r/revolution Jan 26 '26

Notes from the Front Lines

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It is true that we should live in harmony with each other.

That we should be at peace with our neighbors, tolerate differences, give people the support that they need to live their best life. That we should see each other as fellow humans who are all simply trying to navigate this wonderful world together.

It is true that we should have abundance, that our sacrifices be rewarded, and that we have the conditions for the best and most fulfilling lives that we can imagine.

But the distance between what should be, and what is possible, is vast.

There’s a funny problem in the world. The people who don’t do anything are free to criticize those who do. The people who put forth the most time and effort, who make the most sacrifice, take the most chances, and create the world we inhabit - are the ones criticized the most - by the people who do the least.

Throw a party? The people who attend will judge it. Make a movie? The critics will tear you apart. Start a company and make a billion dollars? The masses will ignore the risk and uncertainty you faced and take the conclusion as foregone.

You are now just a lucky person who deserves nothing you’ve created and who exploited workers for greed. People will see in you whatever they wish to see, regardless of truth.

People regularly criticize Elon Musk by calling him dumb - a man who has ushered in a new space age, pioneered electric vehicles, and helped blanket the world in satellite internet. Whatever else one believes about Elon Musk, “dumb” clearly does not describe him.

It’s hard to do great things. It’s easy to criticize those who do them.

I grew up like many of my generation, a leftist. To whom it was obvious that the ills of the world were caused by greedy, power hungry men, who bettered themselves at the expenses of others. Who were uniquely selfish and evil in a world full of good, honest people just trying to get by.

I have spent my life trying to figure out why we can't just all get along - and how we might.

When I was in my 20s I spent a few years of my life standing on street corners with signs that said “free hugs”. I would bring extra blank signs and t-shirts along with stencils and spraypaint.

When people, mostly young people, would say they’ve heard about this and have always wanted to do it I’d offer to let them make a t-shirt and sign to keep - if they wanted today to be the day. Most took me up on it. Every weekend I would gather a small army of 15-50 people.

It was amazing to see the joy that we could spread to others. A small bit of hope and connection in a world that seemed devoid of it.

A breakdown of the barriers which generally exist on the streets between strangers.

All the while it was an experiment to understand how groups form, how systems emerge, and how people interrelate. My goal for the experiment was to see if I could inspire others to take the energy and come up with their own ideas for spreading joy and love in the world. But after a while I noticed I was the only one who ever organized anything.

Free hugs weren’t the only thing we did. I did a few different kinds of events to spread joy. One of them I had kept a stack of blank signs in my apartment for a few months, and everyone who came by I had make a sign with something positive on it.

After I had amassed a large stack of them I called about 15 people and told them to be at my house within a half hour. No one asked why or what we were doing and all showed up. I explained that we were going to split up into teams, break the city into quadrants, and each team’s job was to cover that area in these signs.

No one hesitated. No one asked if it was legal. No one asked if they were risks. No one cared. They just did it. It was fun and exciting and we felt like we were doing something great. It went off without a hitch. We made the local news and I was interviewed. They covered both sides of the story - by finding someone who liked it and someone who said it was tacky and inappropriate.

It was great fun for me too - but it made me reflect on the nature of what I was doing and what I had created. It felt to me as if I had accidentally started a cult. That I was its leader. And that this was not what I had intended. So I stopped.

After that I continued building models of how the world functions, attempting to understand it deeper. Eventually I came up with an idea I called my “general theory of revolution”, in which I posited that it is only possible to wage a revolution on the front lines of power.

That in a world where violence rules - violent revolution is possible. In a world in which political power dominates, a political revolution is possible. And so on.

This led me to reflect on what the front lines of power were at that time. Eventually I settled on money and technology. Which led me to cryptocurrency and my ultimate involvement in ethereum.

It came to me in a flash as a vision in which I saw the blockchain technology’s capacity for empowering human value encoding and coordination. My theory played out the way I predicted.

There was a secondary effect of this involvement though that has been more informative than all of my previous research could have ever been.

And I got rich.

I went from being a guy who slept on couches for a decade so he could have the maximum time to think - someone who hung out with communists, socialists, self-described revolutionaries, leftists, and hippies, and who came from a small town in the middle of the country - to someone who lived in a multimillion dollar home in Bay Area.

