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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surely it's treason to launch a new currency not backed by the US government while you are the government

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Doesn't matter what's legal or treasonous or whatever. He gets away with everything. His Republicans lackey and Supreme Court will do nothing.

[–] DaddleDew 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just buy a ~~bribe~~ Trump Coin to gain special access and privileges!

[–] JeeBaiChow 3 points 1 month ago

He might even send you a 'signed' thank you photo, if you pay the entrance fee for the draw!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

You can't fix this level of corruption with proposed laws and restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Politicians should have to take a vow of poverty and celibacy and if they're caught owning more than two pairs of shoes we tear them apart starting with the tips of the fingers and toes and working spineward one bone at a time while all of the others watch with their eyelids stapled open. "Greed detected. Mandatory disassembly initiated. All innocents will be harmed. The guilty will be harmed a LOT more."

Has anybody tried this? Maybe we can give it a try here in North America after Trump burns down the United States.

[–] shalafi 1 points 1 month ago

I've had the exact same disassembly fantasy. Take them apart on national TV, in front of god and everyone, piece by piece. We should be friends.

[–] slickgoat 4 points 1 month ago

Yes. It's about time we start showing concern for the Trump administration.

[–] eran_morad 3 points 1 month ago

This bullshit brought to you by the American voter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Gonna be funny as hell in a year when this coin is worthless, like every other meme coin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Not so funny when you consider all the insiders who made millions. But of course you can laugh at the clueless MAGAs who will be even more impoverished than before.

[–] kerrigan778 3 points 1 month ago

There already is for the president, it's the emoluments clause, they decided to wipe their butt with it 8 years ago.

[–] aesthelete 3 points 1 month ago

Why can't a state mint one of these pieces of shit and do a kind of soft secession?

[–] iAvicenna 1 points 4 weeks ago

almost as if he is a scammer....

[–] dx1 -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rest assured that any crypto legislation will fail to address complete scams and will simply stifle innovation instead.

[–] aesthelete 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dx1 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I 100% don't agree. There's bullshit masquerading as innovation, and all kinds of harmful technology, but innovation (read: technology) has given us everything of actual value that we have.

[–] aesthelete 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Great for you but darpanet was a government project and it gave us a lot of what we have.

[–] dx1 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not sure what point you're making. Think I covered all those bases in my message.

[–] aesthelete -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Innovation is a business term. I dunno why corporate stooges still exist.

[–] dx1 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Etymology:

innovation (n.)

mid-15c., innovacion, "restoration, renewal," from Late Latin innovationem (nominative innovatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of innovare "to change; to renew," from in- "into" (from PIE root *en "in") + novus "new" (see new). Meaning "a novel change, experimental variation, new thing introduced in an established arrangement" is from 1540s.

I am not using it in a business sense. Hell, crypto's not even supposed to be there for business, it's getting milked in the same way the web did - didn't mean the web was bad, and doesn't mean crypto itself is bad. The core tech is just a linked list of cryptographic proofs that establishes a global state. All this memecoin type shit just plays on ignorance and hype.

[–] aesthelete 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah cuz you meant it in the Latin, not in the way it's actually used and not in the way I was calling it bullshit...🥱

Lol so you're into business garbage and crypto?

Good for you. 👍

[–] dx1 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You just trying to be a dick or what? "Innovation" just means coming up with anything clever. I'm not into business garbage, I've been sitting here in this thread calling out scams and memecoins and other bullshit for two or three comments already.

[–] aesthelete 1 points 4 weeks ago

Innovation as spoken about in board rooms and business meetings is bullshit. There; that work for you?

[–] shalafi -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And private enterprise took it mainstream. I was there, I was part of it.

[–] aesthelete 2 points 1 month ago

Private enterprise made it terrible. I was there, I was a part of it.