In the remote possiblity XT becomes a matter of more importance than the hype, mirth, and scorn it generates at present, MPex and other 1MBer Elder Whales are prepared to use substantial (possibly exhaustive) portions of their extraordinarily massive war chests to repel 8MBer attacks. To them, this is Holy War, with barbarian Gavinista hordes clamouring for a Free Shit Junta at the gates of their bespoke civilization. They are more of a mood to impale heads atop spikes than reward with compromise Hearn's attacks on decentralization, Tor, and the consensus process.
Are you still sure you want to risk your tiny stash playing Hard Fork Poker with such ultra-high-rollers?
If you are relying on simple bullying tactics to defend your position then I fear that you are already tacitly accepting a high possibility of defeat.
I like your analagy of Gavin as Freedom Fighter (Sandinista). It is, in an oldskool fashion, quite apt.
The Sandanistas took on the american hegemony in South America, and despite the best (illegal) efforts of the CIA with the Contras, they prevailed.
Daniel Ortega is president of Nicaragua today.
Pointing out one would be foolish to attempt to undermine Bitcoin's economic majority is not "bullying tactics."
The Sandinistas are Marxist-Leninists, the "oldskool" Free Shit Army. Do you really need me to explain what happens to freedom fighters (
and everyday people) under Marxist-Leninist regimes?
The main reason Castro-wannabe Ortega seeks to be another Marxist Dictator For Life is to maintain his immunity from prosecution for the crimes of raping and abusing his daughter from the time she was 11 until 21.
From the Guardian, hardly a right-wing source:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/07/thecomandantewhobecameacaOn top of all this shady dealing, Ortega still stands accused of raping and sexually abusing his stepdaughter from the age of 11. In 1998, when the young woman concerned, Zoilamerica Narvaez, first made public these allegations, Ortega denied them; but he has refused to give up his political immunity to contest the charges in court. Various Ortega cronies have subsequently tried to discredit Narvaez, most notably her own mother (and Ortega's wife), Rosario Murillo, who called her daughter "a slut". But Narvaez has never withdrawn the allegations and very few who know her think that she is lying.
Meanwhile, apparently in return for standing by her husband, Murillo's position and influence has conspicuously grown in the Sandinista camp. She was everywhere on the Ortega campaign, triumphantly raising her arm in support of "women's rights".
While 16 years of free-market capitalism has dramatically improved the lot of a minority of Nicaraguans, the overwhelming majority remain trapped in subsistence poverty. The tax system is a joke, which corporations avoid with impunity. "And that," as MRS leader Edmundo Jarquin told me, "is a result of an agreement between the old oligarchy and the new Sandinista oligarchy."
It takes a special kind of blinkered wishful thinking to ignore the financial, political and moral corruption of Daniel Ortega, the comandante who became a caudillo. But history shows us that, in the treasured name of anti-imperialism, anything is possible.
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