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A rare piece of news today, unrelated to abortion and also good- Intuit has been forced to stop steering people away from free tax filing, and to pay a fine for having done so in the past.quote:New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a record multistate agreement with the owner of TurboTax, Intuit Inc. (Intuit), for deceiving millions of low-income Americans into paying for tax services that should have been free. As a result of Attorney General James’ agreement, Intuit will pay $141 million in restitution to millions of consumers across the nation who were unfairly charged. In addition, Intuit must suspend TurboTax’s “free, free, free” ad campaign that lured customers with promises of free tax preparation services, only to deceive them into paying. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have signed onto the agreement. Hopefully this combined with the government-run free file service will maybe a little bit unfuck America's relationship with the IRS
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Just never going to get over how dumb madison cawthorn is. Always at the end of the day I keep getting floored with how absolutely mincebrained he is. I'm used to these people being dumb or crazy overall but with some type of applicable savvy. Some like ... administrative capability. Or silver tongue. Or something. But cawthorne always bottoms out the readings. In anything. I expelled the r-word from my entire life like a decade ago, never use it, but poo poo goes down with cawthorn and my brain automatically just wants to be like 'oh no, he .. he's, gently caress, not supposed to say that, poo poo'
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Staluigi posted:Just never going to get over how dumb madison cawthorn is. Always at the end of the day I keep getting floored with how absolutely mincebrained he is. I'm used to these people being dumb or crazy overall but with some type of applicable savvy. Some like ... administrative capability. Or silver tongue. Or something. But cawthorne always bottoms out the readings. In anything. Now, that's not entirely fair. Sometimes he tops.
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May 5, 2022 02:07
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Technically a settlement rather than a fine. So they get to do a press release where they claim no wrong doing
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May 5, 2022 02:07
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Quorum posted:Now, that's not entirely fair. Sometimes he tops. Ehhhh I'm gonna ask people to back off the gay jokes. Nobody here should care if he's gay or bi and it's kinda casual homophobia to mock Cawthorn or Lindsey Graham or whoever for being a closet case etc even if they're bigoted hypocrites. It's something mods have acted on in the past and I dunno where it falls under current D&D policy but it's something I think should at least be discouraged. imo what's actually concerning is his behavior might be sexual harassment or assault. That's not what the GOP is gonna smear him with but that seems more likely the case.
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May 5, 2022 02:18
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Fritz the Horse posted:Ehhhh I'm gonna ask people to back off the gay jokes. Nobody here should care if he's gay or bi and it's kinda casual homophobia to mock Cawthorn or Lindsey Graham or whoever for being a closet case etc even if they're bigoted hypocrites. It's something mods have acted on in the past and I dunno where it falls under current D&D policy but it's something I think should at least be discouraged. I'm gay myself and enjoying the schadenfreude of a garbage dude experiencing one tenth of the poo poo he's heaped on people like me, but I'll back off.
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May 5, 2022 02:26
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Thanks, Fritz. Glad to see a new normal here that aligns with this toon's sentiments.
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May 5, 2022 02:29
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The penis joke really doesn't seem to be in the same category as the other stuff. Usually most people don't know the size of someone's penis, making discrimination difficult.
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May 5, 2022 02:43
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Why laugh at all that when you can laugh to see a piece of trash self destruct for absolutely no reason
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Flying-PCP posted:The penis joke really doesn't seem to be in the same category as the other stuff. Usually most people don't know the size of someone's penis, making discrimination difficult. Usually the most common response when I post that toon is that laughing at Trump's weight doesn't count, so your take is interesting. Maybe that panel was targeted toward those who thought that making fun of Trump's small hands was the height of hilarity and/or injurious to his ego. eta: Actually, I think it was aimed toward those who reflexively try to associate gun lovers with diminished physical attributes as some sort of super-slam.
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May 5, 2022 02:54
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Quorum posted:I'm gay myself and enjoying the schadenfreude of a garbage dude experiencing one tenth of the poo poo he's heaped on people like me, but I'll back off. Yeah I'm a queer You might also reframe it as not buying into the inevitable GOP attacks and instead focusing on the stuff Cawthorn has actually done. He's not a piece of poo poo for maybe being closeted, he's a piece of poo poo for possibly abusing his aide(s) with unwanted sexual conduct among a whole host of other things. I realize there's a whole big discussion about whether it's appropriate to out closeted bigots and turn their sexuality into an attack on them, I'm not really trying to get into that. Just expressing my opinion.
