Do we really live in a free country? pic.twitter.com/OeaD1FBGap
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 29, 2023
Remember this guy?
This is the guy who was photoed with Trump and mostly responsible for Brexit, much to the dismay of some europhiles:
Anyway, Nigel reeing here:
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1674507257248116746
Some key quotes include
'This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too.'
Speaking of the importance of having a bank account, he added: 'You effectively become a non-person, you don't actually exist.
'It's like the worse regimes of the mid-20th century, be they in Russia or Germany, you literally become a non-person.
'I won't be able to have a debit card linked directly to my account. I won't really be able to exist or function in a modern 21st century Britain.'
Story here
He suspects he was cancelled as revenge for spearheading Brexit and has tried to open up 7 other bank accounts in the UK, but they all refuse. Being cancelled online is one thing. Not being able to open a bank account to exchange money is quite the next level. He's saying how stressful it's been and that he might have to move from the UK. He even claims his closest family members have had their bank accounts closed too.
Maybe commie China has come sooner than I anticipated.
There is a tiny ray of hope. No. 10 (the government) are looking into the matter and have given a warning to the banks over being too trigger happy when shutting accounts down.
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This is the world britbongs live in. IDK why he’s asking if this is a free country, because it obviously isn’t.
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It’s starting to happen in America, they’ve already started doing it to guns.
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Try running an online business without PayPal or Visa/Mastercard
It's really fricked up
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I'm unironically simping for the FED if their FedNow payment network actually cucks Visa/Mastercard/Paypal
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yup, we just need to concentrate power in even fewer hands, surely the FED won't ban anyone from the payment network for political reasons
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The problem is that current payment processors have a de facto monopoly, but are still treated as a non government entity for regulations. The fed will at least be regulated and subject to government rules.
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The hope for FedNow is that they will literally be constitutionally barred from doing that.
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True.
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The Fed is an independent entity though?
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I can more feasibly sue the government than I can visa / mastercard if anything happens
Inb4 FED isn’t the Gov
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It's not subject to the same degree of accountability as actual government institutions. In fact, it needs to have a larger degree of independence in order to act effectively.
Expanding the Fed's responsibilities and power to processing payments for the general population would also require limiting ts powers, in just the right way as to not cripple its ability to serve its original purpose.
I strongly doubt that the relevant bills for such new limits will be passed in time. The Dems probably have no interest in limiting those powers, so they'll try to delay indefinitely.
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did you know that drug dealers recommend using usps because unlike other shipping companies, usps needs a warrant to open your mail in most cases
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Because of laws from 150 years ago when the government still respected privacy rights. I don't think such laws exist for a payment network run by the Federal Reserve.
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i'm just saying, it could be bad but it's not a guarantee from the start
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i love the feds
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This, unironically. FedNow will BTFO cryptards and masterc*nts with one stone. Fund me harder, daddy Powell! All my paypigs will thank you.
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Lmao they will overthrow the govt first.
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I love India stack, one of the best things the government has done this century. Financial infrastructure should be treated as a public utility, it costs a pittance to develop and run really compared to its importance.
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It really blows my mind that it's not in the west. How the frick do you argue that bank accounts and payment processing are any less essential to day-to-day life than electricity and running water? You can't even pay for the latter without the former!
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our electricity comes from private companies in most states
in my town the water is government but some areas it's a company, too.
it's better than suffering under communism
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When they're privately owned the utilities are still regulated to shit, may as well be government run.
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obvious use case for crypto. transaction fees are a bit unpredictable though
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You'd need a whole crypto ecosystem that doesn't interact with fiat, else you're just kicking the can.
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True. Adaptation only happens in countries whose national currency situation is already a completely fricked. As long as 99% of Americans can live reliably using USD and FedNow, they won't have reason to do switch to anything else.
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i use to say get a bank without esg, but they are about to get rid of all them in the next year or two i imagine. you can tell my local bank sees the writing on the wall, they changed up all their branding to look fancy and are advertising everywhere for new accounts. started as soon as banks started dissapearing
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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There’s the odd independent credit union here and there, you find them more in ruralcel areas as I think it’s a communal farmer scheme that sets them up. I’ve thought about switching over because banks charge you so many fricking fees now for everything that used to be free… if I don’t have so much invested in my bank they’d be nicking me for around 30 bucks a month.
