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Mo_Steel posted:Prepare the floodgates: USPS employs lots of people who don't look like the Tea Party
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Maybe I had an unusual experience with the IRS but they were really helpful and kind to me in a situation where I had been VERY irresponsible with my taxes. They located every form I needed and a copy of all the related documents and mailed it all to me along with instructions. Someone on these forums, and I don't rememeber who, did some internet detectiving and found out that a lot of the Tea Party websites on the internet were started by people with a pretty long history of scams/spam.
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 21:28 |
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The post office is great and UPS and FedEx depend on them for last-mile service and they all 3 use the same planes and things. If USPS went out of business, prices would go crazy for FedEx and UPS. Meanwhile, it costs the average person in the US precisely $dick in taxes to keep it running. It destroys their idea that the government can't do anything right so they have to kill it. Edit: Blarghalt posted:Someone on these forums, and I don't rememeber who, did some internet detectiving and found out that a lot of the Tea Party websites on the internet were started by people with a pretty long history of scams/spam. It's not surprising since the Tea Party itself is tied to big tobacco. http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/02/13507/study-tea-party-organizations-have-ties-tobacco-industry-dating-back-1980s
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 22:05 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Maybe I had an unusual experience with the IRS but they were really helpful and kind to me in a situation where I had been VERY irresponsible with my taxes. They located every form I needed and a copy of all the related documents and mailed it all to me along with instructions. I've lived overseas for the last 3 years and only found out last year that I was still supposed to file US taxes and the IRS people I talked to were really helpful and accommodating. Of course, I'm a student and my yearly income is only about 10% of what it would take for them to tax me, so I guess they figured I wasn't trying to hide anything. Still, from all of the horror stories I've heard I expected a whole lot worse.
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 22:13 |
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Soviet Commubot posted:I've lived overseas for the last 3 years and only found out last year that I was still supposed to file US taxes and the IRS people I talked to were really helpful and accommodating. Of course, I'm a student and my yearly income is only about 10% of what it would take for them to tax me, so I guess they figured I wasn't trying to hide anything. Still, from all of the horror stories I've heard I expected a whole lot worse. Once I had to prove for a background check that I had worked at a summer job for a company that had since gone out of business. I didn't have my W2s but lo and behold a quick trip to my local IRS office, and they were able to print me out a copy quite efficiently. Got me the job I have now. Thanks, IRS!
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 22:36 |
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As someone who does his own long form by hand every year, I'm utterly baffled by how scared most people are of the IRS and tax forms in general. I think part of it is fear-mongering from the for profit tax return business, but just the idea that the IRS is going to come down on you like a ton of bricks only makes sense if you do things without documentation. Keep your forms and receipts, do things by the book, and there's nothing to fear from the IRS. It's only an issue if you lie on the forms or poorly document stuff.
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 23:10 |
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Mo_Steel posted:I expect a lot more of this coming up. It's a relatively minor thing, but why do conservatives hate the Post Office? I can send a piece of paper pretty much anywhere in the United States for under fifty cents and expect it to get there in less than a week. I can send a letter just about anywhere on the entire planet for about a dollar. I put it in a box outside my home and some guy in a truck shows up, almost daily, takes it, puts it on a plane or a boat or however the gently caress they deliver mail to Kenya should I be so inclined. For a dollar. How much more efficient could it possibly get, should they write the letter for me while I dictate to them? Blarghalt posted:Someone on these forums, and I don't rememeber who, did some internet detectiving and found out that a lot of the Tea Party websites on the internet were started by people with a pretty long history of scams/spam.
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 23:18 |
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This wasn't actually shared/forwarded to me, just "liked" by a FB friend, and it's pretty much the purest YAL/Paulbot rant I've ever seen firsthand.quote:Reasons I'm spending today in silent reverence and contemplation, instead of partaking in regulated revelry for something that has long been squandered in this country; Liberty: It probably goes without saying that this guy is a white male. The Agenda 21 stuff is what put it over the top for me.
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 23:20 |
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I posted a picture a while back of an ad for audit protection that featured a young man that looked like he was college age. I'm guessing that very few college students have anything to worry about in an audit. The tax company probably takes in a thousand bucks for every dollar they spend for audit defense.
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 23:21 |
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This is the first time I've encountered a conservative coming right out and saying "Yeah, I would have liked to go back to the 1950s. Much better times", along with a healthy dash of reverse racism and everybody's-already-equal
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# ? Jul 4, 2013 23:58 |
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Duncan Doenitz posted:This wasn't actually shared/forwarded to me, just "liked" by a FB friend, and it's pretty much the purest YAL/Paulbot rant I've ever seen firsthand. Idiocy of content aside, the drooling retard who wrote this has no understanding of tenses. Or grammar at all, really. This is just technically infuriating (also regular infuriating).
