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@ softglitter2d
2024-11-22 11:31:35
In the days surrounding the US election, here in Stacker but also in other places, there were lots of debates whether is OK to support a politician or not. That's because of the position took by the *crypto*-industry that have [a very active participation](https://x.com/jespow/status/1806569144294556146) in the republican campaign, not only with words but also money and [some proposals](https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1859618962092216660).
Those days prosecuted also with lots of comments of bitcoiners making arguments about how bad was the take made by the industry because, at the end of the day, Trump isn't a bitcoiner, it's a politician that takes maximum benefits from the *crypto* stuff. Now, having said these things, a couple of notes that I made while I was traveling.
### We were victims of the nirvana fallacy
This I heard in the Lex's interview [with Javier Milei](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLzc9kobDk), where he ask about his insertion into politics. Milei tells that lots of people, including anarcho-capitalists and liberals, criticized him a lot because he was getting with people not so trustworthy and was building a minarchist-style political campaign. The ones making critics argue that nothing is going to change and be truly free, so why bother to get into it?
Enter the nirvana fallacy, [which states](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy) *"...comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to assume there is a perfect solution to a particular problem."* So, what this has to do with us, as bitcoiners?
Well, some notes about where we are right now:
* @suraz puts you context in inflation, [it's bad](https://stacker.news/items/767210).
* @TomK still talking [about economics](https://stacker.news/items/751811) downsides [and new plans](https://stacker.news/items/731370)
So, what can you do?
Well, here is where I stated in the past that [bitcoin is a political tool](https://stacker.news/items/627008). Those who doesn't want to participate in politics, I'm sorry but in the moment you chose to opt-out the fiat system, you made a political act, stating your discomfort to participate in a system which promotes war and terrorism.
And some of them, tired of legislators who tirelessly chase the industry through the well-documented [Operation ChokePoint 2.0](https://x.com/RepFrenchHill/status/1859270268805657058), took a side.
Is the best solution to take a politician as ally? I think not, we don't like political intrusion into our lives but...hey, the [world which we live](https://stacker.news/items/557608) in, either you accept that they want to intrude and try to guide them or leave it to those anti-crypto fascists.
We don't take a clear position, it has consequences, so I think is stupid not to fight against it, even if that means to get into the mud, look the other way and pretend we won because we just use it is to fool ourselves. We won't have hyperbitcoinization[^1] in our generation, maybe my kids would and in order to happen, we need hands in every aspect. I myself doubt that all promises are going to make it.
[^1]: I think hyperbitcoinization as it is, it's just nonsense invented by some dudes
So, yeah, the nirvana fallacy is real, those who claim or criticize bitcoiners for participate in politics behind a screen....fuck you but have a nice day.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/778354