This video shows that Bitcoin has birthed a devout multiethnic movement with its own code of ethics. It has both populist & elite appeal, domestic & global support.
That’s why the long term contest within the US isn’t red-vs-blue.
It’s orange-vs-green.
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Just like Woke Capital, Bitcoin Maximalism is a fusion of left-libertarian human rights & right-libertarian property rights.
Both movements are radically democratic *and* capitalistic. Both have a claim on deep-rooted parts of the American psyche.
The stage is set for conflict.
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Counterargument: maybe all that matters are the believers.
Wokeness was a joke for years. But it built up strength in faculty lounges. From there it became the moral code of generations of college grads. Then it went vertical, culminating in summer 2020 & institutional capture.
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i like the cryptocouple, fun and smart, but any nocoiner watching that video is gonna think btc is a cultish farce. videos like that are made to make money off of the already believers.
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To calibrate, watch this video of Nasser on the tarha in 1958. Watch the Egyptians of the time laugh at how ridiculous it would be to mandate it. Then look at the culture today.
Zealous belief among the faithful is often underrated as a driver of change.
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100% ... in the 90s u can barely see women wearing hijab ...today it's the majority
But the tide is always changing
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Worth noting in previous era,other countries,eg Tunisia/Turkey, banned hijab;the state w'd send people to streets forcing women to take it off.Only Iran force it now.Region currently is rebundling (to quote balaji); leaving ideology,&rising similar to other Asia(contrast to West)
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