It's not the worst thing about this election, but the most annoying thing about this election is the total cultural victory of crypto people. Guys who think Shiba Inu memes and the Bored Ape Yacht Club are still cool multiple years past their peak relevancy are the people running this country now - ThreadSky

josephpolitano.bsky.social • 109 days ago

It's not the worst thing about this election, but the most annoying thing about this election is the total cultural victory of crypto people. Guys who think Shiba Inu memes and the Bored Ape Yacht Club are still cool multiple years past their peak relevancy are the people running this country now

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lukebro92.bsky.social•109 days ago

The only cool Shiba inus are #NAFO

tokengay.bsky.social•109 days ago

#notallcryptopeople 🥲

alexhenke.bsky.social•109 days ago

How long until at least Musk overstays his welcome and Trump kicks him to the curb?

themattbruno.bsky.social•109 days ago

What this country needs is more Baron Bucks!

gibbetgiblits.bsky.social•108 days ago

I mean at some point they have to build something useful… I can’t imagine they’ll still be shilling new meme coins in ten years if nothing useful was done in the interim.
It took a long time for the beanie babies fad to die

josephpolitano.bsky.social•109 days ago

and whatever new crypto scam becomes popular over the next couple years you can be damned sure the White House is going to jump onto the bandwagon again

staroxvia.bsky.social•109 days ago

it's so fucking lame i hate it

the dude who got too reddit for reddit bought his way to the white house and is turning it into a fixture of american hegemonic culture

josephpolitano.bsky.social•109 days ago

unironically decades of American culture influenced by what the guys at /r/The_Donald thought was funny in 2015

various-threnodies.bsky.social•109 days ago

if it makes you feel any better, decent chance the Musk bromance ends as soon as the China tariffs go on

josephpolitano.bsky.social•109 days ago

I fear they’re going to do big tariffs with functional exemptions for TSLA

staroxvia.bsky.social•109 days ago

"universal tariffs except for cobalt and lithium for ev production" is it against tos on bsky to threaten suicide

josephpolitano.bsky.social•109 days ago

Oh that’s not even bad, I’m worried they’re gonna take an axe to the American auto manufacturers set up south of the border and write TSLA Berlin as the only exemption for European automakers

various-threnodies.bsky.social•109 days ago

Definitely. I'm actually more expecting the problem to come from the PRC side. Musk has to look like the perfect target to pressure right now for PRC officials, given that he's incredibly important in the admin and has massive business interests exposed in-country.

gregawd.bsky.social•109 days ago

With byd, I do think China has more ability to lock Tesla out of China and that seems like it'd be worse than whatever Trump can get them

various-threnodies.bsky.social•109 days ago

I may be completely off base, but if I were in their shoes, Musk looks like somebody with a lot of leverage that I can threaten with a lot of pain if he doesn't get Trump to back off somewhat.

gdhoward.bsky.social•109 days ago

I guarantee someone's getting a DOGEcoin tattoo before his term is up.

mbornfreund.bsky.social•109 days ago

More likely driving the bandwagon

giacomovolpe.bsky.social•109 days ago

I know a well meaning but dingus type guy whose life was ruined in part by this stuff. Has kids too

The stuff brings no real utility to anyone but criminals

I see no reason not to simply ban it

paul-melman.bsky.social•109 days ago

This urge to ban things that economic activity that liberals personally dislike with is why Republicans won. Of course, they feel that way about abortion and lgbt rights, which then causes things to swing back

giacomovolpe.bsky.social•109 days ago

My personal dislike has nothing to do with it

It is rife with scams, creates enormous environmental destruction, and provides meaningful utility really only for criminals

Seems like a pretty compelling case to ban

Whats the case to not ban?

paul-melman.bsky.social•109 days ago

There isn't a ton of practical utility in the 1st world right now, though lots of 3rd world countries use crypto due to poor banking infra or unstable currencies. Lack of use in the US is partly because SEC regs have shut down legitimate projects like LBRY.

giacomovolpe.bsky.social•109 days ago

That doesnt seem like a very compelling reason to burn a shitload of fuel, hand a powerful tool to criminals, and let a ton of people be scammed tbh

paul-melman.bsky.social•109 days ago

The energy issue is overstated as well. ETH and SOL don't require large energy consumption and also aren't private enough to be used for crime. But also it doesn't matter, because none of those are good reasons to ban something

weatherwane.gobirds.online•109 days ago

the sort of people who posted honey badger don't care in 2023 are running the country. gross.

chrisarentz.bsky.social•109 days ago

Worthless asset class going up exponentially can now go on much longer than previously possible and end waaaaayyy worse.

jessekuri.bsky.social•109 days ago

Total victory of the fringe; raw milk, anti seed oil, anti vax, crypto people, edge lords.

compacflt.bsky.social•109 days ago

Not necessarily cultural victory. political, sure, but all the people involved in culture still think they’re total tools

keithford.bsky.social•109 days ago

4chan IRL. The world is fucked, I just don't see any other way this goes. Even the people who think they are winning and are celebrating right now are so completely and utterly screwed and they just have no idea.

brandonmckoy.bsky.social•109 days ago

The speed with which my eyes rolled out of my head, down the block, and into the river when I spelled out the acronym for Dept Of Government Efficiency...

ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social•109 days ago

alarms bells should've been sounding for Dem Wall Street folks when Tom Lee showed his bias

https://bsky.app/profile/ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social/post/3l7ny6sxf362z

arterialz.bsky.social•109 days ago

The focus on crypto is encouraged by China Russia and Iran (nations currently flooding x and twitch with memes) because it weakens the USD as the global currency - China would love to devalue the US Dollar

matteogrant.bsky.social•109 days ago

But have you seen the coming capitalization of skibidi?

danchan.bsky.social•109 days ago

The night of the election a friend looked at me and said "the worst people you know are celebrating rn" and I've never felt more demoralized.

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