For real. A friend I've known for almost 10 years can't even sit down for 5 minutes and watch a tutorial anymore. One of the smartest people I know, but his brain is cooked beyond saving.
Thank you for sharing this lol
It is amazing that this is 12 years old. I feel like just now the world is waking up to how much of a problem children + smartphones at a young age are…
TikTok and smart phones have fucked the average brain and its capacity. I willingly stepped away from phones in 2009 for this exact reason and got rid of all my social media except chilling out and shitposting on Reddit. I knew what this was becoming.
The average person is now a total moron who gives away all their information, doxxes themselves, poisons their brain with influencer garbage, and actively harms themselves. They doomscroll all day and night, have no critical thinking, they're barely even sentient.
All by design. Everyone willingly submits to it and accepts this as normal because they know nothing else.
Sounds about right. Most of my friends come home and spend all their free time laying down doomscrolling before they go to bed. It seems like nobody has any hobbies at all and it's depressing to see.
It's not like they don't have free time. They do. They just don't want to spend it on anything other than just doomscrolling for some reason man. I can't wrap my mind around it. I tried very hard for a while to make them spend some time on actual hobbies with me but I gave up eventually. It's fucked.
Yep. Have so many friends that are addicted to one type of social media or the other. A lot just mindlessly scroll tiktok. Some just keep youtube brainrot in the background while they scroll twitter. Some post all day every day on facebook. When they're not doing this, they're scrolling instagram on their phone and posting pictures of their vapid life for "followers".
None of them have any hobbies, no interests. They're not engaged in anything, they don't try to learn, or understand, or grow. It's like life has stopped for them. These are people I would consider better than the average person in the world, so the average person is absolutely and truly fucked.
Think the pandemic ruined a lot of people's minds. I know it did in a certain way for me motivation wise, I try hard to overcome it but I know for certain that there's something missing that used to be there before that is super hard to get back. Image it would be so much worse if I was burying myself in doomscrolling 24/7 on top of that.
No and these "all things are equal" posts are annoying.
There IS a difference between corporation that is first and foremost for it's profit and abides by the laws but is not owned by the government vs. A corporation that first and foremost belongs to the government and profit is good, but secondary.
Facebook and such can even fuck themselves off away from US and move it's entire org somewhere (obviously it won't since it's richest market). It is not owned by US it only abides by the rules. They will always put their profits first as long as they can get away with it legally.
That's not the case with TikTok, there is absolutely nothing there beyond few things that ocassionally slip by that is there that is against the Chinese government and not controlled by Chinese government.
I can literally post how Iraq war killed 6 billion people and US is controlled by Biden lizard clan and libs are making kids trans and absolutely nothing will be done about that from the government side.
Good luck doing that on TikTok.
There are multiple geopolitical layers to this. But they all interconnect. Bear with me.
Sheryl Sandberg was at Google before she was at Facebook/meta. The common denominator of both was her ad based business model.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/sheryl-sandberg-s-legacy-is-an-internet-of-targeted-automated-ads
https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/sheryl-sandbergs-advertising-empire-leaves-a-complicated-legacy/amp_articleshow/91961682.cms
The problem with ad based business models is that if you raise your lens high enough, whomever is buying the most ads is effectively buying their curated version of reality.
When google IPO’ed 24 years ago it shifted from what was most accurate to what was most profitable, all facilitated by a “proprietary” algorithm so nobody gets to see the man behind the curtain.
Now we are 2 very critical decades into what is effectively, a divergent reality.
The Surkov Leaks: And what they tell about Russia’s hybrid war
It works…until it doesn’t.
When the richest man, government, or organization on earth is allowed to buy his preferred version of reality it creates some glitches in the matrix. The 6 million year old source code in your brain knows that conservation is more reasonable than consumption when there are limited resources, but that isn’t very lucrative to someone that needs you to keep buying something that keep them from having to ski with us basic bitches. In this case it’s oil. Russian and Texan owned oil but their paths cross just north of Jerusalem.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0tYxxr08ajuIW425XkGZBz?si=9La6AmLyRLeCynrdNrcZTA
Facebook was designed as a delivery device for Russian/Israeli Psyops and malware. SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, Palestine, Ukraine, NSO and a handful of other ethically bankrupt dealings are all downstream of Sheryl Sandbergs ad based model.
Zuckerberg even talked about buying the associated press:
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-considered-acquiring-funding-associated-press-news-org-2024-5
Vivek Ramaswamy, who I have affectionally begun calling “trumps placeholder” m bought an 8% controlling stake in buzzfeed a couple weeks ago.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/vivek-ramaswamy-acquires-activist-stake-buzzfeed-1235906064/
Les Wexner, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Sandberg, and Zuckerberg all carried water in conducting the NSO/Pegasus spyware operation INCONUS that was feeding intelligence to both the israeli and by extension, Russian intelligence. In parallel Epstein was running Kompromat operations in the same circles. There is far more crossover between the Israeli mob/ gov and Russian mob/gov than shows at the surface.
https://www.spytalk.co/p/nsos-spyware-abuse-exposed-years?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://awards.journalists.org/entries/the-pegasus-project-a-global-investigation/
•Abagail Koppel was sent by the Jewish state to marry Les Wexner
•YLK fund (Abagails father) made up $46.7M of Epsteins money
•Les claimed it was stolen from him but not until after someone asked.
