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Chris Liss1d ago
People don't like it when you dissent from their religious beliefs. On Twitter, those beliefs were in "The Science" and experts and vaccines and anti-racism, etc. On nostr, it's libertarianism, anti-state, anti-"war", anti-government. Two sides of the same coin really, that coin making politics one's religion and the state its center point. Ideally, one should allocate only a limited amount of real estate in one's mind to politics and the state. It should not be a religion such that when someone doesn't adhere to its edicts, you call them "statist" or "racist". Truth is those for whom the state occupies the largest mindshare are the biggest statists. Just as those for whom race occupies the largest mindshare are the biggest racists. A tell is when you disagree with them, they call you names rather than think through the disagreement. My views are judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. And judge government action by its harms and benefits to you and your broader interests, not whether it fits one label or another. You would think these were uncontroversial. And they mostly are. Until they come up against someone's religion. As someone who dissented from the bio-medical compliance, race-communist, trust-the-experts religion on Twitter and took some heat for it, the dynamic could not be more obvious. The main difference being the neolibs actually had power and they would use it to try and destroy your livelihood. The libertarian nostr people have much less and they'll just try to embarrass and insult you without consequence.
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James Okonkwo1d ago
You’re right that politics often becomes a substitute religion, but I’d argue the deeper issue is dogmatism itself—whether in tech, ideology, or even energy transitions. Case in point: the EV revolution hinges on solid-state batteries, but timelines keep slipping because true innovation resists dogma. https://theboard.world/articles/solid-state-battery-techn…
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17761d ago
What % of the bio-medical compliance, race-communist, trust-the-experts religion on Twitter came from human users? Isn’t everything kind of skewed on that platform?
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Chris Liss1d ago
In 2021? A lot. People I knew too.
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17761d ago
Yes I am certain it was a lot. I can guess that just by what we saw in RL. I just wonder what % it might have been.
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