There's a word for it: #beggars. Or, better still: #panhandlers. Or, more truthfully, #grifters.
#grifters
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Taproot Wizards Looks to Raise Over $34M in Long-Awaited Sale of Signature NFTs
CoinDesk · Taproot Wizards Looks to Raise $34M in Long-Awaited Sale of Signature NFTs
Bitwise Launches ETF of Firms Holding Over 1K Bitcoin, Strategy Takes a 20% Weighting
CoinDesk · Bitwise Launches BTC Standard Corporations ETF, Strategy Takes a 20% Weighting
"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by @sentientmedia
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https://sentientmedia.org/mahas-natural-foods-obsession/
Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".
Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this.
Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: https://veganism.social/deck/@veganpizza69/110813538364525265
Bullshit & snake oil are not vegan.
Sentient · The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive FantasyThe rise of the carnivore diet, and the search for simplicity.
This is partly why they want everyone to get covid over and over until they become disabled or die.
And isn’t this packaging of risky assets (after deregulation of course) what caused the last bubble?
He got involved in this back in 2020.
From the link:
“With the REIT model, instead of buying a single condo, you buy a share in a company that owns 100 or 200 condos. This investment vehicle was established by Congress in the 1960s, opening the doors to large-scale real estate investments for smaller investors. It’s a model that has enabled real estate hedge funds to buy up large swaths of thehousing market, driving up demand and prices. Recently, companies have begun applying a REIT-like model to land.”
JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters. | Civil Eats https://civileats.com/2024/09/18/jd-vance-invested-in-acretrader-heres-why-that-matters/
Civil Eats · JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.
Repression intensifies as White House becomes a car dealership and unauthorized purge administrator justifies threats against non violent activists because he claims they are terrorists.
#Tesla #Musk #WhiteHouse #autodealer #grifters #heavyhand
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/13/tesla_protests_elon_musk_doge
Democracy Now! · Tesla Takedown: Protests Grow Across the U.S. as Trump & Musk Brand Activists as Terrorists
Dear Leader is pimpin' Teslas on the White House lawn, in between banking $millions in meme-coin fees, while letting cronies ride high on insider trading a few hours before daily tanking of markets via insane tweets. "Conflict of interest" is not only the "new normal", it has now become "standard operating procedure." #trump #maga #musk #doge #idiocracy #kakistocracy #corruption #thieves #memecoins #tesla #cronyism #grifters
OMFG, #CNN!! Stop saying #ElonMusk is brilliant!! He is NOT! He is a con, not a genius. He buys things. He does not invent things. He didn’t even invent the concept of taking credit for the work of others!! This person has no original ideas. #capitalism #grifters #tesla #spacex
How is this article still available to read 15 years after they published it? Wild.
World's rich got richer amid '09 recession: report | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/worlds-rich-got-richer-amid-09-recession-report-idUSTRE65L36T/
"→ All of the above are repeated using this: Instantly, right now, every yoctosecond, safely, forever, always, 100% visible at a speed billion times faster than the speed of ultra high energy cosmic rays, SAFE, noticeable, mesmerizing, apparent, etc"
Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift - Corruption doesn’t get much more blatant than this.
'The boondoggle is so obvious, and so clumsy, it barely even feels like a scam. Instead, it functions more as an open declaration of Trump’s contempt for the public, his office, and for the rule of law. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in an authoritarian kleptocracy, this is it.'
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-crypto-reserve-grifting-corruption #Trump #grifters #corruption #crypto #Kleptocracy #politics
Public Notice · Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift
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IMHO, It is unconscionable to make a #profit from the suffering of people. #Private companies in #HealthSector services should be abolished. Looking after the health of its society is a #public responsibility. The sooner the electorate understands this the better off we will all be.
PS. If the #grifters and #RWNJs wish to pour their immorally earned, low taxed cash into flashy private clinics because they can, I have no problems with it as long as every other citizen is afforded the very best and timely #MedicalServices available free of charge (If we taxed appropriately this would be a piece of cake).
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I just took a look into my employer's Vercel Firewall to discover that those #grifters of #Anthropic and #OpenAI account for respectively 13% and 4% of our traffic for the past 24h!
Time to add a rule to block them.
"Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting."
They have the power to influence Trump: halt the tariffs, #DOGE #firings... Each exec should take turns calling him, so he receives calls 24/7.
His quid pro quo corruption is Putinesque.
#USPol #Corruption #Trump #Bribery #Grifters #Musk #Recession #Resist
https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/
WIRED · People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
"Lord McNicol ... told the Treasury consultation that Astra Protocol’s team meant it was “uniquely placed to provide meaningful insights into the challenges and opportunities that come with regulating #DeFi [decentralised finance] and other #crypto assets”. He cautioned against allowing regulation to “stifle innovation”."
The Guardian · Labour peer wrote to Treasury on behalf of crypto firm he advised
Crypto bro in chief #DavidSacks has announced the first “White House Crypto Summit” to be attended by an absolute murderer’s row of crypto #grifters.
A plea for #TaxReform long overdue, if I’ve ever read one. Rod Campbell writes in The Conversation:
“Scrapping the capital gains tax discount, getting rid of discretionary trusts, placing more limits on the types of assets that can be held in self-managed super funds, and increasing tax rates on people with big super balances would reduce the ability of the wealthy to avoid paying tax.
It is hard to reform tax loopholes because most people don’t understand them and the people who do understand them reap the biggest benefits from them.”
In other words, it’s about time we got the pig’s snouts out of the public trough. These tax #loopholes are a form of #StateTheft and a mechanism for distributing wealth to the wealthiest, thereby increasing #inequity in our society. #Grifters are everywhere you look, some blatantly so, many others look like mum & pop, but these people enjoy profits at the cost of those who struggle to make ends meet.
