alt Hacker NewsI wonder why all the libertarian freedom loving crypto guys keep backing fascists
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It’s not your freedom they care about.
Christopher Harborne - not just a libertarian freedom loving crypto guy, but also the largest single shareholder of QinetiQ, a pretty notable UK Defence company.
Because they're not as much 'freedom loving' as they are 'selfish dicks.'
They're idiots. They think that they just need to be buddies with the leading fascist and they're going to be golden. They don't have enough knowledge or curiosity to study what happened EVERY time this was attempted.
Hint: you might be buddies with the big fascist now, but this can change at any moment. And then you're just fodder for his _other_ cronies. Oh, and don't forget that even if you think that you're adept at court intrigue and covert ops, your _children_ might not be so skilled. Will they retain your fortune when the big fascist suddenly decides to... reallocate... some of their wealth?
It's not hard to figure out, the fascists have been more explicitly welcoming to crypto freedom or at least put themselves out there to solicit that vote even if you claim their underlying policies aren't. Trump offered the freedom of Ross Ulbricht at the libertarian convention, did Kamala come to the libertarian convention and offer anything?
if you're in with the fascists they are the most liberty-oriented party. you can do whatever you want, entirely without regard to the law.
Because they are not really true liberterians. They are more ”I wanna be free from rules but I want more rules for others”