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RE: If you still support this guy after this, you are a dumbass.
He's been exposed over and over again and is barely discussed in the circles I run in.
I'm no party member, but if he's on the Bill Weld "side" of the LP, he's lost to anyone of principle. Bill Weld literally has anarcho-capitalists joining the LP to make sure the term "libertarian" in mainstream culture isn't linked with that statist moron.
Same here. I guess it is just the Steemit thing that bugs me. Most I know elsewhere take the fact that he's a huckster fraud as a given. He showed up here though, talked about how much he loves "the community," and has left/basically stopped posting twice due to 1. "only making" $1,000 on his first post (a fact which, in his words, made him "pissed") and 2.(NOW) payouts being down.
The shit that really did it in for me though was when he said we all ought to "put down the ideology" in the interest of "unity."
Anyway, he's no Voluntaryist. If he dropped the label it wouldn't bother me so much. As it stands, he's an embarrassment to the philosophy here. @lukestokes is no better. @kennyskitchen the same. No principle. Just "feel good" bullshit and weird, whiny projection when questioned.
It frustrates me that I can't seem to get libertarians with an audience over to Steemit. I think it mostly lack of knowledge about the blockchain. Guys like Scott Horton are invaluable, could use the extra $$ and would definitely view the community aspect of Steemit favorably. Especially since people like him are moments away from being banned from mainstream social media.
I always feel like Steemit could be true hub of anti-State thought. Since the backdrop is a social media platform that pays people outside of the state controlled currency system for quality content.
Instead, I spent way too much time seeing clear snake-oil salesmen sucking this place dry.
It's the age old issue of systems and how easily they are co-opted and taken over. That's the primary reason to not have government. If you create a system that can be taken over by collectivists, it will be taken over by collectivists. Sadly, Steemit's blockchain is no different. We have to defend individual liberty here though even if we risk upsetting some of the collectivist whales. My hope though is that the whales will realize that collectivism is certainly not in their favor. For example, why would @jamesc delegate SP to a collectivist that doesn't believe in private property? /boggle
Exactly. I couldn't have said it better.
This seems like it should be the place for that.
Instead, phonies have kinda turned it into a giant faux anarchist, popularity contest circle jerk.
@kafkanarchy84 its a highschool meetup site for most !
I fell victim to this, thinking the best of all steemers! Hoorah to this thread and the amount of gold i will dig up with all the name drops thanks a bunch you are all leading a sad and disappointed man into happiness :)