• Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think we’re talking about the same kind of crime here.

    I’m talking about theft, you’re talking about financial terrorism.

    There’s no grift to be had in destroying the value of the currency you are attempting to steal unless you transform it into something else that has or retains value after your crime has been committed, such as gold, other currency, or stable crypto (the latter two of which are easily exchangeable for crypto before the dump happens).

    I think even Trump might understand that if he steals all the dollars but that means all the dollars will no longer have value, that he will no longer have valuable dollars.

    We’re not dealing with the Joker here. We’re dealing with a 80’s businessman who fried his brain with coke and laundered Russian money and is stuck in those glory days as he descends into dementia. Now he’s a puppet with his hand in too many cookie jars, and an hand or two in his own ‘cookie jar’ and all he wants is MORE.

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      18 hours ago

      Not to mention, I’m pretty sure if they started debiting accounts arbitrarily and en masse, there would be a nationwide bank run and an apocalyptic economic crash. I’m not sure they’d want to wage nuclear war on the US economy. At least not yet.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      No, dude, its already done. Your bank account is their bank account.

      Trump might not understand, but miller bannon etc do, and they’re the ones actually acting here.

      Why steal shit they already own?