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I can’t even blame them.

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I mean, how do you not fish that pool?

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*phish

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*ghoti

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no i hate them

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It’s all going to scammers anyway

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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.

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This is brilliant. Someone absolutely needs to do this.

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Morals unfortunately.

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The moral thing to do is disarm them of their money to stop it going towards Trump/etc.

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It’s not immoral to truthfully tell someone they are donating to stop election fraud.

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

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Yup.

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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.

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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.

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It didn’t stop, sadly. Everyone just started talking about AI instead.

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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.

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It’s not fiat.

Now give me a slap daddy

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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).

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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.

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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.)

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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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More importantly than being gullible, they often have substantial money and property.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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