I tell this to everyone at every opportunity:

If Bernie was the DNC nominee in 2016 he would have beat Trump according to literally every single general poll:

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2016/trump-vs-sanders

He had a ten point+ lead against Trump compared to Hillary. Hillary just polled better in the DNC primary. Funny then how the DNC made their constituents care more about who could win their primaries than who could win the actual presidential election.

That heavily favored Bernie winning against anyone.

Going to Mars.

If that’s his goal, he’s awful at optimizing it for success. Going to mars is at minimum, a 3 step process:

1. Getting to Mars
2. Making Mars Survivable
3. Building Mars Infrastructure

Musk is focusing on step one. Which is sure as shit profitable. Especially with all those Trump favors like defunding NASA so they wouldn’t compete with Musk.

Which is just so obviously short sighted. NASA funding would do nothing but benefit getting to Mars in the long run, especially with a shared pursuit of scientific discovery and cooperation. Instead Musk and Doge meddled their budget.

That’s profit over goals.

Even worse, with climate change likely decimating all forms of capitalism in the next 30 years, focusing on profit over basic sustainability is going to lead to a guaranteed failure of any money based pursuit. It’s short sighted at best, and incredibly, righteously stupid at worst - because just prioritizing step 2 would likely solve climate change with it.

Getting to Mars requires making Mars habitable, so Musk should be prioritizing making Earth habitable if his goal is Mars. Otherwise, his gaze just exceeds his abilities, as it almost always has cough cybertruck cough Twitter being profitable cough

If Musk took 10% of his worth and dedicated it to terraforming Mars, therefore saving earth, he would be worshipped as a literal god having used his power for the better of the world instead of just his bank account.

Any extremely twisted desire for attention and God like admiration would be immediately filled, permanantly, for the rest of his days if he succeeded in beating climate change in wanting to Terraform Mars.

Instead he’s making money, and being sad when people don’t like him.

Humans love movies about those with great power having great responsibility.

Musk lacks any of that responsibility despite having that power and even comparing himself to those heros. He asks for their respect, while acting with none of their responsibility.

Tony Stark built suits to stop invading aliens. Musk is just building bunkers for him and his friends, and is defunding NASA to steal their contracts for satellites and launches for the money to do it.

He doesn’t make people forget, he makes people not care. FOX News 24/7 is how that’s done. Eventually anyone watching will think he’s great as all MAGA do once they watch enough. Sure he’s obviously evil. But ask anyone in the Fox News boat how they feel, and they’ll say he’s the greatest president of all time.

Ask any MAGA about his image, and they will disagree. To them, it’s perfect. Every flaw of his has DAYS of propaganda explaining to his followers how it isn’t a flaw.

• Weinstein
• Diddy
• Cosby
• Dan Shneider
• Danny Masterson

All these guys got a pass for quite some time, all because they worked on having an image so pure the public would defend it for them. Trump has entire news stations doing that for him.

You think police listen to claims that people with a good public image are secretly sexual deviants? No. They don’t. Especially if they’re powerful. The person making the claim is a nobody. What are the chances they’re telling the truth? They have evidence? No they don’t, the police believe your evidence is probably fake so you can grift money.

Now imagine you hear that after you were taken advantage of, and tried to report it. And you hear it everytime you try to report it.

You want justice? First step is getting anyone to even listen when your accusations rock the boat. Doesn’t matter the boat is built of lies and bullshit, you’re still rocking it.

Everyone I listed above has dozens of allegations against them. Yet they got away with it for years. Mostly because each single voice was individually seperated and buried so they could never group together for the strength needed for actual justice.

The question you should be asking is: Why aren’t we listening to the allegations of EVERY individual when a new person comes forward?

Why is every new claim presented as something new by the media? Why are the consensus of voices saying the same thing downplayed as “dozens of others” instead of looked at with the slightest bit of credibility?

