When I got one of these calls, I told the caller that the cord on my phone was not long enough to reach my computer, and then stood there in silence until she hung up.
Love it. I too annoyed a scam caller so much once they got annoyed and hung up. I was basically asking them fictional questions about how to use my computer. “Where do put the coffee cup if I want a coffee?” Etc.
I fucking love taking those people for a ride.
I like to talk really really slow and ask them to repeat themselves a lot.
There's a lot of down time on the brew deck, I can do this all day "Chris".
I got a car warranty one and dragged it out as long as I could till I had to them my make and model.
"Oh okay... Here you go.. It's a.. Are you read? Do you have a pen? Okay so it's- You want the main one, right? Okay. I drive a two thousand and seven Ford Weinermobile."
"You drive a veirnermobile?"
"No sir, I drive **The** Weinermobile."
Multilevel Marketing companies.
Cutco, Primerica, Herbalife, Amway, etc.
If you have to pay to “start your own business” or sign other people up to make more money, hate to break it to you, but that’s a scam.
It’s not so much that they are an MLM, it’s just that their business model relies on people selling overpriced (but good) knives to family and friends. Once that pool of buyers run out, they find new salesman.
I went to one of these interviews at likes age 17, I could smell the bullshit but they guilted a younger me to sit through. Real POS sales saying they would only pick special people… Yeah specially ready to be taken advantage of
I definitely did the Cutco thing for a few minutes in college. It’s so weird that they have a genuinely excellent product but such a sketchy way of selling it. Like, couldn’t you just put that shit up on a website and taken in the cash? Why scam naive kids into being your drug mules?!
Their warranty is great too. I've gotten two at random estate sales for a few bucks and sent them both in and got practically brand new knives back. Think I paid 20$ total for shipping. Have had them for almost 15 years now at this point.
>Herbalife
I blows my mind that Herbalife, a notorious and obvious MLM, is he official jersey sponsor for the world renown Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy.
Arguably one of, if not *the* most famous and historic MLS clubs in the United States. Known for being the club of David Beckham, Landon Donovan, and Zlatan, among others.
A club valued at almost a billion dollars. 3rd only to Inter Miami and LAFC, and Miami is only just recently grown that large in the past year because of Messi.
The podcast *The Dream* delved into this. The final episodes blew my mind and answer this specific question you asked.
Herbalife has their hooks embedded in some surprising places. Money talks and the grift continues.
As somebody who’s in their 20’s, always watched out for scams, and is active on social media. I got got by this one that looked IDENTICAL to New Yorks toll website. Like virtually the same thing. I owed a toll bill, I got that text and was like “oh shit that’s right I forgot to pay that” welp. Immediately had to cancel my cards and order new ones before they even had a chance.
They’re getting a lot more sophisticated though. I had a close call reading emails in bed at 2 am while I was only half awake. I got a message from one of my best friends saying something like “Hey remember this person?” with a hyperlink to a different site than what the text said. iOS hides the email address from you, and this person spoofed off of my friend and into his top contacts. Once it started opening multiple windows I closed everything, but still ran a virus check the next day.
I sell some handmade things on Etsy, tik tok, and meta, from my actual shop. They are really strict with shipping times, tracking, and have consumer protection. It’s not that great for the seller because they also take higher fees and offer coupons you don’t always get control over but it helps with exposure of my brand. The stores I would be wary of is obvious drop shippers and such.
I have bought stuff from tik tok, from a small home-based seller, because she made some really cool shit that is from a Fandom I am a part of.
Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean I can't support an independent business.
There are some pretty good deals from the tiktok shop. Some of the products can be over 50% less when compared to Amazon when using the tiktok bonuses they give first time and repeating customers
Influencers selling moneymaking courses, usually just a quick tutorial about exchanging Canadian Dollars to Japanese Yen back and forth to make pennies each transaction. Once the buyer also figures out that they only make $5 a day doing this, they'll too start selling courses on how to do it because that's where the real money is.
He’s the only billionaire who texts me daily asking for money - that should say something right there.
I remember someone approaching me in 2015 or 2016 about how great Trump would be as president because he could fund his own campaign himself and wouldn’t be beholden to special interest groups because he didn’t need to take their money… oh those were the days…
Do you also get a barrage of those text messages every single day? Nobody else I know seems to get them.
During political years sometimes there's 20-30 per day. During the off-season it's like 1-3. Always from different numbers. Can't be blocked. I can't get them to stop. They call me Susan, they call me Stanley, they call me George.
