I once had a discussion with a GNU Taler dev, who argued with a straight face that the government should have a (limited) backdoor into financial systems despite voters sometimes electing bad people because, and Iām dead serious here, the German voters would never elect someone with as authoritarian tendencies as Trump.
I guess he missed his history lessonsā¦in literally every year of school there lol nostr:note1vhhxnpt5r75rvc9mtjnky8qmtknfu9ddemq8qynkk22wrzn7n2mqkqjzmn
Oh my
Because clearly āweā are better than āthemā
And if you'd tell him so, he'd try to argue the opposite
these people are in constant cognitive dissonance, be kind to them. it must hurt.
Taler is a fucking joke.
I hadn't even heard of GNU Taler until this shitpost about them.
Unbelievable š¤¦āāļøš¤”
The steelman version of this argument is that German voters wouldn't elect someone with such authoritarian tendencies *again*, because they've learned their lesson.
I don't buy it myself, and it's certainly too much of a risk to take... But at the same time I'd say there's at least _some_ truth to it, and I could kind of see how a reasonable person might come to this conclusion.
Sadly I donāt recall that being his argumentā¦. I donāt think heād even considered āsometimes government isnāt just and goodā at all until I highlighted the possibility of voters electing someone ābadā.
GNU Taler is GNU.
Ecash appears to be patented.
