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tygerprints, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.

MAGA- or better yet, MAGGOT loyalty requires you to have no sense of morals or ethics and absolutely no education or ability to comprehend reality. Go out there and give it all you got, maggots of the world!

livus, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
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The video ends with a slide advertising a free app that promises to “make your favorite celebrity say anything."

This is like Nigerian Prince. It's deliberately set up to only attract people whose level of cognitive ability makes them vulnerable.

floofloof,

74 million of them at the last election.

FoundTheVegan, (edited ) in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
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He bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank

“Now I’m questioning whether he is aware of this,” Amann said of Trump.

"Antifa sold me fake Trump bucks!!!"

floofloof,

Trump is famous for defending ordinary people against scams. Oh no, wait, it’s the other way round.

floofloof, in Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources

According to Meadows’ book, the election was “stolen” and “rigged” with help from “allies in the liberal media,” who ignored “actual evidence of fraud, right there in plain sight for anyone to access and analyze.”

But, as described to ABC News, Meadows privately told Smith’s investigators that – to this day – he has yet to see any evidence of fraud that would have kept now-president Joe Biden from the White House, and he told them he agrees with a government assessment at the time that the 2020 presidential election was the most secure election in U.S. history.

Just another shameless Republican liar and hypocrite.

heliodorh, in Category 5 Hurricane Otis makes landfall near Acapulco, Mexico
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God this is horrific.

shiveyarbles, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.

Trump would never lie! Lol these people are so gullible and helpless.

Xel,
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There are multiple people falling prey to Nigerian/Philippines romance scams, thinking a celebrity/influencer/hot person is using an alt account to contact them because they fell in love with them at first sight.

They give thousands of dollars, millions even. They take out loans, sell their houses, lose all their inheritance, all because they think they are special, when in truth they are just lonely enough to believe the lies that make them think their life has any meaning at all.

The way these scams operate and how Trump manipulates people is virtually the same. It’s impressive what loneliness and egocentrism do to us and how vulnerable we can be to the most obvious lies.

Senex, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
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I’ve got a golden ticket. I’ve got a golden chance to make my way and with a golden ticket it’s a golden day.

mateomaui, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.

“Now I realize, well, that was stupid,” she said. “But I bought them because I believed President Trump, because he knows all about finance, and he was going to help the real Trump Patriots get rich.”

Admits to being stupid and then exercises more of it.

p03locke,
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Seriously, just Google anything about Trump, and it’s all about his grifts and fraud-criming. Name one instance where he helped anybody but himself.

FlashMobOfOne,
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No one motivated by partisanship is going to hear and properly assess any critique of their candidate.

It’s why Trump supporters are losing a ton of money on his scams and why we have a brain-dead creep in the White House now.

Moonrise2473, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.

Invest now $99 and get $10000 next year is a claim that even a crypto shitcoin wouldn’t do

brihuang95, in Japan investigates foreign YouTubers accused of dodging train fares and stealing food
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see “begpacking.” it drives me mad when i see western travelers treating asia as a playground where they can do whatever the hell they want and thinking they can get away with it.

MossyFeathers,

After reading that article, I have mixed feelings on it. The people who busk for money are okay imo (they’re giving music for free, you don’t have to tip them). The ones who try to sell crafts are kinda eh… I don’t think it’s terrible, but I don’t think it’s good either. The ones who just beg are kinda shitty. The ones like in OP’s article are just straight-up criminal.

ZeroEcks,

Kind of sucks because I think busking is fine, if your actually a decent musician but it’s mostly people who aren’t even very good at playing instruments which is just silly.

bedrooms,

You really shouldn't put "western" there because it suggests stereotyping, and I'm saying this as a Japanese.

NoneOfUrBusiness, in Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in Israeli air raid

Me and the boys when most moral army in the world/only democracy in the middle East.

iHUNTcriminals,

Sorry, but what does this comment mean?

NoneOfUrBusiness,

Israel call themselves/are called by their supporters both of these things.

cwagner, in Kenyan businesses are dropping the world’s favorite mobile money service

Sidenote in case any of the mods read this:

Kenyan businesses are dropping the world’s favorite mobile money service

Is the original headline, now what I’d have posted is “Kenyan businesses are dropping mobile money service M-Pesa”, possibly with “because of increased tax-enforcement”, the latter is probably too much editorializing, but the former makes it less clickbait-y and more informational. What kind of editing of original headlines is preferred?

wahming,

I agree with you, editing headlines because of clickbait should be allowed

iHUNTcriminals,

Find out how you can do that here.

I swear it’s not a Rick Roll.

AfricanExpansionist, in Israeli troops briefly enter Gaza as wider ground incursion looms

Fuck Israel

jakkreborn, in 'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Though I feel for people taken in by something like this.

livus, in Kenyan businesses are dropping the world’s favorite mobile money service
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The shift follows the deployment of 1,400 paramilitary-trained field officers

Which in turn follows Kenya taking on another big chunk of sovereign debt despite (or maybe because of) having trouble paying off its existing debt. Which has not exactly been universally popular with voters.

cwagner,

It’s more the “paramilitary-trained” tax collectors I find a bit hilarious ;)

shiveyarbles,

Lol images of collectors rappelling into households to demand taxes

cwagner,

That’s exactly the kind of thing I imagined. In camo, with green and black face paint.

livus,
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@cwagner I see why it could be funny. Given the potential impact I find it kind of disturbing. They actually were trained a bit though, it's a thing.

Ruto govt comes up with some unusual initiatives.

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