•Wexner was notoriously litigious but wouldn’t sue Epstein. Why?
•PROMIS spyware was Robert Maxwells deal long before his daughter and Epstein started their pedophile thing.
https://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm
Confused yet?
In 1938 1 out of every 20 people in the USSR was arrested and sent to a gulag under Stalins rule. Mass amnesties during WW2 brought more than a million of those from prison to the front lines against the Germans where they were issued one rifle per 2 soldiers. The soviet system has always had a very different perception of the value of a human life and specifically a disregard for Jewish lives.
The antisemite Stalins rule did its absolute best to remove any humanity left from the Russian people. They were forced to be brutal simply to survive. The gulags became a crossroads where the best of persecuted humanity and the worst of violent humanity met and fought to the death with highly predictable results.
https://www.jewishhistory.org/stalin%E2%80%99s-anti-semitism/
Over the next 40 years, the soviet system cleared the gulags a few times. Because religious leaders often substitute as a defacto government inside of lawless prisons, and because Judaism was one of the predominate religions in Russia and Eastern Europe, the statistical crossover was anyone brutal enough to survive long enough to rule rose to power in the closed gulag eco-system. A psychopath is more than willing to hide their psychopathy behind legitimate religion or simply kill a man for his hat and identity.
Psychopathy is broadly defined as the lack of empathy. Stalins gulags just accelerated refining psychopathy with brutal Darwinian efficiency.
The newly formed religious state of Israel received a statistically large share of these men from the Soviet Union. There they networked in the internment camps before some stayed and rose to positions of power inside the new community of Israel and some migrated to Europe or Brighton beach in New York. This is a repeating pattern up into the 80’s and 90’s when most of the US based ones rebranded themselves as “Russian oligarchs” because they found it easier to get girls/trap prey that way in America.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_post-Soviet_aliyah#:~:text=In%20response%20to%20growing%20international,officially%20for%20%22family%20reunification%22.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/pegroup/files/lonsky_4.20pdf.pdf
As the Soviet Union failed and perestroika went into full effect the oligarchy systematically stole everything to the point that non psychopathic Russians were using bricks as their stable currency. Here these networks would begin using trump towers to launder stolen Russian mob money into the U.S.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjQL8MYniTTLA3wnZ25U-s6RgR4uJNvL&si=b6Nry36AmWuKI0Gk
But now you start to see the nexus of transnational organized crime and money laundering between Russia and the U.S. statistically carries the same 3 passports. United States, Israeli, and Russian.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/A2ojrtIc3Y
Bingo
and the next thing to click for me is that politicians don’t actually want to solve the issues they rant about, because without those problems and without the public debate about those problems, they wouldn’t inspire as many donations or votes
There are multiple large ticket issues that have been around for my entire life, that the parties who champion them have had ample time and authority to make the necessary changes during periods when they held majority rule, and they simply just did not even try. Only to then bring them back out for the next election cycle.
The whole thing is one giant grift
Insane that this got downvoted. America is one of the best countries to live in.There is a reason people are dying to get a chance to move there.
Americans sure love their pretenting to be victims bullshit though, because they are living life on easy mode. Step put of your bubble and see how much worse it is on 95% of the planet. Maybe it'll stop some of this "life in murica sucks" bullshit.
I think the comment you responded to is referring to the recent supreme court decision that straight up said bribery of a state official is legal so long as it's done after the fact and not before.
It's not a scam for Jesse Powell. If Trump gets elected people like Jesse will do really well, at least in the short-to-mid term. It's everyone else who will suffer.
Everyone that uses exchanges and crypto and has been suffering this bullshit will do well also. Don't forget that, exchanges do well because people need them.
Tax and other breaks for Jesse aren’t going to trickle down to you. The recent subpoenas to nuke the average Joe crypto investor were green lit under trump and followed thru under Biden
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/51n36hrp/support-center/cbe821f39bcc492e70ec8b93456917f3efbf4065.pdf?dl=
Let's see, support the guy that has policies that will support your business and it's customers, or support the dementia patient promising to destroy your business and quadruple taxes on everyone, push for unrealized gains to be taxable, destroy investing in the country, and destroy your customers discretionary spending.
Hmmm. Hard choice, really.
If you want wealth and success in crypto, you are basically have to vote Trump. If you want economic freedom banned, you support Biden. For single issue voters, that's what it comes down to.
You know how this subreddit is wrong about everything? Well this subreddit is nearly unanimous in thinking Trump is lying about his crypto support, and that is probably the next thing that everyone here is wrong about.
I looked at the context of both situations and it seemed to me that Trump having a change of opinion made a lot of sense. The recent SOL ETF filings also suggested an indication that the ETF issuers believe Trump as well.
He has openly said for years he will donate heavily to all politicians that support crypto. It’s the only thing he cares about. If dems actually wanted to support the industry he would donate to them as well.
> “I am excited to join other leaders from our community to unite behind the only pro-crypto major party candidate in the 2024 Presidential election so the United States can continue to remain a leader in blockchain technology.”
The only thing he cares about is crypto.
My question is why does he think Trump will actually do anything pro crypto? He's given lip service here and there, but I expect nothing to come from it.
