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Cake day: April 10th, 2022

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  • Uhhh, ok sweaty? Like, Binance trades in those currencies. The problem is the crypto wallet service ecosystem that was developed and pushed. The coins are decentralized but the wallet platforms are all points of control. And it’s the wallet platforms that are spending the money on advertising and social media, not the coins themselves. So the whole ecosystem - outside of the gear heads who knows enough to run their own wallets AND know enough to run them securely and redundantly to avoid loss - the whole ecosystem is intermediated by feds and fed-adjacent actors.



  • A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led investigation discovered the plane in the Dominican Republic, a source said.

    Sooo… homeland security of the USA was in the Dominican Republic, an ostensibly sovereign nation, and stole the plane of the president of another sovereign nation.

    The plane is the Venezuelan equivalent to Air Force One

    Can you imagine what would happen if another nation did this to the USA?

    “[…] for use by Nicolás Maduro and his cronies”

    Like Air Force One is for Biden and his cronies, or Clinton and his cronies, or Reagan and his cronies?

    “This morning, the Justice Department seized an aircraft we allege was illegally purchased for $13 million through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States […]”

    So they didn’t know it was illegally purchased before the USA Homeland Security stole it from the Dominican Republic?

    “The Department will continue to pursue those who violate our sanctions and export controls to prevent them from using American resources to undermine the national security of the United States.”

    How does undermining unilateral politically motivated sanctions undermine the national security of the USA?

    “The seizure of this aircraft is another significant action by Homeland Security Investigations working with our domestic and international partners against the illegal activities of the Maduro regime,”

    It’s not illegal in Venezuela to violate the unilateral sanctions of the USA. It’s not illegal ANYWHERE to violate unilateral sanctions of some other country.

    “This is an important step to ensure that Maduro continues to feel the consequences from his misgovernance of Venezuela,”

    This is some real Team America: World Police level brain rot.















  • What the fuck? The USA has been pursuing nuclear first strike capabilities for decades, is the only major power that officially holds a nuclear first use policy, is the only country to use nukes in conflict and they chose to use them on civilian population centers of an adversary that was literally negotiating a surrender. The USA unilaterally pulled out of multiple nuclear treaties and it gave the colonial project of Israel nukes in violation of non-proliferation.

    MAD is the only thing protecting the rest of the world from the psychotic nation that is the USA