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Gay ppl are fine. Virtue signalling is dumb.

Agree in with first part. But I’d just argue that all the grenades, and tomahawk steaks, and bitcoin pill, and I SUPPORT THE CURRENT THING pins are just virtue signaling for us…

The only difference is we are still, for now, an uncaptured subculture with regards to Western corporate media.

But in terms of virtue signaling - I see no difference between “I support the current thing” and a bitcoin pride flag pin. With the first we’re just virtue signaling that we don’t like “virtue signaling” (which is term that somehow, for reasons unknown, always seems to be applied, derogatorily, to the LGBTQ movement, black justice movements, environmentalism, or the women’s rights movements, when I hear it from most bitcoiners). Anywho all of these movement should be overlapping heavily with bitcoin…

We slow ourselves down with silly bullshit, antagonizing people / communities that should naturally already be under the tent…

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BtcPins 2y ago

It's not virtue signalling if you deeply believe in the product you're selling or the message behind it. A Bitcoiner selling Bitcoin stuff to Bitcoiners is not virtue signalling.

A company that 11/12ths of the time doesn't give a shit changing their Twitter avi to a rainbow and temporarily selling pride-themes stuff, or some mom on Facebook making a post to their friends and adding a flag to their username for a month, is not doing it to help anyone. They are attempting to morally grandstand for monetary or social benefit.

If you really support a community, why only for a month?

It's disingenuous. Better to not support a thing than do it half-assed or even 11/12ths-assed.

Moon 2y ago

Yeah I completely agree with you. My question is what is the necessity of a backhanded joke about pride month.

A BTC “pride flag” pin that always available would be a better way to make the point imo.

When bitcoiners conflate guns, and carnivory, and Christianity with bitcoin it’s “bitcoiners bitcoining,” not identity / affinity pandering or virtue signaling (which I’d argue that it absolutely IS, even as find myself fairly aligned with many of those things…).

But a bitcoin pride pin would be virtue signaling somehow?

BtcPins 2y ago

Depends on the reasoning behind the product or the marketing.

I wouldn't make a pride Bitcoin pin because I make pins based on what I like and what I would buy. So taking that into consideration, plus the fact that I don't care if someone is gay or not, would a pride pin be a genuine show of support, or would it be virtue signalling to make more sales?