Odds and Ends — 27 October 2024

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

'The Case for Bitcoin as a Reserve Asset' — Bitcoin Policy Institute

Why the BRICS De-Dollarization Dream Remains a Fantasy

Helium Mobile’s parent company cut nearly 40% of staff in August

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

When will the next COVID, flu surge start?

Politics:

JD Vance Applauds Voter for Calling Poll Worker a 'D*ckhead' and Telling Him to 'Suck Her C*nt' in Deranged Outburst

Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, praised an early voter as a “patriot” after she caused a disturbance at the polls, reportedly ripping off her shirt and hurling slurs at poll workers when asked to comply with local voting regulations.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1850141751287087313
https://twitter.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1850278420011520426

Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1850208445250650507
https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1849884706483138799

Trump’s Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past

When former President Donald Trump’s longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss ‘falls into the general definition of fascist,’ Mr. Trump let loose with the insults, assailing his onetime right hand as a ‘total degenerate,’ a ‘LOWLIFE’ and a ‘bad General.’
What Mr. Trump did not do, at least at first, was actually deny that he was or aspired to be a fascist.
Any other politician might consider that a damning denunciation worth rebutting. Only when asked days later did he directly dismiss the idea. But in the nine years that he has been running for or serving as president, Mr. Trump has regularly evoked the language, history and motifs of fascism without hesitation or evident concern about how it would make him look.

https://twitter.com/sgehlbach/status/1849897021332758842
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1850344967757070616

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1850206755948544000

Florida’s new condo laws recognize the total price of living on the beach

https://twitter.com/larainenewman/status/1850248113958580429

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