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b9e76 - 2y

Made a comment on some Twitter thing today and got a bunch of angry responses about how me being a leftie is what's destroying this country. 😂 There's something increasingly funny about how ridiculous the left/right ideology has become.

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Tracy @Tracy - 2y

Ahhh, the days of twitter... #GuillotineClub

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The Fockin’ Fury @TheFockinFury - 2y

But BiTcOin iS inComPatiBle wItH LefTisT iDeOLogY

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f4d89 - 2y

Tough to looks outside the paradigm if you only know that world

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AK @AK - 2y

Who could have predicted brain damage becoming so popular 😅

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Jeff Swann @Jeff Swann - 2y

Well, it mostly is, but that doesn't mean people on the right aren't retarded a lot of the time too.

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liminal @liminal - 2y

Wondering at what level this kind of behavior originates from https://consilienceproject.org/its-a-mad-information-war/

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Hans Karlsborn @Hans Karlsborn - 2y

It is.

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YEGHRO @YEGHRO - 2y

You're a lefty?! For Shame!

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6389b - 2y

Stop going there. For your own mental wellbeing, Guy.

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Strider @Strider - 2y

Delete twitter

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The Daniel ⚡️ @daniel - 2y

Xitter is destroying the country.

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b9e76 - 2y

I actually feel more disconnected from it than I have in the past. I feel like my real place is on #nostr now, and I just go back to Twitter to see what’s become of it. It’s like a morbid curiosity. It’s like visiting an old friend for coffee who is still useful and can let you know how old friends and acquaintances are doing, but he also went a little psycho a while ago and now everything you talk about is at arms length. You’re still “associates,” but you’ll be happy to get out of there.🤣

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b9e76 - 2y

I can’t remember which format works to embed another post… so I’m gonna try a few and see what happens 😆 nostr:note1t6zmvzfg2xwegp95sm2k4enqq6mlrjqty57nefgscr6eylucelqqcds8jc https://damus.io/note1t6zmvzfg2xwegp95sm2k4enqq6mlrjqty57nefgscr6eylucelqqcds8jc nostr:note1t6zmvzfg2xwegp95sm2k4enqq6mlrjqty57nefgscr6eylucelqqcds8jc

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b9e76 - 2y

Networks are still valuable and ignoring them is a net loss, imo. I don’t really need to explain #Bitcoin and fiat money to anyone on #Nostr (maybe a few, but the reach isn’t there yet), but about a billion people on Twitter need to hear it. The broader reach on that network matters, it’s kinda similar to YouTube. I treat them both the same now. I just post in hopes of reaching someone who can value from it, I keep one foot out the door, and I simply expect that I’ll at some point either be banned or the place will become such a mess that it won’t have any signal left at all. To me, the idea of just cutting it out like Marxism, or a tumor (but I repeat myself) because I think it’s taking a dumb direction feels kinda like smashing my iPhone because I don’t like their new OS policy or something. I’ll drop it when it feels redundant, but it’s still my best source for articles (top articles feature saves me *hours* of wasted time), and it’s still my best way of getting in touch with tons of people. We will see how long it lasts though, I am far more invested in #nostr on anything other than a short term timeline.

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6389b - 2y

I got a couple of guys that fit that description exactly.

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The Fockin’ Fury @TheFockinFury - 2y

I dunno man. Sure, there are idiots hiding in every single nook and cranny of the political spectrum, bar none. But I reject the notion that bitcoin is more “for” one part of that spectrum than the other. It’s hard money, a sovereign asset, without permissions or borders. It’s for everyone by design. Projecting a political ideology onto bitcoin is misguided imo. I hear a lot of “you’re liberal, you shouldn’t have any bitcoin” and that’s just idiotic rhetoric and it makes the community look stupid to outsiders.

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Ivan @Ivan - 2y

How to mentally put yourself in a box. Make all thought political. MY TEAM IS AGAINST THAT! BAD!

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Jeff Swann @Jeff Swann - 2y

I agree that Bitcoin is a soverign asset that is for everyone, but that is exactly what makes it incompatible with thieving ideologies & authoritarian desires to fund govt programs without the consent of the people involved. In a Bitcoin dominant world, when all the printed money is gone, how are govts going to force people to fund their programs? Most govts can't exist in anything like their current forms without the ability to print money & covertly steal from the savings of every productive person at once. And while it may seem like a subtle difference, if killing someone gets you no closer to their money that can significantly change the economies of scale in organized violence that makes govt possible at all. Since the very nature of bitcoin threatens the way govts are funded, & the left generally wants big govt while the right wants small govt, bitcoin is largely incompatible with the left. More specifically incompatible with any version of any political ideology that advocates more govt intervention in society. It is basically a tool for destroying political authority by protecting the most fundamental property rights, which is a libertarian or anarcho-capitalist ideal. Who says "taxation is theft" & "end the fed" ? It's usually not the people who want universal healthcare or UBI or gun control or any of the other big govt nonsense.

