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am i the only one who finds recent @coinbase sponsorship/choice extremely alarming? 🚩 

taking time to think harder if i want to be associated with CB ecosystem moving forward. 

won’t pretend nothing happened — and i’m truly shocked Farcaster has been semi-silent about this, despite most of us building on Base.

oh I just posted about this—and I didn’t even know their “no politics” stance during BLM (I’m newer to crypto). that silence just adds petrol to it all for me. hard pass. 

polling rn in an attempt to explore other platform options. but finding that most, sadly, lean this way. 

also “military support shouldn’t be political” is a garbage statement.

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good on you. and no doubt there are incredible people there—always are. I give individuals the benefit of the doubt. but not corporate entities. they have one goal and one goal only: profit

i tend to give Coinbase the benefit of the doubt and want to believe this was a major oversight - made without much internal analysis of the historic context. 

overall, the people ik @ Coinbase are kind, smart, and caring, with high-integrity and values i respect. that’s one of the main reasons i’m building on Base. 

i think Coinbase’s response (or lack thereof) to the community’s reaction will say what we need to know.