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In reply to the discussion: Trump proposes a U. S. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve [View all]OneGrassRoot
(23,506 posts)and try to set bitcoin as our new currency, when the only people that will benefit are -- surprise -- the tech bro oligarchy.
This is from before the election. He may have written something more recent. I also just copied and pasted the first four paragraphs because I don't have time to search for the most applicable to your thread. But for anyone interested, please do find and read more of his warnings. He has been spot on for a long time.
https://davetroy.medium.com/to-split-the-world-in-two-a-closing-argument-5ac36de9f419
This election isnt just about the future of the United States, it will determine the future of the world. It is a linchpin in a strategy to split the world into two warring factions; the side that wins will own the future.
The vision offered by Putin and Xi (with Musk, Thiel, Vance, Trump, and RFK Jr as their surrogates) is a world where men trump women, rape trumps consent, Ukraine is Russia, Taiwan is China, and the Dollar is trash. In this world, Bitcoin, DogeCoin, and gold matter more than your 401(k). A vote for Musk is a vote for xenophobia, and a world where science only matters when it serves your interests. It is a vision for the end of America, because henceforth, it shall have a king.
Their vision is one where climate concerns will be worked out by the free market and, magically, through abundance of both fossil fuels and CO2. They acknowledge we will have many problems, certainly, but they will be solved by entrepreneurs, philosopher kings, and their neo-feudal army of non-unionized wage slaves, all competing in the free market for the benefit of humanity. And our reward, they say, will be to colonize Mars a truly uninhabitable hellscape that will likely never support human life.
Electing Harris will not stop this attack. But it will slow it down and allow some time to mount a response to this threat. Putin, Xi and a growing list of autocratic allies are joining forces to render democracy extinct. They believe it doesnt work, they believe our populations are too infantile to make decisions, and furthermore they insist not only that our democracies dont work, but that they will demonstrate it by capturing them and disabling them. If democracies are to survive globally, we must offer more than just an extension of the status quo: we must offer a vision of a democratic future that is more compelling to the majority of the world. By many measures, we have failed, so far, to meet that challenge.