Comment on Anon buys a car

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Legally, no. Which of course is the most common way to interpret that word.

  Did he defraud the dealership? Absolutely! And frankly, good for him. The market for buying new cars in our country is one of the more exploitative systems that our society has managed to create, and that’s saying something.

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  • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whats the difference between “Fraud” and “Defraud”?

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Fraud” is a legal definition.

      “Defraud” is basically defined as “doing fraud” but from context it just means “swindling someone in fully legal ways”

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      • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The word fraud is almost always used in a legal context, but technically it’s just the noun describing the act, while the word defraud is the verb designating the act of committing fraud.

        But, I like your explanation, cause it’s stone and concise!

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    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The same thing anon wants

      The d

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretending you don’t know about something you obviously do smells a bit like fraud, and I bet there’s a weird Latin phrase for it.

    But IANAL.

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• morphballganon@mtgzone.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which part is the fraud?

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  • Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seems more like malicious compliance

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The part where they convinced people this is a real law.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The part where they pretended they’d never driven that car before.

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• ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  God forbid people have hobbies

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• jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  where fraud?

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Check government

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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  U mean new car price is fraud

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Definitely that too. Anon did break the spirit of the rules, which is the social compact, which is not to say that the compact is correct, or should be perpetuated. It was definitely dishonest of them though. Or at least disingenuous.

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