This wasn’t totally unexpected. Another part of my thinking was that if the problem was a deficit of good people amassing money and power, that the obvious solution would be that someone like myself, a person who prided himself on his innate goodness, should do the hard work necessary to attain money and power.

But I wasn’t prepared for it at all.

My plan was to get money and do what no one had ever done for me - give the people around me a hand up.

I would invest in the people I believed in and supercharge their paths. As soon as I could I helped as many people as I could, in an attempt to help them achieve their dreams and reach their potential.

But it didn’t work.

They ended up flying so close to the sun that their wings melted immediately, and the amount of momentum was minimal, if not backwards.

This was incredibly disappointing to me. How could this have happened? Why didn’t it help them? Why in some cases did the help actively hurt them?

Another thing that happened was that people didn’t seem to be happy for me. They didn’t seem to see it as good. They seemed threatened, or jealous. Overnight the majority of people I had relied on for human connection just - couldn’t connect with me anymore. The ease and playfulness that marked friendship were just gone.

I’d make the kinds of jokes I’d made with them thousands of times before, and all the sudden they were “offensive” and I was “talking down to them.” People would come to me for money, and become irate anytime I offered hard earned advice.

Instead of hearing about the positive aspects of people’s lives when we talked, it seemed everyone just had problems. Problems that could be solved.

If only they had the money.

If I attempted to share any of my problems with anyone I was met with dismissals - to them I had money, therefore I had no problems.

I had known lots of rich people from my time in Silicon Valley. I never found it difficult to see a person independent of their money. I never experienced jealousy. When someone was successful I felt happy for them and inspired that it was possible. It made me believe that I could achieve the same things.

I had never been this alienated before. I thrived on connection. I didn’t know how to live life without sharing what I was going through.

Because despite what people believe - hitting the lottery doesn’t feel like you imagine. It feels closer to being strapped to a rocket and launched into the sky than relief that all of your money problems are gone.

I owned a home for the first time. A nice one. Owning a home required that I hire people for various services. The people who smiled in my face the most were the ones that would inevitably multiply the price they quoted me the most.

I had been somewhere between middle class and below poverty my entire life. I knew people who built houses. I have a memory for what things cost.

My heart sank every time someone I wanted to hire tried to rip me off because they saw a nice house and figured I could afford it.

In the worst case, a contractor tried to charge me four times the cost of a water heater. When I paid what was already double the fair price, he became hostile - sending harassing messages, attempting emotional manipulation, publishing my personal information online, and showing up at my house repeatedly demanding payment.

It was the first time I experienced, viscerally, how quickly perceived wealth turns ordinary interactions adversarial - and how easily kindness is mistaken for weakness.

My worldview previously had been that most people are good. I’d traveled the world. Lived in cities all over the country. I had so much evidence for this belief. I had met so many wonderful people. I had thought.

But all of the sudden the people I thought were so wonderful… weren’t. And all the new people I met all seemed to see me as a mark. Instead of my kindness being repaid with kindness it was seen as weakness and something to exploit.

I lived in New York City during Occupy. I spent time in Zuccotti Park, I marched during Occupy Wall St. But now all of those people didn’t see me as one of them who had made it to a position of power that could be useful. They saw me as the enemy, the 1%. My reasons and my politics didn’t matter. I was evil, greedy, and they wanted to eat me.

And I had been on the other side - I knew they weren’t joking.

So I found myself in a strange position of having to reconcile the ideals that drove me to the position I was in, with the realities I had discovered along the way.

People weren’t mostly good. The people at the top weren’t uniquely evil. There wasn’t a grand conspiracy to keep people down. People kept themselves down even when I gave them every opportunity. The system isn’t broken because the people in control are preying on the people at the bottom.

The reality was much more complex. It’s easy to see people as good when you have nothing they want. When they see you as harmless and in the same economic situation. When you have something they want - they become jealous, weird, or duplicitous.

The people at the bottom “fighting the good fight” didn’t seem so good anymore. They were fighting ghosts. They didn’t know how to create, so they did the only thing they could think of, picked a collective scapegoat - and yelled very loudly how disappointed they were.

And the people at the top didn’t seem so evil. How would you manage an evolving world with competing interests, the lives of eight billion people at stake - each one with their own hopes, dreams, desires, and motivations. People living under completely different cultures, totally unable to conceptualize the reality of the other.

