Excellent and informative assessment. I did not know about his adventures on other platforms. I doubt I'm the reason this post happened, but I think I remember asking you for it over in Discord. I was eager to hear the opinion of someone who had actually chosen to stop defending him, rather than the same stuff I hear from the huge anti-Banfield sentiment everywhere in the community.
I mean, I get that it's the Internet and we're supposed to be our worst to each other here, but I like to have a bigger reason to hate a guy than "he is capable and willing to fellate himself." That's all I've heard about Jerry for a couple weeks now; it's become a bit of a meme on here and everyone's been joining in the fun about it, and honestly it embarrasses me a bit.
Why should I care; why should we care if someone enjoys that? I don't want to get too political but it seems to me that one of the defining values of the crypto community is liberty. I'm not saying it's not funny. I just don't understand why we pick that as an attack surface, when there is so much more about this man to attack.
I have always placed a higher value on the opinions of those who have changed their mind. I think this is just how it works. For me, using the topic of religion as an example:
- Listening to former atheists' conversion stories is far more interesting than sitting in church listening to an evangelist waffle on about Jesus.
- Listening to former evangelists' stories on why they became atheists is far more interesting than spending an afternoon listening to an established and lifelong atheist on how right they think they are.
It's just how it works. So thank you for your perspective, and I am now more certain than ever that none of my stake will ever touch this person in any way reasonably preventable.
tl;dr. try getting to the point next time faggot LOL jk
i used to be a commie, now im a libertarian