511 sats \ 3 replies \ @02d769cb73 17 Jul 2023 \ on: RANT: On the things we need to call out: Extremism and idiocy bitcoin
not sure who 'we' is meant to describe - not me, for one.
'carnivorous diet freaks, climate change deniers, extreme Christians, anti-vaxxers, doomers, alt-right supporters' - these depictions are more revealing of your positions than anything else.
you're free to take any position you want on anything, as are they - if u want to present yourself as separate from those you revile, just do it - if your ideas are more robust they will be recognised as such - whining about theirs isn't valid.
as for Bitcoin being negatively affected by any of this - no.
I never said you can't be any of those things or that they are bad per se. I'm talking about extremism when it comes to these kind of ideas, on the other extreme of the spectrum you have, respectively: raw vegans, antitheists, self medication freaks, bloomers and antifa-wokes. I don't want to speculate, but it looks like you thought I'd share any of those ideas, which I don't.
And again, I'm not against ideas, I'm against extremism in ideas, extremism is always dangerous, it doesn't matter the side where it comes from, that's what I'm criticizing.
And no, it doesn't affect Bitcoin in the slightest, the network will keep producing 1 block every ten minutes regardless, but it taints the community as a whole, and when that happens, Nic "leave the cult" and starts scamming people, Taleb stars calling it a "test for idiots" and many more examples I don't remember right now, that perpetuates the idea that Bitcoin is either a scam or a cult, when it simply is a tool for trade.
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"we" is the #1 noob comment. People who are looking for a community
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Nosism: from Latin nos 'we', is the practice of using the pronoun we to refer to oneself when expressing a personal opinion.
That's a correct use of the word we for what I'm trying to convey, a personal opinion.
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