Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch. I’ll pour one out for these poor souls. Ha!

  • @[email protected]
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    I have found nothing is easier than separating a boomer and their money…well other than your mother.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s interesting to me that the generation of get rich quick schemes is having this problem. It’s a dilemma for sure. I remember some of these same types always impressing on me the importance of hard work and saving. The grasshopper and the ant parable and not jumping off bridges just because your friends are doing it.

    Just amazes me because liberals that taught me about caring and mindfulness are the ones who are resistant to the scammers in their old age. And the ones who claimed to be conservative and financially responsible are the ones with mortgages and complaints about how they are going to have hardships with retirement.

    Learning from their failures is all we can do. Try to prepare the next generation for dealing with this new reality.

  • @[email protected]M
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    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.

    • TheLowestStone
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      Think of it this way: the scammers could be targeting a less shitty group of people instead.

        • Flying Squid
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          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.

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            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.

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      It reminds me of that online cheating website that turned out to just be men getting scammed by fake accounts. They have it coming.

      • @[email protected]
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        You know, you are right.

        I should instead support the guy who is going to nuke Palestine. Right? Completely eradicate them?

        Who has sworn to put America first no matter the cost? Even if it means a nuclear winter? The guy who wants to suck Putin’s cock so bad that he sent him one of those kits so that he could get a mold made so that he can practice?

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        Says the guy who uses an ISP! Shame! How could you support those animals!

      • Flying Squid
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        Trump supports the genocide in Gaza and wants to start two more genocides- of Latino and queer people- in the U.S.

        On top of that, he just suggested bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, which could end up in an escalation causing far more senseless deaths than there have been in Gaza. Exponentially more.

        But I guess those things don’t matter because “Holocaust Harris” or whatever.

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    How could anyone ever scam anyone with a Truth Social post? The posts are called “truths” that means they must be true!

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    I see a lot of handwringing in society over kids not being able to handle themselves online.

    I’d be more worried about senior citizens.

  • don
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    Can’t spell “conservative” without “con”.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because they share an etymology. Con+serve, from Latin for together+oversee, and con+fide, together+trust.