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Steven Leshinger 🎩
@stevlesh
I'm confused by those who believe the DNC will support crypto. Where's the flaw in the below thinking? Assumption 1: Democrats and the US state have merged into one group. Assumption 2: Crypto explicitly challenges the dollar, the power core of this group. Conclusion: Since crypto threatens the Dems' global power, they will be the last to accept it—just like the Catholic Church resisted the printing press until defeat was inevitable.
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MOLO
@molo
"Democrats and the US state have merged into one group" how?
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Steven Leshinger 🎩
@stevlesh
There’s a revolving door between government agencies and Democratic Party power centers, like big tech, mainstream media, and universities. Recent examples include the head of the NSA moving to OpenAI and Jen Psaki getting her own show on MSNBC. Before 2016 and Trump, the USA was basically a one-party system, with Ds and Rs agreeing on the key issues -- defense, trade, and immigration. Trump diverged from these positions, and many Bush-Cheney Republicans (ie the Rs from the one-party world) defected to the Democrat Party. Eg Frum and Wehner write for the Atlantic now.
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MOLO
@molo
This is completely cherry picked! read twitter and it's pretty obviously untrue that tech is dem power center (a16z, elon, all-in pod members, crypto founders). MSM is only if you include left-leaning outlets. what about fox? ny post? wsj? universities always will and always have leaned progressive, so that's fair. what about every other industry that is bigger than all three of these? Finance? Healthcare? Manufacturing? Defense? Hospitality? Retail? if dems and state were the same, why is does the supreme court lean conservative 6-3? why is the senate split 50-50 and the house of reps 220-212 republican? why are 27 of 50 governors of the states republican?
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i mean, no? trump more or less continued the GOP agenda, he just turned it explicitly rather than implicitly fascist: ban 20 million ppl, dictator day 1, Jan 6, etc. his big achievement is…tax cuts for the wealthy, a big priority for the GOP for years. expanded obama’s drone war, etc.
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