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So obviously, probably nobody on the history of this forum has taken the flak I have. Look at this thread. Half the people, including yourself, are outright insulting me.<br />
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Which I am ok with actually. Remember, when I said the shut down was a mistake, people called me all kinds of names, including “sociopathic”. Now it’s the prevailing theme, that majority here thinks the lockdown was an over reaction.<br />
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People also called me a retard for saying altcoins (like XRP and ETH) we’re completely worthless in 2018, and only bitcoin would be worth anything in a year or two.<br />
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I really don’t care what people say about me. I wear their rage as a badge of honor that I am right.<br />
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Which is why I don’t understand why people think I have a huge ego. Who has an ego and makes a thread like this. Call me whatever you want, but I think it’s silly to say I have a huge ego.<br />
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Regarding whether I should be allowed a voice, Peter Thiel has a great quote on this:<br />
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<i>"If you have a majority of the vote, that's good. "If you get 70%, that's even better. "And if you get 99.99% of the vote, you're in North Korea."</i><br />
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I often enter discussions where I’m in the 0.01% contrarian. To me those are the most important debates to take up. Getting to 100% consensus isn’t a good thing most of the time - while you might hate me, wish I was silenced, you are only hurting yourself.
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Contrarian opinions are fine. Free speech is fine too.<br />
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But a community with a purpose and goals needs to have a set of standards to which they hold their members.<br />
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If the standards of this community allow self-serving, tactless narcissists to have an equal or greater voice to well-informed and reasonable contributors (no matter their opinions, contrarian or otherwise), then it will push quite a few people out – self included.<br />
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It all comes down to the kind of community MJ wants to build.<br />
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I will no longer be feeding your ego by replying to your posts or this thread.</div>
