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Politicians continue to support a war effort which has murdered millions in the ME, they continue to turn a blind eye to torture, and hold the innocent in jails without trial.

So yeah, all three groups are about as bad as each other.

Regulating something so that you may as well make it illegal isn't really the same as decriminalizing the activity. Countries with reasonable prostitution laws are tremendously safer for those turning tricks.

You're some saying it'll be different this time, and the only explanation you give is, 'communications' and 'electronic', and yet plenty of fiat currencies have collapses under such systems. Again, every fiat currency that has ever existed has collapsed, sure there are some new ones that haven't yet but to believe they won't is magical thinking.

Again gold, after thousands of years, is still being hoarded in vaults by every major and minor world power, you really need to review some history.

Having an open discussion about state surveillance is essentially impossible on hacker news given moderation policy, liberal use of banning, astro turfing and corresponding up and down voting and flagging that occurs. HN Mod policy is to claim they take such claims seriously but nothing changes and those who complain too loudly get banned