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Fandyien posted:Idiocy of content aside, the drooling retard who wrote this has no understanding of tenses. Or grammar at all, really. This is just technically infuriating (also regular infuriating). Yeah. I honestly just gave up and scrolled to the end after the first few lines of grammatical fuckups. It's just... Why should I give a gently caress about your platform if you didn't take the time to make sure it's actually coherent to anyone that's outside of your echo chamber on the most basic levels?
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 00:31 |
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Fandyien posted:Idiocy of content aside, the drooling retard who wrote this has no understanding of tenses. Or grammar at all, really. This is just technically infuriating (also regular infuriating). I believe the point is to make it sound like a quasi-declaration of independence. Which it fails at on every level.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 00:35 |
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Batman: A sane, rational person whose ideas of normal human interactions and socialising should be emulated by others. As a reminder, Batman has, no less than twice, had plans to kill everyone he has ever cared about. Fulchrum fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jul 5, 2013 |
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Conservatives love the Nolan Batman movies. No idea why!
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 00:50 |
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Ah yes the 1950s a wonderful time when no one was singled out as different for being gay, black, women, or communist. Why would anyone not want to go back and live in that magical decade .
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Blarghalt posted:Conservatives love the Nolan Batman movies. No idea why! Didn't Rush Limbaugh spend an episode whining that Dark Knight Rises was a liberal ploy by Obama, because Bane was used to make people think about Bain Capital? That was before we figured out there were far, far better reasons to whine about Dark Knight Rises
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Blarghalt posted:Conservatives love the Nolan Batman movies. No idea why! It's so intellectually dishonest because it's not even like the type of people who would repost that crap really care about working together 'as a united front'. I bet whatever conservative posted that would, in his next breath, curse unions and any other form of socialist 'working together' suggestions.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 01:30 |
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Fulchrum posted:Didn't Rush Limbaugh spend an episode whining that Dark Knight Rises was a liberal ploy by Obama, because Bane was used to make people think about Bain Capital? Conservatives can't figure out whether to love those movies or hate them.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 01:31 |
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So I've seen this gem of a website posted a few times today on FB... http://fauquierfreecitizen.com/seventy-two-killed-resisting-gun-confiscation-in-boston/ The best part is the end, where they state quote:And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775. Yes, let's ignore the 15-20 years of context behind why said events happened and just chalk it up as "They came for our guns, so we took their colonies! Watch out Obummer!"
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Handsome Ralph posted:So I've seen this gem of a website posted a few times today on FB... Crash Course has been pretty decent about making basic historical concepts understandable in what amounts to a 10 minute time span, and they have a decent video about the general lead up to the Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eytc9ZaNWyc I find the shock pen segments immensely corny but hey, you can't have it all in tiny bites of semi-entertaining history tidbits. e: The 4th of July special is pretty amusing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIoYdC1Gkq8 Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 5, 2013 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Maybe I had an unusual experience with the IRS but they were really helpful and kind to me in a situation where I had been VERY irresponsible with my taxes. They located every form I needed and a copy of all the related documents and mailed it all to me along with instructions. Shady stuff like living overseas. FFS. To be fair, the employees are helpful, it's the systems that are poo poo; and that is mostly either the fault of Congress, or a result of the IRS having been really on the ball re: computerization and therefore now being saddled with a bunch of awful legacy systems.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 03:10 |
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The first time I filed my taxes they sent me a letter saying I did it wrong and they fixed it and gave me another refund check of deductions I missed. I loving love the IRS.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 04:40 |
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I want the healthcare equivalent of paying fifty cents to mail a letter across the loving continent in four days.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 04:45 |
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FCKGW posted:The first time I filed my taxes they sent me a letter saying I did it wrong and they fixed it and gave me another refund check of deductions I missed. I did mine wrong once because I did extra work for a company, and I owed them more than I thought. The next year they said "Hey, you owe us this much, so we're taking it out of your refund." and that was that. No big deal and totally my fault. My one and only time in 13 years of dealing with them that I've had an issue.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 04:50 |
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If I could be king for a day, I'd have the IRS calculate your taxes and email you the forms all filled out. If you're okay with the numbers they came up with, do nothing and get a check in April. If you think you can do better, do the taxes yourself.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 04:57 |
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My sister posted this really bizarre message on Facebook todayquote:Just remember as we celebrate the 4th of July with our friends and family that FREEDOM ISN'T FREE! Take the time to thank a Vetran today. Even though we are celebrating the independance of our Nation, those Veterans are the ones on the front lines ensuring that we remain free. That we can still celebrate Independance Day. Thank you to all my friends and family that have fought to keep our country free.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If I could be king for a day, I'd have the IRS calculate your taxes and email you the forms all filled out. If you're okay with the numbers they came up with, do nothing and get a check in April. If you think you can do better, do the taxes yourself. Congratulations on having a great idea that will never happen
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muscles like this? posted:My sister posted this really bizarre message on Facebook today Veterans... on the front lines?
