these people have no idea what they've just done.
#bitcoin is now the universally applicable, single-issue pro-freedom schelling point that has never previously existed.
and now they are clumsily conspiring to attack it, outing themselves as unequivocally anti-freedom.
#bitcoin is now the universally applicable, single-issue pro-freedom schelling point that has never previously existed.
and now they are clumsily conspiring to attack it, outing themselves as unequivocally anti-freedom.
we know their attack will fail, yet the harder they fight the more attention they draw, leading more precoiners to decide to educate themselves to figure out what the hell is going on, accelerating their failure.
it really is beautiful to watch.
it really is beautiful to watch.
their options:
1 - conspire privately, perfectly making the point because #bitcoin is free and open source.
2 - argue publicly, outing themselves as technologically illiterate morons whose anti-freedom stance derives from their ignorance and stupidity.
3 - bend the knee.
1 - conspire privately, perfectly making the point because #bitcoin is free and open source.
2 - argue publicly, outing themselves as technologically illiterate morons whose anti-freedom stance derives from their ignorance and stupidity.
3 - bend the knee.
everybody will land on 3 eventually. the only question is how long do they spend on 1 or 2, how embarrassing is it for them, and how hilarious is it for us.
but it gets even better ...
"liberty" in the political imagination of representative democracies has almost always been conceptualized in the negative, hence has almost always failed to form a democratic coalition, hence has been chipped away at bit by bit.
"liberty" in the political imagination of representative democracies has almost always been conceptualized in the negative, hence has almost always failed to form a democratic coalition, hence has been chipped away at bit by bit.
the people who rather like this chip, chip, chipping away, because they get to live both as parasites and as kings and who are now standing athwart history yelling "stop!" cannot possibly fathom how powerful this will become.
I'm not sure even I can.
I'm not sure even I can.
I'll give nic the last word, coz why not, he said it best:
https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1402762290592681984
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