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@SwannMarcus89
Jun 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Folks, we love our anti-crypto gerontocracy, don't we?
"Old people are skeptical of this technology, the primary value of which is unregulated speculation and money laundering"

We must trust the wisdom of our elders. Inshallah.
This doesn't prove America's politicians are out of touch. It just proves once again that the British absolutely fucking love financial fraud and political corruption. It's basically their only growing economic sector.
British politicians when a new technology makes it even easier for foreign dictators to launder their dirty money in the United Kingdom ImageImageImageImage
I could keep this thread going for another 7000 posts. There are so many jokes to make about the UK leaning in to crypto

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Jun 14
You'll know posterity has really done its job when the general public recognizes that Suttree and the Passenger/Stella Maris are also masterpieces

My "actually, the Passenger is Cormac McCarthy's 3rd best novel" take is currently a position that marks me out as a total weirdo, but I am confident that I will be vindicated by history
The Road is also one of my least favorite McCarthy books so it is possible that I am legitimately just a total weirdo
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Jun 14
The party of small government strikes again!
The GOP's unironic position is that the government needs to stay out of it if state action would help the poor but government policies designed to protect the assets of the rich are okay
I'm not sure the laws are unconstitutional, but congress could definitely ban these laws nationally if they wanted to since the federal government would have supremacy on this issue due to the commerce clause

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Jun 14
The best places in America to live are swing states because there are enough Democrats that your public services get funded, but there aren't so many Democrats that the economy stops working
There's a balance you need to maintain regarding number of Democrats. You need enough Democrats that they make sure you have decent police, infrastructure, and educational funding, but if there are too many Democrats everyone becomes homeless

You have to know when to stop
Nothing I post is ever bait. My political commentary is ahead of its time and someday every one of my tweets will be recognized as a work of prophetic brilliance

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Jun 14
"Homelessness isn't about lack of affordable housing" Image
Correlation between housing costs and homelessness: gargantuan

Correlation between drug abuse rates and homelessness: nonexistent

People in California don't do hard drugs more than people in other states, but they do have to deal with much higher rents
I love people who say correlation doesn't equal causation in order to disregard all correlational evidence. When you have a gargantuan correlation between two things with an obvious causal link, that is not like saying ice cream causes drownings

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Jun 4
They have a decent standard of living because they made an American income their entire lives, you incredible idiot
*makes 25 times the Vietnamese median income working in a far superior economy with a much better standard of living. Proceeds to retire to a poor country because it's cheap*

Commies: "This proves communism, which Vietnam hasn't practiced in 40 years, is superior"
Tons of Americans retire to Mexico, too. Clearly this is a testament to the incredible effectiveness of the Mexican state and the high quality of life it affords to its citizens.
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Jun 4
One thing I notice in US politics is that the parties have no idea which of their issues are popular. Christine Drazan in Oregon should have run on absolutely nothing but crime and should have been crushing the Dems about Portland having America's highest black murder rate
I looked at her issue page and the part on crime is smaller than GOP base pleasing stuff about how we have to "secure our elections." Nobody who isn't already voting for you gives a shit. How hard is it to understand only crime and homelessness matter?

christinefororegon.com/issues/
She lost by 3.4% in a three-way race, so she didn't even have to win all of those voters. All she had to do was crush the Democrats' favorables. And by October 2022, more homeless people were murdered in Portland than total homicides in 2016. That ad would be a fucking killer ImageImage
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