You want to listen to this new claim about Trump? Cool, let’s first hear from everyone else to see if the same things line up:

• Jill Harth, who worked with Trump in the 1990s, accused him of “attempted rape” in a 1997 complaint. She said that in 1993, Trump tried to kiss her in his daughter’s bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort, pushing her against a wall and putting his hand up her dress.

• Jessica Leeds told The New York Times in 2016 that, in the late 1970s, Trump, who was a stranger to her, reached his hand up her skirt and grabbed her breasts on a flight to New York. She said he “was like an octopus” and his “hands were everywhere” before she fled to the back of the plane.

• Kristin Anderson, a photographer and former model, told The Washington Post in 2016 that Trump sat next to her at a nightclub in the early 1990s and reached under her skirt. Anderson said the incident lasted about 30 seconds, but she and her friends were “very grossed out and weirded out.”

• Ivana Trump, Trump’s first wife, accused him in a divorce deposition of raping her in a fit of rage in 1989, when they were married.

• Five former Miss Teen USA contestants told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that in 1997, Trump, the owner of the pageant at the time, unexpectedly walked into the contestants’ dressing room while they were changing, Victoria Hughes said that it was “the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time. The youngest girl was 15, and I was the eldest at 19.” The other three women described a similar situation to BuzzFeed anonymously.

• E. Jean Carroll, a writer, said Trump raped her in 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. Carroll wrote about the incident in her 2019 memoir called “What Do We Need Men For?” In May 2023, Carroll was awarded $5 million after a jury held Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

• Temple Taggart, former Miss Utah, told The New York Times in 2016 that Trump “kissed me directly on the lips” when he met her at the 1997 Miss USA pageant and again when she met with him in Manhattan after he offered to help with her modeling career. Taggart described the incident as “inappropriate” and said her first thought after he kissed her was, “Oh my God, gross.”

• Cathy Heller told The Guardian in 2016 that Trump forcibly kissed her when she attended a Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s. Heller said she was “angry and shaken” after the former president ignored her handshake, grabbed her and went for the lips and became angry when she tried to turn her head away.

• Amy Dorris, a former model, said Trump forcibly kissed and groped her in his private box at the U.S. Open tennis championship in 1997. Dorris told The Guardian in 2020 that Trump “shoved his tongue down my throat” and “his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything.”

• Karena Virginia, a yoga instructor and life coach, told The Washington Post in 2016 that Trump groped her, unexpectedly wrapping his arm around her and touching her breast, in 1998 while she waited for a car outside the U.S. Open.

• Karen Johnson, who was a regular at Mar-a-Lago, said Trump pulled her behind a tapestry to kiss and grope her during a New Year’s Eve party in the early 2000s. Johnson detailed the incident to journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy, who published it in their 2019 book, “All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator,” aalong with 42 other allegations of sexual misconduct.

• Bridget Sullivan, another former Miss USA contestant, told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that she met Trump at a party promoting the competition, and he hugged her “a little low on your back” and gave “a squeeze that your creepy uncle would.” In a separate instance in 2000, Sullivan said, Trump walked backstage while many of the contestants were naked or getting dressed.

• Tasha Dixon, a former Miss USA contestant, told CBS in 2016 that, in 2001, Trump walked into where she and other contestants were changing. Dixon said she thought Trump “owned the pageant for the reasons to utilize his power to get around beautiful women."

• Natasha Stoynoff, a former reporter for People magazine, wrote in 2016 that Trump sexually assaulted her in 2005 while she was visiting Mar-a-Lago to work on a story about his first year of marriage with Melania. When they were alone, Stoynoff said, Trump closed the door and pushed her against the wall before “forcing his tongue down my throat.”

• Juliet Huddy, a former Fox News anchor, said on the “Mornin!!! With Bill Schulz” podcast in 2017 that Trump kissed her unexpectedly and without her consent in Trump Tower in the mid-2000s. Huddy said she “didn’t feel threatened” at the time but later realized she would’ve said no more clearly.

