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badecker pretends to want freedom, choice, no government overreach. but then chants that he wants government to force laws and remove choice/freedoms.
Take a look in the mirror, Frank. You're not in the best position to lecture others on freedom. You might be liberal when it comes to social issues, but the second the conversation swings around to code or Bitcoin network governance, you turn into the biggest totalitarian despot on the entire forum and BADecker suddenly looks like a goddamn kitten compared to you.
Lol! Hardly. Yeah, might be 'liberal' in today's framework, but certainly not by the meaning of the word pre-2000-ish. The opposite in fact. Most old-timer 'liberals' were dragged along into the 'woke' totalitarian meaning of the word, but that's just the nature of things where most people are not bright enough to get off the train when it has changed course and is headed up into the mountains where one never wanted to go.
I myself clung to the 'liberal' label for long enough that I'm deeply humiliated about it. Even so, back in the 80's and 90's while I identified strongly as a 'liberal', there were some points of question I had, and also some points where I thought the 'conservatives' were more right. I was a 'liberal' in part because I saw it as resistance to corporate fascism. Now unquestioned embrace of corp/gov is pretty much a touch-stone of 'liberalism'.