• blunderworld@lemmy.ca
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    I think there are very few decisions he could make that would be more likely to trigger a massive political uprising. Fuck around and find out, I suppose.

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      You say that, but watch the bootlickers blame this on liberals and minorities for committing too much “fraud.”

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      Yeah, if they think these town halls with people screaming at them are bad, they are not going to like what happens if they actually activate all the deranged ‘keep your government hands off my Medicare’ conservatives against them.

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      Yes, but the Palantir model says exactly where that line is, which is why he’s able to be so aggressive with so little pushback.

      There have been times Trump overruled the model and started getting pushback but that’s when he reversed a day or two later.

      It’s weird, he’s using a massive Ai threat model as basically a poker odds computer, and badly, surely nothing could possibly go wrong here.

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    No joke I assumed it was going to be raided by the time I could use it anyway. Was really cheering for that asteroid/was looking to that as God’s reset button.

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      I had my job convert me to a 1099 contractor and I’m just flat out not paying federal taxes right now.

      Yes, I’ll owe. Yes they’ll come after it. I don’t care right now. When they do, I’ll claim ignorance and then communicate by snail mail and then set up a measley payment plan. Fuck 'em.

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        If they get rid of the IRS like they are trying to do you won’t have to worry about it. I think you’re making the right decision. Withhold until things become more clear.

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          Honestly if they actually get rid of the IRS they’ll be blasting their own foot off. Seriously Americans are pretty much universally paycheck to paycheck, if folks can get away with saving that much they will and such actions will spread like wildfire.

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          It kind of isn’t? I could face fees and interest.

          But I’m just completely uninterested in giving the current government any more of my money, especially as it relates to social security.

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      Agreed, I’ve never expected it to last another 25+ years. But a lot of these chucklefucks that voted for Trump are. I say turn it off so the leopards can continue feasting.

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    “iF i CaN’t hAvE iT tHeN nObOdY cAn”

    He’s acting like a literal fucking toddler. My 3 year old acts better than this.