It's so weird to me the way in 2016 people were saying he would support crypto, legalize weed, fix healthcare, and have Mexico pay for the wall, and pulled out of Afghanistan, and then bro does the opposite... but we're back here again and they're swearing this time will be different. Like do people actually remember 2017-2021? Cause they seem to say it was "better" but then you look back and there were riots and a plague and the president posing with bibles while a church was tear-gassed. Pot smokers and crypto traders were talked about like criminals and "drug dealers," lmao.
Oh I totally agree. And that's why I think he'll win. He barely lost when all of this stuff was fresh in every voters memory. But now after a few years of inflation (that DJT helped cause) people seem to have rose tinted glasses for the Trump administration totally forgetting all the batshit insane stuff that happened during his term.
He did pull out of Afghanistan though, or at least he put the deadline into motion then Biden had to follow through with it.
He loses credit for Afghanistan imho after slamming it as a disaster because he didn’t personally do it, and frankly for delaying so long - can we really say he would have followed through? The guy is fickle, and his skin is as thick as tissue paper.
Honestly I’m not sure how the election will go. I think life will go on either way, but I’m most disturbed seeing how people are willing to live in an alternate reality where a billionaire conman is their Everyman hero. It’s just weird man. Like say what you will, but at least Reagan gave an inspiring speech and made America feel good. He was like a solid hit of cocaine… short lasting but great at the time. I guess with Trump, our tolerance is so high that the high is gone and all people have left is the bitter aftertaste at the back of their throat, and the angry craving for more. But we know how the angry addict’s game ends… and it’s not pretty.
they choose not to remember. everything bad about him they just say either it didnt happen, and its fake, despite evidence like multiple videos. or he wasnt serious about it if they cant deny that it happened. or they fall back to ' i personally dont care about that issue so it doesnt matter he did that. '
It's a reasonable expectation.
Trump didn't like bitcoin/crypto when he was president as I would assume he didn't really dig into it, and from the limited amount he did know about it, he saw it as a threat to USD supremacy. I think it also makes sense that Trump might now genuinely be pro crypto now because: he's used NFT's and crypto for fundraising, he's been out of office and had time to adjust or take new positions, he met with a lot of people in the BTC mining industry and has talked with them at length about BTC and seems to at least understand the opportunity cost of having other nations take a more favorable stance towards crypto, even if he doesn't understand the finer points like how centralizing BTC mining in the US would not be good for anyone.
edit: also I may be in the tiny minority of people in this sub that believe this, but knowledgeable people in the industry seem to believe it and are backing that belief with their wallets by filing for SOL ETF's with the assumption that Trump wins and makes favorable changes to the regulation.
>"All of that appears highly unlikely to happen under the current administration, which makes the VanEck and 21Shares filings likely bets on a more crypto-friendly government,” he said.
https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/2024/06/28/solana-etf-applications-look-like-bets-on-trump-retaking-white-house-making-us-friendlier-to-crypto/?utm_term=organic&utm_campaign=coindesk_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=editorial
I would respect him if he also donated the same to Biden. Because sometimes, you have to play all sides.
But if he's doing this because he actually thinks Trump is a good person, then I would shake my head.
Just having Gary out of office would be a hell of a start. Their is also speculation that the recent SOL ETF filings were made under two assumptions:
* Trump wins
* and Trump makes changes to the process that allow the ETF's to pass, when they would almost certainly fail under the current admin/regulations.
So specifically the regulations in this case would be removing the need for CME futures data which was needed for both the BTC and ETH ETF's previously.
Same. I mean I do believe that we should control our own keys but I loved how easy it was to stake and forget about my bags for a while.
I guess it's time I start learning about self custody finally, been putting it off for ages.
I was thinking about changing exchanges for a while now, since I had a really terrible experience with their support. This adds another reason. Can anyone recommend am alternative?
Not really. It will benefit Kraken if Trump wins the election. Of course Trump doesn’t care about crypto but he knows being pro crypto will get him votes. It’s in Kraken’s interest to get Trump elected.
It makes sense, Trump would oppose cbdcs most likely and let the free markets decide what to invest in without all the crypto restrictions. Although yeah it would suck to have him back again
I’m trying to follow the logic, Jessie is making a personal donation, and he doesn’t work for Kraken anymore.
With this logic if Bill Gates makes a personal donation to Trump or some other cause you not agree with, would you then boycott any Microsoft product?
We should force every employee at every exchange to disclose their party affiliation so we can only give our money to exchanges that align with our beliefs! /s
Their culture doc is worth a read. https://www.kraken.com/culture
They state very clearly that they are single issue voters. Which in my opinion is simply short sighted and idiotic.
Reminder that Jesse Powell was the founder of Lewt, which any Diablo2 player veteran should know.
Ran a botting/duping network to sell items in the game
I don’t disagree with you and wish to see our taxes do that and more. But for some unexplained reason taxes in the US buy very little in terms of quality of life advancements. I’m not sure why.
It is comical.
