bobr

@bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Good summary :)

  Just my 2c regarding

  opposing things like taxes, gun control, abortion and speech restrictions, etc.

  Opposing abortion is not a libertarian policy, it is a conservative policy. So conservative libertarians hold this opinion because they are conservative, not because they are libertarian. Your example is probably still correct though, because you say it is about US, and I guess in US lots of libertarians are indeed conservatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cryptocurrency good for anything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you asking a question when you clearly made up you mind already? :)

  You are wrong of course, you can buy anything with crypto as long as the other person accepts crypto (there are dozens of marketplace, not only darknet ones, e.g. xmrbazaar).
  My instance hosting is paid for in Monero. I plan to change it soon to another hosting, which also accepts Monero. The domain is also paid for in Monero. Same for my VPN (Mullvad actually offers 10% off when you pay in crypto!). I regularly donate to projects such as GrapheneOS, Qubes, Whonix, TOR using Monero. I donate Monero to support people hosting things I use, e.g. invidious instances. Your employer absolutely can pay you in crypto if they choose to, and there are examples of people who do receive their salary in crypto. You could easily find examples/articles about that if you wanted to.
  No, money is not defined by “everyone agreeing that it is valuable and willing to exchange it for goods and services”. Do you think Zimbabwean dollar (or any other foreign currency other than a few most popular ones) is valuable? Would you agree to sell me your goods and services for it? Why not? Right, because it is not the currency YOU use. Other people use it, so it is money for them. Same with crypto. People use it as trustless p2p money whether you like it or not.

  If you need to hate crypto so much please get back to arguments such as “oh no it uses a lot of energy and allows people to freely exchange it for goods and services buy drugs on the internet”, at least those are correct. Please also subscribe to r/buttcoin if you use reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a common thing for people who have left authoritarian countries to still feel the fear of their now-former country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s definitely the case for me and for some of my friends/family.
  I left Ukraine “legally” (it was before the war, when it was still possible to leave “legally” without paying huge bribes), but some of people I know had to escape “illegally” (some went to the Russia-controlled territories, some escaped through mountains/rivers to Moldova, some were caught…).
  Zelensky has already tried to persuade European leaders to deport us, but so far he failed. Still, every once in a while news appear (usually from Baltics/Poland, but sometimes from other countries aa well) about some politician wanting to deport us, so this is quite scary shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance Tells Globalists To Their Faces To Stop Censoring People⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Brutal hypocrisy.

  Feel free to expand on that, Lemmy’s character limit is slightly more than your 3 words comment ;)

  Inb4 censorship from liberals is not censorship, it is fighting the far right misinformation and removing harmful content or whatever.