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43 sats \ 7 replies \ @zapsammy 1 Dec \ parent \ on: Trying To Get A Friend Interested In SN meta
have you talked to his wife? women live significantly longer. will she have a way to care for her beloved husband when he starts struggling with basic activities of daily living? tell her how Hal Finney's family was able to use his bitcoin stack to maintain his home care when he became wheelchair-bound.
His wife is my wife's best friend. She is a dyed in the wool liberal democratic NYC college professor. I have a much better chance with him.
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Oh man, sounds like it's gonna be a tough nut to crack.
If you don't mind my asking, @siggy47, how did you get to have the views that you have? It seems like a lot of your friends are in the highly educated, liberal, NYTimes/MSNBC bubble, but that you aren't.
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You're right about my social circle. I think my politics were rooted in my childhood. My dad grew up in extreme poverty and was very motivated to succeed.
He was just a natural born free market guy in a sea of socialists. He supported Nixon against Kennedy in 1960. That simply wasn't done in a working class catholic immigrant community.
I found the whole Austrian economics/libertarian thing on my own in my late 20s.
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. Hope that some of your views will rub off on your friends.
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They're hoping the opposite 😀
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lol... as if the entire corporate media complex isn't trying to get you to change while reinforcing their views. You're the one actually speaking truth to power, not them.
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