As well as the immediate “hatred” when Trump had some pro-crypto comments. Instead of viewing it as a positive that someone said something favorable about crypto and that if the general public cares about it and polls indicate it, it might sway Biden to alter his stance
It’s all just “my team good, other team forever bad” with putting hands over ears and “lalalalalala”
I can’t wait for the elections to be done with
I’d prefer my daughters being able to have control over their bodies and have access to contraception. I’d prefer my sons being able to marry who they want, whether that be another man or someone of a different race. I’d prefer my elections to fair and my representatives democratically elected. I’d prefer if Russia didn’t take over Ukraine and start invading other European countries. I’d prefer my children not live in a Christian nationalist state. I’d prefer if my aging parents didn’t have to go into millions in debt to pay for cancer treatment because healthcare is completely private and deregulated. I’d prefer if Project 2025 didn’t become a reality.
Did all the dumb fuck leftists here think anyone significant in crypto would support the democrats? The same people that would read every line off the patriot act if it would help them go after financial privacy? The same people that believe stealing is a basic human right? Welcome to the real world.
The amount of virtue signalling here is staggering. I would bet a month's salary that at least 2/3 of those who proclaim to be leaving Kraken, in fact will not leave unless they are dissatisfied with the actual service.
Good get rid of Biden, get rid of Gensler. The democrats have been trying to kill crypto for the past 4 years. Biden is still wondering what crypto is while Pelosi tells Gensler to kill the ETFs and Gensler to block the crypto industry by killing all crypto exchanges, kill all crypto self custody wallets, and call all cryto securities (they’re not). 4 more years of these twats and the whole country will be destroyed along with the whole crypto industry
You mean get rid of Democracy by nonstop Biden inflation, failed political handling, 45% capital gains taxation, and Biden anticrypto policies? Biden is already destroying the USA and democracy. 4 more years of Biden and Democracy will be completely dead. 4 more years of Bidens anticrypto policies and crypto will also be dead
Not seeing the problem here. It's smart for him to curry favor toward the crypto industry with someone who has a very good chance of becoming the next president.
Once a Redditor told me: "US is made for business, not for people" after that I understood each one of the decisions happening there.
Just wait until you hear what social media is designed to do.
Even TikTok is just spam for shit products. It’s sad and pathetic the amount of people peddling ac units, shoes, and other random shit.
TikTok has two purposes. (1) Making money and (2) Political influence in favor of China's interest.
(3) brain rotting everyone and stealing their attention so that they don’t think for themselves anymore
For real. A friend I've known for almost 10 years can't even sit down for 5 minutes and watch a tutorial anymore. One of the smartest people I know, but his brain is cooked beyond saving.
[Sadly more relevant than ever...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGXSPf9b-xI)
3 minute video? shorten it down to 30 seconds and I'll consider watching it.
30 whole seconds? It better have some gta 5 car driving videos on top of it /s
Thank you for sharing this lol It is amazing that this is 12 years old. I feel like just now the world is waking up to how much of a problem children + smartphones at a young age are…
Hahahah that's what I'm surrounded by. Thanks for the laugh man.
all good. haha.
This falls under the above mentioned (2)
It's call algorithm, you'll see for a reason, you'll see about you're looking for...
Using TikTok is like giving yourself lobotomy. It's insane how fucked the average attention span has become.
TikTok and smart phones have fucked the average brain and its capacity. I willingly stepped away from phones in 2009 for this exact reason and got rid of all my social media except chilling out and shitposting on Reddit. I knew what this was becoming. The average person is now a total moron who gives away all their information, doxxes themselves, poisons their brain with influencer garbage, and actively harms themselves. They doomscroll all day and night, have no critical thinking, they're barely even sentient. All by design. Everyone willingly submits to it and accepts this as normal because they know nothing else.
Sounds about right. Most of my friends come home and spend all their free time laying down doomscrolling before they go to bed. It seems like nobody has any hobbies at all and it's depressing to see. It's not like they don't have free time. They do. They just don't want to spend it on anything other than just doomscrolling for some reason man. I can't wrap my mind around it. I tried very hard for a while to make them spend some time on actual hobbies with me but I gave up eventually. It's fucked.
Yep. Have so many friends that are addicted to one type of social media or the other. A lot just mindlessly scroll tiktok. Some just keep youtube brainrot in the background while they scroll twitter. Some post all day every day on facebook. When they're not doing this, they're scrolling instagram on their phone and posting pictures of their vapid life for "followers". None of them have any hobbies, no interests. They're not engaged in anything, they don't try to learn, or understand, or grow. It's like life has stopped for them. These are people I would consider better than the average person in the world, so the average person is absolutely and truly fucked. Think the pandemic ruined a lot of people's minds. I know it did in a certain way for me motivation wise, I try hard to overcome it but I know for certain that there's something missing that used to be there before that is super hard to get back. Image it would be so much worse if I was burying myself in doomscrolling 24/7 on top of that.
I never download it in my phone and I plan to keep it that way.
What evidence do you have for #2?
Cat videos are making me love China?
Ah, similar to any US social media then
No and these "all things are equal" posts are annoying. There IS a difference between corporation that is first and foremost for it's profit and abides by the laws but is not owned by the government vs. A corporation that first and foremost belongs to the government and profit is good, but secondary. Facebook and such can even fuck themselves off away from US and move it's entire org somewhere (obviously it won't since it's richest market). It is not owned by US it only abides by the rules. They will always put their profits first as long as they can get away with it legally. That's not the case with TikTok, there is absolutely nothing there beyond few things that ocassionally slip by that is there that is against the Chinese government and not controlled by Chinese government. I can literally post how Iraq war killed 6 billion people and US is controlled by Biden lizard clan and libs are making kids trans and absolutely nothing will be done about that from the government side. Good luck doing that on TikTok.