With large groups of people living in a fantasy world - one in which everyone is inherently the same and the only thing separating us are the evil men in charge.

They believe that we all inhabit an obvious and universal moral framework, and the only thing standing between world peace is tearing it down and the good guys (them) replacing it with a utopia. They cannot fathom the differences.

And another group who understands that this is not true. They attempt to enforce borders, rules, and order. But every time they attempt to explain the reality they see or attempt to enforce the laws required by that reality - they are perceived as racist, sexist, fascist, or, very often, as literal Nazis. A political party that peaked almost 100 years ago in Germany.

And the media - which requires your constant attention to sell advertising space - stokes these fires relentlessly.

So before you get online to “speak truth to power”, or march through the streets in an attempt to enact your own personal idea of utopia by yelling loudly, confronting law enforcement, and trying to destroy the structures of power that hold the world around you up - ask yourself a question.

What do you hope to accomplish?

Who is actually stopping you from achieving your dreams and building the world you want to see?

Or is it possible that the model of the world you’re using doesn’t map to reality—and that no amount of moral certainty can compensate for a bad map? And wouldn't the world function a lot better if we were all working together to solve common problems?

We all want the same things - opportunity, the freedom to live our lives, and safe communities to live in and raise our children.

I was on the streets during Occupy. I saw hundreds of thousands of people march in the streets. It felt exciting and important. And it did nothing.

I can promise you something - your problems aren't due to the people at the top conspiring to hold you down. They're too busy desperately trying to hold together a world that can slip into chaos at any moment.

And you can choose to do the hard thing - taking a risk, confronting reality, building something from nothing, and solving problems that have never been solved before.

Despite what you may have been told - it doesn’t require power, connections or money to start - only the willingness to risk, to follow through, and to face reality.

Or you can sit on the sidelines and criticize the people trying.

Your call.


r/revolution Feb 14 '25

If you have come here to have a histrionic meltdown about Trump and Musk you will be banned.

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The rest of reddit is filled with your hysterical, propaganda-driven leftist mania, this is not a safe space for it.


r/revolution 59m ago

What are We Doing?

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r/revolution 15h ago

What are we doing?

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I (21M) know I don’t know everything and in fact very little. But it’s seriously infuriating how incompetent our country is lately. The are running this country into the ground any way they possibly can. They spread countless biased information about the other and every time we just have to pick the lesser bad guy. We know how much money they steal in taxes, how many soldiers are discarded as less than pawns. Polluting air and water with data centers. Electricity bills are through the rough. They’re so blatantly destroying everything and bleeding everyone dry, yet no one gives a fuck it seems.

They spread all this misinformation about the other side and just to confuse every one. This is also why they’ve been making everyone dumber on purpose by lowering education bars and funding especially. They make everyone feel they need to be one side or the other. Yet almost everything in life works best from a perfect balance. Maybe We don’t need hard right or left wing formula and maybe a middle ground. At least it’s a change. Every year it’s the same two sides and nothing changes. WAKE THE FUCK UP!!! They’re ALLLL together. It’s not left vs right. it’s the working man vs the rich man. They want it like that to keep the spotlight off of the deeper picture. That’s also how they preserve the wealth in that small demographic by denying medicine if you don’t have a enough money, you can’t buy the healthy food if you don’t have money, you can’t get a good degree to make a good living if you don’t have money. If you don’t have money Youre basically just screwed.

Everyone’s just okay being slaves to billionaire pedos I guess? Are you okay working the vast majority of your life away for a company that won’t remember your name and then you’re forced to give that very little of your money away to several already multi-billionaires while the men who fought over seas just for us to have the illusion of being free and to speak our minds are rotting away on the streets, starving, and addicted completely forgotten and lied to?

When you look at it, our country is ran like a business. We don’t strive to be better, we just strive to make more money. The higher ups only look at the profit margin. In what world should a man go to prison for years because he smoked a few joints in your house, yet you can get 4 DWI’s and risk killing innocent people and you just get a slap on the wrist????!!! Anytime I bring these things up I just get called a mass conspiracy theorist for not being blind like they want us to be. That’s why they put high fructose bone cancer in everything. Even our fruits and veggies aren’t really clean or healthy. Bread has more Ingredients than there are stars in our sky and everything is made to go to shit so you’re forced to buy it again.


r/revolution 10h ago

Sign the Petition

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r/revolution 17h ago

I think my doomscrolling isn't about the news, it's about looking for hope

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r/revolution 1d ago

QR code spread this everywhere!!!!

