Hot take on the Mises Institute: Editor in Chief Ryan McMaken is an unprincipled swine, and I wager that he actively sabotages any crossover of his more radical peers with the bitcoiners and libertarian 'tubers, who are the real vanguard of the libertarian movement. Also Tom Woods is weaksauce. That is all.
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Any specific incidents with Ryan?
It's just the way he reasons and shuts down certain conversations when he talks, and the way he dismisses Bitcoin as a fad and another crypto whenever he speaks about it.
His mannerisms are strong tells too. He's the kind of person who chases appearances.
Idk I’ve watched every Radio Rothbard for the last few years. Just seems like a super based, consistent ancap to me. His work on secession is great. I haven’t heard him dismiss Bitcoin as a scam or fad, he just seems to ignore it, which it is frustrating that The Mises Institute doesn’t fully embrace Bitcoin by now.
It's willful rejection. I don't remember what episode it was, but he made it quite clear that he just assumes Bitcoin is such and such nonsense. (Don't remember what it was but it was some assumption about it and ergo not worth paying attention to)
This is what normies in a radical movement do. They don't follow the truth relentlessly. They reject the truth time and time again, and often depart in great strides in the exact opposite direction. Fairweather logicians.
