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I love how he learned it from Tiktok
You use tiktok to watch trendy dances.
I use tiktok to educate myself on tax evasion.
We are not the same.
I'll be honest. I didn't expect people to be this stupid. That's on me with the whole information superhighway thing being "a good thing". I didn't think there would be this calcified idiocy that continued to grow in spite of the fact that plainspoken factual refutations for it were just a few keystrokes away.
I didn't believe people would fall for such blatantly idiotic shit "in the future". Despite being an American. I know, I know. My bad.
Turns out equalizing the flow of information isn't all up side.
The original assumption was that this data super highway would transfer the truth and facts.
But it turns out because anyone can distribute any falsehood, people instead are able to find things to reinforce their existing opinion, instead of the truth. The biggest strength of the modern day internet is also what will ultimately be its downfall I believe. The next kind of web will definitely be different.
It's because stupid can find friends that agree on the Internet. Not as possible IRL.
I’ve always felt like people were falling for ridiculous things, but they did it a lot more privately/locally. Like all these posts on Facebook we see that are public record or people just going off. None of that was making the rounds to the general population 20 years ago. But I have very little doubt people were doing things that would have been passed around at the time.
I don't have Tiktok, does it have people like this on it?
It has everyone, so yes.
Except me.
Very true, but it has someone like you. They ain't got me either, friend, but there's plenty of Texas drunks on it.
I'm so old I predate web browser social media even. I just can't with Tiktok.
How were the olden days gramps? No but really, if you don't mind answering, what was the 'newest' tech that you can remember coming out when you were a kid?
I'm in my early thirties and was raised in a different country, I can recall the internet being the latest thing and how my family all huddled around our first pc and internet connection to set up an email ha. I don't recall all of it but I recall it had AppleManzana in it which manzana is just apple in Spanish.
Telnet talkers! They predated the existence of a web page. It was a basic text interface that you had to telnet into a certain IP address. It was a wonder of ASCII art too. And we got there by using the freenet using a dialup modem that took out your phone line for hours.
Once webpages came along I migrated to Livejournal, which was and is forever the best social media that ever existed even in its decayed Russian state today.
No, I’m Spartacus and I don’t have TikTok.
Some of the replies for your amusement;
Oh my, that last one thats almost cut off, hits hard.
All those years where not one thing he tried has worked.
The marital equivalent of "it's a republic not a democracy". Or: If you don't agree with me, you don't deserve to have a say.
Reminds me of those flat earthers who keep coming up with ways they think will prove the earth is flat, but then it proves the opposite, and they’re just like “we did something wrong, let’s try this instead”. Rather than just accept the base is flawed.
Pay income taxes or pay alimony and lose my assets in a divorce....gosh, I'd have to consult a CPA on that one....this isn't something I should do the math on myself. It's too important to me and to my online homeless sovereign allies.
You think they'll pay alimony if they are already trying to get out of paying the IRS?
Woosh
Ooh I love when they disagree about the particular form of nonsense they believe in. "No, you did this thing someone made up wrong, you have to do it the way I made up!" It makes a it a lot easier to justify when everything they try fails, I guess. But something tells me the OP should probably just look at what paperwork he needs for a divorce.
Imagine letting some tiktokers convince you to sabotage your own marriage
I love how it's all some big conspiracy to rob you of your money but you can also get out of it by filling out a form that takes up only the top third of a piece of paper
What is this form and what does it (he) do?
1099C is a cancellation of debt form.
In the real world, they're used when someone holding the debt has decided to abandon it, TYPICALLY as part of some renegotiation. It's tax paperwork showing that the debt is gone (which is de facto income and so tax-relevant).
These types believe that you can file them unilaterally to get rid of a debt, because it says debt cancellation in the title and the the world is a vast and all-powerful conspiracy that also is vulnerable to uncountably many technical loopholes.
edit: or it's part of the weird belief that the government has a massive pool of money they hold that belongs to you, and if you just speak the right incantations by filing weird paperwork suddenly they'll use the secret bank account to pay off all your debts and free you of your contract/citizenship/slavery or whatever the fuck. Gets very weird very fast.
File Form 1099-C for each debtor for whom you canceled $600 or more of a debt owed to you if:
You are an applicable financial entity.
An identifiable event has occurred.
Ok - go he forgave all the money someone owned to him?
Nope, sov cits try to use that form to forgive all the money they owe to others.
Gotta mail it with an Uno reverse card.
That's the trick the goberment don't want you to know!
Goobermant. It's ok, a lot of people don't know how to pronounce it.
This sovcit stuff is all a bit sad to me. They roleplay like rich people and abuse loopholes, however they are exploited by the people peddling stuff like number plates and id cards.
While in the end they stand to lose all their possessions.
Ofc the 'haha gotcha style smugness they extrude makes it funny to have them get their comeuppance, but I only see some really confused and scared individuals being plucked clean by vultures. I can't
They mostly are people trying to get out of paying child support and are honestly pretty nasty if that makes you feel any better. A couple are just dumb fools caught up in this nonsense, those ones I never post, but most of them are pretty shitty people.
Yeah I know, it does help me sightly, I'm just not that keen on schadenfreude in general, I think.
Wait a minute, don’t you need a marriage certificate from the government to be legally recognised as married?
I hope his poor wife uses that logic to annul their marriage.
Seriously. These idiots trying to "prove" things to their skeptical wives are just fucking their wives over. The IRS is going to fuck the wives just as hard as it fucks the idiots.
Not necessarily. In my state you are common law married if you cohabitate with someone of the opposite sex for 5 years.
Fortunately it doesn't come up unless you break things off and your partner tries to argue it in court, but it is still fucked.
If he learned it from some Indian math wiz accountant on YouTube, I'd almost believe parts of what he's saying, because filling out all that paperwork and filing it with the IRS sounds like a legitimate thing to do that would take time, so it's not like instant results and you actually would have to work for it. This guy probably did not get his information from a formally educated accountant or tax lawyer though.
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