• Rachel Crooks, a former receptionist at Trump Tower, told The New York Times in 2016 that Trump kissed her “directly on the mouth” without consent when she first met him in 2005.

• Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA contestant, told CNN in 2016 that when she competed in 2006, Trump personally inspected each contestant, looking at them from head to toe like “sexual objects,” which made her feel “the dirtiest I felt in my entire life.”

• Ninni Laaksonen, a model and former Miss Finland, in 2016 told Ilta-Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, that Trump squeezed her butt in 2006 when they were backstage at the “Late Show with David Letterman.”

• Jessica Drake, an actor in adult films, accused Trump during a 2016 news conference of grabbing her, kissing her without her consent and offering her $10,000 to come to his penthouse hotel room in 2006.

• Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” told reporters at a 2016 news conference that Trump sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions in 2007. The first was when she met him and he kissed her on the lips. Later that year, Zervos said Trump grabbed her shoulder, kissed her “aggressively,” placed his hand on her breast and thrust himself on her before she was able to pull away and leave the room.

• Cassandra Searles, a former Miss USA contestant, wrote in a 2016 Facebook post that Trump “continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room” when she competed in 2013.

If you’ve read this far, hopefully the similar stories make it obvious what kind of creep Trump is around women.

He isn’t in jail, because every woman that comes forward is doubted instead of compared to all the rest that came before them.

That is why predators like him and the others I listed keep doing it: they’ve created an environment in which they can always get away with it no matter how many people come forward.

https://19thnews.org/2023/10/donald-trump-associates-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

Im sorry you don’t encounter people with actual crypto knowledge enough to know what that looks like when they talk to you.

Your whole argument is based on a false premise, the state has the monopoly of violence, it enforces the law that gives the right to own the means of production aka the source of capital…

My dude. I have already pointed out how this description isn’t the case anymore because of crypto, and that is why it can destabilize the capitalist system. I can’t make you read about Blockchain enough to understand that - that’s up to you.

The means of production as owned by the state is WORTHLESS if the state is using fiat while buyers / workers / a bigger economy is entirely crypto driven.

Crypto weakens the states hold over the means of production by devaluing it through a better technological substitute of those means.

Because the concept of a state is outdated. So is it’s centralized control of capital, currency, and all the means of production that come with it.

So if those means of production are decentralized from the state - aka block chain - then the state can literally lose the ability to enforce the laws that give them any kind of centralized authority.

In short, no cop is going to protect a capitalist holding dollars, if their paycheck and environment is in crypto. They might actually have the time to think about protecting the people who are all mining crypto, rather than a single old capitalist who is no longer paying them anything close to the same value.

Imagine a miner whose work literally generates capital they can trade. They own the means of production: mining crypto. And the results: crypto currency.

Ethereum even now has smart contracts that have absolutely authority. No state can alter them without altering the block chain itself. They self execute based on rules that cannot be manipulated or corrupted as they can be in a capitalist system.

That’s why capitalists invented centralized fiat currency: to control it, and always manipulate deals involving it to their favor.

So a Marxist data scientist invented block chain tech to literally be uncontrollable by a central authority, yet still function as a valuable currency in a digital world.

They did this by making Crypto both a currency AND commodity. So it is a new asset that is both, not one or the other. (WHITEPAPER! Seriously, you should read it if you’re a fan of Marx)

As such, holding crypto puts the power of commodities, the literal power of capital, into the hands of those manufacturing it: those with crypto wallets, or those who mine it. Literally the point of Marxism.

Crypto also no longer takes the enegery requirements you think. In 2023 Ethereum updated to a new fork that uses 99.9% less energy than it previously did. An ATM transaction now takes more energy than a crypto one.

Literally, read the white paper. The “problems” you are pointing out are already solved.

The issue is wider adoption of crypto in the face of all the MASSIVE disinformation you’ve heard about it. Almost like the same massive disinformation that capitalists put out when THEY ARE THREATENED.

