Oddbean new post about login | logout Here's my harsh take - "Free Ross" is emotion based psychological manipulation preformed by state actors to trigger action through an empathetic response. I'd love to see Ross free, but ultimately that outcome is inconsequential to the bigger fight and it wouldn't even address the structure which imprisoned him in the first place. Think about how many lives will be destroyed through war, money printing, deficit spending, harmful policies, etc. Just because someone is a Bitcoin hero doesn't mean the chance of their freedom overrides all of those realities. Trump is better than Kamala but not by much and neither are my leaders. Vote for the lesser of two evils if you want evil, act for good if you want change. Bitcoiners understand this better than most, I don't get the simping.
I think you may not know what simping is. I agree with all the rest. It's likely BS. Like i said in other conversation, i give it a 50/50 chance... maybe less.
Bitcoiners simping for Trump is what I'm reffering to. I'd simp for Ross any day.
well I'm not simping for Trump if you are implying that. Never have.
I'm not. I agree with you Guy! There are others though... My original response was more aimed at the other person you were first talking to
Gotcha, I thought you were responding to my original post.
No, classic Amythest moment. I have a hard time following which thread I'm in sometimes. To vote or not to vote is a very contentious issue in Bitcoin circles. We are all very opinionated. Do you have any good Bitcoin audible episodes on the issue?
hmm that could be a good episode actually... but as far as bitcoin related issues this is one of the episodes where i covered my view of what has been happening recently. it was just after Bitcoin2024. https://fountain.fm/episode/YMTjy7o1rHszBoGEk5ie
"Think about how many lives will be destroyed through war, money printing, deficit spending, harmful policies, etc. Just because someone is a Bitcoin hero doesn't mean the chance of their freedom overrides all of those realities." I dont believe any of his nonsense about bitcoin, he clearly has no idea what he's talking about. Again, all of this is irrelevant. Hwo will any of this be any different. If anyone thinks there vote will make a difference here, they have deluded themselves. Which is again, why the explicit context of my post is that none of that matters, because there is no way at all to change any of that. Its like saying we can "manage the cancer" instead of remove it. It's just gonna keep growing. ie. not relevant, and voting on any other issue is pointless.