I’m not religious, but God bless you.

I still barely understand, but I understand more than I did five minutes ago, and that is worth something.

Why is this math problem worth monetary value to anyone if it’s just a randomly generated number? I don’t care if something generated a number somewhere. Like, good for them I guess? Why is that valuable?

Fucking hell. Yes.

Americans have been told this glamorous story about their history in schools that has made us think that this behavior we are seeing today “isn’t who we are.”

It definitely is who we are and it makes me sick.

What the hell kind of country are we becoming. Without fears of consequences for ruining water and land, the environmental systems that support all life around the world are at risk. Regarding being pardoned for financial crimes, all Americans and anyone who interacts with the American financial system are at risk of losing everything. Becoming debtor slaves or serfs with hardly a dollar to their name.

Excellent point. Thank you.

Some kids are told about it in school, and then that chapter ends and the lesson moves on and the kids forget about it. Beyond that, Americans have to actively seek out that information.

With Trump making moves to erase all evidence of the history I mentioned above, it’s about to get a lot worse.

My sincere hope is that they’re rescued before this goes too far. Is that Polly Anna? Probably. But I’m hanging onto that.

Yeah. The more I listen to older generations about the shit the US government pulled in the past, the more I realize that this shit happening now is kind of par for the course for good ole America.

Like. The government killed black protestors in the civil rights era. Outright killed. Right now, though deportation is awful, there are no deaths, yet, that we’ve heard of. And thousands of civil rights activists were jailed for peaceful protest, which is happening again.

And McCarthyism was the government targeting those that didn’t agree with their desired economy, essentially political dissenters. People lost their jobs and more. So. The government ruining the lives of dissenters isn’t new either.

And disabled individuals lost their humanity in the forced sterilization era, and innocent Japanese were forced into concentration camps. So the dehumanization of trans people has precedence.

Yall. America sucks.

I hope it’s a long shot. I hope people are smart enough to see through this.

But if people were able to see through the obvious lies by these Nazis, the USA wouldn’t be here now.

They were raised by people who went through the depression. “Trust the government” with what is rightfully their money is laughable.

I’d rather it was someone else. AOC. Bernie. Anyone in that vein.

But if he’ll get the Dems to rally and DO SOMETHING? Fuck it. Give it a try. Maybe it will work.

What fundraising is he referring to though??

What the FUCK???

They’re setting up the narrative so that when the public hears real people suffering, they ignore them.

This is bad. Really really bad.

This has been my favorite response so far. It explains nothing, but the mental image is priceless.

I haven’t had any tears. Hard to say whether it’s my VCR or the tapes doing the jamming. I’m not very tech savvy, and I was a kid when these were all in use so I haven’t learned how to fix these things. When something doesn’t work right, I usually just take the top off the VCR and wiggle a part, and all goes smoothly after that.

What is a fiat currency?

Oh, I just looked it up. So it’s the USD.

These are great, but they don’t explain what a crypto coin actually is.

I still own a VCR and a vast collection of VHS tapes. I mean, I also pay for streaming services, but without the old 90s commercials for Disney World and previews for movies that were released in 1995, the movies just don’t hit the same.

But what you said there is literally the end of my understanding of what crypto is. It has something to do with computers solving math problems, and somehow that’s worth money.

What?

It’s an interesting thought experiment!

We can just look to indigenous cultures for this. They’ve been doing it for tens of thousands of years before being colonized. Like, indigenous Australian cultures sustained themselves for 60k-100k years without ruining their environment while also living in commune-type societies. Native North/South Americans did it too. We can hand off our kids to untouched/minimally touched cultures to learn how to relate to the environment and each other. There will always be human conflict. It’s how we handle that conflict that we need to learn again, and how to appropriately handle conflict needs to be retaught by those who know how to do it.

Communes (and my run-away-to-the-forest idea above) will never work without the proper cultural education and social rules to prevent that kind of behavior. To relearn how to build a socially sustainable culture, we should look to cultures that have been around for thousands of years and have done it successfully. It would be a really hard transition because it requires a complete restructuring of how we view other people and how we relate to them. Which, honestly, I think we should be doing anyway, commune or not.