Don’t tell me you’re going to believe what capitalist articles tell you about Crypto, but nothing else? There’s a reason it’s hated. And that’s because it poses an actual threat to capitalism.

People who know that sound like me.

Capitalism cornerstone is the right to own the means of production given by the state.

Agreed. And generally speaking, that’s done through fiat currency. The machines of production? Valued in Dollars. Their property and building? Dollars.

So Dollars, and the value of capital they store, are indeed the cornerstone of Capitalism.

Cytpo is a replacement for that cornerstone. And it can very much replace capitalism with it.

I use it! But you’re ignoring material reality if you think you can convince people to use crypt as their currency out of the blue.

People already ARE using it. Millions of them. That’s why I know it works. I’m not convincing you it could work if everyone uses it. I’m saying it works right now, and the sooner more people use it, the sooner capitalism will go away.

Whatever tech you do use, it isn’t crypto, or you would know this.

If you read Marx and Lenin…

I have. So I know that “proof of work” in Cryptocurrency is Based on Marx’s Labor Theory of Value.

Namely, proof of work makes each unit of the currency arbitrarily difficult to obtain, immune to forgery, and as an ancillary benefit, resistant to censorship. Marx says the work expended to mine the coins is what gives them their value, since there is no other way to create them and it requires human effort and energy.

Almost like the original white paper for bitcoin was written by a Marxist using his theories to create a new technological replacement for currency that didn’t favor capitalists.

So maybe you should read that white paper.

The worker class needs to organize itself to be able to take control of the state.

If the worker class organized to get paid in Crypto instead of dollars, the state would lose its power within months. As people use crypto, fiat becomes useless, and the systems that are built on the corruption of that fiat lose power.

That’s why no one takes French Francs anymore. The Euro replaced it, as it had more utility. Crypto could do the same with fiat, leaving everyone with francs sad and powerless as they don’t have crypto. That would be the state, bourgeoisie, and capitalists.

Marx wants us to fight the war on capitalism on the front lines. I’m not against that. Just pointing out that the very fuel of capitalism “capital” (as valued by fiat currency) can just be replaced with crypto which will stop the capitalism engine faster than anything.

Capitalism works because capital is manipulated and controlled by capitalists through fiat currency. Without fiat, there’s no controlled capital. Without that control, there’s no capitalism.

Oh I agree. I’m a citizen. But traveled a lot for work between 2005 - 2015. The second you experience what Healthcare is like outside the US it radicalizes you. And that’s if the thousands of other tiny and much better experiences don’t enlighten you to how backwards the US is. Tipping alone is so unnecessary.

Also, those 3 criteria are solid. Certainly my experience as well. The only difference being my personal optics. (In that I’m waiting to see what gets built on the ashes of Trump before leaving) So I guess I have molecules of hope? Eitherway, you have solid advice!

FYI. Harder to do that now than ever. Good job getting out when you did. But it’s not like Americans have good options. Most don’t have enough to pay rent let alone emigrate.

Put it back as soon as he’s gone?

My dude. America has yet to put a single fucking thing back after a Republican takes it.

Abortions rights. Voting rights. Workers rights. Right to Healthcare. Right to education. Right to transparent government funding (Citizens United) Right to privacy (Patriot Act) Right to fair information. Right to have our taxes go towards social benefits rather than Reaganomics.

If you’re waiting for anything to change back, no matter how small, it’s not.

You did not read the constitution of every country in the world to assert that.

No I didn’t. I just actually used the technology, unlike you.

If the country has internet, they can use crypto. It’s no different than using Facebook, Twitter, etc.

No country has the technology to prevent its use. They can barely check people’s ages online.

I’m not against forming unions, I’m incredibly FOR removing the source of all of capitalisms power: centralized banks and fiat currency.

