aged hacker that he is, but
>> I never expected that he would want to play their irrelevant
>> power games of faux politics.
>>
>> Heres a recent CNN Money interview:
>> http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/13/technology/john-mcafee-president/inde

x.html?section=money_latest
>>
>>
>>

Im just wondering if this is either some kind of play of his own on the
>> system, if he is just bored to death after being out of the
>> spotlight, or if he really believes that his candidacy will
>> succeed. I could see that when he says "I am convinced 100% that
>> I will win" he means essentially winning is being heard, due to
>> the ripple effect. Im pretty sure he would rather not have any
>> government, but its strange to see him invest a lot of money and
>> effort into that which is unfavorable to cyberspace.
>>
>> If he got even an unlikely 40% of the vote, would that really
>> make a huge impact? I dont understand whats expected to be
>> accomplished. 40% more nonvotes would still be much more
>> meaningful. We need to undo more than do. Yet, one of the few
>> subjects in common on everyone's mind is who their next
>> metamaster will be, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, * Bush? Ive
>> lost all faith in that they will choose more radical and
>> experimental lifestyle forks in favor of culture, nostalgia, and
>> fear. For instance, the first subject that comes up in his
>> candidacy is murder charges and dui charges. How much does that
>> weigh in the public opinion against his platform of privacy.
>> freedom, and technology? According to the Ross example, the
>> scales are already tipped with that.
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