• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?

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      19 hours ago

      One that looks pretty promising is the “5G blocker” market. There already are some that are basically a USB powered LED in a housing to make it look like a flash drive.

      You can differentiate your “product” by giving it a Tacticool look and/or name. Slap a plastic housing on that with an urban camo print and call it “The 5G Afflictor” or something, and you can probably get some money from some morons.

      If you use careful wording, you can keep it totally factual, too. It may not block 5G signals, but everyone that buys one does suffer no further ill effects from 5G, for example.

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      If you find something and go “nobody could possibly fall for that!” then you’ve found your MAGA grift.

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        I used to work in web development and I cannot tell you how much I detest Shopify and its incredibly outdated scripting language. It’s an awful product to work with. Customers used to come in with their Shopify site which they now outgrown and wanted it upgraded, and it was always easier and therefore cheaper to just throw the entire mess away and start again from scratch.

        So seriously if you want to do well in business don’t start with a Shopify site, just get something custom from the start, it’ll end up cheaper in the long run.

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      You could run for office as a republican, they have teams of support people that will coach and help you hone your craft.

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        19 hours ago

        I bet he could do more with that attitude and a big sack of idiots’ money than with the attitude alone. There’s also a certain poetry in undermining their efforts with their own money.

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          yeah but you don’t end up scamming senile old ladies who chose the wrong political party 60 years ago and have no idea what republicans have been doing the last fifteen years or really any of what has happened the last fifteen years but really don’t deserve to be made homeless for the crime of getting dementia.

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            60 years ago was the height of the Civil Rights movement. If those people chose Republican then, I have no sympathy for them now.

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            People who don’t even try to stay informed help maintain an America where it’s possible to be made homeless for the “crime of getting dementia”. Being bankrupted by medical debt isn’t normal in most other countries. The American right wing’s willful ignorance is bad for the entire planet. Countless individuals suffer because of their laziness and greed.

            We owe them nothing.