GLGirty · HackerTrans

19 ngày trướcdiscuss

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"

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

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-...

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

> This is the most wildly dangerous threat to liberty in this nation's history.

You better sit down before you look up “citizens united."

4 năm trướcdiscuss

Previously retired coal power plants are being brought back into service just to power bitcoin. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ameren-deploys-bi...

5 năm trướcdiscuss

> 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...

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