At least in the US, it’s full of regulatory red tape that was designed to pull up the ladder behind the current large payment processors.

Even Musk and his ample bribe money, under the most corrupt administration in decades, hasn’t managed to get full approval for his “X Twitter Money” payment service.

MAGA claims to have the same distain for the “elite class”, but always makes a special carve-out just for Trump and his loyalists. I don’t get it.

Political tribalism with a heaping spoonful of introspection avoidance.

It doesn’t matter to them if the other team gets hurt. As far as MAGA is concerned, liberals and progressives (“the Dems”) had it coming and deserve the consequences. But, if their own team gets hurt, that’s simply unacceptable because they are the good guys.

That’s why they’ll look the other way if Republicans, MAGA, QAnons, or Trump supporters are caught out as pedos, extremists, rapists, or criminals. It’s an uncomfortable truth that doesn’t align with their reality. They would have to accept that they’re wrong, so they deflect and distract not to convince others but to convince themselves and protect their egos.

2: Yes. https://youtu.be/DEflTJjtn5w

Trump’s Justice Department weighed in too, calling the law “anti-Catholic” and saying “a more direct burden on the exercise of religion would be difficult to imagine”.

The fuck it is. There’s plenty of easier burdens to imagine than making priests mandated reporters for child sexual abuse, such as:

• Banning them from holding public positions.
• Outlawing the practice of religious ceremony in public places.
• Making tithing illegal.
• Disallowing religious symbols outside of private residences.
• Removing tax exemptions for religious organizations.

See? It’s really not hard. And those are far worse for Catholics than not being allowed to protect pedophiles.