Hunh? I was always a BU shill.
FTFY.I have also consistently (for about a year) pointing out that non-mining entities (which I had formerly been mistakenly been calling 'non-mining nodes') have essentially zero power to influence the network, and provide essentially zero value to the network at large. I have, though, stated that such non-mining entities are what allow their owners/users to transact in a trustless manner. Benefit to the owner, no benefit to the network.
Which is complete nonsense.But what I have recently learned is that Satoshi's definition of 'node' is necessarily limited to entities that mine.
No.So you know better than Satoshi?
The whole "satoshi" thing builds upon the assumption that miners are honest. We know today that this is not true (ASICBOOST, AntBleed, empty blocks, et. al.). Due to this, everything that you've quoted is nullified. The primary thing protecting the network from mining cartel abuse are the non-mining nodes. Do not get me started on Satoshi's failure to predict ASICs, and his 1 CPU = 1 vote does not mean 1 ASIC Miner = 1 vote. Otherwise you're basically saying that 1 Bitmain = Bitcoin (assuming they stopped shipping devices for a while and using all of them). 
what is
User-activated-soft-fork. Do you even Bitcoin?UASF or a POW change is coming, whether you like it or not.
yep mandatory changes, nuking pools, dis-communicating with the natives, does very much sound like government agency talk.