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Hahaha right? They sold the lie so well. But it's so easy to do when you control the majority of the world's media, whether it's news, radio, television, cinema, or online streaming.

To be honest, this shift in our politics has been brutally quick and more federally far reaching than anything that happened while I was growing up. People used to be able to just exist. Camp in parks, sleep on benches, etc. This authoritarianism is... Somewhat new.

Those were different times. I remember how people who travelled there talked about how friendly everybody was. And everything was cheap, service was great and life was easy. Obviously those were skewed perceptions by tourists, but still. Nobody says things like that any more.

I've long held the belief that the US postal service should also provide basic banking services too in the US, that way no one can be denied a bank account.

Goddammit you are an hour quicker and have found a more readable source for the same comment I wanted to write.

Anyway, this right is granted in paragraph 36 of Directive 2014/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on the comparability of fees related to payment accounts, payment account switching and access to payment accounts with basic features Text with EEA relevance:

Consumers who are legally resident in the Union and who do not hold a payment account in a certain Member State should be in a position to open and use a payment account with basic features in that Member State. The concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ should cover both Union citizens and third country nationals who already benefit from rights conferred upon them by Union acts such as Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 ( 1), Council Directive 2003/109/EC ( 2 ), Council Regulation (EC) No 859/2003 ( 3) and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ). It should also include people seeking asylum under the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Protocol thereto of 31 January 1967 and other relevant international treaties. Furthermore, Member States should be able to extend the concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ to other third country nationals that are present on their territory.

I was eager to find some opensource service tô get rid of the dependency of banks all together.

Credit unions

Unfortunately there are systems that will reject PO boxes - credit applications, mortgage and loan applications. It's increasing and I think they're catching wind that nomads do it, so they challenge for a "physical address" which of course must match your credit file. This is a nice way to shit on people who are trying to get out of transitional housing too, since they can easily spot group homes and halfway houses.

I have to say I agree here, hell I've never updated one of my open bank accounts. It still has me under my mother's old house from when I turned 18, and I've moved at least 10 times since then. I've also helped/worked with/am friends with plenty of unhoused or at risk folks and never heard of being 'debanked. Now if OP wants to talk about getting accounts or your ID in the first place while being unhoused then that's a different story. Plenty of times I've seen it be next to impossible to get these things w/o an address. Not so much maintaining it w/o an address.

Although im sure anything is possible, so I wont discount it completely.

The term has gained traction after being discussed on a November 2024 The Joe Rogan Experience podcast with investor Marc Andreessen, in particular with respect to cryptocurrency assets.

Yeah im not buying it, but the next line says instances of Muslim people having accounts closed have been covered by media. Although that's shaky at best. What media? Who specifically? Im not convinced that this even happens often enough for people to clutch their pearls

Edits: that claim to "Muslim money" is cited and links to an ebook about Canadian Islamophobia, but its using this book as a source to say Muslim accounts get closed in the USA and its covered by "media"

Currently shit scared as a gay guy with autism. I studied this, on my own, out of curiosity -- how a relatively modern society can commit atrocities upon its own citizens that it deems "lesser".

In high school, where we had entire chapters of our history books that we focused on for weeks dedicated to things like the civil war and the war of 1812, WWI and WWII were (in my recollection) split between a single chapter titled "The World Wars" or something like that, and anything later was usually glossed over in even briefer fashion (Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War all shared a single chapter. I'm not even sure the Cuban Missile Crisis was given a sentence. But holy fuck did they want you to recount in great detail all the facts and figures of the revolutionary war and civil war, down to excruciatingly painful detail. -- I digress, it just irked me then and it still does now).

My point is, nobody chased me down and beat me over the head with a textbook to research the Holocaust and how it happened, nobody made me learn the finer points of going from an economic crisis to an angry little egomaniac getting elected to gas chambers and piles of bodies. We were taught what happened, in the driest fashion, but they never taught us how it happened. For me, nobody had to. I wanted to learn, so that I'd hopefully recognize the signs if they ever happened again. And now I can't afford to leave on my own, while watching them slowly follow the exact same playbook in almost the exact same way. You start with the most vulnerable people and expand that over time to "everyone you don't like", and I have no illusions about being a friend to republicans.

Also, hey, sidebar: anyone else finding the combination of "gutting NOAA funding", "open air cages", and "located in Florida, where devastating hurricanes regularly sweep through", to be something Eichmann would've called genius? "Oops, we didn't have any warning! Awww, shucks, shame about all those un-people we wanted to be rid of!" And the gators take care of the bodies. It's brilliant, in a way.

my last hope is Canada opens their borders to unskilled/disabled refugees, but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

This is absolutely a current weapon against trans people. If you know trans people who need an address, get them an address ASAP.

Now the message on Tom Morello's guitar makes sense ("Arm the homeless").

That’s what scares me about the government trying to switch to crypto. It’s a whole new way to track and trap people financially.

If people aren’t property, why would damaging property be so severe?

Sorry in advance for defending the concept of defence of property. It's not that I think it should be that way, but currently it is.

Property can easily be equated to either work or status. In today's society, we work to earn our property. Damaging property is then damaging work, or at least the value of the work already done.

On the other end, status is something we already know that the elite value above all else, so it makes sense that attacking someone's status is going to get punished.

So it's not so much that people are property, but that harm to property is harm to its owners.

Im assuming:

Mental health

Executive order