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by DonHopkins 1470 days ago
I absolutely despise crypto scammers, but looking at those asinine graphics they use to lure in their suckers, it make it VERY VERY VERY difficult to have any empathy for their victims.

If that whole "Amazing Pandaverse" theme template appeals to your aesthetic sensibilities and primal urge to get rich quick and screw everyone else and the environment while wearing kewl sunglasses and dollar sign bitcoin logo bling jewelry, you're probably a huge narcissistic douchebag who actually deserves to get the fuck scammed out of you, not a poor innocent senior citizen living on a pension.

It kind of makes me nostalgic for the good old fashioned robot insurance scams targeting seniors, when you could actually feel sorry for the victims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM

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Lol come on, not everyone who falls for these are douchebags. Many is min wage jobs just trying to get out of it and 'make it', I bet they think its childish looking too but hey I can make double my meager savings
I totally agree, it's victim blaming, but the incredible level of self sabotage and tolerance for douchbaggery the victims exhibit is a huge drain on my limited supply of empathy, after so many years of trying to deprogram and empathize with gullible racist fuckhead suckers who got scammed by Trump, and have been programmed to view empathy as a weakness, so don't deserve it themselves. And there's probably a huge overlap between people who admire golden toilets and bored ape jpegs.

At any rate, they'll probably reskin these templates to feature Hummel figurines, then I can feel sorry for the victims again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nge8q8CKk