Quote from: asdf on May 24, 2011, 11:27:34 PM

ITT: liberals who think government socialist policies benefit society.

What rights are they protesting? the right to receive other peoples money?

Wealth redistributing policies break the very market forces that produce wealth. You cry about the poor, etc, then advocate a socialist system which creates poverty and enables the likes of JP Morgan to suck our wealth.

grow a brain and join the dots. you make me sick!

The funny thing about this is the top tax bracket and growth rates during World War II and the McCarthy era. McCarthy was a socialist, apparently.

Taxes do a good job of buying civilization. Maybe there's a better way, but libertarians haven't presented one.

Quote from: kiba on May 24, 2011, 11:37:00 PM

Quote from: ~~~~~ on May 24, 2011, 11:17:30 PM

I agree. In my opinion there is nothing inherently political about bitcoin itself. It's money for fucks sake, everyone likes money, everyone finds it useful.

All the same, no need to keep quiet in the face of Libertards upchucking their psycopathy all over it.

It is a mistake to think that technologies have no political consequence. If bitcoin drive us toward a libertarian future, than it is apt to call it a libertarian technology.

The technology itself is neutral. The decision to make it deflationary is distinctly libertarian, but that's not a reflection of the technology, just a choice of the original author. I could build a demurrage or inflation based blockchain, and, with time, I think it would do better than bitcoin. But my issue is I don't think swallowing a chunk of the world's CPU power is the right way to go.

The technology having political consequence - yes. But that may not have the same political consequences as its author intended. Reality is fickle like that.