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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 4 Jun \ parent \ on: I'm Jason Maier, author of A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin, AMA! AMA
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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360 sats \ 1 reply \ @cjasonmaier OP 4 Jun
  1. There's a conservative case for bitcoin book too. :)
  2. You're making a lot of assumptions - I don't believe Bitcoin is a product of the national security state.
  3. 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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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 4 Jun
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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