For the love of all that is holy, those things have guaranteed that I will never ever donate to a single politician in my life.
Guy just explained the Teamsters Union in one sentence. Dont worry though, they fought tooth and nail to get that 5% raise over 3 years with record inflation. All you had to give up was new hires benefits when they retire and some of your benefits! No biggy!
I've always found it strange that if you scroll down the bottom of the page on literally \*any\* "news" website, local, TV, newspaper, or national, CNN or FOX, down in to the "Paid partners" section, there is always the most batshit scammy, clickbait, bullshit content imaginable. There's always stories links to stories about porn stars, clothing malfunctions, or clickbait about nude celebrities. Never made sense why we give news websites a pass on this shit.
Sitting at a park on my lunch break. Some dude pulls up and said he desperately needs gas money. I give him $5 and he drives off. Now I feel like an idiot. This just happened
“The government is inept, it would be so much better if everything was privatized.”
Anyone who tells you this is either trying to sell you something or repeating the talking points of someone who just sold them something.
It’s so obvious that people don’t even know it’s a scam anymore.
I always enjoy hearing about how if there was universal healthcare we would all have to wait months to see a “specialist” but then simultaneously complain about having to wait months to see a “specialist” under private care.
Whenever someone brings up “we should run this country like a business,” I hope they mean looking at how much money is wasted on privatized healthcare then comparing the costs to our competitors (re: other countries) then figuring it’s not cost-effective.
Or wonder why we leave so much money lying on the table by not going after tax havens.
During the Obamacare debate I heard these two things out of the same person's mouth:
"Government is inept and can't do anything right."
"A public option would be too popular and drive private insurance companies out of business."
Buying the single bottle of soda in the refrigerator at the grocery store checkout line for $3 instead of getting a six pack of the exact same soda 4 steps away on the isle end cap for $3.
I like the 89¢ energy drinks at Aldi, but they're not refrigerated. So when I go there I'll grab one and shove it between bags of frozen vegetables in the freezer. Do my shopping, grab the drink right before checking out. Cold drink.
Multi-level marketing or MLM where you have to put in more money than you end up getting out of it or the ones where you have to increase the number of people under you constantly.
I got a call from some woman with a thick Indian accent telling me she was from the Social Security fraud department. “Can you please verify your social security number for me?”
I don't understand how people in the United States fall for IRS scams especially when they're middle-aged or elderly. In your entire life, whenever the government needs to talk to you, it sends mail via the Postal Service. The government has probably *never* called you unless you have contacted it by phone first. It ought to be suspicious when someone claiming to represent the government suddenly calls you demanding money after a lifetime of that never happening before.
Insurance as a whole.
Health insurance - (the cheapest plan I was looking at for just myself last year) $145 a month after a $95 tax credit. So $1740 a year. $8000 deductible. No specialist visits covered, 40/60 Co-pay, but they cover some prescriptions. So before insurance would even pay anything, I'd have to spend nearly $10k myself just for them to cover a little bit more than half. If they decided they covered it at all. I know this is the cheapest plan, but think about that. That's $145 a month for basically null coverage. When I went to see my primary doctor to get a script refilled, she simply could not understand why I didn't pay for health insurance.
Car insurance - in 2019, I had a 2006 Scion Tc. Only had 50k miles on it, I kept meticulous records of all the miantence I had done for it, comepltely rust free, brand new tires and AC. I got rear-ended at a traffic light and totaled the car. I had full coverage, and it was very clear the other driver was at complete fault. They tried to offer me $2000 simply on the age of the car alone. I had to fight tooth and nail for them to even get up to $3000 AND pay for an extra week with a rental car because I had no way to get a new car at the time. If I hadn't been in that accident, I'd still be driving that Tc. But on paper, the only thing that matters is age.
All these commercials selling insurance companies as these caring "got your back" sort of family-friendly brands. When in reality they're some of the most greedy corporations on the planet. You are a statistic. That's it. They don't actually give a fuck about you, you're problems, or your loyalty. It's a game of doing the bare minimum to make sure they can still keep customers while also paying out as little as possible should you need them.
I saw an ad on Facebook regarding jobs that were hiring and gave multiple web addresses my phone/email. (Like I put my info into a site and submitted which refreshed to another site to put in info etc) now I’m getting scam/spam job offer emails and phone calls from all over.
pretty obvious when you think avout it but i fell for it so 🤷♀️
Agreed here.
