164 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 17 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: RANT: On the things we need to call out: Extremism and idiocy bitcoin
The reason I ask is because you raise a lot of important issues and I want to try to express my feelings accurately. I come to bitcoin as a libertarian. That's how I originally discovered bitcoin. That does not mean that I want to force everyone who has embraced bitcoin to agree with me. I support Peter McCormack 's efforts to attract more left leaning influencers to bitcoin. Like any human, I have a variety of views, but I don't seek to force those beliefs on others. I don't eat red meat for health reasons. I am not a homophobe. I did not accept the covid vaccine.
When you repeatedly use terms like "extreme", alt-right, etc I think you are playing into the same us versus them mentality you complain about in other bitcoiners. Your buzzwords just scream MSNBC and CNN to me, and you seem as extreme as the guy slaughtering his own beef, or more so.
Maybe my impression is wrong. If so, I apologize.
In any event, thanks for posting. It is important to talk about.
I think you got me wrong.
It's really hard to talk about this topic without falling into the "us vs them" mentality, I'm not trying to do so, but it's true that it could look like so.
I don't want to shield myself, but English is not my first language, so maybe sometimes I what I want to express comes out different to what I thought initially, but this also happens to me in Spanish, so no biggy I guess.
I might have a misinformed definition of some of the words I used, and for that I'm sorry, it muds the waters of what I want to convey, but the main idea is the same.
To clarify, I don't like politics, I escaped a communist dictatorship and that makes me hate the left, but I also despise the right.
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I understand. I have trouble expressing myself too, and I am a native english speaker! Your English is very good and you raise important issues.
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