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It bears mentioning that the large scale protests you see in other parts of the world are often in places where there are strong worker protection laws.

In the US almost every single person is literally one major medical incident away from living in their car, one missed mortgage payment away from living in their car, and one missed insurance payment from not getting the medicine they literally need to survive. Most US states allow an employer to fire one of their employees without any warning or cause whatsoever, so long as the reason for the termination doesn't fit into one of several small boxes...which they would need to admit for it to be actionable, anyway.

My point being, a big part of the reason why you don't see protests like you do in say, France, is that unlike France, the people here are largely wage slaves that cannot afford to even miss work when suffering from extreme illness, let alone to take to the streets over that asshole pedophile acting like an asshole pedophile. This has been by design.

Don't mistake a population of people spending all their energy holding onto the little they have for one that supports this regime. Whether you think their action or lack of action is justifiable, you need to at least admit it's understandable.

There's a lot of ways of expressing unrest, and many of them are aimed at expressing a widespread lack of support for the regime. This hits them in their own support base, and is a big part of why they push back so hard on them.

Trump is a massive narcissist, that's why he's getting his signature on the cash in the first place. To someone like that, the idea that something so rewarding for him could be "perverted" like this, with the whole world seeing just what people really think of him, is a nightmare! And that's the point - to keep reminding him of just how unpopular he is, and keep him reactive instead of proactive.

Well but see the intent isn't to render it unfit to be reissued, the whole point is that you want it to stay in circulation so as many people as possible see the additional message.

The MAGoos have been stamping 'Donald Trump Lives Here' on US currency for years.

They are supposed to do it on bills that show the White House, but they've also put in on $5 bills that show the Lincoln Memorial

To be fair, there's a whole lot of difference between defacing a banknote vs. rendering it unfit for issue.

In any case, cause of how often it changes hands, and how little supervision its under, it'd be very difficult to actually identify who defaced a specific note - especially if you've git a whole bunch of people doing it to a whole bunch of notes

As someone else already pointed out, the "with intent to render such [...] unfit to be reissued" part is key here.

The Stamp Stampede has a good resource on this.

Essentially, the argument just boils down to the fact that you're... not making the bill unusable. As long as the denomination is still visible and not altered to another number, and it's possible to see anti-fraud measures like the green seal well enough, you're not rendering it unfit for circulation.

There is the problem of ATMs sometimes rejecting stamped bills (or accepting them but having the bank send them back to the Fed to be replaced with new, clean ones) but afaik it's rare and not too likely as long as you don't cover the denomination.

Most businesses don't reject stamped bills as they have no reason to expect additional markings would mean a bill is actually NOT real, and most people won't decide to just never spend it again because it has a stamp.

As long as you don't promote/advertise a business, or change the actual denomination of the bill, you're fine.

They would first have to prove that you were the one who did it. Good luck with that.

Fun fact: US $100 bills are used in crime around the world because it's a strong currency and a million dollars fits in a backpack!

Well, if you don't see it then the same has to be true for billions of other people.

Doesn't communicate that information as directly as something written on the bill itself

You're kinda wrong man. There's a bunch of counties where dollars are essentially the main currency. I go to Lebanon often and yeah, USD is the main currency, esp after the financial crisis a few years ago. There's also Ecuador where USD is the actual official currency.

physical cash isn't really used in America either.... I mean... I can't even remember the last time I paid for something with cash or was handed cash. Almost everyone just pays with card (or phone tap, etc etc).

Don’t some Central American countries like to use US dollars in cash, often preferred rather than their own currency? Mainly due to tourism but also probably some shadier stuff.

It was Cato who was famous for that, he was the Lindsey Graham of the Republic.

if democrats regain power, it will just be the wheel turning in wait of republicans regaining power later. while that side of the wheel is better than current one, what america needs to do is break the fucking wheel.

Nonono, it's "ra*ist". The * could be either a P or a C.