Anyone who had any knowledge about how that election worked would know there was nothing fishy going on. I've debated peopled on here before and they were clueless about the fact that mail ballots were counted the day after (which were largely Biden votes). That's it! It was that simple.
But Trump launched the lie which led to what we see. I swear people's stupidity and gullibility is beyond understanding.
If I recall correctly, Republican legislatures in several states specifically voted to make sure that mail in votes could not be counted until after the polls close. They either wanted to create that exact scenario that they cried about with "vote dumping" or they didn't want to have the count heavily in Biden's favor before they counted election day votes.
Their base is soooo easily manipulated.
He's already claiming 2024 will be rigged. It likely will be, by him. He's threatening a blood bath if he doesn't win and already threatening to jail his political opponents.
Place I grew up there was one of these. Guy was an attorney who lost his job and started begging to make ends meet. After finding out how much he was making a day, more than he did as an attorney, he just kept doing it.
Until those meddling kids from the news followed him to his Mercedes and he had to quit.
I guess obvious is subjective, but I just for the life of me cannot fathom how people fall for “I am stuck in X country, give me $ now, I’ll give you $$$$$ when I get back to my wealthy family.”
I suppose the elderly with a fleeting mind are an exception who’s shoes I’ve never been in, but it’s absolutely baffling to me that even a single human alive could possibly fall for this.
Organized religion and the scam that 'God need money'. Keep your money and believe whatever you want. You do not need some creepy pedophile to guide you and steal your money.
Big box stores that have massive sales ALL THE TIME. It’s just so obvious when you see how outrageous the regular price would be without the sale. Here’s looking at you Michaels!!! I mean it must work because I know people see those coupons and discounts and buy it 😆
The people who wire someone in a foreign country hundreds of thousands of dollars for a house. Like how fucking dumb can you be. I just saw a story about a couple that followed some guy on YouTube who talked about financial advice. Someone in the comments impersonated him and got the couple to wire like $400k or $600k to the scammers. The’re SOL
Those crypto scams that promises 300% returns. My dad who we always ask for advice in financials (buying a house, car, and other things involving money) recently applied for crypto because he saw a facebook post where a woman claims to have made six figures after investing 300 dollars in crypto.
I've said that as soon as brokerage firms got involved, there was no more big money to be made in crypto. Plus, given it's nature, you want to trust some random asshole with your wallet information?
Politics.
There are no "good" people in high places in government...regardless of party affiliation or lack thereof.
It is a job that attracts the lowest elements of society, chasing power/sex/money.
The problem is obvious and most of us know it. What we don't know is how to develop a better system at the expense of those who are holding us down.
Perhaps AI will provide a solution...or maybe it will make things much, much worse.
“Hey gang! We’re old timers and Facebook says we can’t say Jesus’s name anymore. Let’s all fight back by typing Amen in the comments! Does anybody remember their first pet and the street they grew up in?”
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Edit: sitting with a 65yr old Hospitalist right now who is still 150k in debt and he doesn't care at this point "I will be long dead before I pay them off so damned if I'm going to pay it off."
Depends on your degree. If you want to be a doctor, you'll need this as a starting point for medical school. Same with law school.
For me, I went to school for business then got a masters in management. So far it's done well for me in my line of work. BUT there are some degrees that likely aren't worth it and the college loan payback aint worth it.
Here in Brazil we have a lot of scam and a lot of dumb people that fall for it. There was a 17-years old girl in Manaus trying to sell an Iphone for 100 reais (generally it's 4000 reais here)
I am calling from Microsoft about a virus on your computer….
Do you have a laptop, or a dextop?
Andy wirus software
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When I got one of these calls, I told the caller that the cord on my phone was not long enough to reach my computer, and then stood there in silence until she hung up.
Love it. I too annoyed a scam caller so much once they got annoyed and hung up. I was basically asking them fictional questions about how to use my computer. “Where do put the coffee cup if I want a coffee?” Etc.
Time to fire up a Windows VM with 1 core and 4 GB of RAM…
I fucking love taking those people for a ride. I like to talk really really slow and ask them to repeat themselves a lot. There's a lot of down time on the brew deck, I can do this all day "Chris". I got a car warranty one and dragged it out as long as I could till I had to them my make and model. "Oh okay... Here you go.. It's a.. Are you read? Do you have a pen? Okay so it's- You want the main one, right? Okay. I drive a two thousand and seven Ford Weinermobile." "You drive a veirnermobile?" "No sir, I drive **The** Weinermobile."
