Respect freedom of people who respect yours. Help each other. Fight together against those who try to take it away.
So, I haven’t read much about it, but right on the page you’ve linked it shows banks on a diagram explaining how it works. If banks are involved, it is not permisionless - banks can block and censor transactions, they can refuse to open an account for you at all, etc.
What are the alternatives?
How else can you create decentralized permissionless money (you know, the thing it was created for in the first place, before people got an idea of putting monkey jpegs there)?
Well, you raise a valid point, it’s also bad of course.
It’s just that “forcing you to do a thing (a physical labor) you do not want to do” and “forcing you to give up a part of your salary” are different things.
Or is it just being forced to directly do morally abhorrent things?
Not just “morally abhorrent things”, any forced labor is wrong.
I don’t think I am “arguing semantics” (whatever that means), and you evaded the question :(
In the event of a real defensive war, where your nation is invaded with the intent of conquest or subjugation, you will not have a lack of volunteers. You will have a lack of trained people.
Hey, I have a (purely theoretical!) question if you don’t mind.
So, if there was (theoretically of course) a war out there, where the government openly admits that they lack volunteers, people are trying to escape the country en masse by illegally crossing the border, and also there were thousands of videos online about that government kidnapping people off the streets (so that they have at least someone to send into the war), would it mean by your definition that such a war is not “with the intent of conquest or subjugation”?
It is abuse and violation of person’s freedom and dignity. It (and people supporting it) should be fought by any means necessary.
I’m way too familiar with liberals labeling everything they don’t like as “fascist propaganda” :)
So, still no.
No. And I would continue helping people evade whatever censorship a government tries to impose on them.
Start of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Now I have to worry every day that people I know (who have not managed to escape Ukraine) will either get killed by a Russian rocket or will get kidnapped from the streets by Ukrainian “recruitment officers”.
Why is Telegram “insane”?
Left-wingers identify nearly everyone who doesn’t agree with them or doesn’t share their delusions as “right-wing extremists”.
The existence of this post (and its title in particular) might give you a clue…
I haven’t seen Kamala saying anything about ending the war tho or having a plan for that…
Omg, it’s really impossible to argue with you :/
In a dozen messages we’ve exchanged, you provided exactly 0 evidence of what you’re trying to prove, exactly 0 quotes of me that prove any of your points and exactly 0 valid arguments.
It’s impossible to continue this discussion :(
The statement immediately above was evidence.
You’re confusing your opinion with evidence. Sorry to tell you, but it doesn’t work that way.
No. The opposite is true, obviously.
Oh really? So you have empathy towards hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians that died in the war, and also wish for war to end as soon as possible, and therefore support Trump who is the only politician who promised to end the war? Well, in that case what are we even arguing about :)
You are requesting evidence of a negative
I am requesting evidence of your arguments. If you argue something that you can’t prove, then your argument is by definition invalid.
Well, considering you cannot provide any evidence/proofs to anything you’re saying, I guess there is nothing more to talk with you about :(
That’s a shame
The consistent behavior of conservatives world-wide is evidence that conservatives are incapable of experiencing empathy for those outside of their in-group.
You didn’t provide any proof for that :)
And actually, why do you even consider me a conservative? Is it only conservatives who have a compassion for human life? :/
Your suggestion that your capacity for empathy is somehow different than all other conservatives is bizarre and itself requires evidence to be taken at face value.
You are the one suggesting that somehow I lack empathy, so burden of proof is on you ;)
What authority is needed when blockchain is used as a currency, what is there to enforce?
You can buy much more than drugs using cryptocurrency, so this is absolutely false.