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FBI Hijacked & Ran a Dark Web Money Laundering Operation Called 'ElonmuskWHM'gizmodo.com/the-fbi-hijacked-and-ran-a-dark-web-money-laundering-operation-called-elonmuskwhm-2000586515
492 sats \ 6 comments \ @Cje95 9 Apr Politics_And_Law
Lol you gotta love how the Bisen admin went after crypto but then also used it to try and catch criminals. They created an economy for the very thing they claimed to be fighting 😂
which was often advertised on the dark web forum White House Market or WHM, allowed cybercriminals to “cash out” cryptocurrency that had been elicited via criminal schemes. “Elonmusk”‘s customers, who were drug traffickers and hackers, would send the business their crypto, and then the operator would send them cash in the mail. “Elonmusk” would take a 20 percent fee for its services.
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74 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 9 Apr
“There’s a huge problem (that we’re creating). Give us more money and power to address it.”
It’s hard not to admire the self-licking ice cream cones that they keep making.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 9 Apr
The unsolvable problem is the best problem for politicians. They can always be "trying" to fix it and run on "what they are doing".
The second best problem for politicians are the problems that are trending to resolution due to outside forces like technology, culture, or economics. Things like child labor laws are a good example. Wealth and opportunity end child labor. Now we just make it harder for young people to get work experience.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 9 Apr
They created an economy for the very thing they claimed to be fighting 😂
The drug war cough
Prohibition cough
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7 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 OP 9 Apr
Shhhhh they will hear you!!!
Granted we kinda almost do have a drug war now with the cartels in Mexico… that’s been a rapidly heating up issue the last 2/3 years
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 9 Apr
The drug war is their name, not mine. And it did militarize the police over the past 40 years.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 9 Apr
Prohibitions create black markets. Black markets reduce the marginal cost of violence. Politicians don't care about this even those that understand it though. Their livelihoods do not encourage problem solving.
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