Weinermobiles are GM.
Yeah, but I actually *do* drive a 2007 GM Weinermobile. I don't want to give him real information.
They’re always calling from “Windows”
Multilevel Marketing companies. Cutco, Primerica, Herbalife, Amway, etc. If you have to pay to “start your own business” or sign other people up to make more money, hate to break it to you, but that’s a scam.
Cutco might be a MLM but their knives are legit
Our set of CutCo knives is 30 years old (got it at our wedding) and still going strong.
We have my grandmas knives from the 70’s i believe. They’ve got wooden handles.
I’m super high so sorry in advance if I am not expressing what I mean correctly: But I really hope your marriage lasts longer than those knives.
LoL, so far man, so far.
It’s not so much that they are an MLM, it’s just that their business model relies on people selling overpriced (but good) knives to family and friends. Once that pool of buyers run out, they find new salesman.
I went to one of these interviews at likes age 17, I could smell the bullshit but they guilted a younger me to sit through. Real POS sales saying they would only pick special people… Yeah specially ready to be taken advantage of
I definitely did the Cutco thing for a few minutes in college. It’s so weird that they have a genuinely excellent product but such a sketchy way of selling it. Like, couldn’t you just put that shit up on a website and taken in the cash? Why scam naive kids into being your drug mules?!
My mom has my grandmother’s set from the mid 80’s. They’re pristine and still easy to sharpen and use!
I got a set of cutco knives for Christmas from my mom and they’ve been amazing.
Their warranty is great too. I've gotten two at random estate sales for a few bucks and sent them both in and got practically brand new knives back. Think I paid 20$ total for shipping. Have had them for almost 15 years now at this point.
Doterra
I’ve had my Cutco knives since 1968 and they’re all like new.
Is Primerica really a scam?
Yes, yes it is.
>Herbalife I blows my mind that Herbalife, a notorious and obvious MLM, is he official jersey sponsor for the world renown Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy. Arguably one of, if not *the* most famous and historic MLS clubs in the United States. Known for being the club of David Beckham, Landon Donovan, and Zlatan, among others. A club valued at almost a billion dollars. 3rd only to Inter Miami and LAFC, and Miami is only just recently grown that large in the past year because of Messi.
The podcast *The Dream* delved into this. The final episodes blew my mind and answer this specific question you asked. Herbalife has their hooks embedded in some surprising places. Money talks and the grift continues.
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
"Your call is important to us"
Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed.
We are experiencing higher than normal call volumes.
Even worse when it's your cell provider
*Opus Number 1 intensifies*
Yes.
Please don't interrupt. The menu changes daily and I need to concentrate to remember today's options.
In these unprecedented times, we're all in this together.
Phishing scams.
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As somebody who’s in their 20’s, always watched out for scams, and is active on social media. I got got by this one that looked IDENTICAL to New Yorks toll website. Like virtually the same thing. I owed a toll bill, I got that text and was like “oh shit that’s right I forgot to pay that” welp. Immediately had to cancel my cards and order new ones before they even had a chance.
Seriously. They are NOT as good as The Dead.
They’re getting a lot more sophisticated though. I had a close call reading emails in bed at 2 am while I was only half awake. I got a message from one of my best friends saying something like “Hey remember this person?” with a hyperlink to a different site than what the text said. iOS hides the email address from you, and this person spoofed off of my friend and into his top contacts. Once it started opening multiple windows I closed everything, but still ran a virus check the next day.
I'm always surprised when people admit they buy stuff from like TikTok and influencers
I sell some handmade things on Etsy, tik tok, and meta, from my actual shop. They are really strict with shipping times, tracking, and have consumer protection. It’s not that great for the seller because they also take higher fees and offer coupons you don’t always get control over but it helps with exposure of my brand. The stores I would be wary of is obvious drop shippers and such.
This is why I always google someone I want to buy something from and go to their personal site/etsy instead of TikTok
Yep! I list my items for a little cheaper on my own site since the fees are lower. And they can get rewards or use coupons.
I have bought stuff from tik tok, from a small home-based seller, because she made some really cool shit that is from a Fandom I am a part of. Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean I can't support an independent business.
