China isn’t as successful at imperialism as the Americans. The American ruling class is just… Too good at being evil.

Doesn’t mean that China and Russia aren’t imperialist though. They’re just unable to beat the US… For now…

You find that all of your “left” muscles have been paralyzed.

It’s matrices all the way down

The little girl on the left with adult hands… So fkin funny lol

The role of the government is not to decide what is abhorrent and what isn’t. The role of the government is to ensure protection of human rights, provide healthcare, run schools, build infrastructure and so on.

Consenting horny adults being horny with each other and doing horny stuff to each other does not violate any human rights.

The British government can go fuck itself.

Who said I was a doctor?

Will have to try it out next time. Thank you for the tip 🍆💦

Lol yeah, if you don’t like what you see… Just close your eyes! ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

For which office? You guys already have elected progressives in some offices

I wonder what fascinated alien scientists would write about us

Peak

The only terminal goal that corporations have is to make money. As much of it as possible.

Production of Andor was greenlit with the assumption that investing money in it would result in a positive ROI. Nothing more, nothing less. The same applies to them funding the fascist admin.

#blessyourkidneystones

Most monologues and speeches from Andor:

• Nemik’s manifesto: Talks about liberation and authoritarianism.
• Kino’s speech: I interpreted it as a call for revolution against the ruling class.
• Mothma’s senate speech: Talks about how fascism rises with a loss of an objective reality (in the public consciousness).

Andor’s really a banger! Please consider watching it if you haven’t already.

Yes.

Racist post. I hope it isn’t tolerated by the community.

Do activists with a messiah complex exist? Yes. Are they annoying? Yes. Should folks considered “white” and politically “liberal” be generalized into having this attribute? No. It’s racist to do so.

OP is quite bigoted and should know better.

The argument for privacy in monetary transactions is much more nuanced than the one for simple text messages. Reducing privacy in text messages only punishes the “good guys”, as bad guys can still use e2ee communication media very easily.

For monetary transactions, things get more complicated. Tax evasion, money laundering, human trafficking, purchase of weapons can be done using super private payment systems. If adoption of this becomes widespread, then liquidity of these currencies increase. For example, if I’m selling illegal weapons, then the Monero that I receive from that purchase needs to be somehow converted into real money so that I can buy a house, groceries and so on. If Monero becomes widespread, then I don’t even need to this.

Imagine Bezos, musk and all the other crooks just getting way way more of powerful.

How do they handle the traceability aspect? Like, if it’s a blockchain, that makes transactions public by definition right?

Not quite. They use something called “ring signatures”.

Centralised payment systems are much more efficient. Yes, corporate capture can make them suck (visa/MasterCard duopoly). To ensure security, financial infrastructure tends to be super capital intensive. This leads to an oligopoly in a best case scenario and a monopoly in the worst case scenario.

Being a natural monopoly, I would highly highly be in support of state owned financial “stuff”. Cooperativize operations as much as possible, but let the state raise capital for this. Good for national security too.

Certain types of crypto can be very good if you want transactions to be anonymous (Monero being the best example). Wanna purchase drugs from an illegal ecommerce platform? Monero is untraceable. Wanna buy weapons, launder money, etc? Monero works. Otherwise, it’s pretty much useless in the face of existing non crypto services.

BTC sucks for transactions. But its value proposition is kinda different. It’s kinda like gold (kinda).

Humans throughout history have based currencies based on items that can be easily verified to be real, and are scarce. Gold is an example. Gold can be mined, yes. But it’s pretty scarce. It’s easy to tell gold from “not gold”.

Hence, in a world where financial systems weren’t exactly integrated and digitized, assets and market info was hard to track, trust in other countries and their institutions was super low, gold worked.

But we abandoned the gold standard for a reason. Hence, do we really want a digital gold equivalent (in terms of verifiability and scarcity)? What even is the point? That’s why BTC doesn’t make sense (for me)

I don’t necessarily boycott businesses just to achieve some higher purpose like beating fascism away or whatever- most of the time it’s cuz I know the owner(s) are assholes to their workers. Fuck those guys. Plus, most food served outside is inferior to the one I make at home, so not much of value is lost.

If I ever have kids in the future, and if my kids do this seat kicking bullshit, I give total permission to this distinguished individual to eat my kid.