• zaphod@lemmy.ca
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          8 months ago

          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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    Wait a minute, don’t you need a marriage certificate from the government to be legally recognised as married?

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      I hope his poor wife uses that logic to annul their marriage.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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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      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.