Pretty sure you’d care if I built a casino on the mass grave your mother was buried in after I publicly helped dig it.

But hey, she’ll be dead no matter what, so you don’t care right?

I mean, honestly, why are you even trying to use a moral compass when you clearly don’t have one to begin with.

It’s funny we live in a world where people like you waste so much of their time on the internet arguing a lost cause. Mostly because everyone outside the bubble of bullshit you’re addicted to being a part of isn’t so gullible. Honestly, amd I mean this sincerely. You are dillusional.

It is objectively pointless to have a conversation with you, as the outcome is always decided for you before you even type.

Your comments and every one like them are just the same bullshit white noise being perpetuated by people addicted to their lizard brains chemical reactions to the fear, anger, and hate they’ve buried themselves in.

You’re a literal junkie high on hate, and any conversation with you is pointless because you aren’t even a part of it.

Don’t forget about the casino Trump wants to build there after bulldozong it! That certainly wouldn’t have happened under a Biden presidency either.

No offense, but have you considered that Democrats aren’t left?

Because compared to the rest of the world and political spectrum, they are not “left.”

So you are absolutley correct that:

we’re exactly the same. Both sides believe they are critical thinkers.

Both the GOP and DEMS have the same corporate blindspots. Both think they’re critical thinkers, but will defend their party as the “correct” one rather than admit that the system has completely failed to keep money away from influencing every outcome.

We have a congress and senate stacked with millionaires doing the bidding of the billionaires that pay for their campaigns instead of the people that vote for them.

The only difference between the GOP and the DNC, is that the DNC wants a slow decent into a corporate dystopia instead of a fast one that kills people unnecessarily.

Actual “left” policies requires the following discourse that is impossible for the DNC to have honestly:

• reducing the military budget
• reducing corporate welfare
• workers rights & Union rights
• increasing taxes on the wealthy

All of these things have become “too socialist” for a DEM to even bring up, and you’ll justify that as them “aiming for moderates” instead of thinking critically about how every facet of our society is now corporate controlled and the reason actual “left” socialist policy isn’t talked about is simply because Facebook, Google, and X own the spaces those conversations happen. Instead of actual discourse, and cooperating on collective measures, corporations make sure the algorithms they control make America too afraid and angry of overexagerated BS to not think critically about the failure of their society to move forward in two decades despite the massive wealth concentrating at the top of it.

DEMS love having a bad guy to point to. So do the GOP. Yet that finger is always pointed at the other party instead of the Billionaires that have used their unspent “Trickle Down” Reagonomic tax breaks to make society worse instead of better, because problems like unaffordable Healthcare are incredibly more profitable than a publically funded one.

Yet I’ll bet you want to blame the GOP for that too. Not Senator Lieberman, an Independent, who got rid of the public option in Obamacare by simply threatening a filibuster that the Dems immediately capitulated to despite already having enough votes without him.

If you want to think critically, you’re going to have to start by not pointing fingers at the GOP when the DEMS consistently capitulate on our most beneficial legislation to favor their coporate donors.

Actual critical thinking is almost impossible in America, as it requires accepting that the system we live in doesn’t work, and insisting on using it the way we’re “supposed to” has lead to massive wealth disparity and the loss of freedoms to corporate interests.

It’s certainly not hard to see when the greatest threat to United Health and costly health insurance in the last 15 years has come from an assassin instead of our elected officials. Show me a DEM explaining Luigi Mangionis actions instead of chastising him for it.

The left uses critical thinking. They need to actually engage with information and verify it before choosing to adopt it. This takes time.

The right are scared children and adopt whatever their TV parent or religious politician tells them out of fear. This takes zero time.

Reddit had an AMA with a Bank Robber ten years ago that they’ve since deleted for corpo purity reasons 😂

Here’s the big points from it:

• Banks don’t care about losing amounts under 5k.
• Security won’t stop you if you don’t have a visible weapon.
• Worst they do is lock the door, so bring a hammer.
• the goal is to get in, and get the teller to give you a couple grand asap, then leave under 10 minutes.
• Guy did this to at least 5 different banks (all different companies) in one day, once a month, for several months.

