All I hear is someone that swallowed the “both sides” bait hook, line, and sinker and is now stuck in denial that you got suckered.

At least some of the MAGAs are now admitting that they got scammed.

Imagine thinking the term Space Cowboy originated in a cartoon made in 1998.

Here’s a cool song that was apparently inspired by Cowboy Bebop LOL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66V1hYAjG0

Yeah no shit they’re controlled by different groups of people.

Real currency is managed by a central bank which has as it’s goal to keep it stable with slight inflation over time. Because that’s what makes it good for doing loans with.

Cryptocurrency is controlled by speculators looking to make money from rug pulls.

Tickets at an arcade could be considered a currency because they only have value

You’re still thinking currency is supposed to have value beyond being something that makes it convenient to conduct transactions in. Money is a simply an incomplete transaction. You’re trading something of value for something else of value. You do labour you’re owed something. You buy a product, you’ve completed the transaction, trading labour for a product. Money exists when that transaction is incomplete. It’s a temporary thing that only exists because it’s inconvenient to haul around chicken, bushels of grain, or anything else someone might want whenever you’re making a trade.

Crypto currency operates on the premise that money is supposed to have value in and of itself and that value should be increasing. It’s valued because people believe it will increase in value with some underlying belief that it will someday become a currency. But once everyone that could ever get suckered into buying into it has already put all of their money into it, it can no longer increase in value and those that invested into it to make a profit will sell, causing the value to crash.

There is no benefit to crypto other than for illegal activities like money laundering and for scamming people. It would be stupid to take out a loan denominated in crypto as it could increase in value. So businesses will never be financed in crypto which means it’s inconvenient for business to pay employees in crypto, which means it’s inconvenient for those employees to buy legit products in crypto. The whole point of currency is to make transactions more convenient and crypto fails at that because borrowing crypto would be stupid.

So it’s not real currency and never will be because the libertarian concept of money that has increasing value doesn’t work for financing and therefore won’t work in a capitalist society.

I don’t think you know what the word “accelerationist” means.

Pope Francis made a bunch of new Cardinals from all over the world, so nobody knows what will happen.

Probably had to tweet a poop emoji at Musk.

Just make sure you get the Original Prongles

Yeah but now you can get citizenship by “investing” $5M in $TRUMP coin.

The survival of US democracy is dependent on whether Trump croaks before his term is up. If he’s still alive when his term is up, he’s not leaving. Then that’s the end of US democracy and either it’s a civil war or they become an authoritarian regime with a slow decline. In which case, yeah they’ll be and adversary for Canada for decades.

But if he doesn’t last the term (he’s old and not all that healthy) my guess is JD Vance lacks the popularity to make authoritarianism stick and will either be voted out or there’d be a coup if he tries to quash democracy. Whoever replaces him would not want to continue the failed policies of that regime.

So it all depends on how long the Fanta Menace lives for.

They could certainly be replaced by the LLMs they’ve dumped billions into. A large chunk of middle management too.

Cool. Now I just need another analogy to explain the comparison between a Dacia to a Porsche.

Yeah I’m sure a President Kamala Harris would be doing mass deportations, aligning the US with the authoritarians of the world, threatening to invade allies, making tirllion dollar tax cuts for the wealthy ahd would have Elon Musk gutting the federal government right now.

Yep, that would all be happening. Definitely.

FFS The cope coming from the uncommitted crowd is even more insane the cope coming from MAGAs right now.

Given the latest reports, the current Pope is either going to make a full recovery or died a week ago. We’ll probably find out in about a week.

Real currency represents debt. You’re paid money that represents what is owed to you for work you’ve done. Or you’re owed something because you handed over a product so you’re handed money that represents what you’re owed.

Real money is created when money is borrowed. Because real money represents something owed. Interest rates are set to control how how much money is borrowed which impacts the money supply, which impacts it’s value.

Crypto “currency” would be terrible to use for loans, as that would be effectively shorting it which as something that’s value is determined purely by speculation could result in you owing way more in real value than you originally borrowed. Buying crypto is a gambling the money you put into it. Taking out a loan denominated in crypto currency is gambling an infinite level of liability.

Since it absolutely fails at the primary function of currency (representing debt) crypto “currency” is definitively not a currency. It’s only believed to be currency by people who don’t understand what currency is.

They used to bring canaries down to the coal mines because they were sensitive to methane gas. If you hit a pocket of methane gas, the canary dies before you do. So if you’re in a coal mine and see the canary is dead, it’s time to act (get the hell out) because if you don’t, the thing that’s affecting the canary will soon have the same effect you.

So in this case it would be saying “don’t be complacent about this thing is something only happening to immigrants (or people that “look like” immigrants), because it will soon be happening to you too if you don’t act on it.”

Yes, completely legit people are well known for having a frontman (or frontwoman) for their operations.

Macron is a smooth operator isn’t he?

From what I’ve heard it was a bit of a mess. But at any rate, new spy movies and shows are made all the time, with varying degrees of success.

Nobody really talks about those ones very much though. We are talking about James Bond. That name has value. Which why they’ll continue making them.

Again read a history book. After whatever collapse you’re hoping for happens, things will be built back to be similar to how it was before.

Yes socialism works everywhere** !!!

** everywhere that has a lot of oil