I feel like I’ve actually encountered some Libs IRL and in other online spaces who at least sounded more intelligent. Every one that wanders in here just insists that their right, cites Wikipedia, and tries to troll people like a 14 year old who stole their moms laptop.

You think we’d occasionally get a somewhat more articulate one there but I’ve yet yo see it.

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    Remember the tide of internet funny money peddlers that claimed that database ledger positions associated with ugly monkey cartoons would revolutionize the world and somehow stick it to the big banks and the current ruling class (that more than anyone else bought into the fucking things)? Good times. all-my-apes-gone

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        I totally forgot about that Onion-level shit. Haha.

        “MOST OF MY HEROES DON’T APPEAR ON NO STAMPS” but you are invited to bid on my Sotheby’s NFT…

        Description

        Tom Morello, 2022
        Non-Fungible Token ERC-721
        JPEG
        Minted on March 22, 2022

        AN ARRESTING PORTRAIT OF CHUCK D’S PROPHETS OF RAGE COLLABORATOR, TOM MORELLO, TAKEN FROM THE SERIES “MOST OF MY HEROES DON’T APPEAR ON NO STAMPS”

        Chuck D is one of the architects of Hip Hop; politicizing music to speak truth to power. His visual art is personal, it can be found in The Smithsonian and galleries worldwide. His most famous artwork is Public Enemy’s site logo. In 2016 he co-founded Prophets Of Rage alongside members of Rage Against The Machine and Cypress Hill. “Fight The Power” was voted the #2 most important song of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine. Chuck D was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, in 2013.

        Provenance: Courtesy the artist

        Exhibition History: A physical print of this lot was exhibited from February 1-March 4 2022 as part of Chuck D’s solo exhibition Near Def Experience: Most Of My Heroes Don’t Appear On No Stamps at Adelphi University

        Tom Morello, NFT | The Art and Influence of Hip Hop | 2022 | Sotheby’s

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          I’m somewhat ashamed to say that I own a piece of Morello merch – some years back, he did a signature guitar wah-wah pedal with Dunlop. Funny thing is, it’s just a regular Dunlop Crybaby wah, but with Zapatista graphics. I didn’t already have a Crybaby, and the used market on those things dried up pretty badly during COVID lockdown, so I said fuck it, $5 above regular new price and I get EZLN livery on my wah? Count me the fuck in.

          Then he went and did this NFT shit. God damn it, Tom.

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      Remember when people here said AI art was proletarianizing art by taking it from the “”“bourgeois”“” artist class and putting it in the hands of the working class?

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        I still sometimes see shit vaguely saying that, if it isn’t fatalistic “well nothing you can do about it so may as well stan for the treat printers while anticipating unemployment on a planet that is burning down at an accelerated rate because of the treat printers.”

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          The treats AI makes aren’t even GOOD treats is the stupid thing. At least Marvel movies have some fucking explosions and witty dialog, what’s the appeal of a trailer for a fake SciFi movies where a cyborg lady with fucked up hands monologues to you?

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            It was already in the recent thread on the technology section of the site, and judging by the rest of your venerably 17 hour account, you made this account to concern troll me anyway.

            Pound sand.

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      One of the early Bitcoin arguments was that it would help marginalized people in the global south who were cut off from traditional banking.

      Fast forward to fairly recently, when some people in Palestine are using crypto to receive aid, Binance cut off access when Israel asked. No court orders necessary. Turns out crypto is easier to freeze than money in traditional banking.

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        Like pretty much everything else in internet funny money, it’s a bunch of bullshit and anything will be said to pump for the next dump.