cortessis-peter.bsky.social
30-something year old nerd. “Land Value Tax solves this” enthusiast. Social Democracy Stan. Universalist Welfare State tonight? 👀
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Apollo: THINK FAST CHUCKLENUTS
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This entire administration is “Oops! All Scheming Viziers!”
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Ancient Greek playwrights reading the levels of foreshadowing and hubris in this post would be like: “αυτό είναι υπερβολικό”
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Posting ones that are fucked up sure as shit don’t help push the readers into a more knowledgeable position if they’re just glancing at the headlines peeking out from over your paywall.
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Yeah, it sucks! We should be treating addiction as a medical issue that requires compulsory treatment rather than imprisonment, you’ll have no argument from me there, but we shouldn’t simply permit behaviors that have negative impacts on those around them.
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I can assure you, compassion to the point of continuing to permit bad behavior does keep killing people. We tend to imprison drunk drivers for example, rather than nodding sagely about how sad their life has gotten to the point where they flatten a family of five and pass them their keys.
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You want to give Mister Stabby a hug, I’ll keep a coffin ready for ya.
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I have more compassion for my friend and I who were nearly stabbed to death in the incident I was involved in than the guy who decided that meth consumption was more important than the effects it had on those around them, yes.
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“Yes, a family of six is dead after their SUV was slammed head on by a driver who blew .14 BAC afterwards, but given that all of reality flows from cause and effect, who is to say that the universe itself isn’t the *truly* responsible party?”
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Like does someone struggling with a coke habit or a drinking problem or some other addiction deserve compassion and to be treated like a person? Yes, of course. Does said habit impact their ability to perform certain jobs and does it reflect poorly on them is they still try to perform them? Also yes
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This is a great example of how it would not have improved your life if you were arrested and sent into a brutal carcereal system for this, but it's still important that you look back on this and realize, yeah that was bad!
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Anti-social behavior needs to be curbed, not permitted in perpetuity because society isn’t providing the ideal welfare state.
I’m sorry, your right to self medicate with amphetamines ends at my right to not get stabbed while you’re psychotic as a result.
Speaking from experience, btw.
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This is wildly obvious twisting of words; if someone wouldn’t do something because their inhibitions prevent them from doing so, and the imbibing of substances removes those inhibitions, then said substance can be said to have caused the uninhibited actions.
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He is obviously, plainly, and incredibly wrong, yes. Come on, man, fucking of course being on drugs induces bad behavior, ffs.
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Khmer Doge in the house
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I had to go look at the account she said would give people instructions for this scheme and things are getting wild over there too after someone asked how they know they’re not sending the money to a sanctioned group
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People more knowledgeable than you and sympathetic to the Palestinian cause have repeatedly told you that you are wrong, and at this point I don’t think there is anything that can be said or demonstrated to change your position.
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I donate to UNRWA, you dumb motherfucker. I contribute without encouraging people to do shit that could ruin their fucking lives.
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Your insistence that you know the relevant laws better by doing the equivalent of stamping your feet and shouting “wrong!” repeatedly is not particularly compelling.
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I am telling you that your understanding of the law is wrong, cited the relevant laws to you, and you insist that they do not exist.
If you want to do what Molly herself will not, by all means, you are welcome to fuck up your entire life for the fleeting pleasure of feeling morally superior.
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(1) potential violations of OFAC (e.g., IEEPA, 50 USC 1701)
(2) 18 U.S.C. 1960 (unlicensed money transmitting businesses (3) Money laundering, 18 U.S.C. 1956, 1957;
(4) Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations (e.g., 31 U.S.C. 5311)
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She admits she excluded herself from the list of people who would be receivers under her scheme specifically because she wants others to shoulder the risk.
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Just donate to UNRWA, you’re not going to get thrown in prison for a scheme that Molly herself admits is flaunting the law to the point where she dare not do it herself for fear of consequences.
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I can assure you the US Federal Government does not give a single solitary fuck what GoFundMe’s claims are. If you are intentionally subverting banking regulations, citing GFM’s terms and conditions will be little more than a piece of leather in your mouth to bite down on when they come for you.
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I mean, I certainly empathize with trying to help suffering people. But it'd be pretty easy to turn yourself into a useful idiot that way.
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Wow, you have a second account when people block you and you don’t for a moment consider the problem starts with you. Amazing.
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What the hell, I spend all this fucking around, nobody told me there was going to be a find out machine here!
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Molly is literally advocating for braking those relevant laws in the screenshot of this thread by creating an unlicensed and informal international payment processing network.
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Go get your fucking shinebox.
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(1) potential violations of OFAC (e.g., IEEPA, 50 USC 1701)
(2) 18 U.S.C. 1960 (unlicensed money transmitting businesses (3) Money laundering, 18 U.S.C. 1956, 1957;
(4) Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations (e.g., 31 U.S.C. 5311)
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Structuring payments and transfers to avoid banking regulations is itself the crime, not violating sanctions.