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    These people lost everything. Maybe we should monetize a video about sending a truckload of bibles and coyote urine! We’re super awesome, y’all!

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    Alt headline:

    Multi-millionaire donates tax write off of $12,652, adds, “These cattle better be taking photos of this shit and sharing while mentioning the brand or I’m not fucking doing it!”

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      You know they are sending thousands of bottles of whatever flavor didn’t test well that has been sitting in a warehouse, too.

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      Just because it’s (potentially) a tax write off doesn’t mean they gain any money. It means that they either lose slightly less money or that they can donate more for the same amount, depending on how you see it.

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        Technically they don’t gain money no, but they get:

        1. To move or dispose of product, making sales look better
        2. Free marketing, both in people having the drinks and to say “look we did a charity”
        3. To pay their taxes with effectively free money, because they take the product that they made for pennies, and count it as a “donation” at full price. Meaning that all the “profit” they would have made on markup goes straight to paying the taxes instead of making the money and paying taxes on the money they already made.

        It’s why a company donating their product is always better for them than a regular person donating cash. They are effectively still making money it’s just this time they are making money specifically to pay off their taxes.

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      1 month ago

      More like

      Multi-millionaire tries to pass off marketing as a tax write-off

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      You’re not concerned about the multi million dollar Bitcoin scam or just didn’t know? Dudes up to all sort of shady shit

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      The man has also been involved in numerous scams.

      I’m obviously not his demographic, but my wife (a teacher) says that there are loads of kids 10 and upwards that love Logan Paul and KSI. I think the suicide forest thing predates many of them, or they just don’t know/care about it.

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      I have recently started watching some streamers. The suicide forest stuff is just par for the course. The entire genre is largely based around doing things you aren’t supposed to do for content.

      In this world of marvel movies, conspiracy theories, and other unreal distractions, there is something both addictive and refreshing about just seeing an unfiltered idiot who is fucking around and finding out. I actually think watching streamers has made me a little more socially confident. If they can be that reckless and have it turn out ok most of the time, then maybe I don’t have to be anxious about things that might happen in public when I’m being reasonably careful.

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          Of course! I mostly watch streamers on Kick, which I loudly warn you has a chat culture similar to 4Chan. Be prepared.

          One of the first streamers I started watching live was ShakoMako. She is a woman from Iraq whose family fled to Germany during the war. She has several screws loose, but there is something weirdly endearing about her. She reminds me of a character in a Gaspar Noe film—an alluring train wreck of a human.

          Shako travels the world and has absolutely no consideration for her safety. This week, I watched her go up to strangers in Egypt, negotiating cheap or free tours of the slums in their personal cars or carts, and then wandering around those slums with her two phones visibly out, a fake gold weed leaf gangster chain swangin’, and telling anybody who will listen that she wants to find the really haram shit.

          Before watching streamers for hours on end, I would have been certain that this kind of behavior would definitely lead her to be raped and killed in the streets of Cairo. Yet I’ve watched her do this in nearly a dozen countries, and so far she has had only one close call with a driver in Laos who took her to a remote spot and then ditched her.

          I don’t condone any of this behavior, but seeing an unedited version of how far the line can actually be pushed has helped me a lot in realistically assessing danger when I’m in the streets or traveling. If Shako can survive her time in the slums of Egypt, I will be fine walking down a public street in Mexico, or New York, or wherever.

          Other kick streamers to check out:

          SuzieSmalls - a three foot tall entertainer who streams her life as a recovering alcoholic in NYC.

          DBR666 - a former dealer from London who travels around trolling people, he does a pretty good job of making pranks funny and not too mean.

          Shoovy - 18 years old, reckless as hell, currently headed straight into the path of the hurricane for content. He might not live, and I’ll be amazed if the cell signal holds, but I’ll definitely be tuning in to check up on him.

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            It’s the camera. Younger streamers have no idea about the past but the older ones do. They know it’s the camera that changes the whole proposition. Some of them have talked about this. If people think they’re live on camera then everything is different when there’s an audience and they believe it might be someone famous to whatever extent. Nobody wants to cause an international incident.

            When random nobody put themselves in sketchy situations with nothing else but their nobody self then they are absolutely putting themselves in danger whether they perceive it to be or not. There’s neither a live audience nor the illusion of “celebrity”.

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              Why tf would you support this kind of bullshit? Do you really crave the brainrot? Do you really need this much of an escape? It’s a cancer and you’re actively injecting yourself with it. Why?

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              Shako is great. She is traveling to another country right now, so she will probably stream again in a day or two.

              I’m watching Shoovy right now, and I seriously think this guy is going to die.

              Edit: Shoovy didn’t die, but he was arrested for armed burglary today: https://streamable.com/sx4ksm

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    Great, so anyone allergic or sensitive to coconut water is fucked. Great job Mr. Influencer. If you can’t do aid right, don’t get in the way of the professionals.

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      Anyone who is allergic to coconut has my sincere pity, because coconut might be my favorite of all flavors.

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      Fuck prime and the paul brothers but you can’t dismiss people/companies providing aid. By providing aid like this it frees up other resources for others to use. The professionals relay on any aid that they can get so long as it isn’t going to hurt anyone. Someone allergic to something will know what they can/can’t have.

      Again fuck prime and it’s a shit resource but when you’re desperate you’ll take what you can to stay alive.

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        That’s not how it works. You go down the line handing out pre-made bundles. This isn’t a grocery store.

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        By providing aid like this it frees up other resources for others to use.

        What does this even mean? Also, do you think they’re actually doing this to help people? Lol…

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    It’s a win win they can fulfill their contractual minimum orders, that they failed to reach last months and can write these off. Win-Win situation.

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    They only did this because they are sitting on a bunch of inventory they can’t sell, so they used it for marketing, check out LegalEagle on youtube he has a 20 minute video on the lawsuit they are facing, they agreed a contract to have a custom factory line built then backed off when sales plummeted

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    Did your spouse die and everything in your home is ruined by water damage? Here’s a bottle of Prime. You’re welcome.

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    I would rather drown myself than drinking that cat piss.

    Also they don’t even do it out of charity. Prime, being as dogshit as it is, is selling terribly. So they are giving it away instead of having to spend money getting rid of it. Would not expect nothing else from scammer logan and soulless KSI