• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    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?

    • CptEnder@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

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

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Trump was anti-Bitcoin while president, when his opinion mattered. And now that it’s taken off despite him, he’s trying to promise crypto users what Biden has already delivered. The SEC just dropped its case against Ethereum.

    These are the exact same people who keep leaving their coins on exchanges.

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      5 months ago

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

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        5 months ago

        thanks for reminding me of those. it gave me a laugh to think about people holding those worthless things

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      5 months ago

      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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s not the onion. But now the whole world is the Onion.

    I can think of no better irony at this point than The Onion switching directions and becoming a real news outlet.

    And future generations wokld look at their archived 80s/90s stories, and think they were real.

    And thus the cycle begins anew.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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        Or like when all the news outlets were reporting that the Queen had died. AND EVERYBODY BELIEVED THEM!!!

        She’s not dead. She’s still out there. Roaming the streets. Seeking justice among a seedy criminal underbelly, seeking personial closure for the deaths of her parents in an alley when she was a child.

        …wait, I might be thinking of Ted Turner.

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      5 months ago

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

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        5 months ago

        The fact people bought NFTs just proves that crypto bros just buy into hype without understanding the technology.
        I knew NFTs were bullshit from the start because I actually took the time to understand how they “worked”.

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    5 months ago

    It’s a plus if trump’s supporters are scammed before he can fleece them, let the convicted felons well dry up while other scammers get rich.

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    5 months ago

    Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don’t understand what’s going on.

  • 242@lemmy.cafe
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    5 months ago

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