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153 sats \ 4 replies \ @justin_shocknet 4 Jun \ on: Bitcoin Isn't a MAGA Thing - Don't be a Reactionary bitcoin
From a game theoretical perspective, it's advantageous for MAGA to turn off non-MAGA from Bitcoin for as long as possible. You want your allies to gain power and influence, not your enemies.
That said, it's unnecessary...
To push back on MAGA affinity at a retail level like this is a dead end because the anti-MAGA that falls for it would be viewing it from an identity and feels first framework, not a hard-money problem-solving framework, and therefore end up in scamcoins regardless of MAGA.
If an anti-MAGA hero were to emerge, and become vocally pro-Bitcoin, they wouldn't convert identity-first people not interested in Bitcoin's merits. Those people would simply slay that hero for stepping outside the groupthink.
Bitcoin-first yet anti-MAGA people will need a different angle to combat the MAGA with Bitcoin, one that isn't based on reason because you can't reason people out of a place they didn't reason themselves into. I don't know what that is or could look like, but my bias is that they're so naive that they'll only use Bitcoin once they've exhausted their tantrums and have little choice, inevitably bending-the-knee to "Bitcoin acceptance" in a poetic reckoning of "social justice".
If an anti-MAGA hero were to emerge, and become vocally pro-Bitcoin, they wouldn't convert identity-first people not interested in Bitcoin's merits. Those people would simply slay that hero for stepping outside the groupthink.
I can totally see this. I mean we've seen it already on topics outside of bitcoin. The in-group out-group dynamic is key to understanding the modern left.
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I think you are talking about the worst kind of anti-MAGA people. This isn't who I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of people that are turned off by Trump and don't get how it all works. They aren't really awake. I tend to think these people are pretty lost, I just wish they could snap out of it as many are nice people that mean well.
Being reactionary is so easy and most of us have done it or are still doing it. Its a dumb way to live.
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It's all the same picture, being turned off by Trump and not understanding how things work is not something you reason your way into. So you can't reason them out of it. I'm not making a judgement on whether they're good or bad people, I see them as victims. It's a literal psywar out there.
The catalyzing event to snap people out of it is deeply personal, it's not a single topic, and ultimately some multiple of time.
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I think as well.
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