• tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
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    I’m thinking about those people from Autistici/Inventati in the same list of ISIS. They have been killed from a civilian perspective: no bank accounts, no loans, no cards and not even utilities will ever be given again to them.

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      Bit of a tangent, but I really hope European payment solution Wero succeeds, so that MasterCard/Visa no longer dominate the European credit card market.

      I assume Americans don’t fully realise this, but as a non-American you’re often confronted by the many small ways (corporate) America enforces its cultural and political mores on the rest of us.

      It’s especially tiresome when you’re then confronted with Americans telling you to be grateful for your continued quasi-vassalage, or even that you’ve been profiting off America’s beneficence.

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        I welcome Wero, but I think it doesn’t stop there. The US government says “if you work with their members then we put sanctions on you” that’s why Italian banks with an Italian circuit (Bancomat) still can’t provide these people with what they need

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      I haven’t been paid in years. When that check finally clears I’ll buy myself a data center.

      If you think about it it’s a lot like owning a farm.

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    All these psyops to activate me as a stochastic element to further the imperialist agenda and none to give me rent safehouse money 😞

    I’m gonna have to turn to femboy camming on OF at this rate for the actual operational expenses…

    Hey, wait a minute, that’s another psyop isn’t it?

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    But they have!

    If you’re in a revolutionary group of any kind, never forget that the money and weapons you receive likely has strings attached, strings that you are unaware of. (see history of KKK and The Weather Underground, for example).

    USA smuggles weapons all over the globe, they have been doing this since the Brown Bess rifle. Odds are very good they will be somewhere in any supply chain.

    Other countries have their own version of the CIA (much smaller, of course). They may very well provide weapons and money, often, that was provided to them by other sources (usually the CIA for some reason, yes, the CIA arms many groups that are enemies of the USA).

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    As one of the main leaders of antifa I get my financing mainly from grannys and their generous birthday cards and we source our arms from uncles and granddads who “lend” us their guns and forget to take them back, often in very unexpected states mostly Mississippi Arkansas Idaho and Oklahoma where