"If you have this disconnect between core devs that value one thing and the users that value something else. I mean something's gotta give at some point, right? Either you get developers more inline with the users, or a lot of the users kinda end up leaving. This is not a trivial concern. It's a big attack surface. We've seen it in these communities where a lot of this political stuff enters and then the next thing you know it gets completely, sort of subsumed by this movement..." Chat #148 - 'It Doesn't Pass the Smell Test' with Jimmy Song @jimmysong

I want to go back to a world where irresponsible and corrupt banks crashed and went out of business.

All op-return opinions aside: If everyone in a neighborhood says you can't come into my house naked and wearing a strap on, in no way does that mean the person is not free to do so, nor is that in any sense of the word "authoritarian." Liberty isn't everyone being forced to allow and support any potential "non-violent" action in every possible context or space. That argument is as absurd as saying that to think drugs should be legal you have to love heroin and want everyone to use it every day.

Throwing everything into one bucket called "software" shows a gross misunderstanding of the spectrum here. A *consensus protocol* and an app are both software, but the conditions and need for each to change couldn't be further away from each other. Tell me the last time you updated your TCP/IP because "it is software and it has to evolve" in order to make your internet better and you'll begin to understand how badly this idea misses the mark.

If you can't reasonably defend your position on an issue or handle talking sensibly with someone who disagrees with you, that is a sign of a serious mental weakness or insecurity that you should probably work on.