Since Jim Bell appeared with Jeff Berwick on YouTube I've been accusing him of selling out to the discredited lunar-rightwing Ancaps. His lame excuse is he's tired of preaching to the choir. This implies there is little or no support for AP over there and he might persuade some of them. I've told him none of them are worth the effort and he's going to eventually be regarded as one of them if he stays stuck there. All that came to a head recently and I washed my hands of him. What happened next might interest some here - he's disowned APster the same way Assmange disowned all opposition to the Iraq invasion back in 2013. Just because APster works ( enough ) in practice doesn't mean its good enough to work in his pristine virginal ' AP " ( idiotic acronym included! ) This is a sure tell of a fanatical and dogmatic ideologue. And the ideological crowd he's running with? All Ancap - all the time Gramps does a bit of APster denial on the side too since Ancaps are close to that MAGAT-brained FREEDDUMB! crowd. As an anarchist I get a bit tired of wannabe commissars trying to 'pull rank ' on me with some prolier-than-thou bullshit about capitalism. So I soon shut them up by offering to put my record of opposition to all Ancap. libertarian, garbage up against any activist of the last 20 years. Not just anarchist. Activist. Crickets. Crypto-anarchy itself had to stop being Randite, Paultard, Mincing Gold Bug back in 2001. " Crypto winter ' remember. Part of that was sheer embarrassment over chickenman Eric - part may have even been post 9-11 paranoia - but surely Tim being repeatedly called an anarcho-phony here must have contributed. And the anarcho-ANARCHIST narrative has never been seriously challenged since. Even a c-punk celeb like Assmange felt pressured enough to parrot " Cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful ". As for those Btc maxi's who finally learned how to read - they got up to speed with Murray Rothbard's ' NO we Ancaps are NOT anarchists " idea. Jim Bell turned Rip Van Winkle in jail or something - pre-diabetic? - got to his brain. Anyway - by pandering to a few fringe ancap scumbags like Berwick he's totally discredited himself with most all anarcho-anarchists. Don't believe me? Check their reactions when John Galt bit the dust - " Ding Dong! " And when Jim follows suit all that will attend him will be a few tearful fast-food restauranteurs. No body love an anarcho-capitalist - take Ross Ulbricht - please.