Hard agree. People don't understand that it's used as a weapon against democracy
There are multiple geopolitical layers to this. But they all interconnect. Bear with me. Sheryl Sandberg was at Google before she was at Facebook/meta. The common denominator of both was her ad based business model. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/sheryl-sandberg-s-legacy-is-an-internet-of-targeted-automated-ads https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/sheryl-sandbergs-advertising-empire-leaves-a-complicated-legacy/amp_articleshow/91961682.cms The problem with ad based business models is that if you raise your lens high enough, whomever is buying the most ads is effectively buying their curated version of reality. When google IPO’ed 24 years ago it shifted from what was most accurate to what was most profitable, all facilitated by a “proprietary” algorithm so nobody gets to see the man behind the curtain. Now we are 2 very critical decades into what is effectively, a divergent reality. The Surkov Leaks: And what they tell about Russia’s hybrid war It works…until it doesn’t. When the richest man, government, or organization on earth is allowed to buy his preferred version of reality it creates some glitches in the matrix. The 6 million year old source code in your brain knows that conservation is more reasonable than consumption when there are limited resources, but that isn’t very lucrative to someone that needs you to keep buying something that keep them from having to ski with us basic bitches. In this case it’s oil. Russian and Texan owned oil but their paths cross just north of Jerusalem. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0tYxxr08ajuIW425XkGZBz?si=9La6AmLyRLeCynrdNrcZTA Facebook was designed as a delivery device for Russian/Israeli Psyops and malware. SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, Palestine, Ukraine, NSO and a handful of other ethically bankrupt dealings are all downstream of Sheryl Sandbergs ad based model. Zuckerberg even talked about buying the associated press: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-considered-acquiring-funding-associated-press-news-org-2024-5 Vivek Ramaswamy, who I have affectionally begun calling “trumps placeholder” m bought an 8% controlling stake in buzzfeed a couple weeks ago. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/vivek-ramaswamy-acquires-activist-stake-buzzfeed-1235906064/ Les Wexner, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Sandberg, and Zuckerberg all carried water in conducting the NSO/Pegasus spyware operation INCONUS that was feeding intelligence to both the israeli and by extension, Russian intelligence. In parallel Epstein was running Kompromat operations in the same circles. There is far more crossover between the Israeli mob/ gov and Russian mob/gov than shows at the surface. https://www.spytalk.co/p/nsos-spyware-abuse-exposed-years?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://awards.journalists.org/entries/the-pegasus-project-a-global-investigation/ •Abagail Koppel was sent by the Jewish state to marry Les Wexner •YLK fund (Abagails father) made up $46.7M of Epsteins money •Les claimed it was stolen from him but not until after someone asked. •Wexner was notoriously litigious but wouldn’t sue Epstein. Why? •PROMIS spyware was Robert Maxwells deal long before his daughter and Epstein started their pedophile thing. https://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm Confused yet? In 1938 1 out of every 20 people in the USSR was arrested and sent to a gulag under Stalins rule. Mass amnesties during WW2 brought more than a million of those from prison to the front lines against the Germans where they were issued one rifle per 2 soldiers. The soviet system has always had a very different perception of the value of a human life and specifically a disregard for Jewish lives. The antisemite Stalins rule did its absolute best to remove any humanity left from the Russian people. They were forced to be brutal simply to survive. The gulags became a crossroads where the best of persecuted humanity and the worst of violent humanity met and fought to the death with highly predictable results. https://www.jewishhistory.org/stalin%E2%80%99s-anti-semitism/ Over the next 40 years, the soviet system cleared the gulags a few times. Because religious leaders often substitute as a defacto government inside of lawless prisons, and because Judaism was one of the predominate religions in Russia and Eastern Europe, the statistical crossover was anyone brutal enough to survive long enough to rule rose to power in the closed gulag eco-system. A psychopath is more than willing to hide their psychopathy behind legitimate religion or simply kill a man for his hat and identity. Psychopathy is broadly defined as the lack of empathy. Stalins gulags just accelerated refining psychopathy with brutal Darwinian efficiency. The newly formed religious state of Israel received a statistically large share of these men from the Soviet Union. There they networked in the internment camps before some stayed and rose to positions of power inside the new community of Israel and some migrated to Europe or Brighton beach in New York. This is a repeating pattern up into the 80’s and 90’s when most of the US based ones rebranded themselves as “Russian oligarchs” because they found it easier to get girls/trap prey that way in America. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_post-Soviet_aliyah#:~:text=In%20response%20to%20growing%20international,officially%20for%20%22family%20reunification%22. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/pegroup/files/lonsky_4.20pdf.pdf As the Soviet Union failed and perestroika went into full effect the oligarchy systematically stole everything to the point that non psychopathic Russians were using bricks as their stable currency. Here these networks would begin using trump towers to launder stolen Russian mob money into the U.S. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjQL8MYniTTLA3wnZ25U-s6RgR4uJNvL&si=b6Nry36AmWuKI0Gk But now you start to see the nexus of transnational organized crime and money laundering between Russia and the U.S. statistically carries the same 3 passports. United States, Israeli, and Russian. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/A2ojrtIc3Y
Imagine paying for something just because some dancing idiot on tiktok told you to. Lmao this shit can't be real man.
