From the Intrusive Thoughts Wikipedia Page:

Many people experience the type of negative and uncomfortable thoughts that people with more intrusive thoughts experience, but most people can dismiss these thoughts.[7] For most people, intrusive thoughts are a "fleeting annoyance".[8] Psychologist Stanley Rachman presented a questionnaire to healthy college students and found that virtually all said they had these thoughts from time to time, including thoughts of sexual violence, sexual punishment, "unnatural" sex acts, painful sexual practices, blasphemous or obscene images, thoughts of harming elderly people or someone close to them, violence against animals or towards children, and impulsive or abusive outbursts or utterances.[9] Such thoughts are universal among humans, and have "almost certainly always been a part of the human condition".

The internet rando that caused me to make this meme

https://birb.site/@minego/112933164050308017

It's already trivial to see that you're connecting. You're not making anything at all more difficult for state level actors, just yourself.

You don't have a skeleton inside you. You're a brain. You're inside a skeleton. You're piloting a meat powered bone mech.

There's no point in hiding the transaction. A state level actor will see that you're connecting to the Mullvad VPN addresses and won't need to check your credit card statement to determine that you're using it.

You wander into the town pub...

...some time later...

...ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!!!

I think I speak for everyone when I say

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I can't say for sure but it sounds like a Ponzi scheme. You get some investors. You lie on paper that they're making lots of money. If anybody wants to withdraw, you give them the money from other investors to make it look like anybody can withdraw whenever they want. But there isn't enough to cover all of the withdrawals because you've lied about the profits. Then you get more investors. And more investors. You promise if they keep their money in your investment a long time they will make way more than the initial withdrawers. They were silly to sell when everyone is still making so much money. As long as investors continue to add money to the pool you can pay off the few people who want to withdraw. At some point it becomes untenable to pay everyone off and continue to look legitimate and so you just withdraw all the money and run.

that's a bold strategy coming from SatansMaggotyCumFart, Cotton, let's see if this works for them.

This is EXACTLY what was in my head as I wrote the post.

just under 50% of people voted in Ohio in the 2020 election.

Trump won by 8%.

If just 9% of the people who felt like you (what's the point of voting) had showed up to vote for Biden, that would have flipped the state.

No single raindrop believes it can make any difference. But together, all those insignificant raindrops can change the course of a river in a single day.