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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

No way its got everything!!

  • as reported on insert private company news
  • shooting obv
  • stadium/venue with some jarring brand name
  • an American centric/invented sport
  • refence to the americas obesity sufferers
  • whole situation caused by thinking they are above the rules

Edit: wait okay is "Guaranteed Rate" field what I assume and some insurance company owned baseball field or is it like the town name lmao?

Edit 2: lmao okay it's the company

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

de-encyclopedia [Medium: Success] — Guaranteed Rate Companies is a private residential mortgage company founded in Chicago in 2000. The company has acquired several other mortgage companies such as Manhattan Mortgage, Sun State Home Loans, and Nationwide Direct, which themselves had each acquired hundreds of smaller mortgage companies. In 2020, Guaranteed Rate was forced to pay a $15 million fine to the United States government for committing federal insurance fraud. The company reported having $73 billion in funded volume that same year.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In 2020, Guaranteed Rate was forced to pay a $15 million fine to the United States government for committing federal insurance fraud. The company reported having $73 billion in funded volume that same year.

yea

This is the equivalent of being fined $20.55 after you fraud your way to $100,000

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or being fined $0.02 for stealing $100, which is closer to an amount that I can comprehend

Instead, if a worker steals $100 out of the register, they go to jail and pay fines exceeding what was stolen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't know where the line came from, but it was something along the lines of ”If the punishment is a fine, then it's not illegal for rich people to do it”. Or rich corporations, but amerikkka already considers them people.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At what point did real life become the parody?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

de-drama — Our real life has always been the parody, madame! A nation born and bred from a farce, endlessly daring itself to delve deeper into the absurd. Certainly a mentality worth adopting!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is my new favorite bit account

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Yeah, two comments in and I already love it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention someone bringing a gun to a situation there has no need for there to be a gun in

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Banger shout 👏

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Lmao good, Japanese baseball is better, they've got the Hanshin Tigers 😍

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't wait to go see band at the Double whopper bacon XL arena 😍

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also caused them to cancel a concert by Vanilla Ice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Ffs great now everyone suffers sadness

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

You, a baby who needs a Gucci tactical holster for your 9

Me, a genius who hides a pistol in my belly flab

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally just pitched this as a gag

What the fuck, I thought I would have more time before it got lathed into existence

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I…worked on this story for a year…and…she just…she tweeted it out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but if fat folds can hide a gun from metal detectors then those things are fucking useless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

“It’s my belt buckle/metal in my leg/ect”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful, a work of art. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That's freedumb for you freedom-and-democracy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just, what?jesse-wtf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago