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minus-squaregedaliyah@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·3 months agoOn the one hand, I feel like anyone promoting a scam artist for the White House deserves what’s coming to them. On the other hand, I consider scammers to be the lowest of the low. This is one tricky moral limbo contest to judge.
minus-squareTheLowestStone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down2·3 months agoThink of it this way: the scammers could be targeting a less shitty group of people instead.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·3 months agoAlso, the scammers, despite who they are scamming, are still probably ideologically aligned with Trump. They just know they can cheat the ones they understand most easily.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoMore likely they’re aligned with the same ideology that Trump is: self enrichment at the expense of everyone else. They probably only see Trump as a useful concentration point for easy targets.
minus-squareeatthecake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIt reminds me of that online cheating website that turned out to just be men getting scammed by fake accounts. They have it coming.
minus-squareEtherWhack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoSynonymous with radiation therapy, I guess…
On the one hand, I feel like anyone promoting a scam artist for the White House deserves what’s coming to them.
On the other hand, I consider scammers to be the lowest of the low.
This is one tricky moral limbo contest to judge.
Think of it this way: the scammers could be targeting a less shitty group of people instead.
Actually, that helps.
Also, the scammers, despite who they are scamming, are still probably ideologically aligned with Trump. They just know they can cheat the ones they understand most easily.
More likely they’re aligned with the same ideology that Trump is: self enrichment at the expense of everyone else.
They probably only see Trump as a useful concentration point for easy targets.
It reminds me of that online cheating website that turned out to just be men getting scammed by fake accounts. They have it coming.
Synonymous with radiation therapy, I guess…