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As though the term "front lines" has meant anything since Korea.
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muscles like this? posted:My sister posted this really bizarre message on Facebook today Something similar to this has been posted by virtually every single person I know on Facebook, including most of my more left-leaning friends and all of the conservatives on my feed. This includes my entire family - with one exception, anyway, and that's my grandfather, the only currently-living combat veteran in our family. We used to be a military family, see - three military families, in fact: my dad's ancestors fought for the Confederates in the Civil War and then for the US in several later conflicts up to WW2, my mom's white-side ancestors fought for the Union in the Civil War and then for the US in later conflicts up to Korea, and my mom's native-side ancestors fought against the US until finally being subjugated around the tail end of the Indian Wars. The last person in my family to serve was my grandpa, who enlisted in the Marines in time for the Korean War and participated in a lot of heavy fighting, including the landing at Inchon. He spent several months as a POW, was severely injured several times, lost a lot of friends, killed a lot of people, and ended up seeing the entire operation ending with things more or less exactly the same as they were at the start of the war. He left for Korea a cheerful, optimistic, gung-ho jingoist kid and came back a severely traumatized and jaded pacifist. His experiences and stories are one of the primary reasons that particular family tradition has stopped with his generation. I have a great deal of respect for the men and women who sacrifice themselves by serving in the military, and that's why I will never participate in the creepy 'ARE TROOPS' worship the right indulges in. My grandfather told me that he finds it deeply insulting to be worshipped and fawned over for what he did, and I'm pretty sure his opinion is not unique. I make a conscious effort to just treat the combat veterans I know like normal people - my friends, my family, my classmates and coworkers, unique individuals with widely differing personalities and beliefs and experiences, all of whom have much more to them than 'was in the military once'. Were I in their shoes I'd loving hate being put up on a pedestal all the time.
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Mister Bates posted:I have a great deal of respect for the men and women who sacrifice themselves by serving in the military, and that's why I will never participate in the creepy 'ARE TROOPS' worship the right indulges in. My grandfather told me that he finds it deeply insulting to be worshipped and fawned over for what he did, and I'm pretty sure his opinion is not unique. I make a conscious effort to just treat the combat veterans I know like normal people - my friends, my family, my classmates and coworkers, unique individuals with widely differing personalities and beliefs and experiences, all of whom have much more to them than 'was in the military once'. Were I in their shoes I'd loving hate being put up on a pedestal all the time. Another problem is that, "Support Are Troops" doesn't actually mean poo poo. Look at the state of veteran's affairs, people just say those three words to make themselves feel like they're doing something. On top of that, the right quickly drops its pro-military angle the second a soldier is gay/non-christian/female.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 06:46 |
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Not to mention they're always fighting for are freedoms. Like the only thing stopping the Taliban from sailing over here and overthrowing the government is all our wars all over the planet. Maybe people don't want to face the unpleasant reality that soldiers die for complicated and often pointless reasons, so they invent this romantic ideal of what soldiers do and why.
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That Paula Deen thing I posted a few days ago was actually a toned down version of a post I made in response to an image macro. In the days sense it's gotten a pretty good number of direct replies that end up popping into my notifications. Nothing really special until just now:quote:
edit: \/\/\/I wasn't going to respond, but that is too good not to use. I am now arguing with a friend over whether or not Jim Crowe laws were there to disenfranchise blacks after explaining what Section 4 of the VRA actually did. Soonmot fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jul 5, 2013 |
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 07:20 |
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Soonmot posted:it was a different time. Bill Clinton was President.
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# ? Jul 5, 2013 07:33 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If I could be king for a day, I'd have the IRS calculate your taxes and email you the forms all filled out. If you're okay with the numbers they came up with, do nothing and get a check in April. If you think you can do better, do the taxes yourself. This is almost literally how online tax works in Belgium. You log in to the taxonweb website using 2factor authentication which uses your electronic ID. Most numbers are filled in because they already have your income tax info from your employment and any registered property. You can then add some deductions like loans, and hit submit. It gives you a calculation on what your refund will be and asks to confirm again, and a few months later the amount is dropped in to your bank account. The whole process takes minutes.
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Tharizdun posted:It was 1993. Are the Paula Deen defenders unaware of the 2007 incident, or are they deliberately lying?
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VideoTapir posted:Are the Paula Deen defenders unaware of the 2007 incident, or are they deliberately lying? It's a deliberate conflation of the issue to downplay it. Alot of the people saying are probably honestly ignorant of the real situation and just parroting what they've heard, it's not like everybody's idiot friends on facebook all thought of the same bullshit at the same time.
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VideoTapir posted:Are the Paula Deen defenders unaware of the 2007 incident, or are they deliberately lying? Any attempt at enlightening them about her more recent offenses, either gets deleted or ignored.
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