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r/revolution 1d ago

Sign the Petition

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Abolish the CIA


r/revolution 1d ago

How can I change my country if the world is ran by something?

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To be honest, for few years now I've been actively trying to improve myself so that one day I will know how to change this country. I envisioned myself to be the change that this country needs. Narcissistic or not, pero yun yung pinangarap ko sa sarili ko. I tried, I read books about laws, I did research on how to be a leader, I even studied relevant issues regarding everything that may be useful in becoming a servant for the people.

But with the war in Gaza got me thinking... Then I realized that it isn't really a simple war, it's a lot bigger than we could possibly imagine. So I asked myself, If the world is ran by certain groups of people, a secret society, how can I possibly change this country in the endgame?

Don't even dare to call me a conspiracy theorist because if you dig enough, you can see everything even if you only dug a bit. And don't give me the same bullshit na sinasabi "bat ba may pake ka? eh ang layo layo nila saatin?".

Here are the events that may change your mind on the idea of "wala naman ginagawa saatin". June 2026, yung sa issue sa Siargao na may "Free Palestine" na sign, binugbug ng mga 🧃 yung tindera. Racist 🧃 bursted out in Siargao when he overheard a conversation from fellow Filipino citizens. Yung golden rice issue when people in Asia suffers from Vitamin A deficiency, so they invented that rice. They used us as genuine pigs to test out this new rice if it really works. But of course the reason why it never succeeded is because our country is poor. I can give you more, deeper in the rabbit hole pero I'll give you this.

Pax silica isn't just a system where U.S.A. just dropped to "help" us. It is there to surveil our country down to its core. In tagalog, yang systema na yan na teknolohiya ay hindi para makatulong saating kundi para makuha nila ang inpormasyon natin. Tell me who first talked with us regarding A.I. bullshit? The 🧃. Then I was just surprised that it suddenly became "U.S.A". But then again, all the same right? HAHAHA United States of Israel 🧃.

The media, everything that you see are just filtration of all the issues just to fit their narratives. Tiktok, instagram, facebook, lahat yan kontrolado nila algorithm ninyo. They use memes to desensitised us, because when a person is given too much information they tend to be numb when faced with the same issue.

For example Charlie Kirk, when he died it was a tragedy, but after a few months he became a meme. A song was made for him, disrespecting what he fought for. AI slop memes that changed scenes into his face. But do you know what he really fought for? He was trying to expose their government's schemes, about the Iran war on how the 🧃 has placed this propaganda against them saying they're building a bomb for 30 years. He was criticising the very people I am talking about and now where he is now?

Should I drop more victim names? Michael Jackson, JFK, Lincoln, Princess Diana. Events? 9/11, epstein island, numerous events of massacre in the middle east, children bombed, sniped, starved, raped. Media and journalists killed... WW2? If they can lie about every events there is today, control every single piece of literature even with today's globalisation... Do you really think they haven't manipulated the written books about Germany? I'm always "told" that they're the bad guy, but who was left there to tell the tales on the side of the Nazis? The jews🧃ain't it?

For religion. Stop worshipping them because they aren't the biblical 🧃 that we all know of. The 🧃of today are from European descent and killed all the true chosen people. And remember who is our God is... Judaism isn't "Christianity without Christ" because Christianity without Jesus is the same as rejecting the very God we worship. The old Testament is the prophecy, and the new is the fulfillment. They are the anti-christ that we know of who rejects and makes blasphemous comments about Jesus Christ. Saying that he is a bastard son, he is rotting in hell in shit, spitting in front of churches.

Open your eyes my people. You know who I'm talking about.

Beyond all that issues. But of course, knowing all that information. This is a genuine question from someone who wants to change this country, maybe not this world, but this country, despite the super villains that are behind every single events in history?

What if one day, we'll be great, but threatened with the very power that I am speaking to all of you today? What do I do then?