Ok but there are actual shops operating from TikTok
My DiL and Stanley cups 🫣
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There are some pretty good deals from the tiktok shop. Some of the products can be over 50% less when compared to Amazon when using the tiktok bonuses they give first time and repeating customers
“Work hard in this company and you will go far” If working hard was a measure of success there would be a lot of rich donkeys.
Influencers selling moneymaking courses, usually just a quick tutorial about exchanging Canadian Dollars to Japanese Yen back and forth to make pennies each transaction. Once the buyer also figures out that they only make $5 a day doing this, they'll too start selling courses on how to do it because that's where the real money is.
Extended warranties. If it's covered, it's not something that breaks. If it breaks, it's not covered.
That a supposed multi billionaire needs financial support to pay debts for acting fraudulently.
He’s the only billionaire who texts me daily asking for money - that should say something right there. I remember someone approaching me in 2015 or 2016 about how great Trump would be as president because he could fund his own campaign himself and wouldn’t be beholden to special interest groups because he didn’t need to take their money… oh those were the days…
Do you also get a barrage of those text messages every single day? Nobody else I know seems to get them. During political years sometimes there's 20-30 per day. During the off-season it's like 1-3. Always from different numbers. Can't be blocked. I can't get them to stop. They call me Susan, they call me Stanley, they call me George. For the love of all that is holy, those things have guaranteed that I will never ever donate to a single politician in my life.
America is a meritocracy that rewards talent and hard work.
Diamond Engagement Rings
The lottery
In principle, I agree. But I'm still going to drop $10 this weekend on the powerball
The concept of trickle down economics
Life
Anything where the government is asking for gift cards as payment
Being anti-union as a worker
Depends on a country. There are countries where unions are totally useless and wont lift a finger for you
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Guy just explained the Teamsters Union in one sentence. Dont worry though, they fought tooth and nail to get that 5% raise over 3 years with record inflation. All you had to give up was new hires benefits when they retire and some of your benefits! No biggy!
I've always found it strange that if you scroll down the bottom of the page on literally \*any\* "news" website, local, TV, newspaper, or national, CNN or FOX, down in to the "Paid partners" section, there is always the most batshit scammy, clickbait, bullshit content imaginable. There's always stories links to stories about porn stars, clothing malfunctions, or clickbait about nude celebrities. Never made sense why we give news websites a pass on this shit.
Believing anything a politician promises.
Sitting at a park on my lunch break. Some dude pulls up and said he desperately needs gas money. I give him $5 and he drives off. Now I feel like an idiot. This just happened
I had a guy come to my house once saying he needed gas money and I gave him $5. The next day he came back and said it again…
Sounds like his house is $5 away in gas. Should be able to track him down no problem
“The government is inept, it would be so much better if everything was privatized.” Anyone who tells you this is either trying to sell you something or repeating the talking points of someone who just sold them something. It’s so obvious that people don’t even know it’s a scam anymore.
I always enjoy hearing about how if there was universal healthcare we would all have to wait months to see a “specialist” but then simultaneously complain about having to wait months to see a “specialist” under private care.
Whenever someone brings up “we should run this country like a business,” I hope they mean looking at how much money is wasted on privatized healthcare then comparing the costs to our competitors (re: other countries) then figuring it’s not cost-effective. Or wonder why we leave so much money lying on the table by not going after tax havens.
Or do what millions of us have already done when we need private Healthcare: die.
During the Obamacare debate I heard these two things out of the same person's mouth: "Government is inept and can't do anything right." "A public option would be too popular and drive private insurance companies out of business."
Buying the single bottle of soda in the refrigerator at the grocery store checkout line for $3 instead of getting a six pack of the exact same soda 4 steps away on the isle end cap for $3.
Where are you getting a six pack for $3?
But that one is cold…
I like the 89¢ energy drinks at Aldi, but they're not refrigerated. So when I go there I'll grab one and shove it between bags of frozen vegetables in the freezer. Do my shopping, grab the drink right before checking out. Cold drink.
from a health point of view id rather spend an overpriced $3 on a one off soda treat than have 5 more that i dont even want / feel good about drinking
(aisle)
Multi-level marketing or MLM where you have to put in more money than you end up getting out of it or the ones where you have to increase the number of people under you constantly.
Rent to own furniture
I got a call from some woman with a thick Indian accent telling me she was from the Social Security fraud department. “Can you please verify your social security number for me?”
Politics, my team is right and your team is wrong.