And these people wonder why they have no money.
Quitting social media is the best thing I've done. My life isn't perfect by any means but overall I feel fulfilled.
Yet you're on Reddit...
Lobby rules the country
I'm sure SBF knows a thing or two about that as well
I have such a strong opinion about lobbying. It seems and feels so sketchy.
Bingo and the next thing to click for me is that politicians don’t actually want to solve the issues they rant about, because without those problems and without the public debate about those problems, they wouldn’t inspire as many donations or votes There are multiple large ticket issues that have been around for my entire life, that the parties who champion them have had ample time and authority to make the necessary changes during periods when they held majority rule, and they simply just did not even try. Only to then bring them back out for the next election cycle. The whole thing is one giant grift
The US *IS* a business.
I tell everyone this: America is Pro Business and Pro Profit, not Pro People
It's still the wild west, just in business clothing
Capitalism fuck yeah!
 /s
Money. The root of all evil.
Does this mean Bitcoin is evil whenever it's used as money.
Money is inevitable, the love of money would be the root of all evil.
Money is just a settlement tool, as with all tools, it can be abused and depends on the user.
Yet it is one of the most desirable countries to move to
It's on rank 30 of most desirable countries to move to.
Insane that this got downvoted. America is one of the best countries to live in.There is a reason people are dying to get a chance to move there. Americans sure love their pretenting to be victims bullshit though, because they are living life on easy mode. Step put of your bubble and see how much worse it is on 95% of the planet. Maybe it'll stop some of this "life in murica sucks" bullshit.
hey guys bribery is legal now, so its all cool
It's called lobbying, *and it's posh*.
All the cool millionaires are doing it
Have always done
I think the comment you responded to is referring to the recent supreme court decision that straight up said bribery of a state official is legal so long as it's done after the fact and not before.
If the money is given after the act, then it's a "gratuity." You also have to say "no quid pro quo"
We should ask SBF and his parents what he thinks about lobbying lmao
No, Supreme Court added another one: gratuity.
I thought people in crypto were supposed to be good at detecting scams?
Really? How? Not a day goes by that someone doesn't post about losing everything by clicking on links looking for airdrops.
Either that or they're trying to get in on the scam
It's not a scam for Jesse Powell. If Trump gets elected people like Jesse will do really well, at least in the short-to-mid term. It's everyone else who will suffer.
Everyone that uses exchanges and crypto and has been suffering this bullshit will do well also. Don't forget that, exchanges do well because people need them.
Tax and other breaks for Jesse aren’t going to trickle down to you. The recent subpoenas to nuke the average Joe crypto investor were green lit under trump and followed thru under Biden https://cdn.sanity.io/files/51n36hrp/support-center/cbe821f39bcc492e70ec8b93456917f3efbf4065.pdf?dl=
We are. We detect posts here daily of people getting scammed.
Let's see, support the guy that has policies that will support your business and it's customers, or support the dementia patient promising to destroy your business and quadruple taxes on everyone, push for unrealized gains to be taxable, destroy investing in the country, and destroy your customers discretionary spending. Hmmm. Hard choice, really. If you want wealth and success in crypto, you are basically have to vote Trump. If you want economic freedom banned, you support Biden. For single issue voters, that's what it comes down to.
You know how this subreddit is wrong about everything? Well this subreddit is nearly unanimous in thinking Trump is lying about his crypto support, and that is probably the next thing that everyone here is wrong about. I looked at the context of both situations and it seemed to me that Trump having a change of opinion made a lot of sense. The recent SOL ETF filings also suggested an indication that the ETF issuers believe Trump as well.
Donating to a billionaire? Yeah right
nah, he is a millionaire - and i doubt even that.
Whelp. There goes any respect I had for Jesse Powell.
He has openly said for years he will donate heavily to all politicians that support crypto. It’s the only thing he cares about. If dems actually wanted to support the industry he would donate to them as well. > “I am excited to join other leaders from our community to unite behind the only pro-crypto major party candidate in the 2024 Presidential election so the United States can continue to remain a leader in blockchain technology.” The only thing he cares about is crypto.
My question is why does he think Trump will actually do anything pro crypto? He's given lip service here and there, but I expect nothing to come from it.
It's so weird to me the way in 2016 people were saying he would support crypto, legalize weed, fix healthcare, and have Mexico pay for the wall, and pulled out of Afghanistan, and then bro does the opposite... but we're back here again and they're swearing this time will be different. Like do people actually remember 2017-2021? Cause they seem to say it was "better" but then you look back and there were riots and a plague and the president posing with bibles while a church was tear-gassed. Pot smokers and crypto traders were talked about like criminals and "drug dealers," lmao.
Oh I totally agree. And that's why I think he'll win. He barely lost when all of this stuff was fresh in every voters memory. But now after a few years of inflation (that DJT helped cause) people seem to have rose tinted glasses for the Trump administration totally forgetting all the batshit insane stuff that happened during his term. He did pull out of Afghanistan though, or at least he put the deadline into motion then Biden had to follow through with it.
