@jonathancolton
The earliest American meme was a chopped-up snake. Eight pieces. One choice. Join, or Die.
Ben Franklin published it in 1754 when the colonies were fragmented. The snake made it clear: fragmented = dead, unified = alive.
Web3 is living in the same moment. We're building sufficiently decentralized systems on centralized foundations. And calling it revolutionary.
We need champions like Brian Armstrong and Jesse Pollak, who are fighting for the CLARITY Act while building Coinbase, Base, and the Base App.
Training wheels aren't the problem. Forgetting they're training wheels is. This isn't about purity. It's about direction. Are we building toward trustlessness, or is Web2.5 the permanent state? Stepping stones or final form?
Institutions don't maintain power through force. They retain it through defaults.
$join.or.die isn't a coin. It's a choice about trajectory. Franklin's snake worked because you couldn't ignore it. This is the same. A mirror showing which direction we're actually moving. The snake is chopped. The choice is binary. Join, or Die.
đ $join.or.die
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Read and sign the https://trustlessness.eth.limo/general/2025/11/11/the-trustless-manifesto.html
Read: https://paragraph.com/@jonathancolton.eth/five-days-between-warning-and-proof
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