In exit polls, voters cared much more about the economy than those issues. They’re just really bad at economics.

Man, I wish. One temper tantrum away from green transit for America.

It’s simpler than that. They have literally no idea what tax incidence even is, and think the government just decides who the burden falls on.

Low inflation statistics have been helped significantly by cheaper electronics. So everybody who voted Trump to lower inflation is in for a surprise.

Then I’m doing an absolutely terrible job of both.

That doesn’t mean a fascist goverment will keep its promises to you…

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So then you disagree with GP, who called it supporting genocide.

In the definition that they’re trying to erase Ukrainian cultural identity.

We should improve the system somewhat.

Is this not a relatively mainstream belief?

Why do marginalized users keep using that website at all?

Here in the USA, the overwhelming majority of poor people eat meat; even the homeless! They just get low-quality processed meat instead.

My office is paperless, but we’re a tech startup.

It’s been legal here in LA for over a year now, super convenient.

I did this and they stole the bowl too.

Not every transaction, just the ones that open and close payment channels. This deletes data that would be needed to reconstruct an overwhelming majority of transactions.

(This is how Bitcoin’s lightning network works.)

If he doesn’t like hoarding, why doesn’t it just inflate?

Couldn’t they run a Chaumian digital cash server? It’s got top notch privacy, with the only downside of being a trusted central authority… which fiat currencies need anyways.

It’s because you’re taking a stance against cashless, which sounds paranoid and weird to most people.

Take a stand against VISA and PayPal. Then the bad guy isn’t “our” government, it’s corporations everyone already hates. And it references problems people already experience.

It’s much easier to explain how the situation is already bad than it is to argue how it “could become” bad.