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im wondering what their credit union plan is. credit unions are non profit so they can't be interesting to banks, but they are competition. credit unions are insured through the NCUA and not the FDIC, so bank runs aren't going to effect the safety of credit union money. my credit union savings account gets better interest than banks too last time i checked. getting a debit card through my credit union is more expensive though
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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I dunno if they really are competition for regular banks, they’re not common, don’t advertise to attract new people or set out to loan aggressively for profit. You’ll never find one their bank machines anywhere so you’d always pay a fee to withdraw cash.
But the average person should be considering credit unions especially now.
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bc they aren't for profit. They are usually for something specific. Navy Federal Credit union for people in the navy for example. There is one i use since my grandma is a teacher. lots are set up to help farmers and ranchers. They are good for the people who use them since they specifically arent for profit. they can make loans based off things other than credit ratings and don't have to justify it since they are helping members. if you rely on getting cash out of an atm then you probably are better off with a large national bank
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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You don't need to be in the Navy for Navy Federal, any branch can bank with them. I've had my Navy Federal account for nearly 10 years, signed up while at Air Force BMT. I've been able to keep my account open with them despite being out for 6 years.
I just keep the minimum in my old accounts with them, mainly keeping it if I ever want to use them for a competitive loan. It's a great account to keep open after separating. Anyone currently in the military needs to bank with Navy Federal, you get paid early too.
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most credit unions work together so you can withdraw at any other credit union's ATM or front counter
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If you own land or a business you SHOULD have your gun taken away.
Guns only belong in the hands of proletarians.
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Family members affected too. This is North Korea tier lmao
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step1:
if you didn't want a hard life STOP TRYING TO RUIN IT FOR OTHERS.
Supremacist tears are LOVELY
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step 2
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You've got the causation backwards. @TheHIVocracy ruin
BIPOC lives because @TheHIVocracy's was hard.
@TheHIVocracy say this as a feminist ally
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I love how like once a month canada and bongland are demonstrating that they are absolutely capable of building the fourth reich or some Orwellian hellhole. I could respect that, but they are usually doing it in the gayest way possible.
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The word people are using now is anarchy-tyranny. Governments and powerful institutions now perform swift, unlawful crackdowns on people they don’t like, yet they ignore violent and serious offenses by groups of people they coddle.
In the US, you see it in the major cities mostly. Kylie Rittenhouse is an example. She was put through the ringer when they had no case at all, yet the guy who ran up and pointed a gun to her head got away.
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Yeah, I've been pondering that sort of thing for a while. I cannot comprehend how the US supposedly has a massive prison population of drug offenders due to "draconian drug laws" and simultaneously has a massive population of people using drugs openly and with impunity. Something doesn't add up.
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The real world is not a vidya game. It's run by stupid, venal, incompetent humans with limited time and resources.
They try to frick over whoever deserves it the most (serious criminals), or who's the easiest to railroad (poor black folks), or who pisses them off the most and causes bad PR (dumb smug bitches like Kylie).
You'd do exactly the same thing: don't confuse your impotence for virtue.
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Like, that last sentence hot take is genuinely stupid. Don't confuse the fact that it is insulting the reader with the fact that it is a genuinely stupid thought that your brain is generating & projecting outward.
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It's a Jimie post. It's almost always r-slurred.
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Uhh yeah the people that were mad about the catholic priests having s*x with children... I guess in your r-slur way of thinking... were mad they didn't molest the kids themselves?? or would, if given the opportunity? How fricking stupid are you on a scale of 1-10 here, be honest
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Make him do the test
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None of your werds adds up to an idea, but if you think you'd make a better prosecutor who is magically immune to all corrupting influences and competing incentives, then by all means, do run for State's Attorney. Burgerstanis love to vote for rslurs, so maybe you'll even win. Please make your campaign slogan "bussy lamo 2024".
