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Patrick is too polite to mention it, but frauds work much better if the fraudsters are also fully integrated into the political machine of the people nominally
by poplarsol 8mo ago
Patrick is too polite to mention it, but frauds work much better if the fraudsters are also fully integrated into the political machine of the people nominally investigating the fraud.
- laidoffamazon 8mo ago[flagged]
- joe_mamba 8mo ago>cryptoracist He hates cryptographers?
- laidoffamazon 8mo agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptoracist https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptoracist
- joe_mamba 8mo agoSo it's a made up term from people who want to discredit people they don't like by calling them "secret racist" without having any proof.
- laidoffamazon 8mo agoAll terms are made up by humans
- joe_mamba 8mo agoYeah but calling someone a racist is a serious accusation, you better bring receipts or be liable for defamation. Calling them a "secret racist" instead isn't the workaround that absolves you from this.
- tptacek 8mo agoYou cannot in fact be made liable for defamation for calling someone a racist. (Patrick, a close friend I have known for many years, is not a racist.)
- dragonwriter 8mo ago> Yeah but calling someone a racist is a serious accusation, you better bring receipts or be liable for defamation There are a large number of countries with their own systems of law, and its possible that in one of them calling someone a racist might be subject to defamation law, but in most I am aware of that's going to be a problem because its not even a well-enough-defined fact claim to be legally true or false.
- renewiltord 8mo agoI should warn you that the user you are replying to is a crypto-paedophile. Be careful. There is no evidence to describe how he might retaliate.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoCrypto[insult] is just a shorthand for saying "I don't actually have evidence to support my accusation."
- mock-possum 8mo agoNo, it’s a term for a particular brand of racism - Like complimenting someone for being ‘articulate,’ or ‘one of the good ones.’ Sounds innocent enough, until you understand the racist underpinnings.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoSee above, where it is being used as an insult without any evidence to back it up. This is the most common usage, and usage defines the true meaning of the word.
- SketchySeaBeast 8mo agoThe man has nothing nice to say about Bigfoot.
- renewiltord 8mo agoThe alternative explanation that he is against cryptocurrency actually is true.
- SketchySeaBeast 8mo agoSeems to be a bad use of "racist".
- renewiltord 8mo agoOh I agree. I’m mostly just being facetious.
- tptacek 8mo agoI don't think that's in evidence. Institutionalized and ideologically-driven apathy towards the fraud, sure, but that's not uncommon (see: the defense industry; the finance industry).
- learingsci 8mo agoA distinction without a difference imo. I think most people rightfully surmise the defense and financial industries are rife with, if not outright fraud, at least waste and abuse. We could use better language perhaps.
- christkv 8mo agoIts hilarious how short human memory is. To me Minnesota just seems like a replay of Tammany Hall in NYC
- tptacek 8mo agoThen I think you need to read more about Tammany Hall, because it was not simply a widespread pattern of fraud in social services.
- christkv 8mo agoThere was few social services at the time. It was a patronage system. Different rewards but buying votes all the same. My point is that patronage is a long storied American tradition so I don’t know why people are al shocked that such schemes are still ongoing. Republican and anti castro cubans is or was a similar patronage system.
- lazide 8mo agoTammany hall got people murdered [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall].
- treebeard901 8mo agoI'm kind of surprised how the political and legal network around Feeding Our Future, for example, has gone so unnoticed and underreported.