Response to Cardanoplis's Video

Opens September 9th 2020 from Colorado responding to a three-hour video by a stake pool operator named Cardanopolis reacting to his tweet criticizing Brad Garlinghouse for jumping on the corporate Black Lives Matter hashtag bandwagon instead of advocating a specific policy change.

Calls it a great demonstration of disagreeing without being disagreeable, a reasonable stream-of-consciousness rather than a fan or attack video, a real dialogue where both of them learned something.

Praises the operator's realization that Charles is not Cardano, that Cardano is as much his, and disagreement will not stop him running his stake pool, which he calls true decentralization.

Approaches race from two perspectives, having lived as a minority unlike many white Americans, harassed in 1980s and 1990s Hawaii with the derogatory term haole, and refused service at Japanese-only restaurants in Japan and threatened by sectarian violence in Africa.

None of those people knew him, judging by his category, a hardwired evolutionary suspicion of the other that served tribal foragers 100000 years ago but works against an enlightenment society treating people equally.

He has been in co-opted movements, joining the 2007 to 2008 Tea Party with three pillars of choose liberty, humble foreign policy, and sound money, before Michele Bachmann, Breitbart, and others co-opted it with anti-gay-rights and anti-abortion agendas whose rage later elected Trump.

The black community last held power in the 1960s, choosing between Martin Luther King's iterative change and Malcolm X's revolution, the iterative path meaning waiting for active racism to become passive as racists aged out.

Cites Virginia McLaurin, a 106-year-old black woman born in the 1909 Jim Crow South, weeping with joy at a black president, a change actually earned in 1964 that took decades to reflect, since change is hard but comes through small victories.

Distinguishes the angry people in the streets with legitimate grievances like Tamir Rice, which broke him, from the small group owning the trademark who are self-described Marxists using Soviet symbology that deeply offends former Soviet-bloc people.

Recalls an employee's relative, an artist gulagged 20 years for possessing a banned book, returning with his tongue cut out and blinded, by an institution that killed 100 million people across the 20th century from China to Russia.

Communists always exploit legitimate grievances, as Che Guevara and Castro did against the awful Batista in Cuba, just as demagogues hijacked the Tea Party's grievances for a dark philosophy.

Power is finite and spendable like currency, and in 2008 they could have bought an end to the wars and a balanced budget but instead spent it enabling the worst, reflected in today's leadership.

Asks the marchers whether they want revolution or iteration, since revolution often fails and loses everything, while iteration gives the end-of-life moment Virginia McLaurin experienced, and handing so few so much power always ends in dictatorship.

Proposes ending the war on drugs as a goal-oriented last pillar of institutional racism architected under Nixon and Haldeman to harm minorities per taped evidence, imprisoning millions, and says police unions must go so institutions can correct themselves.

His point was to focus on tangible things, not tear down history or brand all white people the enemy, since that perception becomes the movement's image used to make it fail, just as the media made Michele Bachmann the face of the Tea Party to prevent auditing the Fed.

As a rich white guy who traveled the world he accepts others may see it differently, and the point is coexisting without full agreement, which is why he hates Marxism whose core tenet is silencing opposition where the ends justify the means.

No counter-example exists of a Marxist government that did not silence, citing Princeton professor Stephen Kotkin's Stalin lectures, whereas a community where people express themselves without fear of blowback lets ideas flow.

The only way cryptocurrencies work is people thinking for themselves, and governments fear blockchain not over criminals but because the powerful hold a negative view of humanity and distrust everyday people with power.

Elites take over media to prevent critical thinking and attack long-form and independent journalism, because once people think for themselves they question everything, and cryptocurrencies are the ultimate example.

Crypto bakes in being your own bank, hosting your own government, owning your vote and identity, and deciding reputation without institutions, generation one of a decades-long arc.

The community just proved a counter-example to the elite belief, where his strong bully pulpit and another person's opinion are equal in dialogue on one of the most toxic third-rail topics.

Says if they can do that here, then who can't they welcome into the movement, which gave him hope, so he long ago chose to share his strong opinions rather than stay silent so people know who he is.

Cites an honesty deficit and 1984-style political speech, with over 60 percent of Americans afraid to share their views and rising toward 90 percent, but says he will not stop speaking out.

He exposes himself to viewpoints like Thomas Sowell and historians like Ron Chernow for perspective, and only came to despise Marxism after visiting the places it ruled and meeting the people it traumatized.

It is Marxism as a philosophy not any one person, since hyper-centralization of power always destroys society as even beneficent dictators get corrupted, while crypto manages society without central institutions and treats him as Cardano's founder exactly like a newcomer.

He prefers a movement that values free thinkers over one that embraces a hoped-for wise great leader, which always ends badly, and will keep making these videos since his voice matters as much as anyone's.

His optimism rests on believing people can think for themselves and reach independent conclusions, and if you do not believe that you should sell your cryptocurrency and leave, since otherwise these systems are just Rube Goldberg machines transferring wealth to the few.