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A comment on Ask HN: Is the American System Unraveling?.

Re:Ask HN: Is the American System Unraveling? by amazingamazing on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:16AM (#42756691)
Your highlighting of a Trump coin is funny. Much worse has happened, Citizens United v FEC, Bush v Gore. The fact that anyone seriously cares about this Trump coin in the grand scheme of things just shows how obsessed the media is with this guy.

That being said, blatantly boosting your own meme crypto is bad, yes, but is hardly some indication that the American system is unraveling. It's just one that the correct head is not shy about grifting.

If Trump must be mentioned, the presidential immunity decision is more an indication of any unraveling than crypto grifts.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the American System Unraveling? by zero-sharp on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:05PM (#42774203)
Interesting take.....

The court decisions you mentioned aren't exactly the doing of one person? I think that's the difference. We're giving this attention because the grifting is more visible and because it's directly attributable to one person. "Which one is worse" is not really an important conversation, is it? It's about the fact that we see clearly where the fault/corruption lies and there appears to be no concern to correct it.

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