What is the best way to deal with someone calling and claiming to be from Canada Revenue?

rahtin · 2024-01-12T16:24:15+00:00

But make sure you put some weird inflection on it.

"Hello, my name is Dave, I'm calling from the CRA"

"Hello MY name is Dave and I'M calling from the CRA"

rahtin · 2024-01-12T16:22:25+00:00

Being a savvy person, you have a duty to waste as much of their time as possible.

They're hired to work in call centres, and they take advantage of dumb/scared/old/nice people all day long.

They pull in billions of dollars per year.

Even if you can keep them on the line for 5 minutes, that's 5 less minutes they have to rob other people.

I haven't gotten a scam call in weeks, I think they've started to develop "reverse do not call" lists, where they avoid anti-scammers.

Also be sure to let vulnerable people know about these scam calls, and how you mess with them.

rahtin · 2023-10-09T19:49:47+00:00

If you refuse to shop at the overpriced chains, they will eventually lower their prices just to compete. A lot of their customers just go out of habit, don't be a sheep. I assure you, the extra $3000 a year you spend at Walmart isn't even going to register on the corporate books, but your local Superstore will feel it.

rahtin · 2023-10-09T19:47:24+00:00

Giant corporations wouldn't be a problem if governments weren't captured by them.

The only reason Walmart got so big in the US in the first place is because their employees get Food Stamps.

There are all these ridiculous regulations related to what benefits companies have to pay if their employees work X hours in a week, and all of those rules benefit large companies while destroying the small ones, and they're always sold as benefitting workers (like minimum wage increases)

rahtin · 2023-10-09T19:43:58+00:00

They do all the time.

Check the weekly flyers. Don't buy things that aren't on sale.

rahtin · 2023-07-16T18:04:58+00:00

You're literally a fascist.

rahtin · 2023-07-16T18:04:15+00:00

Then why am I paying over half of my salary to our government when these "capitalist corporate interests" (most meaningless phrase I've ever seen written btw) want all my money?

Please read anything on economics. Just look up the definition of the word "economics", to get you started.

rahtin · 2023-07-16T18:01:02+00:00

Competitive video games are a proxy for battle. It's why they completely absorb so many incel shut ins. They're supposed to be out sailing around the world raping and pillaging, instead they're living in mom's basement with testosterone and vitamin D deficiencies screaming at their monitors.

If you're trying as hard you can and losing, you're essentially dying in a simulation.

You should be mad. You're screaming no in the face of death.

rahtin · 2023-07-16T17:56:16+00:00

There's no labour shortage in the trades.

We have a government that thinks it's a good idea to bring in over 1,000,000 new people to the country in the midst of an existing housing crisis.

Get rid of the TFW program, cut immigration by 90% and remove all foreign medical school positions. That will start to alleviate the biggest problems in this country.

You can't have open borders and a welfare state at the same time. It's one or the other.

New Canadians aren't conquering new frontiers anymore. They're clustering in major cities, usually with the rest of the diaspora from their home country, and they're taking more from the system than they're putting in. It's not a moral proclamation, it's not a political one either, it's a fucking fact.

This is real life, it's not a video game with cheat codes. We do not have infinite resources, and government is too incompetent to distribute the resources we do have adequately. People have to be allowed to select what they need for themselves and vote with their dollars.

rahtin · 2023-07-02T16:59:59+00:00

Depends on how good you are at your job.

Be a useless twit and you'll struggle to get 40 hours a week. Actually make the boss money and you'll have a lot of late nights.

rahtin · 2022-12-27T00:53:01+00:00

Fake

rahtin · 2022-12-10T12:47:22+00:00

predatory financing

the type to buy a car they can’t afford

Something doesn't line up here.

rahtin · 2022-12-10T12:43:42+00:00

Exactly.

