Trudeau announces intention to freeze bank accounts of protestors
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#2I've been saying that this type of thing would be happening increasingly often. The government wants to control people's money. In the future, you will need a license to sell company shares and other private property and only the top 0.01% elite will be able to get such a license... The media will gaslight the public into thinking this is normal and 'for the public good' or to protect investors from making bad decisions.
For any law, there will always be a group of richer people just above the victimized group who will support it to protect their wealth at the expense of the poorer group. They will trick/coerce people from the lower classes into playing along. The bottom class will keep getting destroyed, one layer at a time until only the 0.01% richest people have all of what little remains of the nation's wealth... The numbers will be bigger and more concentrated than ever but the real economic value underlying those numbers will be smaller than ever because almost everyone else will be unemployed and living in the metaverse using as little energy as possible.
Maybe in the longer term, the economy won't be able to afford letting people unplug themselves from the metaverse and disconnecting their Soylent feeding tubes... The media will demonize the anti-feeding-tubers as selfish terrorists. Heck, they won't even be against feeding tubes, they will be demonized for being against the feeding tube mandates.
The best escape I can see are cryptocurrencies but it will take some time to make a transition to the extent that people are creating real value around them. It's not really the case now IMO.
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#3I’d like to expand on some thoughts I had in another thread that provoked some interesting discussion:
If the protests are peaceful, the government should not shut them down. But at what point do the economic impacts of a protest cross a line such that they aren’t peaceful?
I personally feel that the slippery slope runs in both directions:
* The government expanding its power to block more protests is a slippery slope.
* The public expanding their power such that less people can cause more economic damage is a slippery slope.
This really seems like a situation with no good options.
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#4At what point does peaceful protest become none-peaceful through the consequences of the protesters actions?
I.e Gluing yourself to the road could be considered peaceful however if you're doing it outside the A&E Ambulance entrance to a hospital is it still peaceful? That's an extreme example however in this case can it still be considered peaceful considering the economic,.. etc impact on peoples lives?
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#5I've been saying that this type of thing would be happening increasingly often. The government wants to control people's money. In the future, you will need a license to sell company shares and other private property and only the top 0.01% elite will be able to get such a license... The media will gaslight the public into thinking this is normal and 'for the public good' or to protect investors from making bad decisi…
Can we allow a small minority to shut down an economy indefinitely? That seems like a big problem.
It is also hard to gauge just how small of a minority of Canadians this is though. It feels pretty small but it is hard to tell. If 80% of Canadians are vaxxed that means this is just 5-10% of people at most.
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#6This might all be a distraction from a bank run.
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#7“With no need for court orders, banks can freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.”
The politics of this particular situation aside, this feels like a terrifying development for future protests, and public discourse in general.
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#8Another day, another answer to "what is Bitcoin good for?"
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#9I've been saying that this type of thing would be happening increasingly often. The government wants to control people's money. In the future, you will need a license to sell company shares and other private property and only the top 0.01% elite will be able to get such a license... The media will gaslight the public into thinking this is normal and 'for the public good' or to protect investors from making bad decisi…
Cryptocurrencies rely too heavily on infrastructure from our economic and societal systems to provide any kind of defense against economic deterioration.
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#10Well that...seems tyrannical.
Imagine if Trump did this to the BLM protestors, using the same argument (which would've been before vaccines, too).