• Miles O'BrienEnglish
    6•4 hours ago

    I did a double-take at that title so hard, I think I have ass whiplash.

    I don’t understand the connection between crypto, weed, and black men…

    • @orclev
      29•10 hours ago

      It isn’t, and it doesn’t need protecting. I say this as someone who was mining bitcoin back when it was still valued at under $1 a coin. The concept of bitcoin was really interesting and I had hoped that it could actually function as a digital currency outside the control of the major credit card processors. The execution however leaves much to be desired. We were promised a federated digital currency, what we got was an unregulated securities market.

    • @TheDannysaur
      11•7 hours ago

      To be fair… When the article’s opening line is “In outreach to Black Men”, it doesn’t really matter what you put after. It’s going to sound bad.

        • @TheDannysaur
          2•2 hours ago

          Right - I just mean literally any attempt to try and cater to a specific group is gonna be like this.

          Both campaigns go after different groups. I just think literally anything that is contained in these are going to sound racist.

          In a less charged example, both candidates try and appeal to women. Those could be viewed as sexist.