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May 5, 2022 02:58
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Flying-PCP posted:The penis joke really doesn't seem to be in the same category as the other stuff. Usually most people don't know the size of someone's penis, making discrimination difficult. I think it's generally considered more of a slight towards trans men than anything else. People ain't buying tacticool poo poo and giant trucks because of their dick size, it's that "hahaha their dick is small" is used as a metaphor for their unrelenting insecurity in their own masculinity, and using that specific metaphor is, one could argue, transphobic.
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At what point does this stuff start to run afoul of revenge porn laws? Because it seems like it's getting goddamned egregious
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Jaxyon posted:So I assume, libertarians, who all all about privacy and individual rights, are super upset about the impending Roe decision right? It might depend a lot on age. Older libertarians who decided thats what they believed in the 80's, 90's or 2000's maybe. I knew a lot of those people who did care about personal liberty and felt safe voting mostly Republican after abortion, gay marriage, and marijuana seemed settled their way. That limited subset might be upset. People who started calling themselves libertarian in the last 10 years or so are lovely conservatives who want to use a more cool and popular label. Those people will not be bothered much.
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A big flaming stink posted:At what point does this stuff start to run afoul of revenge porn laws? Because it seems like it's getting goddamned egregious It's a good question actually! A quick check of the DC statute on the subject as an example suggests that it could potentially count, with some asterisks. That statute prohibits the nonconsensual sharing of "sexual images," which it defines as "a photograph, video, or other visual recording of an unclothed private area or of sexual conduct." Assuming it can be demonstrated that whatever bits show up in the video fall into the statutory definition of "private area," or that the video itself depicts sexual conduct (which Madison is so far denying), then it counts. There is an affirmative defense for disclosures "in the public interest," which would likely be the defense raised. Apparently there's not a lot of case law on it yet so it would be an interesting case!
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A big flaming stink posted:At what point does this stuff start to run afoul of revenge porn laws? Because it seems like it's getting goddamned egregious Regardless of how that would have applied when the video was first published, him rushing to immediately tweet that this is not sexual in nature can't possibly help his case on that front.
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May 5, 2022 03:15
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https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1521809110185959424?s=21&t=16ajuVj_KQhKgiKopEWa3w We live in a cyberpunk dystopia. Government really should’ve tamped down in this kind of stuff. who am I kidding? The government loves this so that they can get around basic rights
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May 5, 2022 03:18
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Spoke Lee posted:I am telling you what happened. Graham-Cassidy fell one vote short of passage. The pressure campaign from groups like ADAPT pushed enough people to do the right thing and vote no. As far as I can tell, if Graham-Cassidy refers to the Graham-Cassidy amendment to the Affordable Care Act it did not fail by one vote, it was never put to a vote. Am I missing something obvious?
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May 5, 2022 03:42
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Even if you want to mock Trump for being ugly despite all his vanity and wealth you can do it all day with things that represent easy fashion choices rather than body properties that are difficult or impossible to change. He makes a lot of simple choices that make him look bad. -Mock his hair. Bald guys can't help going bald and no one should tease them for it, but there are lots of ways to look good or cover it up without a ridiculous combover. Ever see the projections of if he just shaved his head? It genuinely looks pretty good by comparison. -Mock his wardrobe. He wears expensive suits but they're shapeless out of fashion designs that clearly remind him of the 1980s but are awful on his frame and posture. Fat guys can look awesome in suits, especially when they have money for proper tailoring. Even if he just went off the rack somewhere though, he'd look fine if he picked the right style of suit in the first place. -Mock his sloppy makeup work. Plenty of guys used to the camera like a bit too much bronzer or whatever but slopping it on carelessly is a choice he doesn't have to make. -Mock his lying about his height. I mean, actual short guys can get shamed and degraded for it, but he's not short. He's like six feet at least. But he still can't be satisfied with that and pads on a couple inches. He claims to be two inches taller than Obama but we've seen them stand side by side and know that's not true. I figure the same applies to everyone else. Ben Shapiro is short but I don't feel any reason to mock him for that when he has so much else going on. If someone did have a small penis, so what? If the jab is that someone tries to act hyper-masculine and comes off as an insecure fool, I don't have to think about what's in his pants.