If you want to defeat capitalism - The fastest way is to starve them of the source of their power. The whole system works off fiat currency so governments and banks can just print more money when they need. Which, when they do, lowers the value of all the money and things everyone else owns, just so they can cut taxes for Billionaires.

You can spend a generation forming unions for a better piece of the capitalist pie. Just hoping eventually the infinite wealth of Bezos and Musk will run out.

Or we can just use crypto and literally remove the power they have over money itself. That collective action would literally make capitalism irrelevant.

If you want to talk about overthrowing regimes, you should not be so concerned about each countries crypto currency laws.

It’s incredibly laughable to me, that you want to fight capitalism through the most painful methods possible. But using crypto is just too scary / you feel it’s illegal everywhere?

It’s sad that the constant disinfo campaign against it has literelly infected the people that could benefit most from it’s use.

Because you can easily starve capitalism to death by removing the mechanisms that make it function: fiat currency and centralized banks. Crypto easily replaces both. And can be used for free right now.

The only reason people aren’t is because they’re too scared to use it like you.

As a business owner in any country, I can accept crypto as payment. Because modern crypto doesn’t need a payment processor. You can do transactions directly from your wallet and avoid needing to involve the state, banks, or anyone but you and your customer. You can even build websites on the blockchain connected directly to your wallet. Or tokenize physical goods to sell there without needing anything but the internet.

It’s up to you to report your sales on the blockchain for taxes. It’s not at all, in anyway, monitored by any government as that’s what the distributed ledger tech was designed to avoid.

If you want a new world. Waiting isn’t going to make it happen. You can use crypto right the fuck now to take money away from the system it’s trapped in. You just want to pretend it isn’t accessible because of government control, when escaping that control is the very reason crypto was created to exist.

Trump is certainly a scammer. But he is also, unquestionably, an idiot. And that works in both directions. Against us. But also against his capitalist backers.

He is unquestionably deregulating laws on crypto everyday, to his own benefit - but that also just makes using crypto and hurting capitalism easier.

In material reality, the state is in no way stopping me from using crypto right this second. I can use it freely. And break no laws.

Why use their means of oppression if another tool exists, and can be used readily?

In fact, also in reality, Trump is accidentally bulldozing legislature meant to protect capitalism because he’s too stupid to know better. Specifically:

Trump has ordered his administration to supercharge the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, rolling back some regulatory enforcement and championing legislation that would broaden its accessibility and appeal.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-house-unveils-crypto-policy-roadmap-meant-usher/story?id=124215664

That’s reality.

I didn’t vote for any of this, you did.

Nope. I didn’t. And most of America didn’t either. We have a fucked up and outdated 2 party election system that was compromised by a conman, capitalism, and the most wealthy person on the planet to win an election by minority vote.

If you want to blame a large group (all Americans) for the actions a few of them take (MAGA cultists), by all mean become the MAGA bigot you already sound like.

I’d come if Americans were actually willing to do something…

We are. I even sent you links. Just because you don’t want to look at what we’re doing doesn’t mean we aren’t doing it.

More importantly why in the fuck would you not want to help otherwise? You’re certainly acting like it’s your problem too, so why no action on your part aside from complaining?

If this was WW2 would you likewise not want to help the Jews stop fascism? You know, because you FEEL like they aren’t doing it hard enough?

JFC, I thought Democrats were cowards, but you easily take that torch.

But do fucking something!

Pull your head out of your ass where you’re hiding it in fear, and maybe you’ll be able to see what we’re doing. We just had the 3rd largest protest in our history. I sent you that link. And we’ve got another planned for August.

If that’s not enough, kindly go fuck yourself in the comfort of a country not controlled by Trump.

I have to live here. I see how we’re fighting. I see how we’re working together. You absolutley fucking don’t.

If this last 6 months has been too much for your pants to soak up, know we’ve already been dealing with this shit for years. Yet our pants are much cleaner than yours.

