Who is “they”? This comment reads like a tinfoil hat caricature of paranoia.
The billionaires are opportunists who got us to where we are because we (stupidly) let them get away with crime after crime.
They aren’t evil geniuses who masterminded this government coup back in 2007. That type of rhetoric is silly and not likely to convince anyone of anything other than thinking you’re a nutjob.
The killer was a college-age white boy from Utah from a religious and self-proclaimed “gun toting” Republican family (which is weird btw, to declare your family as part of a political group). We don’t know if he’s a Trump supporter, but it’s very likely that he at least was at one point in his life. The scary part (for them) is that he represents growing disillusionment with MAGA among one of ther most important groups.
The dude is the exact demographic targeted not just by MAGA, but specifically Kirk’s organization. Kimmel’s comment was about MAGA’s immediate attempts to claim (without any evidence) that the killer was instead a transgender bogeyman, with many influencers even calling for civil war against the left.
But the important thing is that Kimmel got canceled because the Trump admin threatened to revoke the network’s broadcast licenses (without which, they can’t operate). The Kirk comment was obviously just a cover, because MAGA has been attacking left-leaning media, and the comment itself was not offensive to anyone. That’s government censorship, violating the constitution to attack his political opponents. They thought that people would be angry enough about the Kirk killing to let this slide, but even MAGA allies have pushed back against it.
Not saying you didn’t read the article, but your comment could be interpreted as thinking that advertisers are pulling out because they disagree with Kimmel coming back, but it’s actually backwards.
The reason they’re pulling out of advertising is because people are also boycotting companies that advertise with Nexstar/Sinclair to discourage advertisers, and hurt their revenue.
I’m not saying the advertisers are good guys or motivated by anything other than money, but we should definitely encourage more of them to stop advertising there. If anything, start buying from the ones that pulled out.
This is extremely naive. We’re on Lemmy, I’m on programming.dev, you run your own instance. You and I know how crypto works, how to use it, how to protect it and ourselves, etc.
99.9999999% (nine nines) of the population is not prepared for that. Most people who buy crypto are going to get scammed, either via petty theft/hacking like in the OP, or via large market manipulation scams that nobody can protect against because lol decentralization. The only way to make crypto safe for mainstream use is to reinvent the wheel of regulations and centralization that already exists for existing financial systems. In the mean time, scammers/dictators/psychopaths are going to make a lot of money.
For the people who find themselves swept up by the fantasies of decentralization, they can get the same high by buying doomsday food buckets at their local Costco.
This is probably the only time I actually feel sympathy for someone getting scammed like this, because cancer sucks and it affects everyone in some way eventually (my family has had to face it too). If they ever catch the guy that did this, his property needs to be searched for corpses because this is some hardcore psychopath behavior.
But the lesson of this is the same: don’t ever use crypto currencies. Don’t accept them, don’t buy with them, don’t mine them, don’t even look at them. Even if you don’t get scammed, your engagement with the ecosystem supports people who do shit like this.
I hope people don’t forget these corporations’ involvement in all this. When this is all over, they’re going to pretend like they didn’t have a choice. The fanboys are going to flock to their defense regardless, but normal people need to remember that Google and Apple are fascist collaborators, complicit in their crimes, and enemies of the constitution.