Does anyone know the best / easiest way to accomplish this? None of the NYS compliant exchanges seem to support XLM

Yeah, that's my question as well. I hope someone who is more knowledgeable would post something.

I was stunned when I read that post. I was just skimming through to see what the comments were. You hit it right on the head.

I think stable coins are an ok place to place a minor amount of money. It helps the general ecosystem.  But unless you're getting a good return  - it's not an investment.

Background

I've been migrating away from big tech.

I'm active on

• Protonmail (a gmail alternative)
• Minds (a facebook alternative)
• Gab (a twitter alternative)
• bitchute (youtube alternative)

All of these sites have upgrades that serve two purposes. One, you get more features, and second you support the alt-tech sites.

I have a limited amount of money that I'm prepared to donate.

TL/DR

Does anyone have suggestions / recommendations / reasons for financially supporting one alt-tech platforms over another?

That's true on the surface, and it makes sense. But there is also a serious deplatforming effort going on. One reason for this (in addition to the legitimate reasons) is that Twitter wants to prevent those already deplatformed from coming back under a new name.

And, they don't want any competition. Parler has been brought down (they probably will be able to rebuild) so Gab is the only alternative.

Gab has seen massive usage in the last few weeks. It's now slow as sh!t (even though they're constantly adding new servers).

What does this have to do with being a "citizen of the world?"

I have the same answers as you but that doesn't make me a citizen of the world.  Each, and every time, you go to another country (that's much different than yours) you realize that you are not a citizen of the world. Except in the broadest of senses that we're all people and that if we all abide by a simple social contract

I promise not to kill you and take your stuff if
you promise not to kill me and take my stuff.

As a follow up - "how" does one do research? All I can think of is

• to do a google - strike that, DDG search on the exchange looking for complaints
  ask around on forums such as this.

Do you have a list of sites that review exchanges which you trust?

Thank you. That's what I feared.

I can't believe I'm the first person asking this question (although I didn't see any results when I entered it into the search box)

How reliable to you find the coingecko trust score? I'm looking to purchase minor coins

Twitter is going through a massive purge. It is not simply political censorship - but censorship of any news that conflicts with their view. I'm really not certain who "they" are. Or what "their" view is. And that's because Twitter's TOS is selectively enforced and changes to the TOS are made frequently.

I had friends from South Asia talking about Hydroxychloroquine and had their accts blocked. They weren't advocating it; prescribing it; just discussing it. (I was lurking).

Arweave.org states that it "stores data on the permaweb for free"

From the website:


Ok, so far so good. I'm very interested in a permaweb (so to speak).

Has anyone used it?

Do you like it?

One negative perception I have of it is that one must use google to log in and you use a google plugin. WTF!

The Trump party would be middle of the road. Trump is more of a 1990s Democrat than a Republican. His support is largely from the industrial workers that used to be Democrat until the Democratic Party abandoned them.

What are Trump's positions: Bring the industrial base back home; don't be involved in foreign intervention; and secure the borders.

His position does not attract the global capitalist aspect of either the Democratic or Republican Party.

And I'm pretty sure it's going to be an easy Trump victory. You didn't bother giving reasons as to why you thought a ham sandwich would win so I'm not going to bother to reply why I think Trump expands his electoral map.

And yet his son almost dies fighting in that war. Really?

It's not what you don't know that fucks with you. It's what you know that ain't so that simply messes with your thinking.

Comparing sick employees with Hitler? I really don't see the comparison.

And if I feel like I'm 20 does it make me 20? If I feel like I'm 70 does it make me 70? And more importantly must other people accept the "fact" that I'm 20 or 70? And is the government required to give me Social Security if I identify as 70?

The answer to all those is no. The same is true for any "mental state". You want to be a woman? Fine. But if you born with a dick you're not. You can put on a dress, change your name but you're still a man.

Does that mean that you should be imprisoned, physically assaulted or ridiculed? No. Of course not. But wanting to be a woman doesn't make you one.

It's this foolishness that is going to end the "cultural revolution" in which we find ourselves. Good riddance to this foolishness.

Roughly one quarter of Americans are first or second generation immigrants. Are you saying that this group of individuals are not concerned about the rest of the world? And there are MANY third generation Americans (Irish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Korean, etc... who also give a damn about the rest of the world.

Americans do care about the rest of the world - or more particularly - parts of the rest of the world. Does the average Russian or Chinese or Indian citizen really give a damn about what happens in Suriname or Ghana or Canada? I would guess the wouldn't care anymore than the average American (unless they came from Suriname or Ghana or a neighboring country).

I think Bernie has far less of a chance than does Biden / Hillary / Michelle / Bloomberg / etc...

His appeal was based on him being for labor and borders and wasn't into identity politics.

He's backtracked completely on immigration.

He's backtracked on the Second Amendment (goodbye Michigan and Pennsylvania)

And he's accepted identity politics as opposed to sticking with the traditional socialist dichotomy of workers and capital.

We know he will lose the suburbs so if he doesn't make HUGE inroads in capturing labor then fuggedaboutit.

By abandoning his position on borders / immigration to capture the woke left he's lost his appeal with labor Dems. Now add to the fact that this isn't 2016 when you didn't know for sure what Trump would do. What has Trump done? He's gone hard into the border. The left has blasted him for this and he's kept to his guns. You think labor is going to switch back to Bernie after this? Fuk no.

Bernie is toast. But I'm rooting for him to break up the Democrat party. I've long thought that it would be the Republican party that would break up first but now it looks as if it may be the Dems. So GOOO BERNIEEEE!!!

If the voters wanted Bernie he would have won more votes. The Bernie / Warren / Kamala wing topped out at about 40% of the Democratic vote (see polls going back a year).

And once the average voter saw that Sanders had a chance they coalesced around Biden. Biden would be a poor candidate even if he was mentally all there (which he isn't) but the party - and the average Dem voters - thought Biden was preferable to Bernie.

I was hoping for a contested convention so I'm a little disappointed. But, there it is.

The children know the difference. You need to be "educated" to not realize the difference between boys and girls / men and women.

We're at peak stupidity and it will be over soon. The trans issue is what is ending this "cultural revolution." Soon it will be in the dust bin of history along with the The Terror of the French Revolution and the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.