Because we ARE actually doing shit to slow this down. Not just bitch about it on the internet from the safety of another country like you. Our media is completely corporate controlled, so you’re only seeing half the picture. Most outside the US don’t know how big our protests are getting because of it. But at least they’re willing to look.

You want me to come and do your dirty work?

Fuck no. You clearly suck. You can’t take Trumps dick for 6 months even though you are 1000’s of miles away. Meanwhile we’ve been getting fucked by it for years.

I told you to come here because you said you weren’t a coward. Clearly, you very much are.

Because you want to blame Americans for not beating Fascism fast enough. If you want it beaten faster come here and do it. Otherwise stop complaining.

All you need to know:

• We have the most guns per capita in the world. We (almost) all know how to use them. So we don’t start shit unless we want to get shot.

We won’t hesitate to get violent. We just aren’t the angry pansies turning over cars to retire early you’re used to talking with. We’re too busy plotting and assassinaing CEO’s after they go too far.

Now 2 of them. And the second one was just by fucking LUCK.

This is unquestionably, just the start of more.

So sit the fuck down. And shut the fuck up. We’re the ones doing the dirty work for you. You’re the one complaining it’s not fast enough. I’m sorry hearing about the Orange Man is hurting you more than me living through it. Calm down, and grow up.

Couldn’t agree more! 🙂

That’s like saying violent revolution will only be useful once we surpass Fascism.

The wide adaptation of crypto would likely deal a killing blow to capitalism as all the bullshit fees and exploitation expected from transactions completely disappear - along with their revenue streams to capitalist overlords at Visa / Mastercard / Amazon / Google / Taxes for the Fed, etc.

Like, you can already start defunding the bullshit happening right now by just paying for stuff with Crypto.

You are 100% correct. The sooner people adopt crypto, the sooner Visa and Mastercard are pointless. To be clear: MODERN CRYPTO DOES NOT REQUIRE PAYMENT PROCESSORS - YOU CAN MAKE PAYMENTS DIRECTLY FROM YOUR WALLET. (And not just for drugs).

Hey. Just FYI. That’s all outdated now. Ethereum forked to use 99.9% less energy. (To a sustainable point). Several other coins have followed including Cardano. And transaction times on both are within minutes, sometimes seconds. (Whereas my bank takes days). Though admittedly sometimes it takes an hour or two for a transaction to complete if there’s a lot of traffic.

I buy a lot of stuff (not drugs! Wow!) through crypto - and payment processors aren’t even needed. You can literally get a chrome extension to access your crypto wallet to pay for things directly. Which is why crypto is such a threat to payment processors and fiat currency. Because crypto is the same as basically opening your wallet for cash, throwing that cash at the screen, and that works to buy whatever’s on it. Visa and Mastercard can get fucked.

Bitcoins original white paper was very specific: the point of crypto is to take the power away from the assholes like Visa and Mastercard. But also from Banks and the Fed. No one person or entity should control these things. So Bitcoin decentralized them.

And now, 15 years later, it works pretty fucking well. That’s why the price has increased 1000%+ in that time.

(EDIT: To be clear, saying someone doesn’t accept Bitcoin is like saying someone doesn’t accept gold. You’re using the wrong digital currency. There’s plenty of others that don’t need payment processors for transactions.)

Ah. It’s not disinformation. I wasn’t going off figures of public school buses that in no way could be rented. I was going off the amount of busses in service for private operation.

There are approximately 66,180 revenue vehicles available for maximum service in the public transit sector of the United States.

From the transit authority database: https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd

Which based on your math is enough to carry 800k to 2.4 million at once if used to maximum capacity (and depending on bus size).

MAGA still believes MILLIONS of votes for Biden were from migrants bused in from Mexico.

If you took all the busses in the entirety of the USA, and used them at once, you could, at most, be able to transport 800,000 people.

And that’s if all the busses in the US were doing it at once. Something that would certainly be noticed.

MAGA are just dilusional. Unfortunately, nothing based in reality can change that.