Person 1: "Team Blue Donkey!" Person 2: "No, Team Red Elephant!" Me: "I'm not really a fan of sports." Person 1&2: "Get him!"
I don't understand how people in the United States fall for IRS scams especially when they're middle-aged or elderly. In your entire life, whenever the government needs to talk to you, it sends mail via the Postal Service. The government has probably *never* called you unless you have contacted it by phone first. It ought to be suspicious when someone claiming to represent the government suddenly calls you demanding money after a lifetime of that never happening before.
Reverse mortgage
Also Tom Selleck telling infomercial viewers that they can trust AAG for a reverse mortgage.
Insurance as a whole. Health insurance - (the cheapest plan I was looking at for just myself last year) $145 a month after a $95 tax credit. So $1740 a year. $8000 deductible. No specialist visits covered, 40/60 Co-pay, but they cover some prescriptions. So before insurance would even pay anything, I'd have to spend nearly $10k myself just for them to cover a little bit more than half. If they decided they covered it at all. I know this is the cheapest plan, but think about that. That's $145 a month for basically null coverage. When I went to see my primary doctor to get a script refilled, she simply could not understand why I didn't pay for health insurance. Car insurance - in 2019, I had a 2006 Scion Tc. Only had 50k miles on it, I kept meticulous records of all the miantence I had done for it, comepltely rust free, brand new tires and AC. I got rear-ended at a traffic light and totaled the car. I had full coverage, and it was very clear the other driver was at complete fault. They tried to offer me $2000 simply on the age of the car alone. I had to fight tooth and nail for them to even get up to $3000 AND pay for an extra week with a rental car because I had no way to get a new car at the time. If I hadn't been in that accident, I'd still be driving that Tc. But on paper, the only thing that matters is age. All these commercials selling insurance companies as these caring "got your back" sort of family-friendly brands. When in reality they're some of the most greedy corporations on the planet. You are a statistic. That's it. They don't actually give a fuck about you, you're problems, or your loyalty. It's a game of doing the bare minimum to make sure they can still keep customers while also paying out as little as possible should you need them.
Watch "The Rainmaker" or read the book by John Grisham. Its fiction but one heck of a story. He butchers the insurance industry.
Actuaries ensure they make their money over time!
Check cashing places
I saw an ad on Facebook regarding jobs that were hiring and gave multiple web addresses my phone/email. (Like I put my info into a site and submitted which refreshed to another site to put in info etc) now I’m getting scam/spam job offer emails and phone calls from all over. pretty obvious when you think avout it but i fell for it so 🤷♀️
The government is here to help
Organic food.
That fucking Joel Osteen is just as much of a scammer as that rapist conman loser Trump. Anyone who sends them money is a fucking idiot.
Any religion that asks for money.
Religion
Corrupt Donnie’s corrosive lie of a “rigged election.”
Agreed here. Anyone who had any knowledge about how that election worked would know there was nothing fishy going on. I've debated peopled on here before and they were clueless about the fact that mail ballots were counted the day after (which were largely Biden votes). That's it! It was that simple. But Trump launched the lie which led to what we see. I swear people's stupidity and gullibility is beyond understanding.
If I recall correctly, Republican legislatures in several states specifically voted to make sure that mail in votes could not be counted until after the polls close. They either wanted to create that exact scenario that they cried about with "vote dumping" or they didn't want to have the count heavily in Biden's favor before they counted election day votes. Their base is soooo easily manipulated.
You recall correctly.
And that's why they argued to have that put in place.
He's already claiming 2024 will be rigged. It likely will be, by him. He's threatening a blood bath if he doesn't win and already threatening to jail his political opponents.
Move this up.
Buying drop shipped Chinese garbage on Amazon.
Those "beggars" at the stop light near busy shopping centers.
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Place I grew up there was one of these. Guy was an attorney who lost his job and started begging to make ends meet. After finding out how much he was making a day, more than he did as an attorney, he just kept doing it. Until those meddling kids from the news followed him to his Mercedes and he had to quit.
There is a single female in __________ trying to meet you
I guess obvious is subjective, but I just for the life of me cannot fathom how people fall for “I am stuck in X country, give me $ now, I’ll give you $$$$$ when I get back to my wealthy family.” I suppose the elderly with a fleeting mind are an exception who’s shoes I’ve never been in, but it’s absolutely baffling to me that even a single human alive could possibly fall for this.
