• @Clent@lemmy.world
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          Trump supports aren’t real people. Their sentience has been classified as below that of plants. Morals don’t apply.

          • @Alteon@lemmy.world
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            309 months ago

            I’m not going to say they’re not real or not sentient. But I will absolutely say that they are selfish. They lack the empathy required to understand how things will affect others. They lack the willingness to sacrifice for the greater good. They lack the humility required to understand that they could be wrong, and the critical reasoning required to change their views in the face of new evidence.

            Almost every conservative I’ve ever met is either extremely rich or lives in microcosm. Hell, I’ve got extended family that have never travelled outside of their hometown and anything foreign or different to them is either ridiculed or shunned.

            They want a social hierarchy, and they want their place in it preserved. God forbid people get equitable standing.

      • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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        199 months ago

        I ask myself this every day. Why not just sell some MAGA Jesus trinkets?

        When I am feeling more altruistic than greedy, why not toss up a bunch of “PATRIOTS THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOUR HELP TO FIGHT ELECTION FRAUD” and then just donate all the proceeds to campaigns for people against insurrection and fake electors. There’s no lie or fraud on that, just exploiting the bias of delusional clowns. I guess “patriots” is a lie, that’s about it.

  • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    You know how I know my maga relative lost everything he tried to “invest” in crypto? Because he suddenly STFU about it.

    • @Zannsolo@lemmy.world
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      There was a while in 2019(I think) when all the office talk(software firm) was crypto then it just stopped it was glorious.

      • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Yeah, times like 2019 are the best times to buy actually.

        When crypto is up, the hype gets out of control and fools rush in to buy. The best time to buy is when crypto is “dead” once again.

        (On the other hand bitcoin and proof-of-work is already any obsolete technology… And almost all NFTs are trash… So stick with ETH or whatever instead.)

      • Echo Dot
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        Anybody who is seriously in the software industry should have realized the crypto was a giant pyramid scheme that they would definitely at the bottom of.

        And if one person tells me that it’s not fiat one more time they’re going to get a slap. Absolutely 100% is fiat shut up.

        • @Zannsolo@lemmy.world
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          I actually get crypto as a concept but I really think their can only be one coin of any true value, and right now it’s Bitcoin. I think at some point something will come and knock it off the pedistool.

          I’m not a get rich quick kinda guy so I never bothered with crypto and have only played around with a little bit of money trading stocks and treated it just like I do gambling (money I will lose, although I did make a bit of money back on GameStop lol).

          • @dhork@lemmy.world
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            The worst thing that ever happened to Crypto was the price rising so high. It made idiots billionaires overnight, and then these idiots thought that made them smart. Now they spend all their time going to Blockchain conferences and patting themselves on the back for being so revolutionary when in reality they just got lucky.

        • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          crypto was a giant pyramid scheme

          Was? I don’t agree but I understand when people keep saying it’s a pyramid scheme. I don’t understand the past tense though.

          Absolutely 100% is fiat

          I think a key difference is that it’s maintained by an open network of computers rather than a state.

          • Echo Dot
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            It’s sold as a money making scheme not as an alternative form of currency. If you just use it as an alternative form of currency to get around some kind of restriction then it’s fine but the crypto bros don’t use it like that. They think it’s going to manifest some kind of will for them. Of course they’re being tricked by other people who’ve already invested. Who themselves were tricked by other people who already invested. It’s literally a pyramid scheme. The only way anybody makes money is to get other saps involved.

  • Tar_Alcaran
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    Why make it hard on yourself when idiots self-select into an easy target audience?

    • @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re not being targeted at all but rather align perfectly with the real target audience: lonely, expendable income, low intelligence, low understanding of tech or finance, aging population.

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    Of course. Why wouldn’t a con artist go after a group that has already self-selected for gullibility?

    It’s scamming on easy mode

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        It’s hard to see how they still manage to have much money after all the grifters have been picking their pockets.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          A lot of these folks have passive income streams that make falling for a four or five digit scam incidental to their way of life.

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    Is there really a difference if the money goes to crypto guys or some GOP PAC? They are both scammers from the word go.

    And as scammers prefer to target the most gullible idiots, they already have a perfect target group for their “business” with the MAGA brains.

    • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      The money going to crypto guys has less negative impact and might even help some 3rd world north Koreans actually afford food. Any money going to the GOP only brings pain and suffering.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      For the same reason they include spelling errors in their emails, it certainly helps when only their dumbest victims get past the initial pitch.

      • Echo Dot
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        What your telling me the EYE R S (they actually spelled it like that) doesn’t want me to give them $10,000 in Apple gift cards? Also I’m not American but who’s counting?

        • @yemmly@lemmy.world
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          I’m going to need to see your passport to prove you’re not American. Otherwise fines may be assessed.

  • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    i mean troompa loompas have been getting conned by king con-man conning them for years-- why shouldn’t other con-men get a slice of the pie?

  • @242@lemmy.cafe
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    439 months ago

    The worlds tiniest violin, playing a medley of the worlds saddest songs.