I agree. Lemmy isn’t as progressive as it thinks it is generally. Just like other social platforms, the concept of a nuanced discussion is mostly (not always) an alien one.

People want things split neatly into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ or ‘us’ and ‘them’ and melt down when anything challenges those neat little boxes. We all do it to some degree, and I get the appeal of it.

But if we want things to ever really get better, we need to be able to have better discussions about important issues and accept things are very rarely binary.

Placing Kamala or Walz on some pedestal as if they’re perfect is just as blind as doing so for Trump.

I’m not in the US, and yes I would vote for Kamala, but I think it’s important to be aware they are not perfect and the fight for a better society/world won’t be over if they win.

Maybe not the majority, but clearly it’s common enough to warrant mentioning for the people affected by it.

Point 2 is better explained in the article. I don’t take this as discrimination, more that while I will always aim to empathise and understand as much as I can about the black experience and be an ally, it’s something I will never have direct experience of, so maybe there are some conversations that I don’t need to muscle in on.

Yeah haha, I think point 2 is well explained in the article, maybe it’s too generalised here.

Still good general advice for posting in my opinion, better to think in general.

I don’t really understand why this is getting so massively downvoted.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me as a white person. Yes, point two could be more nuanced, but otherwise aren’t all these downvotes kind of illustrating the point the OP is making here?

Do you know what a blockchain is? It’s not cutting edge technology at all.

You’re right though, there is a compatibility problem.The BTC network is designed to be inefficient and it’s slow as fuck. Why would we replace a fast and pretty efficient system with a slow one that also makes your money unrecoverable if you make a typo?

That’s not even touching on how fun it would be to buy your groceries when BTC crashes 20% overnight.

Or how ridiculously convoluted using crypto is in general. And how easy it is to get hacked, scammed, rug pulled.

It’s complete fantasy mate. I’m guessing you’re deep in the crypto space from your comments, which are the same old non arguements over and over, so no one ever talks about any potential negatives. That in itself should tell you everything you need to know.

I’m not saying you can’t make money with crypto, but it’s a casino and nothing more. The rest is just feel good bullshit sold to you to make you buy and hold, generally.

Is it a currency or an asset? You replied claiming it’s a currency below.

Calling it a currency is generous. I know it’s meant to be, but let’s be honest - you’re not buying the majority, or probably even any, everyday goods or tech with your BTC are you? Most people certainly aren’t. And most BTC owners certainly aren’t. They’re holding to the moon.

That is 100% the crypto mentality. I got mine fuck you if you didn’t.

Yes if you meet those criteria and cash out right now. Most people I to crypto will hold though.

Why? Because that’s the narrative pushed on the community over and over and over - hodl never sell.

Why? Because if everyone sells, all the people manipulating the market like Tether and their buddies lose their money. Fair play to those that can make a bit of money, but unless you’re already rich, are running the market, or fine with creating a shitcoin to rug people, crypto is not going to make most average people rich at all.

Just another way for the already wealthy to fuck you over.

But the ultra rich are actually playing with that too and fucking over every single person that invests thinking they’re going to be ‘financially free’

Adoption will never happen because block chains are shit at everything except being a Blockchain.

Let’s fix the system we’ve got instead of inventing a new one that’s worse in basically every way.

Appreciate it 👍