You’re not deep enough down the rabbit hole tbph. FBI has spent most of their time entrapping complete randos into “terrorist” plots. TSA has always been security theater, the only reason it existed was to launder money (Michael Chertoff, Rapiscan, etc.). “Terrorism” is not a sane thing to be concerned about for this society. Avoiding entirely the issue of who was responsible for 9/11.

I’m not having fun.

Sometimes I reflexively do the CTRL-T, re (enter). Been logged out for a while.

That’s not infinite. Bitcoin is just one of many participants in the wider currency market. The bet of people speculating on Bitcoin is that its market share in the market will continue to grow. So the absolute upper limit of its valuation is basically that of the global currency market. In more practical/realistic terms, it has technical constraints as-is that limit its use as a day-to-day currency, which limit it to a lower point, since other currencies have to be used for small transactions, and hence, have to take some other portion of the global currency market. And so on.

Not exactly gambling. Rather, the market is trying to anticipate and calculate these shifts in valuation. Individual participants may try to catch it early to get a good deal. Many will fail, including buying at a bad deal. People will get caught up in hype because it’s a novel invention as opposed to some same-for-same replacement. That’s just the price determination mechanism. Currency shifts, and market adjustments in general, are messy. Any time one currency dies, there’s a flight to others.

Disclaimer: I have zero Bitcoin. Also this is just explaining mechanisms, not justifying or supporting them.

The theory behind capitalism doesn’t require infinite growth. A society could have continual “profit” based on the use of renewable resources. The explanation for why we’re constantly expanding our exploitation of the planet is a little more complex than just an inherent trait of the economic system. That’s kind of a nasty oversimplification that people apply.

I was about to clarify a few minutes ago, they were defending the TSA on reddit. “This is how you get 9/11” or something like that.

Am I supposed to read more than a sentence of this

I think you have managed to completely change the subject in a single comment.

The redditization of lemmy.world is finally complete. Congratulations, you have ruined the internet.

Remember when abolishing TSA was an anti-Bush liberal cause - a defense of basic civil liberties against encroaching fascism? Now Trump says something negative about the TSA and the liberals reflexively jump to its defense.

Fuck Trump, fuck the TSA, and fuck anyone whose politics change with the weather.

Just vomiting out another page of black-hearted defense of genocidal politicians and their supporters. Fucking disgusting. Shame on you.

That’s the idea

Works for me. With a little coaxing I got it to advocate non-violent system replacement too. I don’t think you’ll be able to get it to advocate violent overthrow though, no surprises there…

Real answer? All political systems are designed by us and can be discarded by us. Law is just a mandate for society enforced at the point of a gun. Under normal (non-US) circumstances, using our system, you could run impeachment through Congress, but Congress and the federal judiciary are completely corrupt and in on the same agenda. As a society we can just stop using this system - the only deciding factor is military and police force being on our side or theirs. That’s why the military is such a rigid hierarchy, to try to make it an impossibility for the rule of this government to topple. But all social systems have human free will as their greatest flaw. Be prepared to explain to MAGAs and gun nuts how Trump is implementing Maoist totalitarianism with capitalist overtones, and how the government is the most un-American thing of all. This is a game of changing minds, which is how division among the people sowed the collapse of the society.

Huge red flag, using “centrist” to apply to anyone who criticizes both political parties. Lot of those people identify as “leftists” with Democrats to their “right”. It’s an really grotesque America-centric framing that makes it sound like any position outside of the genocidal American mainstream is automatically wrong, and any bipartisan critique is just lazy indecisiveness. As if every systemic critique of this country is wrong. As if you ever even bothered to think critically about the entire system yourself, or what better possibilities are out there. I think that’s what they call a “thought-terminating cliche”. Your mind hasn’t gone there, but you’ll attack anyone whose mind has. Really disgraceful behavior.

Trump also confirmed he had instructed the military to resume shipments of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, which had been paused over concerns about civilian casualties.

Biden sent 14,000 of those bombs as of July last year. Enough to kill roughly a million people in a concentrated enough area. Some critical context you missed in your framing of the situation.

West Bank ethnic cleansing

Has been ongoing at this increased pace for about a year. Are you just hearing about it now?

You guys truly struggle with this. Both of them are complicit in the genocide. Stop trying to make one of them look good just because you identify more with him.

And no, I do not agree with Maalus’s take just because I’m under his comment arguing with you.

Reminds me of the Republicans with the “raw milk”.

I asked what specifically you had an issue with, and gave three possibilities. Which one are you saying no to? This screams “evasion” that you just say “no” and then start in with a bunch of vague platitudes. You won’t even pin down what you’re saying. Speak up.

So, being that’s the reality we live in, I can determine that the situation is INFINITELY better off in the hands of one party than the other.

Genocide is not infinitely better than genocide. It is actually delusional to think that a political system comprised of two parties which have a near-total consensus on committing genocide are operating independently. You can frame this as a “tough choice adults have to make” as much as you want, but the fact that you have no coherent explanation about why this is happening shows you’re just playing games instead of facing reality.

I also voted for that party because I’m not a moron single issue voter and I know there’s a lot else at stake right here at home.

Again - genocide is not a “single issue”. It shows that on the spectrum of morality, a politician is at absolute zero. Pure evil. It negates every other stance they supposedly have, because it proves that they value absolutely nothing except their own benefit. If you can sacrifice millions of humans, you are an absolute devil. If you vote for someone like that, no much how much anguish you supposedly subject yourself to while you’re doing it, you’re a fool and a useful idiot at best, and as evil as the politician at worst. And back to the point of “the parties are not actually independent”, this speaks only to you failing to understand that voting for either of these parties sacrifices everything that’s at stake. It is the public shooting itself in the foot and thinking they’re being strategic.

This is exactly why I don’t respect you - you’re talking about everything but the GENOCIDE.

Stop responding to me. You’re not “humbling” me, I’m disgusted by you. Your complete moral failure here is enough before you start adding on the condescension, which you then go and accuse me of in return.

I wish this site had a working block feature like reddit. Some of these people just need to be cut out of responding. “Hide their messages endlessly taunting you and dancing around the point even after you’ve left” is not the same.