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  • 26
    Posted by freedomforall 1 day, 5 hours ago to The Specter of Economic Death: Algorithmic Ostracism and the Dissolution of Financial Personhood in Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism
    It wasn't my experience, t-t, but I found the article
    interesting and enlightening.
    I agree that it's no accident that these things happen.

  • 27
    Posted by freedomforall 1 day, 5 hours ago to The Specter of Economic Death: Algorithmic Ostracism and the Dissolution of Financial Personhood in Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism
    I chase returns and bonuses, so some of my accounts turn
    over regularly while the 'local' small bank accounts stay.
    This year it's a JPMC $900 bonus for opening checking and
    savings and keeping them open for about 4 months.
    That's much better than the best 'high interest' savings rate at present.
    I have no loyalty to any bank.
    (Hopefully they won't bail-in my account in the next few months.)
    They steal from all of us and I try to get a little back when possible.
    (I also agree that a "cash" reserve is a good idea for emergency
    or when a deal for immediate cash appears.)

  • 28
    Posted by tutor-turtle 1 day, 6 hours ago to The Specter of Economic Death: Algorithmic Ostracism and the Dissolution of Financial Personhood in Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism
    I truly feel sorry for you in what you are going through, but you may want to consider the possibility this is no "accident".

    You (as I have) been vocal on this forum.
    Consider the possibility you got too close and hit a nerve.

    When you get your finances back under control, and you still need financial services, find a Credit Union that has been in your community for a good while.
    I only use a C.U.

    That said, You might want to read Dr. John Colman's "The Committee Of 300" (now in it's forth ed.)
    I cannot promise you that You'll feel any better, in fact, you may be even more disparaged once you truly grasp what is really going on.

    Every cycle of boom/bust, inflation/deflation, war/peace, easy credit/no credit is carefully orchestrated to benefit an extraordinarily small group of well-connected families.

    Whether the masses starve or prosper, live in peace or die in war, matters not-at-all to these Satan Worshipping bassturds.

    Everyone on this forum owes it to themselves to educate themselves basic mechanisms of financial and societal control a very small group of families have exerted on the world over the last 300-400 years.

  • 29
    Posted by tutor-turtle 1 day, 6 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    The DSA is telling you to your face, they intend dragging the Republic through the gates of hell if ever allowed to weld the powers of government.
    We would be foolhardy not to take then at their word.

    Mr. Peabody to Sherman:
    "Set the Way Back Machine to 1971"
    Find a book called "None Dare Call It Conspiracy"
    Turn to Chapter 11, page 33.
    You'll find that people understood, a half decade ago, that the
    "Extreme Left" (Socialism/Communism/Marxism) or the
    "Extreme Right"(Fascism/Pharaohism/Caesarism)
    are opposite sides of the same Total Government coin.

    They are both forms of Dictatorship or Total Government (i.e. The New World Order/One World order. et. el.)

    The illusion that there is some middle ground (i.e. Fabian Democracy) is just, that an illusion, based on a lie, fed to the brainwashed masses through a well-honed, controlled propaganda media.

    The true battle ground is one side of Total Government: Communism/Facism/Socialism.

    The other side is Anarchy: And 9/10ths of the way to Anarchy, lies Constitutional Republic Limited Government.
    The Government our Founding Fathers chose out of thousands of failed social experiments tried over millennia.

    Don't be fooled into choosing between two forms of prison.

    Our Country was formed on the concept of Limited Government, not Total Government.

    The Federal Government's power are enumerated in the Constitution.

    Any power not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, is solely the purview of the States.

    This nation has strayed so far off the path, for so long (1873), We The People will be hard-pressed to ever reclaim our Republic as our own.

  • 30
    Posted by CaptainKirk 1 day, 6 hours ago to The Specter of Economic Death: Algorithmic Ostracism and the Dissolution of Financial Personhood in Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism
    Been there. As a matter of record, I always maintain at least 2 unique banks. This happened 2yrs ago (or so) to me. And I immediately moved my accounts (to my then second bank). And I went down the street and opened my "new 2nd" bank account. Putting in it some direct deposit (for freeness), and then adding enough cash to deal with a 3-4 month asset freeze.

    It's the cost of doing business. Also, in FL we keep 2-3 months of CASH on hand we call "Hurricane Funds". because we've lived through those times when CC's are not working.