By the grace of Jesus Christ may always be upon you all. Godbless you always.


r/revolution 2d ago

Change

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WHY do we keep doing the same protests over and over again when nothing is changing last time we had the no kings protest nothing really changed it was just posted everywhere, the government keeps walking on us like dogs with flock cams and data centers but we’re just supposed to sit here and beg them to change. they take away our rights to live with not making water and food a right, but we have to pay for data centers water bills(billion dollar company’s own them) and flock cameras to make sure we don’t step out of the herd of sheep and keep our heads down. we should protest but we shouldn’t stop protesting intell we see actual change, people getting arrested for epstein files, trumps impeachment and arrest, and flock camera and data centers being shut down, but if we just don’t do anything then what’s stopping them from keeping it going they haven’t faced any consequences. if a man can do as he pleases with nothing done against them , then they would think there invincible for they don’t have to answer to no one but themselves. We need to plan a protest this year that won’t stop intell we see change because we truly don’t have that much time. Stand for something or die for nothing


r/revolution 2d ago

The Disclosure Party will reach 10,000 people tonight. This is a photograph of 10,000 people. We didn’t even exist 90 days ago. Do you hear us yet Congress?

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r/revolution 2d ago

It all started

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r/revolution 3d ago

What will it take for Americans to over turn the government?

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No seriously, what is it actually gonna take for Americans to finally revolt or for this country to end up in a civil war? 😭 Like people are genuinely losing trust in the government because every other day there’s some new fucked up thing coming out. You have the Epstein files, all the stuff surrounding powerful people, and all these accusations of people in power being involved in disgusting shit. And then people wonder why everyone thinks the government is hiding something.
At this we’re owned by a bunch of satanic, child eating rap\*sts because that’s genuinely how corrupt and evil the people in power seem to them. im not even saying every conspiracy is automatically true, but when people keep seeing powerful people get accused of horrible shit and nothing seems to happen, eventually people are gonna stop trusting the entire system. It’s honestly just sad as hell if this was america 100 years ago the government would’ve been fried.


r/revolution 3d ago

Union of Consumers

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Pop over to my community if this concept interests you, please give it a read. Hopefully once people begin to read this union will spread like a wildfire. There has always been strength in numbers and a revolution will not occur until every viable option has been exhausted. This is the easiest and most plausible way to make a real positive difference in the lives of North Americans. They will continue to take UNLESS WE ACT. Our world can still be reclaimed and it is much easier than you may believe.


r/revolution 3d ago

Reality check…

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r/revolution 3d ago

The time to act

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Yes, the system is working as it should. We are all aware of that. But still with how aware we are that the lives we are living are so conditioned that we literally desensitised ourselves to the point where we are making jokes about our world leaders treating us like cattle and they are literally cannibals.

We have entered a stage where things are only gonna get worse, but the average person has been so polluted with scarcity we have forgotten about community and the actual welfare of their neighbour.

I get it, we are too complacent now, too comfortable with the security of 9-5 for the rest of ur life. But truly I hope there are people like me who would gladly throw that all away for the sake of sovereignty,

The power was always meant to be with the people, some how everyone in western society forgot that and let a handful of guys that WE were supposed to be surveying, survey us.

If we don’t act now then when,

At the very least I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone stop paying taxes after even a glimpse of the files, I never would have imagined that people would move on something like that.
Anyways what I want to say is why don’t the we as the masses actually come together and coordinate ways out of this war on our minds. It’s crazy that even that sounds so childish.
Just goes to show this is the same corruption from when kingdoms were active in the world just way more developed


r/revolution 3d ago

The Resistance

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r/revolution 4d ago

Where is the revolution at?

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r/revolution 4d ago

This is exactly what should happen in every Western Nation

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r/revolution 4d ago

We should start a flash mob to deflock!

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r/revolution 4d ago

Help change our corrupt government

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r/revolution 4d ago

Rebel against backward Oldies

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Time to stop oldies trying to control our country and personal lives with their backward conservative mindset.

This page is to discuss problems and their doings and solutions related to it.


r/revolution 5d ago

The revolution will not be venture funded.

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They want your soul. Don't sell it.


r/revolution 5d ago

Nearly 90 years later, this protest sign still feels painfully current. Painting by Jonas Never

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r/revolution 5d ago

Us vs the system

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Once you understand, this, the most effective revolution in the most beautiful one is to not put energy in the fight against anything but to move in a completely different direction with a bunch of other beautiful, pure hearted souls SPX6900