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GLGirty
·19일 전·discuss
This reminds me of a quote from Peter Schiff, circa 2008 housing crash. To paraphrase,

“too-big-to-fail eventually becomes too-big-to keep alive"
GLGirty
·2개월 전·discuss
In practice, it opened the flood gates for corporations and oligarchs to pour money into the electoral system. [1] Do you like technocracy? Because this is how you get technocracy.

[1] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/citizens-united-...
GLGirty
·2개월 전·discuss
> This is the most wildly dangerous threat to liberty in this nation's history.

You better sit down before you look up “citizens united."
GLGirty
·4년 전·discuss
Previously retired coal power plants are being brought back into service just to power bitcoin. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ameren-deploys-bi...
GLGirty
·5년 전·discuss
> The people making money knew exactly how dangerous it was and the problems it caused

Wow it didn't take long for evidence of that to surface:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-tox...