i spent a few years among idealistic cryptocurrency types. in drips and increments, the pull of payoffs drained the idealism, in my view. nevertheless, i hope to see some reflections by cryptocurrency thinkers on how $TRUMP relates to the early ideals of the community.
living in America when you consider it unethical to use products from X, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, TikTok, Amazon, Starbucks. one thing it does is sow marital discord.
"concerns remain"
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Wouldn't it be more compelling if they just had an image of Donald Trump looking tough and noble as a full-page splash screen on launch of the app? pixel.kitchen/@jenn/113856...
i’m not a fan of the TikTok ban as public policy, but all of a sudden i do gotta hand it to Tom Cotton because rule of law.
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remember when the founders imagined each branch of government would be jealous of its prerogatives?
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just for the cognitive dissonance, it’s worth noting it’s not just billionaires and greedy capitalist businesses. if you listened to his #LexFridman interview, Zelensky also was going out of his way to flatter Trump. understandable, but it always is. arguably more forgivable under the circumstances.
not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a TikTok.
and yet. failing to do so would appear to be defying Trump. which risk will move them?
will Apple restore ByteDance apps in the app store without an Act of Congress legalizing it?
what happened at Dachau in 1933?
“dictator on day one”
do dictators usually start out by dictating popular things? seems sensible.
$TRUMP is the first crypto coin that has a real shot at being currency-like, because it’s the first crypto coin for which there’s a credible threat the coercive power of the state might be used to engender demand.
i can’t believe how much the fate of the republic might turn on the TikTok ban. if Trump issues an Executive Order, firms like Apple decide they face greater risk defying Trump than violating black-letter law, and Congress does nothing, he’s successfully dictated, that’s dictatorship.
there is no such thing as the vibe so it cannot actually shift.
only Congress can fix this. (assuming the Constitution and rule-of-law still apply)
autobiography as much as politics, @phillmv.bsky.social is amazing and i’m delighted to learn so much about them. okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p...
whose idea was it to set the deadline just before rather than just after the inauguration? if Dems had won, it’d have made no difference. but if Trump won… maybe when they passed the act Trump hadn’t yet reversed his position?