Hello chapochat community! My name is Blake and I am currently the highest bidder for the hexbear domain. I am cofounder of hexcoin and our team has struggled due to…
the similarities between our branding and your site’s mascot who we still think is very cute! We don’t want our coin to pertain any political agenda and it’s bad for our business. We have suffered some losses from the coin community as people think we are associated with hexbear when they search for hexcoin, I assume this website comes up on the same search for ours, which is mostly liberal adjacent and that puts people off from purchasing our coin. There’s also an assumption that we are using the coin to “fund radicalism.” And if you don’t see there’s a similarity here then look again!
We apologize for this mess but we still think it is in our best interests to acquire our rights to the domain, we beg anyone not to waste their money because bidding wars only make things harder for the final bidder. We are a small company working out of a garage in Oregon and we have put too much time, money, and energy into this thing. Please understand! Also thank you and sorry.
Politics is significantly more than the team sports shit show of contemporary America. It would really do you good to look into and understand this fact. Who you are and what you are doing is not apolitical, because nothing really is (but selling crypto is especially not). You are part of a political project, and the fact that you're not aware of it is dangerous to both you and those around you.
I am not political
But crypto and anything regarding monetary policy or economics is. So whatever you think of your politics as, you are engaging in a form of politics with, as you admit, no literacy in politics.
I think you are wrong.
If a cryptocurrency began to dominate and subvert a state's currency like the USD do you think political actors would ignore it?
Yes they would because the quantum computer would erase all forms of malice from the political sphere because the goals of humanity align …
But before it got to that point, people currently in power would do whatever they could to destroy that currency. This quantum computer would have to have a singularity type explosion of growth and ability to prevent current powers from hindering it before it could take the reigns of state control. In what way does a cryptocurrency enable the development of this transcending quantum computer?
no because the quantum computer would invent a time machine and send the terminator to stop them from stopping it
I understand that you think that, but I would encourage you to really reexamine that belief; it's akin to saying "I don't have an accent." The fact that you're unaware of it doesn't mean that it isn't there, and you are engaged in a project that is inherently politically inflected. Politics and economics are deeply tied together in a way that's inextricable, and undertaking an economic project like building a cryptocurrency is a deeply political act. Burying your head in the sand doesn't make this any less true--it just means that you're totally unaware of a really significant dimension of your project and your goals. This leaves you open to mistakes, manipulation, and just generally doing things without being aware of what's happening. As much as I disagree with many of your goals, you don't come across as stupid, so I'd encourage you to think carefully about what I'm saying, and consider the kind of politics and propaganda you might have internalized without being aware of it. Silicon Valley and its satellites love to think of themselves as "outside the box" and apolitically rational, but they're not--nobody is. All the "blue tribe, red tribe, grey tribe" stuff is a vast oversimplification, and a very convenient tool of manipulation to keep people from examining their own actions, motives, and beliefs. You can and should do better.
We are outside the box. It’s just something you will never fully understand unless you are a part of it.
You're (perhaps) outside the box of the standard center-right (Democrats) far-right (Republicans) dichotomy of mainstream American politics (though even that is questionable these days as Silicon Valley increasingly aligns itself with MAGA), but as I said that does not put you outside politics. We on this website are also outside that dichotomy--which is why people have reacted so negatively to you describing the site as "liberal"--because we're full-on communists here; that's clearly a political position, despite the fact that we don't support any of the mainstream American (or "Western") political parties or positions. The illusion that voting for and supporting Democrats, Republicans, or (perhaps) Libertarians exhaust all possible political positions and activity is a major piece of political propaganda that you and a lot of other Americans have swallowed, but it is a piece of political propaganda. You are doing politics all the time. It is the water we all swim in as participants in and components of a vast socioeconomic machine. Being willfully blind to it is a mistake, and like refusing to acknowledge an entire spatial dimension of the physical world. You are doing yourself a disservice.