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Bulletins and News Discussion from April 21st to April 27th, 2025 - JD Vance vs Pope Francis, No Items, Final Destination
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Image is sourced from this Guardian article.
The Pope's fucking dead.
He gave JD Vance three chocolate easter eggs, exchanged pleasantries for 17 minutes, and then keeled over and died.
What a way to go.
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Damn. Another curse of the Biden bankruptcy bill, without it student loans would also be discharged in bankruptcy.
But Biden was the lessser evvvvvviiiilllll and most heckin progressive president ever!
Lol I'm so fucked I have no idea how I'm going to make payments and if they garnish my wage I will fuckin go postal.
Pushed to take huge loans to get a useless fucking degree and now I'm incredibly fucked lol
Can they garnish wages if you don't have a wage?
they can garnish your ass
I'll garnish my own ass so it's all pretty when they kiss it
sorry assets
If you don't have income the IRS knows about then I'm pretty sure no. Though I'm not sure if they can do things like try and take a car whose title is listed in your name or get a lien against that or a house or other big things you own. They might be able to garnish things like state benefits though, like money for the disabled, they can definitely garnish social security including disability. They can garnish things like unemployment I THINK and they can sue you and try and get a list of your assets and seize them to sell them off to try and pay for part of it.
i'm wondering once again, why americans don't skip town to other countries
(i'm not specifically talking poorer people, but just in general). just let them have fun defauting your non-existent accounts, i don't think it's criminal matter to be extradited over. i haven't heard of such cases at least, even taking cash credit and disappearing is such legal headache i don't think people pursue it over small sums. maybe inheritance is fucked tho, if statute of limitations doesn't apply 
. maybe we have someone more lawyer brained?
Countries don't just let random people in unless they can demonstrate that their stay is going to be a good business proposition. If you're not independently wealthy or possessing skills in high demand then you're going to find a hard time finding somewhere nice that will let you in.
And then there's all the expenses with moving to another country as well as the fact that most people don't want to leave their friends and family.
You'd probably have to have a savings of at least 50k. Then what book a vacation on Expedia and just stay longer - with no income? Sounds only feasible for pretty wealthy people to me.
i mean you apply for a job in american company say in europe, work for 3 years as non-resident, get whatever that resident thingy called, and work for european company. At what point student loans catch up to you? *and how
With credit cards you can just not pay them. They’re unsecured so there is no asset that a lender can take from you. My SIL did this with 10k of debt. Never declared bankruptcy either. Just defaults. Debt collectors call periodically but if you don’t answer or give them anything then they can’t actually come after you. Really weird debt system we’ve got here
i dont think faking your death and starting a new life is very straightforward these days
why faking death, just ignoring your citizenship. again, interpol wont start searching for you for fucking student loans, so how exactly would you be obligated to pay them, if you renounce citizenship? what mechanism is there? they would sue for damages inside usa and then (.....) debt collectors would arrive to australia?
i just haven't heard of such a thing, which means either it doesn't happen, it resolved quietly in some way (???) or the amount of people abusing it is so small, cause americans are deeply religious people about their debts
you cant renounce citizenship without having a second citizenship. You dont even have to leave the country, you just have to disappear sufficiently. But that's the problem, and also reappearing as someone new in order to work and rent housing and live a normalish life.