Welcome to the era of civil asset forfeiture for your bank accounts. Where governments are woke, broke, and the new f-word is **Freedom**.
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 2 months ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"Christia Freeland’s edict tonight that the government can now seize bank accounts with no due process and no recourse could only have been made possible by a complicit media, shaping an utterly false narrative about the truckers convoys and even of “freedom” itself.
For about six years or so, the far left, woke progressives have been operating under the assumption of being (ironically) “on the right side of history”, that their pronunciations, accusations and neuroses were canonical truth while all other thought was heretical and offensive.
They believed themselves to be objectively correct about everything, and that they evangelized an all-encompassing worldview of purported fairness and equity. Yet, the vast majority of their rhetoric is the embodiment of flat-out hatred and othering. For self-declared anti-fascists, their prescriptions around nearly everything amount to pure unvarnished totalitarianism."
...
"Both then and now, what they’ve accomplished is to actually amplify the game theory that incentivizes getting as much of one’s wealth out of the legacy banking system as fast as possible.
Nevermind that in the legacy banking system:
Your purchasing power is stolen via inflation (accelerating toward escape velocity)
Interest rates on your savings are negative in real terms
You’re using debt as currency
As of tonight, in Canada, the old adage “safe as money in the bank” isn’t what it used to be. Your money can be seized.
No warrant. No court order
No due process, no recourse
and the banks are shielded from liability.
Or
Bitcoin as the global opt-out. When you don’t have protection under the law, when you’re just on the receiving end of what is decreed, when ultra-wealthy socialists are busily re-imagining your life, and when you get demonized as a fringe and alt-right just for demanding your “Freedom” back, then you really don’t have to do anything else.
Just nod and smile and stack some sats.
The rest will take care of itself."
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(The comments above are of the writer. I do not advocate buying or holding crypto currencies. Do your own research and make a rational decision for yourself.
"Christia Freeland’s edict tonight that the government can now seize bank accounts with no due process and no recourse could only have been made possible by a complicit media, shaping an utterly false narrative about the truckers convoys and even of “freedom” itself.
For about six years or so, the far left, woke progressives have been operating under the assumption of being (ironically) “on the right side of history”, that their pronunciations, accusations and neuroses were canonical truth while all other thought was heretical and offensive.
They believed themselves to be objectively correct about everything, and that they evangelized an all-encompassing worldview of purported fairness and equity. Yet, the vast majority of their rhetoric is the embodiment of flat-out hatred and othering. For self-declared anti-fascists, their prescriptions around nearly everything amount to pure unvarnished totalitarianism."
...
"Both then and now, what they’ve accomplished is to actually amplify the game theory that incentivizes getting as much of one’s wealth out of the legacy banking system as fast as possible.
Nevermind that in the legacy banking system:
Your purchasing power is stolen via inflation (accelerating toward escape velocity)
Interest rates on your savings are negative in real terms
You’re using debt as currency
As of tonight, in Canada, the old adage “safe as money in the bank” isn’t what it used to be. Your money can be seized.
No warrant. No court order
No due process, no recourse
and the banks are shielded from liability.
Or
Bitcoin as the global opt-out. When you don’t have protection under the law, when you’re just on the receiving end of what is decreed, when ultra-wealthy socialists are busily re-imagining your life, and when you get demonized as a fringe and alt-right just for demanding your “Freedom” back, then you really don’t have to do anything else.
Just nod and smile and stack some sats.
The rest will take care of itself."
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(The comments above are of the writer. I do not advocate buying or holding crypto currencies. Do your own research and make a rational decision for yourself.
If you’re going to hold gold I’d do it in fine jewelry.
I always thought that cryptos are questionable because the second the servers go down, poof! goes the cryptos! Yes, no?
I am a hard asset Au and Ag type guy being a gold mining geologist in Nevada.
I love everything you have written. Great land use .
I particularly love pan fish . From the bobber going under to the rod bending. The only draw back for me is the heat in Texas. Holy cow 4 mos though
nov - Feb would be wonderful.
So I sold my company, said goodbye to the headaches of 5 locations in three states and the 100 plus employees sucking my tit, and bought a ranch in Texas. I chose Texas because of the politics. Leaned towards Australia, but changed my mind, which turned out to be a right call.
I found it by exploring orbital nite sat pics with low light. Wasn’t interested in populous areas, the fewer, the better. I immediately set about the task of making myself self sufficient. Like Commander, I wanted self sufficiency. I set up solar back up (50 KWH), explored, promoted, and set up barter systems with neighbors. I decided to “game” the property tax system. I needed an ag exemption. Excellent, I now have 50 tons of beef grazing my land. Adding to that, I have a dairy operation with Alpine goats. They give me an exemption on COGS
on milk, cheese, soap, and meat production. I sell my access goat production during ramadan, the peak of Muslim demand. The cattle give me a return on my ranch operations, and my walk in freezer is always full.
My wife, a retired phd pharmacist, concentrates her efforts on alternative medication, herbs, and antibiotics. Plus a kick ass garden, which we call the obama garden (because the dumb a$$ made it necessary).
I have 5 solar powered water wells on the ranch, which provides not only our drinking water, but also water to 4 ponds teaming with catfish, bass, bluegill, and crappie. The tanks (ponds to you yanks) also provide water to cattle. Which is a deduction on my ranch operations.
I lease out hunts for wild hawgs (I estimate at least 2k of the critters occupy the land my Lord lets me tend during my time here on Earth), plus my freezers are full of delicious pork as well.
Bottom line, I traded in traditional monetary “government” value for real money, not monopoly money. For want is govt legal tender besides a game?
I have enuff cash gold silver to pay the bastards their taxes for the rest of my life. in this life, I have what I need as long as there is a Gulch.
We have only a preamp at present, for audio enthusiast stereo. Hope to have an integrated stereo amp and monoblock power amps later in the year, and working on a stereo tube power amp design. All will have unbalanced RCA inputs.
Nice discussion on the silver and I thank all that replied. Maybe I'll look for a local supplier - I hand over $$ he/she hands over the metal. Nobody but me and the supplier knows I have it.
(After tools, food, water, medical/supplement supplies, weapons/ammunition, generator, fuel, firewood ... and a tube preamplifier.;^)
Wall St uses that to generate profits as they manipulate price volatility to their advantage.
The game is rigged in favor of the street, and the street controls the so-called regulators.
If they aren't obviously genuine some will want to take steep discounts in value.
Those with collectible premiums won't be as useful in trade, but will still have value in very long term.
Or you could buy a great stereo preamp from us and sit back to enjoy the music "while Rome(DC) burns." (shameless promotion ;^)
If you can’t put your hands on it in 15mins......it’s not really yours.
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