What I find concerning on some level is how often his posts are upvoted by Steemit founders.
I don't want to jump to conclusions, but typically upvotes generally mean that person agrees with the person posting and it's content.
Scam artist is a strong word, but some people are extremely good at capitalizing off of certain types of people. Ones who can't form their own opinion and tend to follow rather than lead.
Now don't get me wrong I can't stand his content (for me its way out in left field) , but is it really his fault his sheeple believes that shit he spews or is it his for spewing it in the first place?
I suppose in most instances him and his sheeple are a match made in heaven, what sucks is him sucking payouts on mediums like Steemit whos payouts could be going for much better content.
He did bring a large following with him, but I would bet that the majority do not even benefit the Steemit community and only Mr. Berwick.
They suck his dick because Steemit depends heavily on the morons this guy brought in. It's all about the money. Really is that simple.
He is not a scam artist. He is a criminal.
Are you a judge? do you work in the justice department?
Yes, he's a judge. Everyone should be. The alternative is to have no standards and hold nobody accountable. That just enables degenerates and predators, which results in community breakdown.
Ok then, now that we have found our judges the next step is to find some executioners... No problem I say!
According to the nonaggression axiom by which we live, it's the victims that can justly use force to recover their property. Unfortunately, they're all delightfully gentle souls that don't want to use force... so Johnson gets away with the loot, the investors are screwed, and Berwinkle washes his hands of it all and moves on to keep running his passport scam while pretending to still be some kind of champ. They're very lucky that none of their victims were like me otherwise your crack about an executioner would be no joke.
well stated. I agree.
And who the fuck gave you the right to ask me that?
oh yeah. the same right i have to call someone a criminal. Most people don't see it because they have come under his spell. This is why is so hard to get through to you guys in here. You are all TDV sheeple.
its hard to brake the sheeple from the cult
Or they could be actively involved with him. No one really knows. From this post we have actually learned a great deal of things, namely that the guy who works for TDV also works for Steemit. This is very bad news. The corruption element appears to be quite strong and I'm afraid that any investigative journalism won't really survive in here. I feel a bit sick right now, finding out the truth of how things are operating.
lol, why so mad kid? did you forget to take your meds?
Perhaps you should explain your flag of this post.
I already did
Ctrl+F
Yes, your other posts make it crystal clear. How could I have missed it?
Everybody, chryspano flagged @steelabelle's post because:
I learned how to use Ctrl+F today and it edumacated me well!
Good, next lesson for today is to learn to use your brain, apparently it's idling too much...
At best we can infer your reasons. I would like to see them clearly stated. For the blockchain.
If being candid is too much for you that's a fair answer too.
You're right, "scam artist" isn't very accurate... there's no artistry in it whatsoever.
Importing cheerleaders doesn't help steemit when they're only serving to enable a predator while making the platform look like a perpetual tinfoil convention.
"serving to enable a predator while making the platform look like a perpetual tinfoil convention"
What I have discovered thus far in my investigation is actually far worse than I could have imagined. We have all been terribly, terribly naive. No wonder no one really looks into things, the findings are horrific.
Uncrap our minds, Stella!
NO shit.
You wouldn't fucking believe what i uncovered. I'm actually too scared to publish it myself. Time to perhaps start Steemit 2.0 HARDFORK. Where INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM can thrive.
I'm not scared. Let me know if you'd like my collaboration. I'm cheap. [email protected]
Nobody else will if you don't. Chances are likely few people around here know the true extent.
Not 2.0...... break off. completely..... Really no interest in continuing with the current crowd (unless hardfork is a reset of funds)
true extent of what? I guess independent thought is a rare commodity? I thought everyone looked up information out of curiosity? That's what I do so I thought others did it too. We have free speech, remember? Oh yeah, this system is centralized, I FORGOT.
Berwick mixes in enough sophomoric anecdotes in his blog, and on here I presume, about hating the state, beating the system, being the king of finance, blah, blah, blah, that his negative and/or criminal attributes and conduct are naively dusted under the denial rug by those in the anarchy or whatever movement, many times by those whose businesses are tied to him or to Anarchapulco, which he funded solely with money that he stole from his Mexico passport victims. It's like the family Christmas where alcoholic Uncle Bob passes out in the Christmas tree after he pisses on the Christmas gifts, and then everyone just smiles like nothing ever happened, and exchanges hugs instead of their piss-soaked gifts, which they then give to Uncle Bob…because he needs the gifts more than they do. Berwick is an addict. This has possibly accelerated his decent into being corrupt to the core if he does not see a way, in his mind at least, to be the king of whatever it is he has in front of him. This is driven from his complete lack of connection with his father, and family, which he told me about once or twice in drunken stupors. He's trying to impress something that isn't there…and he truly does not care who is harmed in his path of doing so, or to soothe his insecurities, addictions and desire to commit crimes to prove that he is above laws that the claims should not exist. Unfortunately, it must make others think, as it does me, that anarchists don't want laws, because they don't want the penalties that are tied to such laws when they break them. That's my take on what he is doing to the anarchist movement anyhow. I am happy to supply as much information as is needed to clearly show everyone this. I am one of the few people who stood up to him…and he organised the public destruction of my reputation, and subsequently GGC, for me doing so.
Are you going to post what you more you have uncovered?
I hope so.
I feel sick when I think about it. TDV appeals mostly to beta men and women who want to be successful. He unconsciously taps into people's desires and exploits their good nature.
The whales most likely are participating in the pile on effect. Since TDV has loads of followers, they set the pace for trending. Then the whales pile on, making curation money. The same stuff is happening here that's happening in mainstream media actually. Cult of personality, drugs, violence, fraud, corruption, deceit, etc....
"What I find concerning on some level is how often his posts are upvoted by Steemit founders."