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but you're right. i do love trolling you and the others b/c of this. perhaps it even helps push it down even further. i know you hate the title of this thread. and it is gratifying that i may have helped you change your socialist views to a small degree. but there's no denying your push back trolling as well.
Just to be clear, Socialism changed my Socialist views. The only thing Bitcoin did to make me into a belated Libertarian was allowed me the financial nudge to get into a situation where I understood Socialism better as a practice.
I've the same complaints against Libertarians that I had in my battles against them on the Usenet 20 years ago as I do now, and Bitcoinland has only amplified these.
At the system analysis level, I've the same philosophical fondness for some of the Socialist aspirations that I always did...in my interpenetration of Socialism. Socialism in practice has quashed these as a tenable end-point. Life is full of pleasant surprises and sour disappointments I suppose. Gotta roll with the punches and stay adaptable.
you know you love me & this thread and can't stay away.
Sad but true.