>>I wonder why all the libertarian freedom loving crypto guys keep backing fascists
The non-fascists message to prospective voters:
>[we won't] coddle your sweet little fee fees
>your values are fucked
> I don't want their fucking vote. I'm not interested in their opinion about anything, especially this.
... and there we have it. You've answered the question as to why those people didn't support you -- you straight up asked them not to vote for you, and surprise, the fascists won. Repeat this ad nauseum smugly belittling other interest groups the non-fascist could have tried to capture but instead defaulted to whatever fascist was willing to show up and offer something, and surprise -- the predictable loss happened!
I couldn't have summarized it better myself of how much of even much of working class middle America ended up where they did, you managed to blurt out loud pretty much all the stuff we get accused of lying about when we point out their vote got alienated to the point they were easily captured by the most smooth talking fascist that could show up and exploit that weakness.
But hey, at least your "fee fees" feel good about your smug moral superiority over the power-wasting money. You may have lost the power and defaulted the vote of people you explicitly asked not to vote for you to the guys putting people in foreign gulags but at least you got to flex on ignorant crypto power wasters and others by not lowering yourself to solicit their vote!
> You've answered the question as to why those people didn't support you
I asked no such question. You said:
> 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.
To which I said:
> If you back fascists to promote crypto, your values are fucked.
This is not a statement wondering why they didn't. I know why they didn't, even if I didn't directly say it. I'm saying here if your support for proper policies or candidates is contingent on their supporting your stupid shitcoins, then your values are fucked and I'm not interested in your conclusions as a result. Or to be more specific, if you're prepared to give Fascists power because you think it'll be better for your coinbase account, your values are fucked.
And while there is certainly a cost to having principles, to say that Kamala didn't win because she refused to court crypto is just ridiculously out-of-touch. That's a big question with a lot of variables, but I assure you things like:
1) Her being a woman
2) Her being non-white
3) Her being yet another pro-corpo do-nothing Democrat, with a back story including being a PROSECUTOR of all things
Had a shitload, a metric assload, an utter container-ship load more to do with her defeat than anything even tangentially related to your weird secondary finance system, and on that point I would bet a lot of REAL, not crypto, currency.
And here's the part you're missing about Trump and his ilk "showing up": that offer means nothing. Fascist regimes don't keep promises to their useful idiots, they keep them right up until they're not useful anymore. They'll feed your crypto conartists to the same wolves they'll feed me to, because nobody wins long-term under fascism, including the fascists who aren't currently holding the leash. Ross Ulbricht's pardon doesn't tell you Trump loves crypto freedom, it tells you Trump knows how to make a low-cost gesture to a bloc he needs this cycle. And frankly it tracks well that crypto holders were targeted by the Trump admin anyway, you're a self-selecting bloc of marks, ready and eager to hold ANOTHER bag to go with the one you've statistically speaking, already got.
But far more importantly: Fascists are not shy about the Fascist shit they aim to do, namely to harm people at scale. If you cosign that for bitcoin, I'm not here to persuade you or win your heart: that is not a position that a reasonable person takes, and so I see no purpose in attempting to reason with you.
1) The question I refer to is the ancestor to which our comments are under. A question, but not a question authored by you.
2) My apologies for not being more explicit -- the specifics of the loss of the "libertarian" "crypto bros" is not a wholistic cause but rather a small fraction of the cause but more importantly also a symptom. A symptom of something that happened in broader society of alienated or ignored voters being hoodwinked by smooth talking fascists that showed up with a message more enticing than "we don't want your vote" or "your values are fucked." You can hate they're that dumb, or that immoral, or what not but at the end of the day their vote still counts as much as yours.