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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @justin_shocknet 4 Jun \ on: I'm Jason Maier, author of A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin, AMA! AMA
It has been argued that Bitcoin is a creation of the National Security state to save US Sovereignty in a world where its institutions have been captured by Globalist "progressives" and the knock-on effects of that around spending, reserve currency status, and trade.
Bitcoin's game theory has also come to exemplify Thielian (Palantir) doctrine of using technology to reshape society through bypass of traditional political "democratic" processes, the same processes that have been weaponized the communist-left (as articulated by McCarthy, Skousen, Hoover, Welch etc)
Further, Bitcoin's premise is one based on property rights, rights which are in-congruent with communist ideology.
These points have never been more self-evident than they are today, so much so that cope is going mainstream:
From the description of your book, you seem quite grounded in how Bitcoin fixes real world problems that "progressives" like to virtue signal about. The problem however is that "progressives" generally care more about who/how problems get solved rather than actually solving them, and this is why Bitcoin gives them the ick.
Is your strategy to re-wire progressives into putting solutions over ideology? or do you have alternative narrative to portray Bitcoin as a tool against nationalist-capitalists?
There's a lot to unpack there. LOL.
I'm progressive and I care about solving problems and Bitcoin doesn't give me the ick. I also think that the WSJ describing David Bailey's conference as "Bitcoin goes all in on MAGA" is pretty accurate - not sure wha they'd be coping about.
So perhaps it's time to reexamine your priors. (?)
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I'm progressive and I care about solving problems and Bitcoin doesn't give me the ick
You wouldn't need to write a book if you weren't an outlier
wha they'd be coping about
"Shedding it's anti-government slant" is the cope, Bitcoin being a product of the national security state means it was never anti-government. The conference being a MAGA rally is soft-disclosure / limited hangout of this.
So perhaps it's time to reexamine your priors.
Bringing weak shit like this to an AMA after the excellent set up I gave you? pathetic.
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- There's a conservative case for bitcoin book too. :)
- You're making a lot of assumptions - I don't believe Bitcoin is a product of the national security state.
- Your excellent set up was just a framing for me to chose between two ways progressives are bad. I'm not interested in that.
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There's a conservative case for bitcoin
Bitcoin is just as ick to conservatives as it is to progressives, if conservatives in the modern sense were effective Bitcoin wouldn't be necessary.
You're making a lot of assumptions
I'm highlighting evidence supporting a thesis, what I want to understand is given the preponderance of that evidence how you square the circle. You don't need to agree with the conclusion.
ways progressives are bad
You were served a lay-up to explain why Bitcoin's global nature make its it anti-nationalist and or that the adoption of solutions regardless of their provenance is emblematic of progressive values.
Your negative response to that set-up projects progressive self-loathing.
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