My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.

This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery…

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    7 months ago

    this post is so far getting downvoted, but its the first bit of info I have seen claiming to be sourced back to max azzarello.

    if the sourcing is correct, its an interesting view into a mind and pretty reflective of the absolutely insane moment we live in. so many attacks on our collective mental state and so many individual reactions to those attacks.

    nothing new or innovative in his “research”, but holy hell are we clearly adrift as a species.

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      Wow, I got almost halfway through that and it was a wild ride.

      Tl;dr - Dude things cryptocurrency is a massive ponzi scheme that’s somehow being used to start a global fascist coup. Like any good conspiracy theory, there are a lot of facts (some of them even true!) and weird relationships between them.

      I’ll probably finish it later tonight, just to see what else this dude has been up to.

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        Well, he’s not wrong about them individually but the insanity is thinking crypto is the driving force behind fascism or that it was necessary to create to facilitate the latter

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          Exactly.

          I think most crypto projects are scams, but they’re relatively independent scams. We’ve got:

          • YouTube channels pumping and dumping coins
          • exchanges stealing wallets
          • digital wallets stealing keys
          • individuals selling NFTs and misrepresenting what they are

          And so much more.

          But these are mostly just people jumping on the bandwagon, not some concerted effort by fascists to control the money supply or something. You get the same thing with any fad, like scalping GPUs during COVID supply shortages, Pokemon card fakes, GameStop stock manipulation, etc.

          But it’s still incredibly interesting to see all the connections a very dedicated individual can make. I mean, somehow Bill Clinton is in cahoots with G. W. Bush to push crypto?

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            That said Thiel is absolutely funding their creation for his fascist goals. If he controls how money works by having a lot of it he has more influence on it. But aside from the funding of Etherium he’s got no hand in the shit that screws the common rube.

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              Thiel is an absolute piece of shit & the day I wake up to news that he’s choked on his own hubris will be great.

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            7 months ago

            I mean, somehow Bill Clinton is in cahoots with G. W. Bush to push crypto?

            What else would they discuss while on Epstein Island?!!

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    I didn’t remove it, but I would have. The event happened in the US and reading his manifesto it’s all about US personalities and instiutions.

    World, specifically, is about non-US events. It’s to keep it from being flooded with US news which already has News and Politics.

    Bad enough that it’s almost all Ukraine/Israel/Gaza all the time, it doesn’t need US too.