I'm still taken aback on how David Kleiman was awarded soldier of the year in 1987 after ONLY one year of service while being a Huey tech in Germany, beating out a million-plus candidates, some of which were perhaps more deserving.
Hi Gleb, I dont understand, why you quote me in this relation. I didnt award him.
As far as I can estimate, Dave Kleiman was a very impressive soldier. One has-to-get the laurels, all are only humans. He was a deputy of sheriff before his accident, too. I can imagine him deputy-of-the-year-award capable too. An astonishing imagination of Satoshi Nakamoto, of course. But state-power-critical means not subversive. There is a subtle difference. The libertarians are not against the state, but against the overregulation of the state, against the attraction of too much responsability of the state. Dave was working for the state and for international institutions. A libertarian approach is to make for the state, what is good, and to refuse the what is too much. He wasnt engaged fix nomore. He was very well able to refuse jobs. I see no conflict to Satoshi here, no incompatibility.
Also, he claimed to be a war veteran when he didn't serve in a war zone because ... wait for it ... the US wasn't involved in any conflicts during his stint in the US Army.
I dont know. I never heard about. Was he saying veteran or war-veteran? Was he maybe saying "war-veteran"? We are used to talk in metaphors, what are not takeable literally always.
Little overdrive is not unusual, isnt it, Gleb?
