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1311 sats \ 7 replies \ @petertodd 1 May \ parent \ on: Poll 238: Why would Peter Todd do this? bitcoin
If you live in Russia you are inevitably paying tax dollars they go to support the genocidal invasion of Ukraine; Russia has sales tax. They're spending almost a majority of the Russian government budget on it, a double digit % of GDP. And this is just the latest in a long list of genocidal invasions Russia has done.
The entire Russian economy is a valid military target, and that includes everyone meaningfully contributing to it. Your moral duty living in Russia is to either leave, or better yet, do something meaningful like sabotage to take down the Russian government. Or both.
Hell, I personally refused to go along with forced vaccination and left Canada over it. That was a much lesser evil than what Russia is doing. I still did my part because it's the right thing to do (and yes, I was able to cut my taxes paid to Canada to near zero in that time).
Of course, if you've done your part I'm not going to consider you “Russian” in the sense above; I personally know a few “Russians” who have left. They're good people.
I also know some people who left the West to move to Russia during this war. Fuck them.
You just confirmed you are a genocidal fascist of the worst type, the one that do not even care about children or people who do not understand politics, or just people who are manipulated, like the majority of the people in ANY country, and would wipe out an entire region of the planet just for revenge or some miserable statist excuse.
Shame on you. Genocidal bastards like you should not be listened by people that support freedom, decentralization, and Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is a tool to precisely get rid of the coaction, impositions, fascism, of people like you.
I refused to believe you are an agent to introduce distortion in the Bitcoin community, and generate internal wars. But with this response and what you are doing in Core now, I'm just believing the conspiracy.
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the one that do not even care about children
It's a war. Russian children in Russia are the responsibility of their parents. The onus is on them to take those children to safety, outside of Russia.
Failing to effectively defeat Russia ASAP is also resulting in lots of Ukrainian children dying in Ukraine. Those deaths are a lot more morally important and need to be avoided.
Indeed, there's a lot of kidnapped Ukrainian children in Russia right now. Likely tens of thousands of them, if not even more (it's hard to get exact numbers as Russia refuses to allow independent organizations into Russia to do proper counting).
There's a not-trivial chance many of those children end up being killed as the war progresses. This possible outcome is incredibly sad. But it shouldn't stop Ukraine from trying to win. Wining decisively now will save many innocent lives later.
During WW2 quite a few PoW, Jews, and other Holocaust victims were killed by accident during allied air raids on German held territory. You try to avoid it. But it will happen.
Amir Taaki's tweet is bullshit BTW. He didn't get funding from the coinjoin bounty because we didn't think his team deserved it. The initial thing he tried to get a reward for was garbage, and he and his team were, frankly, a bunch of unprofessional potheads.
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Lol there are children more important than others. What a lame.
So, is your CIA manual suggesting these kind of lame responses, or you just have them prepared before hand? Perhaps your boss redacted them for you.
I know you want war and conflict, it's your job to facilitate them. But come on Peter, have some decency, you already have enough Bitcoin. Just retire and end this misery.
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Lol there are children more important than others. What a lame.
Obviously there are.
Every western country spends enough money per child on education to "save" the lives of dozens of children facing starvation. You are basically arguing that we should do the opposite, which obviously will result in even more hungry mouths to feed the next generation.
Fuck socialism.
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Speaking about children in Russia: