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political voilence causes more political voilence

I think that's kinda true, but I don't like the way you phrased it

I've got a really good feeling that if sanders were president, and he was selling merchandise, using his position as POTUS to advertise for it, and said it was made in the us while its raw materials were made elsewhere, you'd be fine with that

I'm no fan of trump, but this isn't an overreach of power nearly as bad as you say it is. its not the job of there potus, but its also not harmful

is a president selling merchandise while in office corruption? because if you think that isn't, then this isn't

no problem!

he's just selling something that his followers will buy. no one else really cares to.

your logic could be even more effectively applied to him selling merchandise about him and that isn't an overreach of power in any way

bc of a phone 🤦

I'm not even disagreeing with you, but listen to yourself.

I think it would be mostly harmless if they didnt they to use their unique position as the 'main' Lemmy instance to spread their crazy ideas beyond the confines of their space

like theres other far left echo chambers in the fediverse, but theyve been mostly defederated from, like hexbear

how exactly are they abusing their power with this one?

this is just them making money off people who will willingly give them money

its not some blatant overreach of power, at worst their using their fame as advertising for it

I thought this was already known, because of all their solar

What is the point of bitcoin if the value is directly tied to another currency?

well this stuff isn't Bitcoin, that's a separate system entirely, and the point isn't for these stablecoins to rise over time. the hope with them is that by using the dollars relative stability they can be used to conduct financial transactions that have a much more stable value than using something like Bitcoin

for example the prediction-betting site Polymarket uses a stablecoin called USDC for its transactions, instaid of some other cryptocurrency

its decentralized in a sense that it's extremely difficult to reverse transacitons and that you can keep money in a wallet without people being able to take it from you, but the value of it is set by a single company so it's isn't really decentralized

idk how to answer your second question

not stablecoins that for sure

if its tied to the dollar, and the dollar goes down, the stablecoin will also go down. they'd probably put their money in Bitcoin and gold

I dont see how stablecoins are gunna mess with the economy

there’s actually bad stuff going on right now, and especially compared to that, this doesn’t seem like a problem at all

I'm not sure how news-like this is

its just a sentence

the mods who run it (and also created the lemmy software which makes this whole thing more complex) love stalin and mao (theres a reason why its Lemmy.ml and not .com, the ml stands for marxist-leninist) and putin and often silence opinions they disagree with on their platform. They use their instance to spread their propaganda about authoritarism and communism and while their aren't the only instance to do that, the other ones weren't run by the Lemmy devs, so other instances defederated from them - I'm talking about places like hexbear and lemmygrad

theres people who've been on Lemmy longer than me and have spent time documenting some of the more insane mod actions and views of the .ml admins and Im gunna go find that right now

edit: ok I found it, here's a list of stuff the admins there have done: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279 and here's the community about documenting stuff I got the post from https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

posting these as .world links because .ml has blocked them (which of course they did) so I don't then you can sub to that comm from your account

amen

yeah for sure

the main reason i havent defederated is bc of how much stuff is from there

Wikipedia says no kings had 13 million

we know math, 1+1=2, 2+2=4

really hard if not impossible to convince people otherwise

once you've set the axioms of math, everything else follows

I'm investing in this post