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  • There’s a belief that (I’m going to heavily paraphrase/over simplify here) when you’re born, there are two versions of you … The ‘corporation’, and the ‘real’ you.

    Any document issued by the government i.e. birth certificates, social security etc is against the corporate version of you. And as a ‘real’ person, you are not part of a system you didn’t consent to.

    So when you get pulled over for speeding, it was your real self who was driving travelling, not the corporation, and only the corporate self is beholden to the law. This same idea is applied to taxes…





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    2 years ago

    Might pay to read up on the luddites.

    They protested against manufacturers who used machines in “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to replace the skilled labour of workers and drive down wages by producing inferior goods.

    wikipedia



  • Clav64@lemmy.mltoNo Stupid QuestionsWhat is "FUD"?
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    In a modern internet context:

    Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.

    Often used in crypto circles when a shitty project is being accused of being a rug pull. The scammer may say “it’s just FUD, ignore it”.

    On ‘the street’, if I called someone a fud, it is calling them an idiot.








  • Medium.com is absolutely rotten for this behaviour.

    Not only putting the soft, “sign in to view” but then on some articles requiring a full hard paywall… But you only know this after signing in.

    I’m not entirely against charging for well written articles; good writers deserve compensation, but don’t tease me, make me jump through a hoop only to find there’s another much higher hoop sitting beyond it.







  • I have a friend who keeps defending him, often deflecting to attack the people writing the article (i.e. BBC) and then ranting about Epstein Island and the Clinton’s etc…

    Yet here we have a man who has videos of himself talking about trafficking, coercion and abuse of women - and more evidence of them openly discussing it like a grooming gang, yet my friend continues to say words to the effect of “it’s the elites trying to take him down for telling the truth”

    Honestly, I just do not get it, and would appreciate anyones advice who has maybe faced similar issues how to get through to them.