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Marks @Marks - 2y

I’m not hearing as much “small govt” from the right these days either. They both seem to want their own version of big govt.

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b9e76 - 2y

If I had to put it as simple as I can: Bitcoin’s system is the codification of a particular set of individual rights, and there are political ideologies whose foundation is built upon the direct violation of those rights. Therefore, Bitcoin is naturally at odds with those promoting its opposing principles, or those who wish to violate the rules, implied morality, and universality that #Bitcoin enforces.

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Jeff Swann @Jeff Swann - 2y

I just think that means you need to spend more time studying the history & economics of money.

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The Fockin’ Fury @TheFockinFury - 2y

Lol you’re talking to an economics major.

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Jeff Swann @Jeff Swann - 2y

As a former econ major (with a focus on money & banking) myself, I can tell you that you almost certainly can't learn what you need to know from a university (with maybe a couple of rare exceptions). The contradictory Keynesian nonsense taught at universities is sometimes almost worse than total ignorance. You have to unlearn a lot of what you were taught, which is harder than learning things correctly the first time around. My brother has been doing a great job of attacking the foundations of Keynesianism with the Bitcoin Audible podcast. See the episodes about hoarding & saving. The key is to understand that savings is the foundation of society - more things must be produced than consumed. And that Say's law is an absolute. Production enables consumption & investment. You can't build a house with trees you intend to cut down in the future. Everything else basically follows from those things. The Use of Knowledge in Society by Hayek is a good read or a good listen (via Mises.org or bitcoin audible).

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The Fockin’ Fury @TheFockinFury - 2y

To be clear here I majored in economics 15 years ago, with a focus on public property rights and international trade. And the only universal truth in economics is that there is no universal truth in economics. Sure, it’s easy to say that production cures all ails but the secret sauce is in how to incentivize production of the right stuff in the right places. A major role of government in an ideal sense is to cut through local comparative advantages and the misalignment of incentives that inevitably arises in a diffuse structure of governance. I fundamentally believe that there is a role for government, maybe even “big government,” however different it may look from what we see today. Thanks for the recommendations, will listen. Should have known you were OP’s sibling 😂. So who’s the smartest one?

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Jeff Swann @Jeff Swann - 2y

I think the laws of economics are a certain as just about anything can be. You don't have to incentivize people to trade & solve problems & to do what serves them, you just have to get out of the way.

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Hans Karlsborn @Hans Karlsborn - 2y

Agree. That’s the only thing that has to be done. And maybe removing other (old) obstacles.

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The Fockin’ Fury @TheFockinFury - 2y

Disagree. That doesn’t work because people are inherently selfish. Put too many of them in a room with competing interests and nothing will get done. A decade in corporate leadership roles has taught me this. That’s the entire premise behind representative government.

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Jeff Swann @Jeff Swann - 2y

Building things in a way that best serves the people around me is doing what best serves me. They pay me & are happy returning customers when I serve them appropriately. What is in my self interest doesn't come at the expense of anyone else. Anyone who thinks harming others is in their own self interest is not someone who is being honest about how that impacts their own self image. If you get things by cheating others then everything you have becomes a reminder of your depravity, rather than your accomplishments. It destroys the ability to feel good about much of anything or to feel able to connect with others. Freedom of association means we don't all have to be in the same room, people can go wherever they want & they generally have no obligation to deal with anyone they don't want to deal with. Which means that the liars & the cheats tend to get ostracized. People doing horrible things to others generally don't get very far without a mafia like organization &/or religious structure of some sort to protect them & to force others to support them. Govt is just that, a religion with songs, symbols, statues, monuments, ritual ceremonies, costumed authorities, sacred halls, sacred texts, robed interpreters of said texts, & violent foreign crusades. And it operates on a mafia business model of charging people for protection from what the govt agents will do to you if you don't pay for protection. Govts even purposely create a dependent class that they can manipulate into violence & riots in order to threaten the middle class who are the real target. In the same way that burning down churches doesn't destroy false beliefs, it's not possible to destroy govt by attacking it directly. Govts are primarily built on propaganda. So decentralizing communication & ending censorship is also critically important, along with the undermining of economic authority & monetary control, as well as spreading tools that make it cheap & easy for people to physically defend themselves if necessary. #Nostr, #bitcoin, & #3dprinting are all pieces of a proper productive & freedom oriented revolution whether you like it or not.

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b9e76 - 2y

Me… obviously

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