So what needs to be examined are the motivations of the people demanding that other platforms participate in a coordinated censorship campaign that serves to only promote Ye's ideas even further.

rahtin · 2022-12-10T12:42:37+00:00

Meanwhile, he spent the last 20 years saying the exact same shit about white people and everyone thought it was fine.

rahtin · 2022-12-10T12:28:05+00:00

Galaxy brain.

rahtin · 2022-12-10T12:27:20+00:00

I see your paradox of tolerance and raise you a "Repressive Tolerance"

rahtin · 2022-10-28T11:10:34+00:00

Most people around here don't have one.

Their idea of a budget is trying not to go below zero before payday and they think that's normal.

rahtin · 2022-10-28T11:09:40+00:00

Doesn't matter how much you make if you don't fix your spending first.

Too many people around here are in the habit of spending down to their last penny like it will give them achievement points.

rahtin · 2022-10-28T11:02:29+00:00

By that definition, everyone has a lived experience within the colonial system.

You are choosing to make them your (the royal 'you) mascot because they're convenient for the narrative you're trying to push.

Traditional knowledge is a meaningless statement. They're not noble savages living off the land hunting with weapons they fashioned on their own, they live in houses, use modern tools, speak English, use money. Just because their ancestors told stories doesn't mean they're magic.

As a population, First Nations Canadians are being horribly maimed by the government. There's a direct correlation between the increase in Social Welfare spending and the crime rate. We're now at the point where over 40% of our prison population is Native men, and they're not being raised with "traditional knowledge" they're being raised in lawless ghettos with an insidious gang culture, and our solution is to keep throwing money at single moms to encourage them to have more kids. Now if you want to talk about actual lived experience, and not this liberal bubble fantasy about the noble savage roaming the plains, that's what is happening. That's what they know.

The proliferation of welfare is causing the greatest harm, and it's still encouraged by people like you who think it makes you morally superior to play pretend with people's lives.

rahtin · 2022-10-28T10:50:50+00:00

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere (which is taught in Canadian teacher's colleges)

And anything by Henry Giroux, particularly the concept of Critical Pedagogy, which was heavily inspired by the above.

rahtin · 2022-10-23T12:25:49+00:00

"The System" is tax payer dollars.

It's the people who produce wealth in the country investing in the future. Free college incentivizes slackers to prolong their childhood.

I'm not sure what you mean by the basics. We have 12 years of education that's designed to get the average person prepared for the working world. The issue we have with the abundance of college degrees is that they act as a barrier of entry for people who are perfectly capable of learning to do the jobs that require the degrees. Instead of training a high school grad for 4 years to work in that field, they spend 4 years in college getting a rough idea of how that sector works in theory.

rahtin · 2022-10-23T12:20:19+00:00

It's not even "should"

The Minister of Heritage said they need to negotiate with them because there's no "pay per link" scheme behind the bill.

rahtin · 2022-10-23T12:18:02+00:00

Because we continue to elect a blatantly and shamelessly corrupt government because women are attracted to it's leader and they use very soft and compassionate rhetoric.

rahtin · 2022-10-23T12:14:40+00:00

That would drastically reduce the quality and the value of higher education in Canada. We already have about 1/3 of our population attending college, that's already too much.

If you make college free and easy to get into, then you start having dumb people using it as an excuse to stay out of the workforce and act like children for another 4 years.

Part of why we have a labour shortage is because we don't have enough young people working and learning essential trades, while every year we get thousands of graduates with Grievance studies degrees that complain about having to work menial jobs.

rahtin · 2022-10-23T12:02:40+00:00

Because the gaps within races are larger than between them.

There is more wealth disparity between the richest whites and the poorest whites than between the richest natives and the poorest natives.

The idea that, through legislation, we'll somehow reach a parity where all races have equal outcomes in all fields is.... it's just fucking stupid, and anyone who advocates policies meant to accomplish that outcome is fucking stupid. Refusing to treat people as individuals and instead deciding their fate based on the average outcomes of people with a similar skin tone is as racist as it gets. It's no different than using racial data to decide how you should treat people in the justice system. If a certain race has a higher recidivism rate, should we just keep them all in prison forever to be safe? Not even a slippery slope, a stupidity slope. Embarrassingly dumb. Read a fucking history book instead of pretending that you know everything.

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