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On a broader meta-commentary level, I think it's a real shame that the first question people ask about a technology is whether it's "left-coded" or "right-coded" (~6 min in)
Like, why are we so polarized that the default short-cut to deciding whether I should support something is which political side supports it?
Another interesting observation is that the host says around 6:21 that Bitcoin is right-wing because it's "anti-government and seeks to disrupt the liberal democratic order". I think today, the people who want to "save democracy" really mean they want to preserve the status quo institutional order.
At 9:52 I had enough. The old white guy tried to tie the desire for monetary independence to pro-slavery confederates. I'm so sick of this playbook of attacking peoples' legitimate viewpoints by trying to link them to fascism or slavery or racism. I don't know if there's a word for it, but it's some sort of historical guilt-by-association, "Well these bad people liked what you like, so you must be bad too!" We can all play that game, like Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist right? I stopped watching at that point, I don't want to give these losers my clicks or watch-time.
Understandable that you turned it off. That guy was particularly offensive, repeatedly "blaming" young men for bitcoin. Overall, the general consensus seems to be the system is basically fine. Let's leave well enough alone. No mention of inflation, income inequality, big banks benefitting from the legacy system?
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I mean I'd sympathize with all their suspicions about Bitcoin... and given the Trump family's involvement and the huge amount of hucksters in the space I'm willing to give wide latitude to people who mistrust Bitcoin.
I just think it's a sh*t move to link a certain point of view to some historically shunned group. Even if it's true, different groups supported different views all throughout history. Please take the arguments at face value and not try to smear your opponents with historical guilt-by-association.
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a real shame that the first question people ask about a technology is whether it's "left-coded" or "right-coded"
It's a practical question to distill the essence of said technology. It's only through this framing that we can understand Bitcoins properties, pro-property rights, anti-censorship, meritocratic "proof of work" / anti-egalitarian... To be neutral is milquetoast, ineffective, and therefore worthless.
historical guilt-by-association
Emotional blackmail, that's all they have left.
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Sure, but why do any of those have to be "left" or "right" "coded". Even the words these people use shows their political obsession. I never use words like left-coded or right-coded or even think those words. You must be super politically obsessed to think in those terms.
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You have to be naive not to think like that, it's a virtue signal to insist you've transcended the laws of the universe.
Politics is downstream of the intersection of biology and spirituality... it's in all things, the yin and yang, the double helix in your DNA, universal expansion/contraction, chaos and order, the pendulum of time... whatever you want to call it, literally everything settles somewhere between a left-right spectrum. Balance is achieved only through oscillation.
Bitcoin, as a resistant immutable predictable thing, is on the order side of the chaos and order spectrum. Retarded as these people may be, they recognize the pendulum is swinging back against them.
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I think that may be unique to American politics and the stranglehold of two party politics. But I may be naive to think that as I haven't really experienced politics in any other country.
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