451 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 19 Oct 2023 \ parent \ on: Orange Pilling Your Lefty Friends bitcoin
Yes. I agree. Expressing bitcoin as a tool of "social justice" seemed to work in my case. When talking about this when @k00b made his post I also mentioned Satoshi's Genesis block referring to England bailing out the banks, and the ideological kinship with Occupy Wall Street. Attacking banks is an effective common ground also, IMO.
To them, banks represent capitalism (without distinguishing between the crony and the free market varieties), to us they represent statism / cronyism. So maybe cronyism in general is the largest common denominator to attack.
I always thought of myself as being against leftism, but then I read that agorist is left-wing libertarian, because Konkin made this important distinction between cronyism and free market capitalism, and due to perhaps confusing terminology, considered himself anti-capitalist, meaning anti-cronyist.
The hardest part may be to convince the leftist that regulation serves cronyism under the pretense of protecting the people.
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You said a lot there. I find it infuriating when I get the glib response from leftists along the lines of "well, we tried the free market, and look where it got us", as if the U.S. had embraced free market capitalism.
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