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i'm not sure where Mr Cawthorn's signature fits into this but it makes me smile every time i see those big loopy letters
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Willa Rogers posted:Thanks, Fritz. Glad to see a new normal here that aligns with this toon's sentiments. can someone edit this to have everyone yelling SUSAN SARANDON?!?!?
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it would be so much easier to explain if it was a regular old gay sex tape but i don't know what the gently caress it is and thus I'm forced to think about it. why are they naked?! why is it being filmed? whose idea was it? did everybody think it was equally funny? i wish I had been tricked into watching regular paraplegic gay porn like the good old days
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1521809110185959424?s=21&t=16ajuVj_KQhKgiKopEWa3w the EFF and other pro privacy orgs have been barking that people should care about their privacy for years/ decades. its largely fallen on deaf ears. cant force horse to drink water, cant force dumb asses to do tech vetting when they want thei LCD dopamine hit from digital crap.
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PhazonLink posted:the EFF and other pro privacy orgs have been barking that people should care about their privacy for years/ decades. Or the government could protect people’s privacy
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PhazonLink posted:the EFF and other pro privacy orgs have been barking that people should care about their privacy for years/ decades. You're so right, we deserve this for not listening to EFF adverts.
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May 5, 2022 05:03
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Can I still make “wide stance” jokes?
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Flying-PCP posted:The penis joke really doesn't seem to be in the same category as the other stuff. Usually most people don't know the size of someone's penis, making discrimination difficult. It's still implying that something that people have no control over is shameful, regardless if they actually have a small dick or not.
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Flying-PCP posted:The penis joke really doesn't seem to be in the same category as the other stuff. Usually most people don't know the size of someone's penis, making discrimination difficult. No one knows if Trump is fat either, due to his special suits.
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Koos Group posted:No one knows if Trump is fat either, due to his special suits. Trump uses an exoskeleton to position his fat away from the FOX news camera
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/qasimrashid/status/1522058050978336769?s=21&t=16ajuVj_KQhKgiKopEWa3w I think we can go ahead and assume that the draft result was as accurate to the final one as matters.
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Killer robot posted:Even if you want to mock Trump for being ugly despite all his vanity and wealth you can do it all day with things that represent easy fashion choices rather than body properties that are difficult or impossible to change. He makes a lot of simple choices that make him look bad. 100% agreed with this. He also has bad body odor which of course can be caused by medical conditions or mental illness but in his particular case Trump is just slovenly.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/qasimrashid/status/1522058050978336769?s=21&t=16ajuVj_KQhKgiKopEWa3w This is clearly where all this is heading, to either a SCOTUS decision allowing states to designate a fetus as a human life, or the SCOTUS just doing so itself.
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The 5-4 emergency episode is pretty good about this, if you have any squishy people in your lives that might wa t more info on this.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/qasimrashid/status/1522058050978336769?s=21&t=16ajuVj_KQhKgiKopEWa3w Does this bill at least carve out exception for miscarriage? Otherwise any woman who doesn’t give birth can be changed with what, accessory to murder, or manslaughter charges?
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Peever posted:Does this bill at least carve out exception for miscarriage? Otherwise any woman who doesn’t give birth can be changed with what, accessory to murder, or manslaughter charges? There's been at least one attempted law that would make it effectively illegal for a woman to not be pregnant.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/qasimrashid/status/1522058050978336769?s=21&t=16ajuVj_KQhKgiKopEWa3w So they're going after IFV now, eh?
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1521809110185959424?s=21&t=16ajuVj_KQhKgiKopEWa3w Worth noting Missouri's head of the Department of Health straight up saying they are tracking women's periods who visit Planned Parenthood. theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/statesman/status/1522018267208069120?s=21&t=dHZPmCCPZkFxN57F351qLg Yup, one big stack of dominoes.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/statesman/status/1522018267208069120?s=21&t=dHZPmCCPZkFxN57F351qLg Can undocumented kids currently even go to public schools? Surely the schools are going to blink at a kid suddenly showing up that doesn't have a birth certificate on file and no immigration papers. It's truly wild that this is being framed as not just for undocumented kids but the entire concept of a publicly funded school system CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 13:29 on May 5, 2022 |
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