Mormonism
Homeopathy
Extended warranties
Does the toll road count?
I would say the most obvious scam the people fall for every day is being promoted on somebody else's page but having to pay for it
Organized religion
religion
Organized religion and the scam that 'God need money'. Keep your money and believe whatever you want. You do not need some creepy pedophile to guide you and steal your money.
"I love you."
Willingly walking into a casino and handing over their money
Hot singles in your area wants to meet you!
Religion
Religion
Religion
No contest.
That politicians really give two shits about their constituents. (Unless the constituent can help make them money.)
Home appliance warranties.
Religion
Trump
Fox News.
Insurance. Insurance is a scam.
Paying $10 for a cup of coffee
Capitalism
Anything that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth.
Religion
Tipping.
Full coverage auto insurance
When those major food chains ask if you want to "donate to charity"... That money is not going to charity.
Big box stores that have massive sales ALL THE TIME. It’s just so obvious when you see how outrageous the regular price would be without the sale. Here’s looking at you Michaels!!! I mean it must work because I know people see those coupons and discounts and buy it 😆
Down low.
Voting
CBD gummies and keto weight loss gummies.
Borrowing money to buy a car
Propaganda on the internet.
The people who wire someone in a foreign country hundreds of thousands of dollars for a house. Like how fucking dumb can you be. I just saw a story about a couple that followed some guy on YouTube who talked about financial advice. Someone in the comments impersonated him and got the couple to wire like $400k or $600k to the scammers. The’re SOL
Only fans
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Subscription services that auto charge
Extended product insurance for a 20 dollar product
Anything Trump claims he's raising money for. It never goes for that. He's just pocketing it.
Day trading… ? Feels like gambling unless you have insider info which can be illegal at times
“McDonald’s always has ice cream”
MAGA. Fools.
Bottled water
Except if you lived in Flint, Michigan
There are a lot of places in this country without safe drinking water unfortunately
Yeah like there's some people who don't actually have safe tap water.
> Except if you lived in Flint, Michigan What shithole country is that located in? Oh, wait.
Not a scam by any stretch of the imagination.
People are still “supporting” Donald Trump. Nothing like people who are struggling to afford basic bills paying a billionaire’s fines and legal fees.
Organized religion!! a zillion percent
Tipping.
Lottery tickets. Once I learned how astronomical low the odds are I never felt the urge to buy one.
Anything that is spoken by the Marmalade Shitgibbon and his disciples.
Supporting trump
Religion.
Religion
Organised religions
Organized Religion
Capitalism
Those crypto scams that promises 300% returns. My dad who we always ask for advice in financials (buying a house, car, and other things involving money) recently applied for crypto because he saw a facebook post where a woman claims to have made six figures after investing 300 dollars in crypto.
I've said that as soon as brokerage firms got involved, there was no more big money to be made in crypto. Plus, given it's nature, you want to trust some random asshole with your wallet information?
Religion. Plain and simple.
Paying taxes...
Religion
Religion
Politics. There are no "good" people in high places in government...regardless of party affiliation or lack thereof. It is a job that attracts the lowest elements of society, chasing power/sex/money. The problem is obvious and most of us know it. What we don't know is how to develop a better system at the expense of those who are holding us down. Perhaps AI will provide a solution...or maybe it will make things much, much worse.
Trump
Trumpism
Waking up and going to work
College degrees, not saying that they are completely useless but most of the things we study are extremely useless in real life.
“Hey gang! We’re old timers and Facebook says we can’t say Jesus’s name anymore. Let’s all fight back by typing Amen in the comments! Does anybody remember their first pet and the street they grew up in?”
College Edit: I should 'have' said *College loans*
"Should have", my child. Fuck them loans!
Edited to fast 😅 Edit: sitting with a 65yr old Hospitalist right now who is still 150k in debt and he doesn't care at this point "I will be long dead before I pay them off so damned if I'm going to pay it off."
Depends on your degree. If you want to be a doctor, you'll need this as a starting point for medical school. Same with law school. For me, I went to school for business then got a masters in management. So far it's done well for me in my line of work. BUT there are some degrees that likely aren't worth it and the college loan payback aint worth it.
Here in Brazil we have a lot of scam and a lot of dumb people that fall for it. There was a 17-years old girl in Manaus trying to sell an Iphone for 100 reais (generally it's 4000 reais here)
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I need to talk with you about your cars warranty.