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Make America great again.
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Darryl pls, we can't preach decentralization and support someone that seeks unbound centralization of power, and abuses the tech we've built to the detriment of the same people that voted for them, if not everyone
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@darrylyeo
Qualify what exactly you mean by “someone that seeks unbound centralization of power”? What tech is being abused? Why is that detrimental to everyone?
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Refusing to allow the peaceful transfer of power, directing the DOJ to persecute political opponents, seeking criminal immunity from the supreme court, governing mostly through executive orders instead of legislation. Utilizing social media to lie and misinform, ruining crypto's image by launching scam after scam.
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This is his second term, so under the 22nd Amendment he can’t run again and will have to relinquish the office anyway? Issuing executive orders is the president’s job? What else do you expect from someone in that position when the legislative branch is gridlocked/aligned against him? Is the president not entitled to speak his opinion on social media? How is choosing a candidate necessarily in conflict with supporting decentralization? What alternative civic action do you recommend?
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With the disregard for the constitution shown, I doubt that'd stop him - but that's a moot point - he can just try and force through some sympathizer or some family member later. The second and third points go hand in hand - republicans had a majority in almost every branch of government during his 1st term. This is just another lie propagated through social media to justify bad governance. And no, issuing executive orders is not the president's job. It's a last resort mechanism from a specific interpretation of the constitution - one that Trump himself said he wanted to do away with. With regards to voting - I'd just argue you'd need very good reason to vote for something/someone that represents the exact opposite of what you are building towards or believe in.
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Are presidents not allowed to support future candidates who they think will best carry their decisions forward? Also, literally every single president in history has issued an executive order (except Harrison who died a month in) – why should this change now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order#Table_of_U.S._presidents_using_executive_orders Not sure what you’re trying to argue for, but if you’re really using decentralization as a measure to pick a side, I’d argue the other side is demonstrably worse in this regard due to their tendencies toward regulation and censorship, and their near unilateral historical influence over social media, traditional media, academia, big tech, the primary process, etc. I prefer to judge based on actions over speculation about hypothetical future political scenarios, and on the net I think Trump and the team he has assembled better represents the interests of the crypto industry and country at large đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™‚ïž
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Yes they are, as long as they respect the results of an election and allow for the peaceful transfer of power. Executive orders aren't bad - using them without necessity after failing to create workable legislation though shows incompetence at best, authoritarian tendencies at worst. All the conspiracy theories of media control have literally come to pass, but from the side making those up - foreign tech billionaire buying majority shares of a media company, taking it private, using it to post partisan content... Not to mention "Trump media"... I won't argue this election outcome hasn't been good for the price of crypto. But we really shouldn't conflate that with what is good for crypto. An authoritarian leader who makes (frankly) tempting promises about things the community is frustrated about should not win us over this easily. And any "hypothetical" scenarios are things that have already happened; but coin price go up I guess.
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It’s on Congress to create “workable” legislation. The president can only sign or veto the bills. They are two separate branches of government. Not sure what you mean by incompetence here. Not buying this “authoritarian” premise either – it feels incredibly one-sided to me and not really based in reality. There are explicit limits on the office of the president defined in the Constitution that keep tyranny from ever happening.
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And yet Jan 6 still happened.
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