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TheOutlawPepeWales 19 points ago +20 / -1

This isn't breaking the law.

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Ophelia 4 points ago +5 / -1

To be convicted, you must have the intent to defraud someone. For example, the U.S. Mint warns that wearing down edges of coins to make them appear to be error coins -- coins that are incorrectly struck by the U.S. Mint, often rare and popular with collectors -- and then selling them to collectors as error coins constitutes a crime.

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TheOutlawPepeWales 10 points ago +10 / -0

Unlike, for example, setting up a private email server where you didn't intend to store unauthorized classified information but did anyway.

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macrolinx 3 points ago +3 / -0

kek

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stabbingmandrill 0 points ago +1 / -1

The intent to defraud law is for coinage. Federal Reserve Notes fall under a different law and requires the defacement to have…

…intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued…

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/333

and

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/485

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SheikFromMozambake 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes it is. It's illegal to deface currency. I'm still going to do it. It's impossible for the filthy cheaters not to hear this message every moment of every day for the next four years. This message is the new Orange Man Bad. The difference is that Trump Won is true and they all know it.