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Over at the CCN, Gab is having trouble even getting its bitcoin on.
The declaration by free speech social network Gab that the firm was still allowed on Square’s bitcoin-friendly Cash App after being banned on other platforms may have been premature.
This emerged after the social media platform that is occasionally referred to as “alt-right Twitter,” over its popularity with extremist right-wingers, disclosed that the personal Square Cash account of the firm’s founder and CEO, Andrew Torba, had been deactivated.
Things like this are just bad for business.
Earlier this month as CCN reported, Gab had posted a tweet that gave the impression that Square’s Cash App — which allows users to buy and sell bitcoin — had reactivated Gab’s access. According to Breaker magazine, Square might have unknowingly reactivated an account belonging to Gab but will continue to “pro-actively delete any new accounts that it learned were connected with Gab.”
[...] Besides Square, other platforms that have banned Gab in the recent past include cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, online payment processing firm Stripe, bitcoin payment service provider BitPay and online payments system PayPal.
Currently, bitcoin, as well as money orders and checks sent to its post office address, are the only ways for Gab to process payments for its premium service, GabPro. On January 8, Gab announced that it had integrated with open-source crypto payment processor BTCPay Server.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Sunday January 13 2019, @02:45AM
You need lessons about history. You're throwing out generalizations and stereotypes like a brainwashed freshman at Antioch College. Go do some subaltern studies or get a degree (at least a minor) in history from a region other than your own; learn a couple of that region's languages and read source materials in the original. Then you can lecture other people about their grasp of real history.
Gosh, I'd have to say the things you cite are incredibly mild by historical standards. I'll just toss out a few better claimants to "the perfect definition of barbarism" to drive some stakes in the ground: 1) The Golden Horde's invasion of every place they invaded (pyramids of human skulls and all kinds of animal skulls and executing Persian officials by pouring molten silver in their eyes) 2) Vlad the Impaler's impaling 10,000 of his own men, women, and children to scare off the invading Turks (it worked, BTW, which is pretty impressive since the Turks were no softies) 3) The Cultural Revolution in which the Chinese annihilated their own cultural heritage 4) The Spanish Inquisition torturing and murdering tens of thousands of people 5) The Nazi holocaust (of course) 6) Aztec human sacrifice 7) The Japanese rape of Nanking 8) The massacre at Amritsar by British soldiers. If you think that movies with exciting themes are more barbaric than any of those, then I submit that you have zero sense of perspective or scale.
But while we're on the subject of popular entertainment, have you never seen Bollywood movies at all? Chinese kung fu movies? Thai? Japanese? Have you never watched the fucked up violent plots of Korean films (eg. "Oldboy," "The Man from Nowhere," etc)? Honestly, anybody that makes such a claim as you have can only rate as desperately ignorant.
And Russians stick out like sore thumbs in every single country they travel to, because the women all dress cheaply and provocatively. And Brazilians stick out like sore thumbs because they are a loud, boisterous, rolling ball of zero self-restraint. And Japanese stick out like sore thumbs because they move in packs, led by people with little flags. And Europeans stick out like sore thumbs on the streets of my town, NYC, because all of them, no matter where they are from, marvel at the big city.
As for the relative weight and health of Americans, I call bullshit on that right there. Britons are heavy people, as are Canadians. Germans, too. Alcoholism is rampant across Scandinavia, and Russians die, last I checked, about a decade earlier than everyone else. If you want to see really large, obese people, go to the South Pacific. Damn, those people are big. But hey, despite all your travels it seems you only saw what you wanted to see.
Trump is a New Yorker, you ninny. And as to whether or not you think he's a "fucking disgusting worthless miserable sack of pus," well, who cares what you think? I don't care how mean he is, frankly, while I do care what he's doing for America's middle class. So far, things are looking up after 40 years of disastrous neo-liberal policies. I must confess I do feel a degree of schadenfreude at your anguish over him.
Nah, really, I think you're a stronger contender for that title. Self-important, cocksure, ignorant, bombastic, dismissive, jejune, etc.
But your worst quality is that you are a bigot. You take it as self-evident that Americans have no value and that American culture has no value, with the same certitude that a Klansman belittles blacks or Nazis do Jews.
Washington DC delenda est.