Oh wait. He's just using delegated SP to give 80 ~ 100 dollar upvotes to himself.
Glad to see this aspiring politician cares about the Steem community!
That's okay. I am sure it will be different when he is responsible with billions and billions of dollars worth of donations, land, and assets when he and his "custodians" assume central control and he becomes "not president!"
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~KafkA
(This article has been promoted out-of-pocket via @upme in order to gain visibility as @adamkokesh and the delegated SP self-upvoted content of the same account are obscuring other anarchist content via the delegated SP-financed virtual monopolization of the anarchy tag)
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DTube and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
Hey, I've got no gripe with self upvotes etc. and using Steemit as you can.
I might be mistaken, but I think Kafka may have the same mentality as me, one should 'practice what they preach'. Steemit is really a mirror into the kind of person you are. If you are community minded, you give back and take only what you need. If you are out for purely selfish gains, you upvote just yourself and run with the money with no regard for other contributers. Of course there is everything in between.
Now I have not seen how many upvotes he gives to his commenters or others on the platform and so don't know if this is purely down to selfish reasons alone, but I do find it disappointing that one who speaks about giving to all and building a community seems to be doing the opposite. We don't need more of the same trying to get into office.
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As a "greedy Anarcho-Capitalist," nor do I. None at all. As I've said to others, just stating my market preference. Kokesh doesn't seem to me to really give a damn about the platform at all beyond how it can help him politically.
I want zero platform level regulation. Just calling things as I see them to alert other users.
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Thanks for the clarification! At first I thought: Wait a minute. Didn't he say upvoting your own posts was alright? Then I saw your comment :)
As libertarians it can always be frustrating when people interpret your opinion has something you want to impose on others. That's not how it works! It's just advice, not an order.
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Right. Kokesh is also using delegated SP to do this, and one of his delegators has expressed some displeasure regarding the recent upvoting sprees.
I am also interested to know what happened to all the donations that the Kokesh camp received to ostensibly get him out of jail. Thousands of dollars were raised via this fundraiser (among others, if I am not mistaken):
https://kokesh.revv.co/wise
But in the end he didn't even pay bail:
Big-hearted Steemians donated lots of cash for this express purpose. @thejohalfiles sent 6,000 Gs for posting bail. What happened to this money and all the rest that has been raised? All we got was this weird video from Adam's personal assistant which leaves more questions than answers:
In the video he says that the money donated to the LP wasn't from the bail donations, but also that the bail wasn't paid and that the money was donated to the LP. A real head scratcher there.
The Kokesh camp has a bit of a history of being surrounded by controversy and criticism regarding financial dealings. Combine that with him self-upvoting comments calling people cowards at 100 dollars, other flame-thready, snark comments of his own at 20 dollars, and it starts to smell like maybe, just maybe, there's a rat in the house.
Wanna see more folks asking these questions. Did he ever tell these folks where their donations went?
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For me the sad part is that I was talking to a steemian in Venezuela who does charity down there of feeding people with STEEM donations about setting up a computer in the school he donates food to so that the community could learn steemit.com and feed themselves and he felt like $25 SBD was such a great sum he was reticent to even throw it out there. I am thinking about doing my own fundraiser if he does not.
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Really? Who’s the dude?
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actually his name is @bigdude!
We discussed it here, we need $25 SBD for the computer and then 10 a month for service
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Oh wow, yeah I would be well pissed if I donated for the bail. I didn't even know he ended up not having to pay it :o
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The state is still coddled by so many who continue to believe that public policy can improve the quality of their lives. Be sure to visit and follow @escapeamericanow and @policyofliberty
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Yeah, I posted this about freedom of speech and I noticed the same thing on a few of the tags. "#smokehash" c'mon man I think name calling is beneath you, and in my mind I always read #adamcokehead.
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Yeah. Just another day on the Blockchain. There are a growing number of tags dominated by single votes, mostly from the author of the post, or an auto from a 'fellow club member'.
A bit deflating really, especially when you are not upvoting your own posts, and buy delegated SP so you can lease yours out for nothing.
