1662 sats \ 5 replies \ @mallardshead OP 11 Feb \ parent \ on: The Design Pattern 🦅 bitcoin
If you could name the year and President when America was at its heights or in a significantly better state of being, I'd like to hear it. I assume you have an idea based on the statement.
The 2017 big bockers analogy isn't accurate. It's much more like the Civil War, when the the Confederate secessionists drafted their own messy constitution. They tried, they failed, and to this day some still cry about it. Guess which side acquired all the value?
My point was how the bitcoin protocol would arrange the global financial system, which I felt looked very much like the US government design pattern. I concede failing in making this point well enough in retrospect. For that I apologize.
The Articles of Confederation fell for a reason. You ever read it? What exactly did we miss out on? Maybe Canada (Article 11). Every state agreed to sign the Constitution for good reason. In 234 years the states have never even called a Constitutional Convention to try and change it. We got it very right, and I think it's fair to say its influence has spread far, wide, and isn't done.
If you could name the year and President when America was at its heights or in a significantly better state of being,
I never use 'America' as shorthand for the United States of America but presuming you are doing this here then I would give the period 1776 to 1788. This period didn't have an executive president (it did have presidents, but they acted only as presiding officers).
There has never been a good (executive) President of the USA. The position is a corrupt one (corrupts the system of government). There have only been awful Presidents and 'less awful' ones (which continues to be the only choice the people are offered today). The USA has only been on a continual path towards greater corruption and expansionist war-mongering and plundering of weaker powers since the counter-revolution was successfully achieved in 1788. Being asked to name a better US President is like being asked to name a better Roman Emperor (after the fall of the Republic).
And no, I do not agree that the blocksize wars were anything like the US Civil War. The Civil War was a fight against centralised power (in Washington) and an attempt to break free from it. It was a fight against an already centralised power. And that power became centralised after the counter-revolution of 1787/1788 and the ratification of the new Constitution. The Articles of Confederation were consciously drawn up to create a weak central government and to limit the powers of that government, retaining most power in the states. That system was overthrown by the Establishment, which, as ever, wanted power centralised so that they could own it and control it and profit from it. And that is also what the attempt by the 'big blockers' in 2017 was - to centralise power away from Bitcoin's fundamental focus on decentralisation so that the corporate powers behind the attempt could take over Bitcoin and control it.
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There Articles of Confederation were really quite overrated, bombing for good reason. Without a judicial branch you lose checks and balances, and don't have legal precedent that can build on itself. That would be like trying to obtain transaction finality with one confirmation and a difficulty adjustment that never changes. Our views differ quite a bit with the Articles. They failed. The Constitution never did. There wasn't a central government of any relevant standing at the time. Many states rulers liked their fiefdom, and didn't want to decentralize. They didn't want to relinquish any power. Didn't want a country at all really. But in microcosm, people finally realized that wasn't in the nation's interest at large. By the end of the Articles, we got a pretty good idea what the people thought of it after Shay's Rebellion. What's strange is you think that over time, which is all that matters, that these autonomous state governments would've directionally become what? Ideal Austrian communes, bursting with freedom and prosperity. Yeah right, they would've become autocracies of the worst kind, because that's what every man is inside, and it's up to the design pattern of a system or government to limit and sublimate it.
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The Civil War and bitcoin hard fork share more similarities than the Article's era. You know that and are just being difficult. Admit it. The Article's era is more similar to the era when the Bitcoin Foundation was running, before it was dissolved.
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then I would give the period 1776 to 1788. This period didn't have an executive president
Is this the only metric you consider for the state of being of the US?
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No; I mentioned the president there because I was asked "the year and President".
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rockstar, u seem like the type that doesn't like labels, but if you categorized your political stance (not donkeys or elephants) what would u say
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