He eventually got caught because of the money he had, not because his face was on every security camera.

He recommends not doing this, as do I, as it’s just not worth it.

But just in case you wanted to know how it was done a decade ago, fuck Reddit, here’s the details they recently deleted.

I mean. Not many. At least in the entertainment industry. This fuck gets 250 mil a year, and pulls movies from distribution to save 40 mil instead of take a pay cut. He’s single handedly fucked Hollywood into the ground so hard, that large American studios are likely never going to recover.

Warner Brothers has already been fed into the wood chipper for parts, and not much is left. They literally sold the rights to their own theme music (As time goes by 1962) in an accidental bulk sale of their own properties. This idiot sold so much of what made Warner Bros, he now has the company paying someone else to use their own jingle.

That GQ article didn’t go hard enough, and was pulled because billionaires have thin skin from the complete lack of skills their money has insulated them from developing.

I find it absolutley bizarre that crypto is viewed this way on Lemmy. Because if anyone wants to know the problem crypto is trying to solve, you can read the original anonymous white paper written for Bitcoin where it was clearly stated its creation was for an alternative to fiat currency.

So if you hate the way capitalism has fucked the world by making everything’s value tied to the US Dollar, Crypto is the solution to that.

No need for: banks, the fed, or any government or private institution to regulate currency and manipulate its flow towards corruption if all those institutions are decentralized and accounted for digitally.

That’s what Crypto does.

You have a wallet instead of a bank account (modern ones even have savings and loan features). You have a block chain regulating the currency through diminishing returns instead of the Fed. And you have an uncorruptable fully transparent leger with where transactions are going instead of random bank fees going towards bloated executive salaries.

Is some Crypto a scam? Sure. But there’s scams in literally every new technology where there’s a gap between ignorance and experience.

So don’t let yourself become ignorant about crypto simply because the counter propaganda is strong and made you scared to try using it yourself. I’m not talking about daytrading, or making a quick buck. I’m talking about using it as intended to buy goods and services.

Because not only is it easier to use than money, it’s more lucrative and rewarding, and the sooner you start using it, the more likely the value of your assets will increase. It doesn’t take long using crypto before you’ll see the problems with existing paper currency and the bullshit system it’s designed to perpetuate.

By that I mean - for example:

Take whatevers in your bank account, and look at what was in it 10 years ago. Let’s say $10. Chances are you still have about $10 in your account now, so for arguments sake, let’s say theres been $10 sitting in your account doing nothing for 10 years.

In US currency, due to inflation, the $10 in your account after 10 years is now worth $7.

If you had a Bitcoin wallet, that $10 would now be worth $1000.

If you want to know why the 1% have so much power, it’s because they control the fiat capital in a capitalist system.

Crypto is an alternative to that fiat, and one that endangers the existing system. If people used it more than $Dollars, capitalists literally would no longer have power as the system they use to maintain their control (banks, corrupts government, money laundering) is no longer being used.

Crypto provides a solution to the corruptable fiat in a capitalist system through removing the existing mechanisms of corruption that have been created and replacing them with a decentralized fully transparent digital alternative.

The people who created Bitcoin did so to fight the same people and systems everyone here seems to hate.

So I find it fascinating that the firehose of propaganda about crypto is still readily seen here.

Is Crypto bad? Sure. Nothings perfect. But at this very moment - it’s a much better store of value than the dollar, especially in uncertain times, yet people are convinced it’s a scam.

When unquestionably the best thing for people to do right now is to get away from the tanking dollar. Inflation is guaranteed simply because Trumps policies have dramatically reduced the amount of Treasury Bills the world is now buying from the US. Those TBills are the US debt, and as a deficit spending country, the US economy only works if that debt is purchased.

It ain’t being purchased.

So if you want to know why there’s a firehose of propaganda about crypto right now - it’s because those with $Dollars want you to also have Dollars, so when they diversify into scam coins, they profit and you’re left holding their losses.

Crypto is unquestionably the best currently available solution to fixing the damage capitalism has caused, and those already using it know and feel this. They just have an impossible time convincing anyone else otherwise.