My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.

This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery…

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    7 months ago

    Wow, I got almost halfway through that and it was a wild ride.

    Tl;dr - Dude things cryptocurrency is a massive ponzi scheme that’s somehow being used to start a global fascist coup. Like any good conspiracy theory, there are a lot of facts (some of them even true!) and weird relationships between them.

    I’ll probably finish it later tonight, just to see what else this dude has been up to.

    • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      Well, he’s not wrong about them individually but the insanity is thinking crypto is the driving force behind fascism or that it was necessary to create to facilitate the latter

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        7 months ago

        Exactly.

        I think most crypto projects are scams, but they’re relatively independent scams. We’ve got:

        • YouTube channels pumping and dumping coins
        • exchanges stealing wallets
        • digital wallets stealing keys
        • individuals selling NFTs and misrepresenting what they are

        And so much more.

        But these are mostly just people jumping on the bandwagon, not some concerted effort by fascists to control the money supply or something. You get the same thing with any fad, like scalping GPUs during COVID supply shortages, Pokemon card fakes, GameStop stock manipulation, etc.

        But it’s still incredibly interesting to see all the connections a very dedicated individual can make. I mean, somehow Bill Clinton is in cahoots with G. W. Bush to push crypto?

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          7 months ago

          That said Thiel is absolutely funding their creation for his fascist goals. If he controls how money works by having a lot of it he has more influence on it. But aside from the funding of Etherium he’s got no hand in the shit that screws the common rube.

          • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            7 months ago

            Thiel is an absolute piece of shit & the day I wake up to news that he’s choked on his own hubris will be great.

        • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 months ago

          I mean, somehow Bill Clinton is in cahoots with G. W. Bush to push crypto?

          What else would they discuss while on Epstein Island?!!