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@TheHIVocracy actually wouldnt because @TheHIVocracy's only values are being good at @TheHIVocracy's vocation
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What no one likes to say is that a lot of those people in on insane drug sentences are massive c*nts, violent, crazy all that, and that's why they got railroaded so hard for something that so many people get off on.
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Are you implying that there's some overlap between drugs and violence??? You must be Nancy Reagan!
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It actually doesn't tho. Something like 90% of prison inmates are there for violent crimes. Drug dealers & addicts get slapped on the wrist over and over again because they're "nonviolent" and just have a "substance use disorder". Right up until they use a gun and they're fricked for life.
We're so busy worrying that we might hurt a crack dealer's feelings and discourage him from pursuing his dreams that we push him into catching a murder charge.
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most of the "prison just for drugs" cases are large scale dealing or out right lies (convicted of assault 2, r*pe1, and PCS, listed by activists as "doing life for marijuana"
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The War on Drugs was never actually tried
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I genuinely believe this.
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To play devils advocate, someone that got a twenty year sentence for weed would have been arrested back when people still gave a shit about the country.
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Wait he trained out?
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Be gentle, I've only just recovered from not knowing about z*zbot and getting hammered for it.
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It's okay, sweaty
We are all special in our own way here. Don't let anyone bully you
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Unironically true. People don't have resilience anymore
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Holy shit guys. This kid didn't even know about Zozbot!
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https://rdrama.net/post/24070/kylie-gender-reveal
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No that was just a common joke when that whole thing was going on.
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the craziest thing is if you talk to the anti-fascist fandom about 1984, the don't see any parallels. I know a bongistani foid who literally just read the book and drew the conclusion that donald trump would probably like to use it as a manual, completely serious. "don't you think your government is doing the same" "...no, i hate it when you sound like a nazi though"
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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Everyone wants to talk about dead 20th century ideologies, nobody wants to talk about Beyond Freedom and Dignity, which was literally intended as an instruction manual and is being implemented as we speak
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I hate how even our liberal system’s totalitarian mechanisms are bureaucratic and gay. Either the tech/financial/media system destroys someone’s life with no recourse or they rile up some rowdies to burn someone’s house down.
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Extremely true. Similar thing with access to a phone number, and internet. They can unilaterally make you an actual second class citizen.
Bongs and bong descendants are so fricked that even as a frog I'm starting to feel bad.
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On the other hand, if you get mad about it and decide too firebomb a local church, that's allowed.
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churches only though, not mosques or LGBTQ+ foundations
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Or the City Hall.
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Not for long though, Muslimcels have proven that they absolutely do not tolerate the rainbow capitalist religion.
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But if you assault a building of the great bankers (swt) you will be Epstein'd
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Just noticed the news channel is called GBN. I get what it means, but it's also the acronym for the french translation of BBC
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How is having someone be a customer of a bank be "political"
Who fricking cares what bank they use
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Its a private bank sweaty they can do whatever they want
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I know, words are hard.
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If I read between the lines correctly, MI5 caught him getting massive funding from Russia (like LePen).
But instead of charging him with a crime like in any civilized country in the last 2500 years, they just extralegally ordered all the banks to cut him off.
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No explanation? Why isn't he pursuing this in the courts at all?
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He's got some good lawyers on the case.
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Closing accounts is even allowed? Frick here in amerikka it takes immense amount of debt to close an account and even then they just won’t loan you money most of the time
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Whole point here is actually that the government are looking to step in and stop this bullshit. Banks get a lot of special treatment in the law and if they're going to be partisan they'll end up losing that.
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Sounds like them just shooting themselves in the foot. I have a strong hatred for UK politicians but they at least have enough sense to realize if political tides change they could be fricked over quickly like this
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And commies around the country are celebrating safe and secure in the knowledge that the setting of this precedent will absolutely never, ever, ever come back to bite them.
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The amount of bootlicking in the comments everywhere else this is being talked about is insane. I almost want to
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It's a tactic that will only ever be used against the far right, just like blacklisting people from Hollywood for having the wrong opinions.
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@TheHIVocracy havent seen russel brand working lately
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