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22 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Bitcoin unites Trump and Hillary in opposition, both warning that it threatens the hegemony of the dollar and is a "dangerous" weapon to undermine status quo power: ImageImage
I just interviewed @gladstein about Bitcoin: will be up on Rumble shortly. It continues to baffle how much intense, reflexive left-wing hostility there is to Bitcoin given its potential. I highly recommend his essay on bitcoin and undermining Endless War:

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoi…
For those who haven't seen it: a few weeks ago, I interviewed the leftist crypto advocate, @TBSocialist, who explained the unique ability of bitcoin to weaken the ability of centralized corporate power centers to surveil, censor and control.

rumble.com/vq411l-cryptoc…
I asked @gladstein about the objections to Bitcoin in this specific tweets from @Vinncent as well as the broader sense that it's some sort of scammy, Ponzi-Scheme-style con to reinforce oligarchy. Those who believe that should definitely hear his answer:

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This is a Joe Biden surrogate and delegate. The US corporate media has permanently broken the brains of an entire generation of US liberals. They are more obsessed with Russian infiltration of the US than Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover combined were. Look at this derangement: ImageImage
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Why are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump United in Warning of Bitcoin's Dangers? Interview with Bitcoin advocate Alex @gladstein.

Anyone with doubts or vehement opposition for crypto should hear his arguments.

rumble.com/vr9i0j-why-are…
I don't classify myself as a Bitcoin advocate, but the refusal to confront the power of global institutions to control currency, spy on everyone, wage Endless War, and police speech is unsustainable. Reflexively rejecting proposed solutions is irrational.

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoi…
(The segment we did on Bitcoin and the environment will be published later today as a separate segment. I wanted this segment to focus on the geo-political, economic and cultural consequences of Bitcoin. Whatever your views, they are significant and inevitable).
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22 Dec
Throughout history, humans have displayed an intense and dangerous fixation on maligning their adversaries as dirty, primitive, disease-carrying slime who deserve to be ostracized, shunned and isolated.

The way liberals talk about The Unvaccinated tracks this need perfectly:
As it becomes increasingly obvious that The Vaccinated are contracting and transmitting COVID in far larger numbers than before, the rationale for viewing The Unvaccinated as dirty and disease-carrying threats becomes even more tenuous. They're a threat only to themselves.
Put another way: so often American liberals are exactly what they spent 4 years claiming Trump and his movement are:
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Didn't we all learn when we were like 6 that the way a bill becomes a law is that it gets approved by a majority in the House and Senate and then gets sent to the President to sign, and that if any one of those steps fail, the lonely little bill doesn't get to be a law?
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Who is the racist dictator?

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20 Dec
Absolutely everything Democrats are doing with the BBB bill -- the unfulfilled promises, blame-shifting, excuse-making, the general loser ethos -- is what they have been doing without pause at least since I began writing about politics 16 years ago. Not one thing has changed.
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More Americans have died of COVID in 2021 than 2020, even though Biden had the benefit of universally available vaccines and improved treatments.

Fortunately for Biden, all 2020 COVID deaths were blamed personally on the president but none in 2021 is.

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