It bothers me seeing you two going at it, especially since I was you before I left a couple years ago.

I mentioned you both make valid points, but this debate over whether anyone of substance has ever participated in Dpos, found it lacking and left is in his corner.

Tommy Sotomayor is my favorite example. He is a red pill icon, I was watching his videos before I ever joined Steem. He was hounded mercilessly by Steemcleaner, until I convinced them it was him as he was posting from his blog using Steempress.

I gave up when we branched to Hive, and the same crew (I assume)now under the Hivewatchers name began downvoting him again. It's like they don't want folks with a following making a home there.

https://steemit.com/@tommysotomayor/posts

https://hive.blog/@tommysotomayor

I also will throw in Jeff Berwick (dollar vigilante). His first post on Steemit raked in 15,967.00 (wow hah hah).

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@dollarvigilante/the-dollar-vigilante-is-now-on-steemit

YouTube ended up deleting his account, as they do with any account not parroting left wing nonsense.

But here he is 7 years ago celebrating 100k followers on Youtube.

https://steemit.com/youtube/@dollarvigilante/the-dollar-vigilante-hits-100-000-subscribers-on-youtube-thank-you

Here he is making light of the fact the real muscle behind Steem (Bernie) gave him a good downvote to let him know who was in charge of his earning or not.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@dollarvigilante/steemit-is-a-scam-how-bernie-sanders-screwed-me

Carey Wedler was also on Steemit. Last post 3 years ago.

https://steemit.com/@careywedler

One of my favorites who I hated to see disappear was an actor, HerrLeeb. That dude was so down to earth and spitting the truth. I interacted a lot with him in my early days. The dude was passionate about talking truth and repairing shoes, hah hah.

https://steemit.com/@herrleeb

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1013121/

I could go on, and I recognize some of the names like the left winger Caitlyn he mentioned as well. I actually followed her for a bit, as despite embracing her left wing nonsense, she hit the target so often she was a reminder to the left what a liberal used to be.

I could list more, but this was time consuming enough.

I ask that you pause and consider this. Even in his criticism which will not be swayed, his cutting observations that seem like bringing a bomb to a knife fight is likely the most interesting post of the day here.

I was a huge Elvis fan as a child, even seeing his last show in Indianapolis in 1977. Early in his career, Christian America led by Billy Graham was attacking his lewd performances.

He was concerned and said as much to his manager, Parker. Parkers reply was

don't worry about what they say, just make sure they spell the name right.

We saw this in action as well with Trump over the last many years. To me, the most telling thing that screams he is part of the establishment is the fact no one can buy the non stop coverage he is given every single day. Every single day!

I would suggest that if you are to engage with Lucy you make sure you have your thick skin on and be prepared to not leave with any concessions from him. And to step back and see the larger picture, which is Blurt is better with him here sharing his observations on the failure of Blurt, and Dpos in the larger picture.

I mentioned recently that I was correct years ago that if the Foundation was to stop supporting Blurt, Blurt is done. We have no front ends, nothing really not run by them.

No one has stepped forward to take that burden off of their shoulders.

NO ONE.

We've also lost one of the few exchanges we had (Ionomy) who are now nothing but thieves.

We are worse off than we were when I left a couple years ago, and we weren't doing so well then.

You mention how folks can do this or that, but the fact is folks aren't doing this or that.

Folks are posting crap and then getting free coins.

Here is a picture of my breakfast.

Here are the steps walking I did today.

Here is my black and white picture.

Here is my AI spun article that took me 3 seconds to make and copy/paste.

Of course my favorite, here is my list of folks I upvoted today.

No one wants to read that crap, no one is reading that crap.

From top to bottom, almost everyone is putting the least amount of effort into Blurt, treating this like a faucet.

And by top, where are the witnesses (excluding yourself) in posting, in leading by example.

I've been supportive of you since I came back, despite not seeing this going anywhere.

As I said above, a couple of years ago I was you. I battled for the Foundation due to my strong respect for Jacob and seeing then that without them this whole thing will collapse.

I empathize with your strong desire and willingness to get in the trenches, but can tell you from experience once you are tired of being in those trenches nothing will have gotten better.

And I'm sorry that I called you an asshole, it wasn't a malicious thing to call you an asshole, I was just calling you an asshole because i just pointing out that in your obsession with your theories about DPOS, you are becoming an asshole and maybe it's time to stop and ground yourself before you loose contact with reality ?

Reality has little to do with this agreement of Dpos, it is unnatural, as unnatural as fiat and I would argue more as it has less power backing it to force agreements.

Please choose your battles more carefully. Lucy has been saying this stuff for years. It reminds me of an Andrew Dice Clay show where he says the most vulgar things for half an hour, and then a woman gets offended and yells at him as she's leaving. He recites all of the offensive things he was saying, then mocks her that all of that was ok, but mentioning the sex act he did was over the top, hah hah.

Lucy mocking this place is one of the few signs of life that exists here. Even the site agrees as I saw this some weeks ago in a rare exhibit of the truth.

Indeed, I find no posts I consider hot when I look.

To wrap up my post like comment as I don't feel like posting here anymore, you are one of the few left in power here that I respect. I wouldn't spin your wheels debating with Lucylin, especially since it's the tone he uses that most find offensive. Much of what he says is dead on target, and arguing with him over trivial crap like if anyone with followers here doesn't change one thing.

You're better than this, which is why I've supported you since my return.