• grue@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I should come up with a “scam MAGA” business model. Damn ethics…

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      4 months ago

      One could argue removing financial power from people who would use it to harm those around them is the ethical choice. Obviously, it would be more beneficial to scam the wealthy, but scamming those who give to the wealthy that would harm others could be framed as pre-empting that gift.

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      4 months ago

      Tell ya what. I’LL do all the shady stuff. You just provide the capitol. Just give me $50 million dollars, and I’ll scam the idiots FOR you!

      Money please! Money me now!

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    4 months ago

    Whether it’s plausible that a sexy blonde nurse would love Christ, ICE, and flashing her boobs for strangers is secondary to the fact that many, many people want to believe it is.

    That’s such a well written burn.

    I’m torn. On the one hand this is like the third useful thing I’ve read that so-called AI can do. If the tech can only be used to help folks with disabilities, help medical research and diagnoses, and defraud MAGAs, I’d stop being so mad about it. On the other hand, idiots aren’t only available in that sociopolitical group and the affluent princes of Nigeria locked in unfortunate inheritance lawsuits are surely planning a surprising comeback with this tech.

    I’d question the success that “millions of followers” implies. I think the majority of people who follow such a profile on Insta will know it’s fake. Maybe not initially but they will figure this out. There is s tendency for people on the left side of the political spectrum to scratch each other’s eyes out over narcissisms of minor differences. On the opposing side, people are more likely to stick together no matter what. We are about ten years in to the MAGA movement and we are just now seeing worrying cracks in an otherwise often comically unified great leader facade. So even if a user figured out this boob flashing nurse is fake, they won’t unfollow because the ends justify the means to spread the message. And continuing to follow is not an indication of abject stupidity but another win in the column of owning the libtards for them. And even among the paying morons on the OnlyFans knock-off, there will be users who know this is fake but our Indian medical student is scratching their itch. People jack it to anime as well. People want to marry the Eiffel Tower.

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    4 months ago

    Congrats, young man, to having found a good way to do the world a service, all while making a fortune.

    Every cent those idiots spend on fake girls can’t be spent in GOP donation jars.

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    4 months ago

    The reason he’s a “scammer” is his lack of connection. Put him in a corporation or in government and he’d just be on task to increase profits.

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    4 months ago

    On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.

    On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake ‘news’ sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that’s what they focused on.

    Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation’s influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.

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      4 months ago

      I agree somewhat but it’s not like they were bringing newcomers into the cause, this account was posting rage bait for already entrenched MAGAts, the more time they spend inside staring at fake boobs the less time they’ll spend shooting people

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    4 months ago

    I absolutely approve.

    I would do it, too, if I could get over the squick of even dealing with them in the first place.

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    4 months ago

    this reminds me of this one black guy that scammed 30k from the maga crowed. i saw his tiktok about it.