Message from @Grenade123
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It all depends on who pressured them and why.
Assuming it wasn't him mismanaging an account
the free market of ideas is essential! and taking away someone's source of income is horrible imo
were not talking about their source of income
were talking about his savings and checking account
Gundealers and manufacturers have been removed from the a good portion of the banking system for about a year now. So far they've fallen back on local credit unions and the kinds of banks that used to loan to the porn industry.
oh wow, that is dirty
tbh, most people should fall back to local credit unions
I actually think it's probably internal pressure. And if anything, that's far more important than external. Suppose you were at the meeting where they were discussing banning this guy. There's an open ANTIFA member with some power in the bank organization who's claiming this guy is a white nationalist and anyone who defends him is a crypt-fascist.
Would you say anything? People on the right are always telling each other to "keep your head down" and "it'll work out and the pendulum will swing back so don't worry about it"
And more and more people get un-personed.
I need to settle down in a few years and I'm certainly looking at them
Banks don't fear antifa members, even internally.
lol
banks fear bad publicity like all companies
Please
As stated earlier, they allow internal crime organizations to use their networks
And get called out all the time. Think Western Union cares that they are the bank of choice for scammers?
No, they get a cut of the profits.
they care when the people cirticizing them start planting bombs against other people they denounce
Who said that the people who matter know about the bombs?
lol
I'm just saying, the blame is on the organization of the right and a complete inability to hit back or even defend itself.
Hard to get a new life
At some point though, I think China and or Russia might spot the opportunity. Then things will get very nasty.
You think the big wigs at the top care about their employees?
Some do. The left is very good at organizing people and starting employee revolts. Look at Google and the CIA.
No, but they care about their own lives
And it only takes a couple well positioned people and a bit of propaganda.
Chances of the owner of a bank getting bombed are pretty low given antifa usually attacks local business and rarely the people they actually hate.
And a general culture of fear.
so much to unpack reading this conversation
See, the CIA is interesting
Because that goes back to talk about the credit networks threatening to cut off interbanking network access
Or to that government program desided to threaten banks to "defend terrorist" which was never shut down
And if you can prove someone in the government is using that program to suppress political opponents, that is a major violation of the first amendment.
And actually violation, unlike the company doing it on its own.
the problem is such proof is nearly impossible to obtain
See, the problem is that you want to find a way to blame the government. You're telling me that the FBI, the people who'd be investigating these things and deciding who's a terrorist has repeatedly denied the Proud Boys are even an "extremist organization" and yet they're the one pulling the accounts? I'd expect to see something much bigger and more sudden in that case.
No, it's that really woke, really promising new Harvard grad who's playing culture warrior at the bank and terrorizing his/her co-workers into silence.
I dont think its the government i think its corporations and their leaders