u/fine_sandy_bottom

Sorry you're barking up the wrong tree there mate. Crypto is a detriment to humanity.

Yeah most commenters here just read the headline I think.

The govt just wanted the loan so they did the thing.

They're still big into bitcoin. Seems like their holdings have gone well (only because Trump won), but their other projects haven't been successful by any metric.

People haven't taken up crypto as a currency, it's just the pres using federal resources to invest in crypto. He's been lucky so far.

Not really scammers but speculators.

A means of exchange shouldn't be a speculative investment, the two objectives are at odds with each other.

Would you loan money to someone who wouldn't be able to repay if the bitcoin market crashed?

Mind if I ask what you are basing this on?

The overton window.

If the political opinions are reduced to a spectum running from left to right, then in a two party system the major parties will sit immediately to either side of the mid-way point, because they want to seduce as many swing voters as possible from the other side.

As in, the conservative party may have conservative dreams but their policies need to be far enough to the left to actually win an election, so they will push up against the progressive party.

If suddenly more voters vote progressive (the conservative party loses badly), the conservative party needs to adjust their policy settings further to the left.

As the conservative party's policies move to the left, the progressive party will start losing voters to them unless they also move further to the left.

God I'm sick of explaining this.

If everyone voted for the left-most party, and the right had no votes, the right would move towards the left, pushing the dems along with them.

Not surprisingly, when the country votes left your politics moves left.

Comments like this are the reason why the dems are not the bastion of leftism you so desire.

Almost like the US are acting in their own interests.