I’ve come to the conclusion that it has to get very, very bad in the states before we’ll actually do something about it, and by then it’s likely to be too late. We’re taking the plunge into fascism, and it won’t end well.

I really hope I’m wrong. The 50501 protests have been somewhat heartening. But it’s hard to see them having a real impact on an actual fascist traitor president who no longer has to care about his own popularity.

So it’s hard to imagine this ending in anything but violence.

Sorry guys, this one’s locked now. Y’all need to grow the fuck up.

Nah. It’s not almost like that. Nope. It’s exactly that.

This is weaponized incompetence and stupidity.

I expect it to accelerate.

Yep. Nader contributed directly to all this shit.

Well. I stand at least somewhat corrected. The SWIFT usage seems experimental right now, but Kinexys is clearly in use in production.

OK, I’ll bite… Do you have any links to specific banks detailing their use of blockchain to make transfers to other banks?

You may work with banks that are experimenting with it, but it’s not going to replace things like SWIFT any time soon.

Except no it’s absolutely not. They use systems such as ACH and the Federal Reserve Wire Network. For international transfers, they use systems like the SWIFT network.

Why add a crypto middleman to transactions like those?

Take the whole what down? Near as I can tell, this doesn’t have anything to do with Zionism.

Rien ne va plus.

He hates being at the White House, with all the rules and procedures that have to be followed there. He’d much prefer to engage in open corruption without all that red tape.

spray paint

And a lighter.

Small enough to fit snuggly between you and your rights.

Just throw this on the pile of other illegal actions.

Yes, illegal. Congress - not the king president - has the power of the purse. Every single cut-by-fiat that Musk’s goons have done is illegal.

This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.

Fair enough.

Germany should immediately seize all of Tesla’s accounts there and pay the workers on sick leave out of those funds.

Nah, DOGE is going to discover that The Atlantic is at fault for this somehow, and have all its management arrested.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

A spine isn’t necessary for that, just greed and self-interest. Leaks will happen whenever the slimy weasels Trump surrounds himself with think they’ll benefit from them or are too incompetent to prevent them.

The problem is that a fascist regime will always be in a state of damage control, and that control will become more and more violent to the population.