There’s a movie named after the saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

I haven’t seen it. Not sure how well it’s held up.

Edit: There’s a wiki page on the political term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_dog

Hmmm, I’m not sure why each of those links takes me to a different wiki even though they’re identical. I imagine it doesn’t work the same for everyone else. I’ll just link to the disambiguation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog_(disambiguation)

It can double as a color blindness test

Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t always apply these days, especially when we’re talking about literal fascists.

These are malicious people, of course we should be attributing the awful shit they do to malice

Trump’s first term teemed with moments that Trump did the right thing (they were rare, but, y’know, the broken clock rule)

I think “teemed with” suggests that it was “overflowing with”. Which is like the opposite of “rare”.

Anyone who has been alive for longer than 12 years knows they are different.

And yeah, I know. Apparently even suggesting this makes me a filthy liberal.

But sorry, you aren’t automatically a fucking diehard Democrat supporter simply because you acknowledge and accept objective reality.

If you say so. I disagree completely. I find the idea of visiting a foreign country, only to eat some of the worst food that exists in that country (because why, you saw ads for it? Really?) to be absolutely idiotic.

No but really though, why? These are massive corporations who do not deserve your money. Their product is shit and insanely overpriced. And they’re corporations, so their existence is a cancer on society.

Seriously, who is thinking about fucking McDonald’s when visiting another country? Disgusting.

Uh maybe try reading my comment again?

I’m not sure that I would consider “we don’t have Uber because the Taxi industry is corrupt” to be a win

and IIRC there’s a finite (but not precisely known) amount of it that can be made, no matter who you are.

This varies wildly depending on the coin.

Crypto doesn’t have value because tech bros say it does, that’s not how it works.

Bitcoin is the youngest currency around

No it’s not, it’s the oldest (and as such, the worst in almost every way) crypto.

the biggest contributor to crypto being despised by most people is the massive prevalence of scammers

At risk of being called a crypto bro or something (I’m really not, I learned all this shit years before everything turned into what it is), I’d like to play Devil’s advocate here for the moment and ask how that’s different from fiat currency?

USD is practically untraceable, and people are being scammed out of it constantly with no recourse.

Monero is untraceable (if you don’t use a KYC exchange to get it), but Monero isn’t “most” crypto.

You said crypto, in general, is mostly untraceable and that’s very very wrong.

Monero is the exception, not the rule.

crypto is untraceable (mostly)

Super super incorrect.

I wouldn’t say it has nothing to do with morals, since (at least hopefully) it’s our morals that help guide us when making laws.

But yes, illegal does not necessarily mean immoral, and vice versa.

Can’t you just hold your money in a stable coin like USDC to avoid the volatility and speculation?

What is this comment even in reference to?

You can swap Monero with a more common coin on a decentralized exchange with no KYC, and then cash that out at your Coinbase or whatever.

Also, Monero is very efficient for a proof of work coin, partially because it’s designed to be mined on regular, consumer grade PCs.

According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin was the first, and as is usually the case, that makes it one of the worst.

I took it as the poll itself, and the results, being entirely irrelevant. They just decided to use that as the format/delivery mechanism for their joke.

Eh, let him cook.