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• homes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, that was life before the Internet. You actually had to do stuff. You couldn’t just click a few keys, and get what you want.

  Literally, nobody said that. And you’re also making my point that it would be a huge pain in the ass, not “easy“.

  Still, to create an entirely new identity, and disappear? Today, you couldn’t do it all. A little legwork and a few months of waiting for mail isn’t that much to ask.

  I wouldn’t know, and that’s not what we’re discussing here. But, once again, you’ve made my point for me that it wouldn’t be “easy“, it would be a gigantic pain in the ass.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was something you could do yourself, and not have to track down some sketchy criminal to buy some fake identity that may or may not work.

    It was a major crime that you could pull off all by yourself, without getting involved with anyone else. It wasn’t a pain in the ass, any more than anything was a pain in the ass in the olden days. Want to buy something? Get your ass in the car and go to the store. Want a gift for someone in another state? You had to buy it, box it, and take it to the post office to mail it. No buying it from Amazon and having it delivered, without ever leaving your chair.

    Spending a couple of hours in a cemetery, them mailing a couple of letters, would have been considered a pretty easy major crime in those days.

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was something you could do yourself, and not have to track down some sketchy criminal to buy some fake identity that may or may not work.

      It was a major crime that you could pull off all by yourself, without getting involved with anyone else

      Ok rebel. But that wasn’t what we’re discussing. The point of the discussion was whether or not it was easy. And by everything you keep saying, it was an enormous pain in the ass to do what you’re describing. And well, it may not have been a pain in the ass for you in particular, for any normal person it would’ve been. And the more you keep “explaining”, the more and more you prove that to be the case.

      I don’t even know what you’re trying to argue at this point. That you committed crimes and are there for a cool? Because it certainly was neither simple nor easy the way you describe it.

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The point was that in the old days, that’s what you had to do to create an entirely new identity, and considering how effective it was, it really wasn’t that complicated or difficult.

        Only today, where so many things are easy, does a few steps, including a couple of hours in a cemetery, a couple of letters, and some waiting time, sound like insurmountable obstacles. That’s especially true, when you consider that today, you probably couldn’t do it yourself, and you’d have to involve yourself with some people you probably don’t want to deal with, and pay a ton of money.

        But yeah, the old way was harder, because you had to walk around.

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