• grumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.es
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    A great idea. Then, when you have to spend four donalds for a carton of eggs you’ll remember why voting for con-men is a bad idea.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    Just so everyone’s aware, it’s super duper illegal to deface currency.

    So like, it would be against the law to use a sharpie to add a Hitler mustache to Trump’s face on said dollar bill; or add an arm extended in a Nazi salute; or add swastikas over ‘god’ where it says “In god we trust”; to then bring it to a bank and report that you received defaced currency and would like to exchange it for new bills, only to do it all again.

    So… y’know, probably don’t do those things.

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      It’s more a legally gray area in the US that as far as I can find from a quick search has never been settled in court. It likely isn’t worth the time for police to go after either even if it was more explicitly illegal.

      That might change if there’s a sudden surge in people drawing on $100 bills, but who uses $100s that often anyway? Most ATMs I used only dispense $20s. It often isn’t worth the trip to the bank, and the US is unfortunately mostly cashless now.

      But to be clear: fuck this fascist bullshit and resist in whatever ways you can

      https://www.stampstampede.org/faq/yes-its-legal/

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        There’s an argument we shouldn’t even be issuing $100 bills in the first place. Counterfeiters have to spend money to copy money. A $1 or $5 bill isn’t worth the cost. A $50 is getting there, but if you put extra anti-counterfeiting measures around it, then it’s pushed out of reach again.

        Once you reach a $100 bill, though, it’s hard to have enough anti-counterfeiting measures while also being cheap enough to produce by the actual US Mint. Drop it entirely, and the problem goes away.

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          Sorry, I’m gonna be that person… The US Mint makes coins, not the paper money. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is responsible for printing, among other things, the paper money.

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          There was a very good reason for it back when physical money was more necessary. Now, there’s essentially no purpose except crime. Almost all purchases are payed cashless. If you really want to use cash, almost no transactions are prohibitive just using $20s or $50s. Maybe buying a car or house would be tough, and I’m sure someone does that with cash, but that’d just be the cost of choosing to use cash.

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            Considering that DOGE can likely withdraw money from bank accounts at will, relying on cash seems very legitimate. I don’t want my life savings to just vanish because Musk felt like it. Or worse, replaced it with Muskcoin in a offer that no one can refuse.

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              Yup; and it can make general independence more difficult (like trying to leave an abusive relationship or household).

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      It’s also illegal for a living person to be featured in our currency.

      “ThE rUlEs SaY a DoG cAnT pLaY bAsKeTbAlL!1!!”

      18th consecutive golden retriever dunk

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      It’s not illegal as long as you’re not trying to get it out of circulation, advertise, or pass off one denomination as another. So deface away.

      (note: I am not a lawyer, do not believe some random person on the internet)

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      Sidenote: I spent a couple of years working in Nigeria. Almost all bank notes there had some scribble on it, as it frequently doubled as note paper. When you don’t have Post-its, cash will do, I guess.

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      I used to get offended by defaced & graffitied currency, but then an older family friend pointed out that these people print it off like crazy. At our expense. And tax-rape the ever-loving fuck out of us, for everything. And proceed to waste OUR money they stole on random bullshit and ruin our lives. So maybe I shouldn’t take currency so seriously.

      I still don’t do it, but I thought he made some really good points.

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    President Trump could be enjoying his golden years golfing and spending time with his family," Gill told Fox News Digital. "Instead, he took a bullet for this country and is now working overtime…

    1. Wasn’t he golfing yesterday?
    2. We all know he hates his family and is happy to avoid them.
    3. “Took a bullet” is akin to me saying I was stabbed in the face by a deranged idiot when I cut myself shaving.
    4. Working overtime at what exactly? Are his tiny chode fingers getting tired from signing a few bits of paper?
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      Didn’t the bullet go through his ear and kill a firefighter?

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        Bullet never touched him. The blood was splatter. He wore a bandage for 2 days for show. When it came off there was not a scratch.

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          I work at a hospital and have worked with hundreds of patients around his age. When you’re that old, your skin is like paper thin and tears extremely easy. I’ve slid patients from one bed to another and tore skin. Donald Trump was tackled by secret service. Maybe it was his blood but I highly doubt he took a bullet or any shrapnel from glass or anything else.

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            Yeah… I’m willing to buy that he had immediate, top grade treatment, I’m willing to accept that the bullet barely grazed him and it bled a lot

            But I’m not willing to believe he healed that fast or that perfectly. There’s no notch from any angle, no scab, nothing - just a few days later there was no sign of it. And he was milking it for all he had… And yet, aside from that blood on the scene, all we ever saw was comically oversized bandages, then normal ones during more serious meetings, then nothing

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          It grazed his ear, ears apparently bleed a hell of a lot. I knew that from my injuries but that was a good amount of blood from just a little nick. And old people bleed like crazy, thin skin.

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          Conspiracy theories don’t help. Especially since there was a photo with the bullet mid flight.

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            I thought it was widely accepted that the bullet itself didn’t him hit, it was shrapnel from the poidum

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              It was questioned in July. Just because it was widely accepted in your furry discord server doesn’t mean that it’s widely accepted generally

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    Excellent news since only dead people are permitted on $US. When’s he dying? I have March 5th 2025 in the pool.

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    So…America…you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?

    Get your shit together. Christ.

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    Whatever. Go for it, cultists.

    This type of shit is just noise meant to distract and overwhelm people from paying attention to the stuff that matters.

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      What this guy said^^ focus on the real issues and watch out for the other sleight of hand cause in the end that’s all it is. They want us bickering with each other while closed door deals are being finalized

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        Yeah, they’ve been pretty explicit in wanting to “flood the zone” with new shit everyday to annoy and outrage us, and so that the media doesn’t have enough time to cover in depth what’s really going on.

        All of this stuff like “Gulf of America”, “Red White and Blueland”, adding Trump’s face to Mt. Rushmore, putting Trump’s face on the $100, etc. It’s all a bunch of look-at-the-birdy bullshit.

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        Basically the raison d’être for MTG or Lauren Boebert - have em stand up and say dumb shit and keep attention focused on them while the GOP continues to fuck the average taxpayer.

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    Ahh yes, Benjamin Franklin, founding father, inventor of the bifocals, lightning rod, and Franklin stove, first postmaster general, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, signed the constitution and the declaration of independence along with drafting the latter. Definitely not nearly as important to this country as Donald Trump, who is singlehandedly keeping the orange spray tan market alive.

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        I know there’s a lot of pushback of the founding fathers due to the general pushback against American exceptionalism but let’s not lump up folks who were generally positive for society with active leaches.

        Also adultery is the least of both their crimes, it just happens that as a politician, legal theorist, and scientist there’s a lot that Benjamin Franklin did that helps give some positives to him. He was a shit person in many ways, but he was still decently intelligent. Trump is just shit with no respectable qualities and nothing to offer mankind except misery.

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    Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.

    Brought to you by dipshit conservatives.

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        For all of his many flaws, I don’t think Jackson was an agent of a foreign power.

        Even so, there are places in Oklahoma where a 20 isn’t considered valid currency.

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      Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.

      From my experience travelling the world, that’s not particularly uncommon. The US doesn’t have to feel singled out for having such people on their bank notes.

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    This was absolutely on my 2025 bingo card along with plans for a new face on Mount Rushmore and a mountain, river, or national park being named after him.

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    Well if they do that, I’ll draw at least 2 dicks pointed towards his mouth on each one that I handle