    Everyone should do this.
    And keep your cash separated. Never all in one place.

  • 31
    Posted by Suzanne43 1 day, 8 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Like thanks.

  • 32
    Posted by freedomforall 1 day, 9 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Thank you, OUC! ๐Ÿ‘

  • 33
    Posted by mccannon01 1 day, 11 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Nice, but they left out the gulags for the dissidents and unemployed (who are now employed in the gulag).

  • 34
    Posted by mccannon01 1 day, 11 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Now, is that woke 2 or woke 11, LOL? Another great start to my day, OUC! All are amusing and thoughtful. I like the wisdom being passed on to Rusty and the translation lesson in #3. Thank you, OUC!

  • 35
    Posted by mccannon01 1 day, 11 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Yes, Starbucks, too.

  • 36
    Posted by mccannon01 1 day, 11 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Nicely done, Suzanne43. LOL

  • 37
    Posted by 73SHARK 1 day, 17 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    I guess it could be but honestly I don't remember.

  • 38
    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 day, 18 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    WE, can Now call her a "Realist"!

  • 39
    Posted by $ allosaur 1 day, 18 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Laughed the loudest when me dino eyes immediately encountered Democrats on a date.
    Decades ago I read that the essence of humor is encountering the unexpected.
    You know, albeit visually, audibly, whatever.

  • 40
    Posted by $ allosaur 1 day, 19 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Me the dino loved that 'un.

  • 41
    Posted by $ allosaur 1 day, 19 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    The DSA would call the young lady featured in this video a racist.

  • 42
    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 day, 19 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Was that one of the ones you sent? Don't remember where I got it.

  • 43
    Posted by 73SHARK 1 day, 19 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    All great but the oxymoron was my favorite.

  • 44
    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 day, 20 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Send this link to a DSA democrat near you !
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-th...

  • 45
    Posted by Suzanne43 1 day, 22 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    Like this was like a really great bunch. The Socialist Democrats are not moderates. They are like nothing but Communists. Our young people are like falling for Communism because thatโ€™s like what is taught in our schools. As Rush Limbaugh once said, โ€œThe American people will get the kind of government that they vote for.โ€ This is getting like scary.

  • 46
    Posted by JakeOrilley 1 day, 23 hours ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    In today's lesson - Says it all!!

    And the hitchhiking DSA - reminds me of when I was hitching only in reverse. Could never count on the driver for the first 30 min..Same thing with the Dems - they have no idea who they have picked up!

    Amen on how Men treated Women - I scolded my Son once on not holding a door, and he told me - the feminist killed chivalry. And I had to agree with him...but at the time, I thought dang - how far have we fallen...

    And Democrats on a date - reminds me of how Bill and Hillary met - they both dated the same women...

    Great collection OGC!! Thanks, as always, for posting!

  • 47
    Posted by JakeOrilley 2 days ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    TGI Funnies out already - wonderful!!

    Just now going through them...

  • 48
    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 2 days ago to TGIFfunnies 8/21/26 EDITION: Woke!
    I guess McDonalds will have all the help they will ever need . . .

  • 49
    Posted by freedomforall 2 days, 9 hours ago to The Specter of Economic Death: Algorithmic Ostracism and the Dissolution of Financial Personhood in Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism
    ๐Ÿ‘
    All bankers are, at the very least, compromised.
    They left their principles behind when they became banksters.
    Ditto for "public servants."

  • 50
    Posted by mccannon01 2 days, 10 hours ago to The Specter of Economic Death: Algorithmic Ostracism and the Dissolution of Financial Personhood in Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism
    Excellent warning to all in the Gulch and elsewhere. I read of this happening to innocent people who had a lot of trouble getting their funds taken out of lockdown. I also figure as the country slides towards the left the control freaks will squeeze more tightly to force the rest of us in line and that includes forcing financial institutions into being one of their enforcement bullies. Keep your savings/investments in more than one financial institution and a decent survival stash "under a mattress" they can't easily get at. Never forget companies like Twitter and Facebook shut down accounts of a US president for political reasons. That should have been a huge wake up call. Side note: I notice this author had a run in with Chase. When my wife and I were looking for an additional bank for our funds we went to Chase as a possibility. It seemed like lots of fine print and fees built in the works. We didn't open any accounts there and almost simultaneously, when we got in our car ,we said "I don't ever want to go back there again."