Yup.

I mean, how do you not fish that pool?

Nah, just targeting the low hanging fruit in a get rich quick scheme. I’m not crying though.

Why do you think trump started peddling Jesus bullshit last time he ran even though he’s not even remotely cristian or religious. He’ll shill anything as long as he thinks it’ll profit him.

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.

Pretty sure there is a Maga coin already.

That’s an industry now? What do you guys do?

That’s… an industry?

It’s just different scammers now.

That’s brilliant.

You know how once in a blue moon you look at news story that’s sounds completely crazy and go “huh”? Like when buzzfeed suddenly started using all their clickbait money to fund good, legitimate journamism?

This would be that.

I’ll have you know those NFTs were worth millions!!! For like 2 seconds when people paid money for NFTs still

Turns out they were part of the derp state all along

If you’re gonna type out target, why the emoji?

I have had the misfortune of Mixing shows for Newsmax…that is literally their stick

What a weird ❓ way to use emoji 😁

I’d love to see a study on the religiosity, political affiliation, education, wealth, career, and age of people who get scammed and the types of scams they fell for.

Credulous as well. Conspiracy theory and aliens magazines used to have tons of ads for scams.

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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.

Either way it’s going to organized crime. At least the crypto scammers are unlikely to influence the election!

Yes, crypto guys aren’t interested in using the money to help the US become a fascist hellscape.

I’d pick spidermen

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

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

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

Thoughts and prayers to the crypto scammers who have to interact with Trump supporters

And he certainly wasn’t anti-crypto when it came to pushing his own lazy NFTs.

Treading a dangerous line here, but I lean towards no

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This is ‘the ends justifies the means’ line of thinking. Very unethical. But it can also be very cathartic.

Its hard because people can use that as an excuse to harm people they pretend is harming them.

But in this case i just couldn’t care less. Drain them for every penny they’ve got. Hold them upside down and beat them like a piñata.

They’re probably the same demographic in some ways in that they’re right wing and Trump supporters, they’re just in the upper echelon of the grifters not the grifted.

I get the feeling, I really do. However, I can’t think of many things that would radicalise someone more than losing all their money or being buried under a pile of debt. Being these sorts of types, they’ll only go one way. On reflection, I’m sure you recognise the very specific and historically recognisable tinder box.

I mean, it still might not be immoral. They can all get fucked. Just, maybe not in that specific way is all im saying.

The average progressive or even liberal in the US hates hearing this, but the vast, vast majority of Trumpers are actually “okay” people, and you would all get along splendidly in just about any other context.

The problem is though, they are dumb. Don’t get me wrong or think I’m sticking up for them. I just have some amount of sympathy and pity because I grew up out in the boonies in Southwestern USA, I was raised conservative and only flipped in my 20’s after seeing too much horror and war hurt people I cared about, and by extension, I learned to care for more than just the people I know.

A lot of people haven’t learned that. We take for granted that empathy is a learned skill, and we expect others to have it on demand and we tend to resent those who don’t exercise it. My take is that we’re expecting people to exercise muscles they’ve never even stretched. These are people locked in communities that they will likely spend their whole lives in, often times decaying outskirts of America, rampant with drugs and alcohol abuse, stuck in low-wage jobs or jobs that demand them to spend every waking moment working. They have no time nor opportunity to learn how to incorporate “care” into their daily misery, much less political knowledge. Then someone like Trump comes along, someone they only hear clips of and hear their “news station” praise while simultaneously explaining that all their problems are because of people who “hate america” and are trying to destroy families with scaaary things like abortion and gender-fluidity. It makes sense if your brain is desperately looking for a story to explain why you’re so unhappy. Which is how all our brains work.

We all have to remember that the worst people in the world are identical to us. We could have been born in their lives with their ignorance and tunnel vision, and all their feelings of fighting against a stacked-deck and hopelessness against change that will (supposedly) take away their only comforts in life.

I am getting really uncomfortable with the hate the left is directing at people who are simply dumb as fuck. Yes, they are dangerous, yes they are capable of doing better, and on top of that the only examples we SEE of this segment of America is the most horrific and malicious, the people storming the capitol or screaming at rallys or beating up protestors. They are the worst, but not necessarily the rule.

I had family members who were going to vote Trump and JUST needed to see the clips of him speaking that don’t make it to Facebook news feeds to change their mind. Approach this from a place of education and compassion and you will all have better results.

Let’s save our hate for the real evil, the grifters and pundits who are pied pipers for the ignorant. They are smart and know what they are doing and it’s pure evil.

No.

A different kind of person is telling you to spare your empathy. Its the same strategy those in the MAGA camp are pulling.

Obviously not. hurting bad people is morally neutral at worst.

Sigh. Do you want the answer we are supposed to say or the answer we secretly want to say?

Is it immoral to harm them? Yes, its bad to harm anyone.

Do I give the slightest fuck about them being victims? Hell no.

Why?

Because, to be short about it, my give a fuck is reserved for innocent people. Not for hateful bigots, terrorists, and enemies of the state who want to overthrow our democratic way of life in favor of having a rotten jackolantern as a mentally declining god emperor.

Watching them get fucked in the way they’ve tried to fuck everyone else give me the same delight as watching gas station robbers be met with a shotgun from the clerk and earn an emergency trip to the surgical suite via the ER.

I dont wish it on them, but I will take delight in it.

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They’re already being grifted, they have already passed the first filter.

People sometimes wonder why scam emails and phone calls are so obvious, with mis-spellings, bad grammar and poor English. The thing is that they do this on purpose. Running a scam takes time and energy, you want to work marks that you know can be manipulated easily, and if someone can’t determine that an email from “micosaft.pAypal-Customre-Sercicve.com” isn’t legit, they’re VERY likely to buy the story that they have to send money via Western Union to some random address in Kazakhstan to get their share of the king’s inheritance.

Being in maga is basically that. If you’re wearing a red hat and waving flags and spouting off FOX news lines to anyone who will listen, you’re a mark.