The tribal filter is a good way to understand what’s happening. To first order:
Blue tribe: progressives
Red tribe: conservatives
Gray tribe: tech libertarians
The US isn’t best thought of as a unified country anymore, but a tribal warzone of blue against red. Compare the polarization chart below of 1951 to 2011 — things are more Sunni-vs-Shiite than e pluribus unum.
Tribal conflict is also how the smartest blues themselves think about it. See this article in the Atlantic[1]. Writers like @martyrmade will recognize the main blue from this piece[2].
Anyway, the defining feature of American life today is that any institution controlled by blues is used against reds (and increasingly vice versa). Think about the partisan fights over previously “neutral”-seeming institutions like the FBI and you know this to be true.
Grays were once part of blues but have broken away and are increasingly siding with reds (see eg Elon Twitter), or at least against blues. (There are more tribes too, more on that later).
Grays are finally non-blue because blues have been waging total media war on grays and reds for the better part of a decade.
Blues arguably lost that media war after 2021 once the population lost trust in them and Twitter got uncensored. They did capture big tech and the federal government for blue tribe, though, so they got something out of it.
Now, with the soft power of media gone, blues are moving into phase two, which is not media war but money war.
Remember, they have already weaponized the banking system abroad (see eg Treasury’s War[3] or the Canadian truckers).
So now they are bringing that war home, and turning the banking system itself against gray and red. It’s “unintentional” now — but it just so happens that it’s targeting their tribal rivals and consolidating all the money at big blue banks.
It’ll get more intentional over time.
[1]: https://t.co/QkENzUsLXu
[2]: https://t.co/OhdzFnzFdS
[3]: https://t.co/vfTTk0h1Dq
Nothing is ever as it seems. The uniparty wants more power to control what we do and see. And now we’re going to give the Biden goons the ability to throw us in jail for 20 years if they decide we’re in violation of this craziness? No thanks.
@coffeebreak_YT Are we sure that that this whole SBF apology tour is not just to distract us while they crash the whole fiat system to replace it with their CBDCs?
In some ways this whole FTX episode is useful.
It shows the complete corruption of the US establishment.
They don't really care if your crypto is stolen.
They're more interested in stealing your crypto.
https://t.co/krDkVSJkhT
@composedao As CZ pointed out with his recent tweet on https://t.co/KsEfF44jaI - something id fishy. Also you could certainly apply ZK or MPC tech to make rotating cold wallet holding transparent
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I'll be pinning this detailed timeline, as my final piece covering this topic, as now the case is closed in my mind.
This was a crime plain and simple and I'll put no more wind in this criminals sails:
FTX: Meltdown.
The definitive and chronological thread.