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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exchange physical assets for virtual assets... This administration is GENIUS!!!

/s what a bunch of fuckheads

[–] silverlose@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love your username. It makes me want to start a project to bury him called “operation durian”

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Aw no! I will not allow the durian, the King of Fruits, to be besmirched!!!

The musky melon however is the Tesla of fruits... Shitty and sinking fast

[–] MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn’t have “Reverse Marshall Plan” on my 21st Century bingo card, but here we are.

[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Ive never heard it myself refered to it as "reserved marshall plan", but damn it if you arent right.

Thats exactly what it is.

Ffs

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Lol this is so funny, and sad, and funny. But sad.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

paging mike judge.. paging mike judge..

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So we laundering money to China now lol

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago

And to the cryptocurrency industry that helped fund Trump's campaign, whose assets will suddenly appreciate substantially.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago

russia, surely?

[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago

And then they can purchase NFTs with pictures of gold bars with zany expressions on them with those bitcoins - they'll make trillions, or maybe even gazillions that way!

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Bankrupt a country speed run?

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

You ever just wanna facepalm with your fist?

[–] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Jesus fucking christ

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is so stupid it makes me want to actually go to hackernews and read the comments for this article so I can laugh my ass at some really smart techbro defending this.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Now we're talking!

[–] TedDallas@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

The most powerful recorded geomagnetic storm back in 1859 set fire to telegraph stations worldwide, but records indicate very few incidents involving a correlated sudden disappearance of gold bars.