It needs to be properly documented for all future generations that the GOP had the House, Senate, and Presidency and allowed the rise of communisim in the United States while simultaneously posting relentlessly about stopping it.
whenever you think of trusting base, remember this thread
jesse pollak’s coins
the head of base used the official coinbase X account to promote “base is for everyone” on zora. it spiked to $17M mcap in an hour. crashed 90% to $1.9M within 20 minutes. people thought it was an official base token. jesse said it was “an experiment” and that he “personally approved the post”
months later he launched his own JESSE token through the base app. called it a “creator coin, not a memecoin.” two snipers extracted $1.3M from it within seconds of launch. the token peaked at $25M and dumped. $50M in volume flowed through it and the regular users who trusted the head of base got sniped by bots while he collected LP fees
he then used those LP fees to buy other creator coins on zora. so the fees generated from his community getting sniped went to propping up more creator coins that also dumped
him and brian promoted tokens linked to balaji srinivasan and other figures. all crashed. one critic pointed out “the same users kept eating the downside on team-promoted tokens.” nobody at base adjusted
he endorsed a soulja boy token, a person zachxbt publicly documented running 73+ token promotions, 16 NFT collections, most of them rugs or abandoned, earning $730K+ from paid crypto scams. jesse invested $1,500 and promoted it publicly. zachxbt’s report was from 2023. it was public. the head of base either didn’t bother to check or didn’t care
he shared a GIF playing on “base is for everyone” that rotated through the phrases “base is for pimping” and “base is for squirting.” had to publicly apologize. the guy running a coinbase-backed chain, a publicly traded company, posting this to hundreds of thousands of followers
after all of this he said base won’t “pump tokens” or “support the chart behind the scenes.” the same person who launched multiple coins that dumped on his community won’t help yours. his charts get LP fees. yours get abandoned
the $BRIAN disaster
brian armstrong, CEO of coinbase, $50B+ publicly traded company, changed his pfp to a $BRIAN memecoin. 10,000 people bought in. the CEO of the chain is backing it: what could go wrong? he removed the pfp 23 hours later. coin went to zero. 10,000+ people down 99% after trusting the literal CEO
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130+ IQ White American men were boxed out of Silicon Valley for the last 20 years in favor of jeets and we wonder why China is kicking our asses in the AI race as if it's some sort of crazy scooby-doo mystery.
Nearly 8 in 10 net new American jobs since before COVID have gone to foreign-born workers, according to BLS household survey data from February 2020 to May 2026.
I hate how no one understands how the world works, and having reality smack them in the face doesnt have them update prior.
There are 100s of foundational things that need to happen before their society even functions without child labor and the like. Everyone there is a slave to their own families. If someone bettered themselves (farm that makes great money because they invest in fertilizer wgich is not common) they would be expected to give everything away to their extended family where it will be squandered (no money left to buy fertilizer for next year)
Thats just 1 of the 100s of things that have to change. And its not happening without colonization and dictatorial control for 5+ generations at least. High probability control would have to be indefinite.
They can not understand your world or accept your values anymore than you can do with theirs.
You’re not allowed to invest in SpaceX until it already trades at over a trillion dollar valuation, but let’s repeatedly give you Gambling Ads on every other commercial
This is all for your financial protection
I do think these entities exist - but playing devil’s advocate - entities die and change and morph. How could such an all-powerful secret structure persist and maintain dominance?
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People.
I just left Costco and I feel like an idiot...
The people in front of me bought $1,200 in top shelf alcohol, cases of redbull, and steaks.
They split it up and paid for the steaks and redbull with EBT, and then pulled out a giant wad of $100 bills to pay for the alcohol in cash.
WTF am I doing with my life??? I haven't bought steak in years - I haven't bought alcohol in decades. Too expensive. On the rare occasion we eat out, I buy the cheapest thing on the menu.
Yet these people can just casually drop thousands of dollars of my tax money on things I can't even afford?? Just to drive home to a taxpayer funded house nicer than I live in.
We are completely destroyed as a society.
The advice for the housing crisis is get roommates.
The advice for grocery costs is cook at home.
The advice for the commute is move closer to work.
The advice for debt is cut spending.
The advice for burnout is find balance.
None of these are solutions.
They are instructions for how to be poor more quietly.
Crazy how representation matters in a fictional story set within Polynesian culture but if you ask for the same treatment with The Odyssey & Greeks they lose their goddamn minds