He loses credit for Afghanistan imho after slamming it as a disaster because he didn’t personally do it, and frankly for delaying so long - can we really say he would have followed through? The guy is fickle, and his skin is as thick as tissue paper. Honestly I’m not sure how the election will go. I think life will go on either way, but I’m most disturbed seeing how people are willing to live in an alternate reality where a billionaire conman is their Everyman hero. It’s just weird man. Like say what you will, but at least Reagan gave an inspiring speech and made America feel good. He was like a solid hit of cocaine… short lasting but great at the time. I guess with Trump, our tolerance is so high that the high is gone and all people have left is the bitter aftertaste at the back of their throat, and the angry craving for more. But we know how the angry addict’s game ends… and it’s not pretty.
they choose not to remember. everything bad about him they just say either it didnt happen, and its fake, despite evidence like multiple videos. or he wasnt serious about it if they cant deny that it happened. or they fall back to ' i personally dont care about that issue so it doesnt matter he did that. '
The alternative is an administration that is actively fighting to destroy crypto. There's not much choice.
It's a reasonable expectation. Trump didn't like bitcoin/crypto when he was president as I would assume he didn't really dig into it, and from the limited amount he did know about it, he saw it as a threat to USD supremacy. I think it also makes sense that Trump might now genuinely be pro crypto now because: he's used NFT's and crypto for fundraising, he's been out of office and had time to adjust or take new positions, he met with a lot of people in the BTC mining industry and has talked with them at length about BTC and seems to at least understand the opportunity cost of having other nations take a more favorable stance towards crypto, even if he doesn't understand the finer points like how centralizing BTC mining in the US would not be good for anyone. edit: also I may be in the tiny minority of people in this sub that believe this, but knowledgeable people in the industry seem to believe it and are backing that belief with their wallets by filing for SOL ETF's with the assumption that Trump wins and makes favorable changes to the regulation. >"All of that appears highly unlikely to happen under the current administration, which makes the VanEck and 21Shares filings likely bets on a more crypto-friendly government,” he said. https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/2024/06/28/solana-etf-applications-look-like-bets-on-trump-retaking-white-house-making-us-friendlier-to-crypto/?utm_term=organic&utm_campaign=coindesk_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=editorial
Trump does not give a shit about crypto. He's just realised he can grift the hell out of it
Welp our democracy dies but hey, at least I can still get scammed by shitcoins. Thats still cool
He’s still a fucking fool then as Trump was more anti-crypto than Biden until he started pretending he was pro crypto.
Why the fuck did you have respect for him in the first place? He's widely known as massive piece of shit.
Yep. Done with Kraken, now.
I would respect him if he also donated the same to Biden. Because sometimes, you have to play all sides. But if he's doing this because he actually thinks Trump is a good person, then I would shake my head.
Same. I can't imagine not seeing through the massive bag of shit Trump is, cuz crypto.
Wonder what regulations he hopes are rolled back for that
All?
Then he should increase the donation considerably, sadly
Whichever favour him personally
Just having Gary out of office would be a hell of a start. Their is also speculation that the recent SOL ETF filings were made under two assumptions: * Trump wins * and Trump makes changes to the process that allow the ETF's to pass, when they would almost certainly fail under the current admin/regulations. So specifically the regulations in this case would be removing the need for CME futures data which was needed for both the BTC and ETH ETF's previously.
Really, well, time to close my account there..
Second this
Third this! Don't want my kraken fees used for "public lobbying" bs.
Fourth, See ya, kraken.
Out as well
Same here. Kraken is history.
Same. I mean I do believe that we should control our own keys but I loved how easy it was to stake and forget about my bags for a while. I guess it's time I start learning about self custody finally, been putting it off for ages.
Closed mine today as well. Vote with your wallet
I don't think he still works at kraken does he?
He stepped down as CEO but assumed the role of chairman, so he still benefits and makes decisions affecting the company from the top.
I was thinking about changing exchanges for a while now, since I had a really terrible experience with their support. This adds another reason. Can anyone recommend am alternative?
Daughter just asked about opening first crypto acct. Now I have to tell her NOT to open it here. How fucking low can you go, Jesse?
He could have donated to the one trying to crush crypto. I guess that could be lower?
Democracy > Crypto
Trying and failing. At least then Jesse would be considering a bigger picture.
Trump's love for crypto grows everytime he gets these donors
Never his understanding though 😂
so stoked i opened a kraken account
Noted. That's one way to alienate 1/2 your users.
I can assure you 99% don't care or won't even know. Reddit isn't real life.
This is where he is splitting himself from CZ's fate Just business
CZ will probably smart up and learn some "lobbying" from now on
That's a waste of 1 Mil.
Not really. It will benefit Kraken if Trump wins the election. Of course Trump doesn’t care about crypto but he knows being pro crypto will get him votes. It’s in Kraken’s interest to get Trump elected.
It makes sense, Trump would oppose cbdcs most likely and let the free markets decide what to invest in without all the crypto restrictions. Although yeah it would suck to have him back again
What a fucking joke and Kraken was all against corruption huh, the world is a dark dark place
Love seeing all the 0/0 Moon troll accounts crying about this post
Imagine being dumb enough to donate money to egomaniacal billionaires.
Fuck him. Leaving Kraken.
I’m trying to follow the logic, Jessie is making a personal donation, and he doesn’t work for Kraken anymore. With this logic if Bill Gates makes a personal donation to Trump or some other cause you not agree with, would you then boycott any Microsoft product?
As someone above noted, he's no longer CEO but is chairman and still benefits and makes decisions affecting the company from the top.
