Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch. I’ll pour one out for these poor souls. Ha!
In an episode of the show bullshit (I think, I’m not 100% sure because I watch a lot of scam/anti-scam programming) there was an expert in MLMs saying that when you lose money in the MLM that isn’t a negative outcome for a MLM company.
He said something like, “you are supposed to lose money, that’s the business” and I can’t help but think the exact same quote applies to this.
That’s absolutely correct. MLMs make you buy their shitty products at steep prices and leave it to you to sell the rest at even more outragous prices. Once you bought their product, in bulk, at markup, they made a profit.
They dont give a fuck if you can sell it or not. You bought it, now you’re stuck with this useless shit.
Trump and company are doing something similar with ideas. Believe these words, no matter how horrible and bad they are, even if you’re loved ones vehemetly disagree with you, even if it will destroy democracy and hurt several vulnerable populations of people… believe us no matter what. Get invested beyond reason and stay angry even if it ruins your life.
They’re basically sucking the happiness out of people and then blaming x, y, and z groups for it.
It’s genuinely disturbing.
It’s true; they’re like a MLM company whose products are grievances and resentment.
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Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.
Thank you, Capital Obvious.
When their world revolves around feels, emotion, “common sense*”, and education is portrayed as bad, they are far easier marks than someone who views un-vetted and too-good-to-be-true opportunities with a logical eye.
*common sense is just another substitute for rejecting actual education and knowledge. “This is the right thing to do because common sense feels right” rather than investigating and making sure of what is right.
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…
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Good. Fuck ‘em.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
If they weren’t gullible, they wouldn’t be trump supporters.
lol fuckem
Bless their hearts.
Thoughts and prayers.
It’s like an all you scam buffet
The type of people who would be on the site or follow that man…is anyone surprised they are an extremely gullable crowd? It’s almost sad.
I don’t feel any empathy to those people and they’re easy to scam, so I might need to check this business opportunity.
I feel absolutely zero sympathy for these people. It’s not a platform full of Rhodes scholars either so it’s like shooting fish in a barrel
One good thing is that the morons that get scammed can’t spend the stolen money on things like GOP candidates that will make things even worse.
It’s roads scholars… And the pretty lady on the internet app said I will have all of my things back when I pay her my IRS fines with Walmart iTunes cards or Amazon…
… I thought my comment sounded ignorant enough to come of sarcastically as I had intended. Irregardless, I’ll be more pacific.
Well no shit…okay fair enough
Agreed
Truth Social has more than one user?
I’m just as surprised as you are.
estimated 607,000 monthly users (as of July 2023)
But how many of those are bots?
How many of those AREN’T bots?
How many trump family members are still alive and don’t hate Donald?
So … It’s a little bit smaller than Lemmy?
🤣 a bunch of communists built a more successful platform for free than a billionaire with unlimited free press exposure.
“Communists”
They mean the people who originally coded Lemmy, who are Marxist-Leninist communists. (Hence why they chose .ml for lemmy.ml.)
lemmy is more like 45k monthly active
But almost no bots
Lololololol
Good point.
Subtract the number of scammed people from that total and you’ll have your answer 👍
And of the ones that aren’t bots, how many are scammers and their sockpuppets?
I guess its not actually all bots if there is money being sold after all
Half the users are Trump supporters, the other half are scammers. It’s a match made In heaven brought to you by Orange Jesus.
The Venn Diagram of MAGA, morons and grifters, and right in the middle sits Trump.
How to we get in on this?
