@Kali_de_Armas@kabhinietzsche This isn’t it any different from saying marxism is just an idea. At its core, you’re saying everything is an abstraction so therefore supply and demand is fake. Doesn’t make sense.
@MelHomeschools@captofcoralbay Imagine limiting yourself to a small fraction of what the world has to offer for an idea that literally doesn’t do anything but limits you. Delusional
@krishnanrohit The fact that you agree with his nonsense stance is a testament that you’re also foreign. Roman Helmet Guy is absolutely correct here. Fundamentally Balaji is wrong regardless of how many data points he wants to try stick to his stupid retarded premise
@samba_drome@balajis@romanhelmetguy His bad intent is to very thing that is ruining this great country. No difference between a man who you let in to your home with good intentions who slowly steals from you. When you have nothing left, they leave and look for new land. Truly. Fuck this guy
Balaji is a traitor bastard and represents the worst of that immigration has become today. People come to this beautiful country, become rich, then spew anti American rhetoric. Burn them all to hell
@balajis@romanhelmetguy You can’t mask the true colors that shows even with as much data as you try and push. The truth is you want America dead. Fuck you and everything you stand for. Traitor bastard. I wish you and your generations the very worst. Your kids and everyone else that comes after them.
“Even if America fails, the Internet will still be there. It reflects the best of American values. Let’s try that same country platform elsewhere. We can rebuild like after the fall of Rome.”
When Rome fell, half the empire died in war and famine and disease. I am not loyal to a set of values. I am loyal to the American people. You were born here. You were raised here. Educated here, made rich here. You should be loyal to the American people too. The PEOPLE. Not a set of values, not an economic system.
But you’re not. You fled the country and now go on podcasts talking about how tech people can ‘avoid the collapse of America.’ To you, my country and my people are just something for your class to exploit for wealth and then move on. If my people vanished from this earth, your only thought would be “How does this affect my ROI?”
If my people are suffering and dying in America, it is no solace to me that Balaji Srinivasan is ‘rebuilding the American country platform’ in some special economic zone in Kazakhstan. In fact it’s actually worse that you’re trying to wear my people’s traditions and values as a skinsuit while stabbing them in the back, telling your tech bros to abandon America like you did. In any other place in any other age, your actions would be called what they are: treason.
The funniest thing is you couldn’t even resist in that reply questioning ‘the degree to which your success’ is attributable to America. My people gave you everything, yet you have no gratitude. No loyalty.
Well fine then. Keep your pride, keep your selfishness, keep your riches. Keep spewing anti-American drivel to anyone who will listen. But I’m supposed to pretend you were ever an American like me? No. Enjoy Singapore.
Sorry man, this has just dissolved into third-worldist slop. China has always expanded to the maximal extent possible throughout history. Ask Tibet. Ask the Vietnamese. Ask the Uighurs.
And there’s nothing about building an empire that requires diluting your native population. Spain ruled South America for 300 years without becoming Mayan. Britain ruled India for 200 years without becoming Indian.
And your whole argument has now shifted from “I will use the power of the Internet to create sovereign states for tech people” to “Maybe China will let me build a Bitcoin city!”
@balajis@romanhelmetguy Imagine the irony in all this that it took a man called RomanHelmetGuy to poke enough holes in Balaji’s thinking to render his idea as buffoonery in the marketplace of ideas.
@pmarca The best way to find someone awesome is follow like minded people and see who they reference. Thanks for plugging this, Marc. Especially as a fan of GameStop and Ryan Cohen. Believe he’s spoken of him in high regard and vice versa. Meaning he’s loved in the $GME community!