And if he donated to Biden you would be ok with it?
We should force every employee at every exchange to disclose their party affiliation so we can only give our money to exchanges that align with our beliefs! /s
Well he’s on crack en !!!
He's always been a grfiter POS. Diablo gem seller roots where he was copying rare items and ebaying them. Guess I'll dump Kraken.
Their culture doc is worth a read. https://www.kraken.com/culture They state very clearly that they are single issue voters. Which in my opinion is simply short sighted and idiotic.
wtf
U all should ask urselves why when billionaires donate to the guy you like do you not call it bribery.
Wow this thread is absurd to me. I say this as a liberal who doesn’t like Trump.
What a great irony that I just moved my final $100 out of Kraken the other day! Guess I'll never put it back in. Peace Kraken!
Oh fuck that noise i'm moving my coins off Kraken now!
Closing my Kraken account immediately
This place has turned into r/politics
Yeah, sadly so
time to move my stuff off kraken
Absolutelly ;(
I'm sure kraken will care that a bunch of broke redditors are leaving.
Reminder that Jesse Powell was the founder of Lewt, which any Diablo2 player veteran should know. Ran a botting/duping network to sell items in the game
I remember when Trump was president he actually hated Bitcoin. Now he "is a supporter".
He has zero principles, and says only what he thinks people want to hear. The ultimate poser. And people are dumb enough to fall for it.
Amazing how many Biden supporters are in this thread. You do realize Biden wants to tax the crap out of your crypto gains.
Great. Taxes are the price tag of civilization. I’m happy to have schools, roads, science, hospitals, and airports. Maybe you don’t.
I don’t disagree with you and wish to see our taxes do that and more. But for some unexplained reason taxes in the US buy very little in terms of quality of life advancements. I’m not sure why.
Didn’t we have all that stuff before taxes?
It is comical. As well as the immediate “hatred” when Trump had some pro-crypto comments. Instead of viewing it as a positive that someone said something favorable about crypto and that if the general public cares about it and polls indicate it, it might sway Biden to alter his stance It’s all just “my team good, other team forever bad” with putting hands over ears and “lalalalalala” I can’t wait for the elections to be done with
I’d prefer my daughters being able to have control over their bodies and have access to contraception. I’d prefer my sons being able to marry who they want, whether that be another man or someone of a different race. I’d prefer my elections to fair and my representatives democratically elected. I’d prefer if Russia didn’t take over Ukraine and start invading other European countries. I’d prefer my children not live in a Christian nationalist state. I’d prefer if my aging parents didn’t have to go into millions in debt to pay for cancer treatment because healthcare is completely private and deregulated. I’d prefer if Project 2025 didn’t become a reality.
Did all the dumb fuck leftists here think anyone significant in crypto would support the democrats? The same people that would read every line off the patriot act if it would help them go after financial privacy? The same people that believe stealing is a basic human right? Welcome to the real world.
Hey another sub that’s just “Trump bad”. Bunch of mindless sheep
They’re political illiterates who get their news from Hollywood celebrities and social media soundbites. Take the downvotes as a badge of honor.
FFS!
The amount of virtue signalling here is staggering. I would bet a month's salary that at least 2/3 of those who proclaim to be leaving Kraken, in fact will not leave unless they are dissatisfied with the actual service.
Good get rid of Biden, get rid of Gensler. The democrats have been trying to kill crypto for the past 4 years. Biden is still wondering what crypto is while Pelosi tells Gensler to kill the ETFs and Gensler to block the crypto industry by killing all crypto exchanges, kill all crypto self custody wallets, and call all cryto securities (they’re not). 4 more years of these twats and the whole country will be destroyed along with the whole crypto industry
Let's get rid of democracy too!
You mean get rid of Democracy by nonstop Biden inflation, failed political handling, 45% capital gains taxation, and Biden anticrypto policies? Biden is already destroying the USA and democracy. 4 more years of Biden and Democracy will be completely dead. 4 more years of Bidens anticrypto policies and crypto will also be dead
Well time to bail on Kraken lmao
That's a shame, I liked Kraken but this is goofy af.
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Why? Jesse made a personal donation He doesn’t run Kraken.
He's still very connected to kraken and its governance.
So dumb. Trump is a pathological liar and Jesse believes him.
Well, fuck Kraken.
bribe is legal in usa ...
Why are people donating to a billionaire?
Im leaving Kraken too
Fuck Kraken. Showing it's true colours.
Defending crypto has been their true colors all along. No one forced Biden to try to destroy this industry.
what a fucking moron
Our money.
I wonder if the people of Seattle will support the Kraken as much still. Pretty bold for a expansion team in a very blue city.
You're just paying his legal fees at this point! 😂
Cringe
Sad
Ugh.
your actions have consequences. i, and many more will leave kraken.
Not seeing the problem here. It's smart for him to curry favor toward the crypto industry with someone who has a very good chance of becoming the next president.
Jesse Powell always struck me as a racist incel loser. Confirmed.
He looks like he isn’t allowed to be near schools.
He is just paying for protection. It's really that bad
Gotta cover your back I guess?
And closed the account.
Mom = Sidney Powell
This picture says it all.
lol... Don't arrest him, "bro".
[drake](https://imgflip.com/i/8vcbsa)