Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

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What happened to the goon who deleted hilary s emails?

Anyway goons will bitch about everything.
 
Leonard Helplessness said:
My understanding of the technical details behind the Economic Impact Payment is that it is, to a certain extent, means-tested. The feds look at your 2019 tax return and dump money into your lap via either check or whatever direct deposit method you listed on said tax return. If you haven't yet filed taxes for 2019 they look at your 2018 return; if you didn't file 2018 taxes either the IRS has set up a portal where you can enter your information and grab your money. The payment isn't subject to federal garnishment either, unlike what they do if you're behind on past taxes or student loans and they just seize your tax refund to cover the delinquent balance.

The amount you get as a single filer is $1,200, unless the adjusted gross income on the tax return that they pulled information from is above $75,000. Then the payment starts to go down little by little, hitting zero if your adjusted gross income is $99,000 or higher. This is called a phaseout and they're everywhere in federal tax, at varying AGI levels for different tax deductions and credits; the IRS does this to prevent situations where your total tax bill is $5,000 at $49,999 of income but your taxes jump to $10,000 if you get paid an extra dollar. That's gay and it only happens to particularly poorly-implemented shit like the income-based discounts (actually advance payments of a tax credit) on health insurance premiums paid through an Obamacare marketplace.

So if you check your bank statement and your Economic Impact Payment is only $600 or something, that's why. But there's another catch, too. The Economic Impact Payment isn't no-strings-attached free money; in technical terms it's "an advance payment of a new refundable tax credit that you're expected to qualify for on your 2020 return." If your total income for 2020 winds up being substantially higher than the amount that the cash airdrop was calculated based on, you might wind up owing back some or all of the dosh you've just received. If your total 2020 income is substantially lower -- such as if your ass got furloughed and your unemployment benefits suck -- then you might get the remaining portion of that free government money when you go to file your 2020 taxes in a year.

tl;dr it's loosely means-tested but it's still means-tested. There was a lot of debate over whether to only give the money to people earning less than a specific threshold vs. whether to give the money to everybody and claw it back later. The implementation of the payment appears to have been a compromise, as is absolutely fucking everything that the Fed does.
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It's similar to how the Weimar Republic thought it would be a good idea to run the money printing press on autopilot to try to stimulate their economy in the long run. Print more money they said, nothing will go wrong they said. Oh wait.
 
BlueSpark said:
Lowtax said to permaban for even vague threats. Already his mods are disobeying him lol
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It's looking worse than that actually. This went up in QCS:

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I have to share this complete bugfuck insanity in the GBS coronavirus thread:

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The pics:

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Those religious wackos have really fucked this kid up....

Good thing I was there to introduce him to my apocalypse cult!
 
And there we go, a pure expample of no self retrospection to where he might be fucking the kid even worse. Though it is a troon so that might be more litteral fucking than not. I wonder how soon he? will put the kid in a locked room and force the kid to put the sanitizer on his skin or else he'll get the hose again.
 
There's a high likelihood that that particular goon is some kind of performance artist, given he's posted about fingering an ancient retarded man's asshole before:

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This is SA though, and the GBS coronavirus thread is literally titled "We Are All Gonna Die" and is full of wild-eyed doomers, so who fuckin knows. Elsewhere on the forums, like in the E/N Chat thread, you get to see shit like this:

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E/N used to have a "Mental Help Megathread" but it got closed due to too many incidents of goons coming in posting "I'm gonna kill myself and nobody can stop me tee hee hee." So now you see that shit everywhere else instead.
 
Leonard Helplessness said:
There's a high likelihood that that particular goon is some kind of performance artist, given he's posted about fingering an ancient exceptional man's asshole before:

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This is SA though, and the GBS coronavirus thread is literally titled "We Are All Gonna Die" and is full of wild-eyed doomers, so who fuckin knows. Elsewhere on the forums, like in the E/N Chat thread, you get to see shit like this:

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E/N used to have a "Mental Help Megathread" but it got closed due to too many incidents of goons coming in posting "I'm gonna kill myself and nobody can stop me tee hee hee." So now you see that shit everywhere else instead.
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The inability to tell if it is real or fake is the worst part.
 
Garm said:
The inability to tell if it is real or fake is the worst part.
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Almost certainly fake. The mention of PAWS inc is a dead givaway (Garfield is the funny new hipster ironicism that's been beaten to death and they keep dragging it out)
 
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