The gift economy will fall flat on its arse if this continues.
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Steemit should take action for this
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I don't think Steemit should. I think the market should, and is, as seen by recent actions of other individual market actors regarding @adamkokesh.
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That is ridiculous bro! Raping the reward pool!
I guess
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Kokesh is not legit in any way. He is a psy op intended to discredit marginal political movements in the united states.
It is well known that david brock and podesta themselves arranged for people armed with assault rifles to show up at tea party meetings, same now goes for libertarian meetings.
He gets huge upvotes also from other misinformation sites and his beliefs are incoherent, now it's obvious he's milking the cow for operational funds.
Then he gets busted with mushrooms and guns in his RV, is it yet obvious how this is intentionally draining and discrediting the movement? It's very calculated.
Anyone who thinks that following this guy anywhere is going to lead anywhere but prison is delusional.
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Im sorry. I dont have SBD. Just 1 SBD. But i like the freedom post
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I'm glad somebody pointed it out! A true ANARCHIST doesn't spend all day and night sat on a computer. We go outside and definatly don't sit in a house, we SHARE and learn of ways to be living without PAYING TO EXIST
( does Adam create his own electric,enough to be online so often and not pay someone for it???)
I vote he should stop tagging in anarchy and get his own one if he has so many follwers ..
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I salute to this politician, great post!
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You would, @reatimtim.
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Why can't he steemit as he sees fit with his investment and others investments in him? You sound like a jealous hater.
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Because it's a Social Network, a Forum, it begets interaction, growth, conversation, and ultimately understanding, and on top of that 25% of the vote goes back to you. Why can't he be a greedy masturbatory asshole in the corner of the community making inane statements from a standpoint of "no rulers" without someone BEING jelous of his greedy abusive worhtless ideals and zilch contribution to the community with the responsibility of jerking himself off in front of all of us? Do we have to be jealous when we call out bullshit? Am I jealous that you stand up for that grimy despicable voturbation without regard for abuse under the guise of their choice as if choice carries no consequence or is free of responsibility and decency? I must be jealous.
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He can! That's the beauty of it! Did I say he can't? What are you missing here, Blaine?
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STFU you jealous hater.
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You can mute him or bitch, I see your choice.
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Yes, that's right! I can! Isn't the free market and free speech beautiful? ;)
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Calling bitch ass shit out is called bitching you idiot?
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This certainly is not productive. Please stop commenting here.
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Yeah, I am sure that my wallet and steem power said it all, or you could simply be a jealous hater.
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Are you?
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Lol. He can do whatever he wants. I don't condone any systematic regulation to stop his behavior.
Why can't I state my market preference as I see fit??
No need to make this personal, @blaineb.
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I hate abuse, and I hate illogical nonsense, make no mistake, I hate people like you.
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Sorry to here that, @baah. Especially as I don't even know you personally. That's pretty sad. This is the type of response I have gotten from most Kokesh supporters so far, though.
Much respect.
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You're a jealous hater.
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You are not the arbiter of what is abuse, nobody is. Carry on with your hate, enjoy the cancer it brings.
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Hating what is fake and false and what is wrong and impotent is no disease. Standing up for what is fake, false and wrong is. That's why your logic is "he can do whatever he wants, you're jealous". Because even animals recognize what is Fair and what is not.
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In case you didn't realize, we all are the Arbiters of what is abuse. Don't forget to curate your content.
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Of Course, you would upvote your own comment if only everyone was the shining example of a shellfish you are, then we could have some real content evaluation and curation
#idiots
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Upvoting yourself is what all whales advised minnows to do when I got here 8 months ago until they get the vote slider, are you trying to tell me different? Not that your opinion carries any value.
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Thank god you think for yourself, not that you don't choke on a whalecock. Is that why you standing up for kokesh voturbation? Us Voturbators must stand together #idiots.
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@baah, looks like I totally misunderstood who you were talking to. Sorry. I think I actually agree with you. The comment thread escalated quickly. Please forgive the misunderstanding.
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