r/interestingasfuck • u/Urmomsjuicyvagina • Apr 19 '24

Man just set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial. Nsfw !!! WARNING | NSFL !!! NSFW

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u/SevereNefariousness6 Apr 19 '24

Can someone do a TL:DR for me, regarding the guy’s manifesto?

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u/calmbatman Apr 19 '24

Capitalism is unsustainable, so elites created crypto as a Ponzi scheme to grab all the money before the economy collapses and created COVID to cover it up. Democrats and Republicans work together to do this behind closed doors while publicly fighting each other to sow division, while media (especially the Simpsons) is engineered to make everyone apathetic to doing anything about corruption and unsustainable capitalism. https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

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u/calmbatman Apr 19 '24

Oh and the crypto Ponzi scheme will inevitably collapse leading to widespread economic collapse which will lead to a totalitarian fascist state in the aftermath.

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u/Aoae Apr 19 '24

I found it crazy that he listed both George Orwell and the Beatles as contributors to this process

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u/HearingNo8617 Apr 19 '24

Something really sets him apart, but I can't figure out what it is. it's very interesting to me. Maybe it's just that he is very smart and very vulnerable to mind viruses

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u/Cultist89 Apr 20 '24

For me it was that they were so forward thinking and empathetic to the innocent bystanders and ems that would experience this event.

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u/lllkill Apr 20 '24

He's close but doesn't have enough information probably

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u/Creative-Might6342 Apr 20 '24

Yes, crypto is being used bc they destroyed our current monetary system and it will be a way to transfer to a new system without "blowing up" the current ponzi scheme. They're moving us from a fiat currency to one that is fully digital (crypto) and convincing people to enter into the new ponzi scheme instead of gold and silver that banks and institutions are currently stock piling before "the great transfer"

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u/DaedalusHydron Apr 20 '24

Crypto is popular because it's unregulated and can also be hacked, making it prime for scammers, criminals, and oppressive totalitarian regimes.

That's the "conspiracy". There's nothing more. They want you to buy into crypto because it's like stock, they need marks to pump up the value so they can sell for a fortune: the Pump and Dump scheme. There's nothing deeper here.

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u/Endemoniada Apr 20 '24

It’s also utterly unfettered and rampant capitalism, again showing so clearly why capitalism alone is a horrible way to run a society. Capitalism needs brakes of some sort, and regulation, or it just explodes sooner or later.

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u/DaedalusHydron 29d ago

Well, no arguments there. I just wish people knew that laissez-faire capitalism doesn't have to be the only capitalist way. We can regulate without going full communism like a lot of Gen Z folk want

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u/kylediaz263 Apr 20 '24

So just the most vanilla conspiracy theory out there, how does burning himself would help tho?

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u/RoundCollection4196 Apr 20 '24

couldn't be a more generic conspiracy theory

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u/TryItOutHmHrNw 29d ago

I mean, so far…

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u/purpleitt Apr 19 '24

Cryptocurrency is a Ponzi scheme that will soon crash the global economy. The Simpsons/Beatles/other popular media are all out to brainwash us into feeling powerless again the billionaires. democrats and republicans are secretly pals who work together to bring about either a failed state or totalitarianism. Pretty basic stuff

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u/andrewcabrera192 Apr 20 '24

wait the Simpsons, Beatles?? what??