Heath, Distributed

Former thought boi

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

We need to get rid of capital gains tax on US-based shitcoins so we can remain the scam capital of the world.

[The Progressive Bitcoiner @TPB_Inc]

Are you a progressive, and skeptical of Bitcoin as a progressive force for good? This thread is for you

Why Bitcoin is the Most Progressive Tool of the 21st Century 🧵

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

I made a plot. This is staggering stuff.

[Dr. Margot Paez @jyn_urso]

Here’s my I have only had 5 hours of sleep take on Donald Trump’s win.

This election was about class. Once upon a time, class and identity were separated as the neoliberal era took hold. Democrats capitalized on identity and it worked for a while. But as our guest on @TPBPod, Alan Minsky, noted… Neoliberalism is dead. We have to realize that these new alliances that are forming under Trump are not only odd bedfellows, but because they are, they signify a new cultural and political power shift.

I have been watching this happen since Bernie ran in the 2016 primary. The coalition is building beyond race among the working class. A unity that the left could only dream of. Yet, this is not an empowerment of the working class in the way that we’d envision. I don’t believe that this will end in a worker revolution where the proletariat owns the means of production.

I don’t because this is a coalition of the working class with a different faction. This isn’t the traditional corporate-state-capitalist alliance that has coalesced in the Democratic party. This is an alliance of those who feel powerless, with those who want absolute power.

I am not sure where we are headed, but if Lawrence Wilkerson is right, this is dark.

The liberals will have yet again made it possible for the worst outcomes to happen. The left progressives (a wide umbrella that covers a coalition of socialists and center-left), unable to unite to stop the Democrats, are at their most powerless.

I really ask Democratic supporters, to wake up. We are a country that has been living three different experiences simultaneously. And just now, two roads have merged into one.

I have traveled so much around the US and the world this year. I truly believe that in the US, we have two countries in one. There’s two cultures thar have developed as a result of rural isolation and gross economic inequality. For those who have, identity issues are the only remaining issues. For those who do not, identity is the least important. It makes sense. Then we have the ultra rich, who saw an opportunity to exploit this. This where the danger now exists.

I wish I could tell you what happens next. But, what I do know is that the probabilities of socio-economic and political disasters are much higher now than ever before.

The left must find a way to bring the workers back. But I am afraid that the left has become mainly the highly educated who do not understand the worker’s plight.

And what of bitcoin? Bitcoin works no matter what but also because of what happens next. It is both a deterrent and an accelerant. We have skin in the game.

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

@jyn_urso @TPBPod For the record, even though I like to tweet about identity issues as a gay bitcoiner, I do not think they are primary issues and am saddened and dismayed whenever I see that on the left. As a Bernie supporter, I definitely agree with your take that Dems lost this on class.

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

Men and our varying conceptions of masculinity are in the spotlight this election. Although, if you followed bitcoiners on here in the last few years, you would already know everything about dudes in extreme crisis over their own manhood.

[Chris Kavanagh @C_Kavanagh]

Yes this is from 4chan. The point remains extremely valid. The conspiracy theorists are massive hypocrites and almost always political partisans.

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

@PeoplesBread For me, Svetski is a serious risk to human liberty. If you knew your ideas were unpopular and objectively terrible but wanted to popularize the anyway because your hate is that strong, you would try to sneak them into the ethos of an inevitable tech.

[Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels]

Just watched this 12 times. Going on 13.

[Nicole Dobrow @Do82Nic]

I told a new friend I was a Bitcoiner. Their immediate response was to ask me if I was a Trumper.

This is a problem.

Reasonable people do not want to be associated with Trump.

(Especially queer people in Portland)

[Eugene Gant @PeoplesBread]

If you're indexing your T levels as evidence of your masculinity rather than the way you conduct your relationships as a man, you're not gonna make it.

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

The Democrats are not going to make favorable crypto policy until it stops being a punchline for everything greedy, fraudulent, and useless.

But Democrats represent the working people of the USA, and therefore are bound by fate to adopt Bitcoin as the honest, people’s money.

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

Imagine making an endorsement so shameful your family has to release a statement disavowing you. MAGA is where legacies go to die.

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

I am sharing a personal statement that my family and I have made in response to my brother’s announcement.

[J. "Lesley" Sakroc @lesthecroc]

Fair play to Lad Bible for doing this

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

Two things can be true at the same time. People can be really smart about #bitcoin, and less about… everything else.

[Rob 🚀 @RJSzczerba]

Idolizing Trump is like believing the stripper really likes you

[Jesse McLaren @McJesse]

“How can a black woman also be Indian???”

“If a woman has high testosterone does that make her male???”

-The people trying to ban race and gender studies.

[Heath, Distributed @dstrbtdhth]

I’m convinced that people could understand gender, sex, and sexuality by simply stepping back and thinking through the hilarious contradictions implicit in each of these culture war flashpoints.

That is, if they’re equipped with logic, deductive reasoning, and good faith.

[Hannah McCann @binarythis]

Crazy how if you (apparently) have high levels of testosterone TERFs will call you a man but if you’re like okay then I’ll take some more and be a man they’re like NO YOU’RE NOT