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Ben Basche

@basche42 #2586

Husband, dada, devil’s advocate in crypto. Previously @rainbow
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The libs can’t see it but I can:

Trump is fucking cooking
Anyone actually read or listen to Nick Land? Listening to this convo on theory underground. I feel like the left needs to understand tech at least as much as guys like this and stop pretending “tech bro bad computer bad” https://youtu.be/W1qEhkr9k8c?si=GkuziuW_ymLTtMCS
Ok maybe she’s gonna lose
Off The Grid has jumped containment

Web3 gaming is real
We need a german word for “first time speaking on a call after 9 years of following each other’s innermost thoughts day in and day out on social media”
Now we are fucking COOKING
Created a new discord account and passkeys was front and center in the onboarding. Interdasting
Prob a rug but might not fully be one and it’s worth taking Trump’s crypto turn seriously, a sign of his adaptability https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1840772362209251611?s=46
This is a left translated cycle

$120k by Thanksgiving
$20k by Easter
Privy spends more ATD to painful edge cases than most web3 projects do to their core product
More on this idea of “death of the millennial left” from Varn, nuanced https://youtu.be/UNAD-drX47c?si=7eY55t1NKanRLWtn
Let that sink in though.
How I feel talking about politics with VCs
The left should be preparing for AOC’s presidential run in many ways. She will be the successor to Kamala Harris and represent the progressive turn for the democrats, and the attempt to fully liquidate the left

AOC can be worked with, but she must be constrained by a real left. needs to exist by 2028
Chris Cutrone’s book “The Death of the Millennial Left” is as good a place as any to start

Don’t agree with him on a lot of things but as an analyst of reality he is one of left’s last master dialecticians

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Millennial-Left-Interventions-2006-2022-ebook/dp/B0CBCVRNG5
We need to be honest about the fact that the millennial left and the moment that we had (Corbyn, Sanders, and to a lesser extent the Pink Tide) was a failure

If we want Gen Z to pick up the mantle, we first need to figure out why we failed

And the failure was more complete and total than I can bear
Base is kind of like a placeholder chain for experimentation until we find actual PMF
Anyone here familiar with Platypus Affiliated Society and Chris Cutrone ?
All time highs on all majors and blue chip alts by Halloween
SnapOS Farcaster client WHEN
VGR’s involvement with Ethereum is not priced in