That you don't know doesn't mean it is unknown.

I know what I'm talking about. For example, post-paleolitic art is about warfare, hierarchy and dominance. Paleolitic art shows zero such things.

Do yourself a favor.
Fly to one of the ex soviet countries , but not Russia. Try to live for two months in Belarus or Turkmenistan.

It's better to lose a month of your life understanding something rather than living a whole life in a lie.

You people in the USA have no fucking idea how communism was and is.
I lived enough in both communism and capitalist regimes to tell USA has nothing to do with communism and is by no means getting closer to it.

First i want to start off by saying this is obviously going nowhere. I can't forsee us drinking tea in the future, and that kind of upsets me.


1. I'd say it's more socialism than communism, although the end goal of communism and socialism are almost 100% the same. Socialism is just more subtle and appealing to people.

2. They try to regulate encryption technologies using licensing requirements etc, has that been successful? They try to regulate drugs, do you think that has been successful? They try to regulate torrenting, how has that been going? Do you have an argument to explain how bitcoin, or more specifically cryptocurrency in general will be different? I don't think shutting down all the exchanges will end bitcoin, local bitcoins and other similar methods will still exist. Although the liklihood of that happening is incredibly small at this point anyway.

3.You need a better argument than using just Bitcoin. You're acting like it's the only cryptocurrency that has a future.Crypto anarchy can exist alongside governments. Of course there will still be coercive governments that exist and enforce corrupt laws. People will have to decide which system resonates with them. Sadly the truth is many people today will choose perceived safety and security and follow their elected leaders.

bingo!

That is like saying people commonly confuse AIDS for HIV. They two are different, yes, but if a country is infected with communism then it either gets cured or it gets fascism. Communism cannot survive in a non fascist nation & it is one of the strongest causes of fascism


Funny thing, socialism is a term invented by carl marx, he defined it as "a society in transition towards communism" and characterized by still using money (in his dreams, he imagined that a pure communist society will not have money).

And yea, people use socialism as a different name to sell communism because the word communism leaves a bad taste what with stalin, mao, etc, etc.

As the historian Victor Davis Hanson states, "Fascism thrives best in a once proud, recently humbled, but now ascendant, people who are ripe to be deluded into thinking contemporary setbacks were caused by others and are soon to be erased through ever more zealotry."

What you are attempting to describe is a movement where an omnipotent government asserts control over every nook and cranny of political, economic, social, and private life. Bitcoin can thrive in this political environment and is, in fact, more necessary there for the citizenry to have monetary freedom.

Indeed, fascism is closely related to communism in both theory and practice. The chief difference between the two is that fascism is rooted in nationalism and seeks to create a socialist utopia within the confines of a particular country's borders. Communism seeks to transcend national boundaries and promote a worldwide proletariat revolution, where the foot soldiers are bound together not by a common nationality but by their membership in the same economic class.

AKA the great fascist alliance

Don't know much about the American mindset. But, you can go to North Korea and watch communism in action. In DPRK, the communism is very much inter-twinned with fascism.

The prime example of fascism, Hitler and Nazi Germany, proved to be territorial gluttons - the annexation of the Sudetenland, the absorption of Austria, and then the invasion of Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, etc., disproves that fascists "stay within the confines of a country's borders" .  Maybe not all, but Nazi Germany, the prototype fascist example from history had ravenous territorial ambitions. They most certainly did not stay within the confines of their borders.