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So annoying. There are good conversations to have about overreach and surveillance but dude, organised crime is fucking terrifying and AML is good actually.
I like buying drugs, I think there are probably kinds of crimes that shouldn't be prosecutable by evidence discovered using methods intended to stop truly evil shit and we should probably talk about that. These people though, it's always something stupid they coyly hide while acting like it's some giant assault on their rights to be interviewed in order to establish they're not trafficking arms or something.
It doesn't make for a good case. I don't think trading in crypto is inherently less moral than like buying shares in shell and some of the freak outs about it are knee jerk moral panics (seriously though please stop speculating using my ketamine coins? I just want to treat my depression) but it's dumb to get so worked up about being asked a few questions when it looks absolutely sus as hell. If I walk down the street carrying a gun bag (full of flowers, the shape is convenient) in a balaclava (the wind dehydrates my skin) it's not a fucking assault on my rights if someone asks me to show them there isn't a rifle in my bag.
actively investing in shell and actively investing in crypto is unethical and it's not wrong to point it out, and neither is this moral panic; if you don't want to be subjected to ethical assessment, don't brag about potentially unethical behaviour.
sure but like everyone with any kind of retirement fund or whatever, or even government pension is complicit in unethical investment. Crypto is less than ideal for lots of reasons but imo the attention it gets (and weird criticism over stuff like water usage by people who drink softdrink and eat meat etc) is a symptom of it being new and primarily of interest to annoying dorks.
Capitalism makes bastards of us all, and you should defs try to do better, but people who like aren't even doing the bare minimum of plant based diets criticising crypto uniquely are just being inconsistent.
so, you're a pale vegan doing crypto and investing in ai because other people eat meat?
lmao no I don't invest in crypto or shares. I'm broke as fuck. What part of bankrupt over treating depression is difficult to understand?
What part of both are awful but criticising one more than the other is stupid and lazy implies I'm doing either?
bringing one in context of another, when they're not related at all. also, i distrust pale vegans (who almost never realise the impact of pale veganism on other places).
Carnist seething lmao, you want to feel so good about yourself but you're just as happy as anyone else to make someone else die screaming if it brings you a moment of pleasure. But sure hey, at least you're not a tech bro. But then if you weren't incapable you probably would be, if you're unable to do something it's not virtuous not to.
shrug i'm not a karnista, i'm not even a lawyer.
@naevaTheRat @mawhrin have you bumped your head?
Carnists pretending they have any sense of right or wrong is hilarious
this isn't working out