I'm Jewish, so I can handle this one.
Luke, if you want to ignore the real claim being made here, that is fine and dandy. But I think I'll tell everyone the whole context whether you agree to that or not.
What David French was talking about was not what was going on here...
Luke, if you want to ignore the real claim being made here, that is fine and dandy. But I think I'll tell everyone the whole context whether you agree to that or not.
What David French was talking about was not what was going on here...
https://twitter.com/lukestamps/status/1493653082693160960
What James and Glenn are talking about here, and it's clear from the context, is the idea that the financial system can be weaponized and used a method of controlling people and undermining democracy by using financial control that is not accountable to democratic oversight...
For example, in Canada, where I live, Justin Trudeau has just announced a state of emergency and has claimed that he can freeze the assets of truck protestors, ***and anyone the think donates to the truckers***, without the need for a warrant or any due process.
read that again
read that again
This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that James and Glenn are saying could triggar a revolution.
That is NOT what David French was writing about. French was writing about people who think Biden stole the election from Trump (FTR, I have said since the beginning Biden won)...
That is NOT what David French was writing about. French was writing about people who think Biden stole the election from Trump (FTR, I have said since the beginning Biden won)...
pretending that people worried about the weaponizing of the financial system in a way that is unaccountable to democracy is the same as people who think the election is stolen is ridiculous.
It is, in a word, absurd.
Abuse of the financial system by bureaucrats has been....
It is, in a word, absurd.
Abuse of the financial system by bureaucrats has been....
a subject of debate for a very long time. The 2007-2008 financial crisis was triggared by abuse by bureaucrats who were not being held accountable.
Yes, I know that's a different senario, but the point is that being worried about the abuse of financial systems is normal....
Yes, I know that's a different senario, but the point is that being worried about the abuse of financial systems is normal....
To pretend that it requires anti-semitism to look at the financial systems, and how that is being used by the Canadian government literally right this second, is absurd.
If the failure of 2007 taught us anything it is that banks and other financial institutions...
If the failure of 2007 taught us anything it is that banks and other financial institutions...
will absolutely abuse their position in order to gain and maintain wealth and power.
And yes, they will absolutely abuse their ability to gatekeep access to the worlds financial system if we do not require democratic accountability.
Pretending otherwise is bad faith.
And yes, they will absolutely abuse their ability to gatekeep access to the worlds financial system if we do not require democratic accountability.
Pretending otherwise is bad faith.
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