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Weak men tend to follow powerful men. The idea that everyone has equal leadership qualities and charisma is fundamentally flawed.

Libertarianism depends upon this logical crutch of humans being interchangeable blank slates.

Just have to look at Nostr. No official CEO, but Jack is pushing 300k followers and calls all of the shots. Odell is right behind him.

This is simply how humans _always_ are.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

doesn't change the fact that when they are wrong about something eventually reason prevails and the leadership thus becomes one of ideas, not personality.

also, just look at the history of the initiatives that were inspired by these guys. almost none of them lasted. this bitch@ thing will be no different, because it fundamentally has no legitimate use case.

yes, weak people follow leaders, but strong people follow God and the words He speaks.

christianity is one of the most durable error correction protocols for social order that has existed in all human history. over 2000 years old now.

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Laeserin 5mo ago

Leadership is primarily "personality", not ideas. Or, rather, it's "ethos" and a bit of "pathos". "Logos" serves the other two. That's what Aristotle taught in the Rhetoric and humans haven't changed much, since then.

Christians follow Christ. We believe the Word because it comes from Him.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

Palavra de Deus is how they say it in portuguese

but there's all that identity politics around that, just pointing out the Word is from God.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

there's a lot of people who equivocate about the hierarchy of Authority but at least they generally don't say that men > God. but the hole they open in it is wide enough to fit Sin through and i'm not having that.

i follow no man. but neither do i fight them when they sin. i yell at them. like a good polemicist. unless they get close to me then i turn on the charm. ;)