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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026

It's not that these guys spent 2008 in a cave - rather, they just lack the object permanence to remember the last time a "Federal Wallet Inspector" approached them at a board meeting and took them for everything: pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/u... 26/

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Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026

The thesis that "it can't be nonsense if there's a lot of money at stake" is the core of so many of these swindles. It's the investment theory that holds that once a pile of shit gets big enough, there *must* be a pony under it somewhere. 27/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026

There's a Bugs Bunny bit that I find myself returning to in this era of the big con: it's a gag from 1954's "Bugs and Thugs": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_an... 28/

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Bugs and Thugs - Wikipedia

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Also Chuck Prince’s dictum: “If the music’s still playing you have to keep dancing”. (Balkans joke: a blind fiddler asks a deaf pianist performing at a dance: “Are they still dancing?”, to which the deaf pianist responds “are we still playing?”

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OhMarie @mariepluscats.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

this was also pretty much the cause of the 2008 financial crisis too

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Mellzah @mellzah.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Really questionable understanding of pony biology they have

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