Yep, I am a big old meanie for holding people to the same obsessive and meddling standards they hold others to. Especially when it is one of your pals.
The trust system in many ways is a (possibly failing) libertarian dream
This system is a pure democracy
You're both wrong. Libertarianism would be the complete lack of a trust system, everyone fending for themselves and doing their own research, caveat emptor. A pure democracy would leave theymos as the only DT1 member. We have 100
representatives (DT1) all with differing number of votes, from a wide variety of voters. It's much closer to a representative democratic republic than either of you are crediting.
You clearly slept through your social studies classes in middle school.