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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Banks are fucking weird SGG...

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Banks are fucking weird SGG...

On the 8th it was reported that Bank of America says that there is a 20-50% chance that we're all living in the Matrix.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-wonders-about-the-matri
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It also then goes on to say that if it were true that none of us would know about it, thus saying that none of us could ever prove it or not.



Don't ever trust a Bank. And don't ever trust that only Republicans are behind them.

They are in many cases, of course, but if you actually do a little research you'll probably cry when you realize how many Democrats are Bankslaves too.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by second:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Banks are fucking weird SGG...

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What is weird about saying one thing to confuse your enemies and doing the opposite to make a huge profit? Not a thing weird about that, but it is confusing if you're not paying attention. For example:

“I have often said that banking is based on trust, and that trust was broken at Wells Fargo,” Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said during the hearing about Wells Fargo. You can trust Shelby, the Republican, to stab you in the back after Wells Fargo is out of the news and Trump is in the White House. Here is what will happen in Shelby's Banking Committee:

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that fined Wells Fargo will be shutdown if Trump is President. The GOP has schemes to close the Bureau. Obama would veto any such bill, but not Trump. In January, the GOP strikes back against bank regulation.

There is a bill to replace the CFPB’s director -— currently Richard Cordray, a regulatory-minded Democratic appointee of President Obama -- with a five-member “bipartisan” (what a sad joke that word is) commission that would add more Republican input, which means 4 new Republicans kill any investigation into future Wells Fargos.
www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr5983/summary?utm_campaign=govtrac
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Another bill changes the source of money for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now the Bureau is funded by the Federal Reserve so that Congress can’t shut it down. Republicans would much prefer to vote every year on how much money goes to the Bureau so that Republicans can close down the Bureau whenever they please, especially after the next Wells Fargo.
www.quora.com/How-did-the-Fed-become-the-funding-source-for-the-Consum
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
But what is your point Second?

Part of me doesn't care because you don't know the history of things, but the rest of me, particularly the empathetic part of me wants to know what your gripe is.

I show you an article where BoA straight out tells us that there is no less than a 20% chance that we're all living in "The Matrix" and nobody can do a fucking thing about it, and you're still talking basic politics...

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"There's a billion to one chance we're living in base reality," Elon Musk said tonight on stage at Recode's Code Conference, meaning that one of the most influential and powerful figures in tech thinks that it's overwhelmingly likely we're just characters living inside a simulation.
www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837874/elon-musk-says-odds-living-in-simul
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
But what is your point Second?

Part of me doesn't care because you don't know the history of things, but the rest of me, particularly the empathetic part of me wants to know what your gripe is.

I show you an article where BoA straight out tells us that there is no less than a 20% chance that we're all living in "The Matrix" and nobody can do a fucking thing about it, and you're still talking basic politics...

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The idea that we are living in a simulation has a few problems. Well, actually it has a lot of different problems and every one of them means we are NOT living in a simulation.

You can read the article “Maybe We Do Not Live in a Simulation” to find out that Elon Musk is full of bullshit, even if he is rich, famous, and appears to believe what he reads in a book about simulations.
www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2016/08/22/maybe-we-do-not-live-in-a
-simulation-the-resolution-conundrum/

And what does the idea that we are NOT living in a simulation have to do with Wells Fargo? People have the idea that we are living in a democracy. There are a lot of problems with that idea and every one of them means we are NOT living in a democracy.

The biggest and falsest idea is that changing the President every four years means we are living in a democracy. There are some people in both houses of Congress that ALSO need to be changed if the USA is going to be run anything like a democracy. For example: Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and semi-famous for the moment because of Well Fargo.

Senator Shelby is saying that Wells Fargo is a very bad bank to the cameras, but at the same time Shelby is making sure that Wells Fargo will never again get caught being a bad bank. Shelby is bullshitting you into believing that you live in a democratic system while Shelby is sabotaging democracy in ways you are not paying attention to.

To get rid of Shelby does not mean you have to vote in Alabama, where Shelby is from, but it does mean that there needs to be fewer than 50 Republican Senators. Otherwise the Republicans in the Senate can sabotage the Democratic President and blame the President for what the Republicans did.

The way the Republicans run the Congress is a poor simulation of a democracy. It is not real and the Republicans aren't admitting that they a selling you a fake painting of democracy in exchange for your very real money.

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"There's a billion to one chance we're living in base reality," Elon Musk said tonight on stage at Recode's Code Conference, meaning that one of the most influential and powerful figures in tech thinks that it's overwhelmingly likely we're just characters living inside a simulation.
www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11837874/elon-musk-says-odds-living-in-simul
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
It isn't that we are literally living in the Matrix, as depicted in the movie, it is that the idea of the Matrix exists and we are living in it.
It is all about control.

The laws that protect the banks are bought and paid for, by those very same banks and Wall Street financiers. You are right, we are NOT living in a democracy. The illusion is real, we vote for a president and place fault for failures, and praise when things go well.......except when it comes to Obama.

He gets shit no matter what.

But in reality, it's Congress that moves law, policy and the like, because we live in a "democracy" and the majority rules. Really!? Then what happened in 2000? See, even I'm doing it. It's ingrained into our DNA. "I pledge allegiance" "salute the flag" "In God We Trust" - Matrix, the illusion that
we, the people are being heard. We are the best country in the world.....
then why do we have the highest prison population in the world? Why do we have homeless? Veterans committing suicide (22 a day) PTSD and other ailments. The veil is slowly being lifted, the Matrix is being exposed and people can't accept it.

That's the Matrix in a nutshell. Free your mind!


SGG

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
It isn't that we are literally living in the Matrix, as depicted in the movie, it is that the idea of the Matrix exists and we are living in it.
It is all about control.

The laws that protect the banks are bought and paid for, by those very same banks and Wall Street financiers. You are right, we are NOT living in a democracy. The illusion is real, we vote for a president and place fault for failures, and praise when things go well.......except when it comes to Obama.

He gets shit no matter what.

But in reality, it's Congress that moves law, policy and the like, because we live in a "democracy" and the majority rules. Really!? Then what happened in 2000? See, even I'm doing it. It's ingrained into our DNA. "I pledge allegiance" "salute the flag" "In God We Trust" - Matrix, the illusion that
we, the people are being heard. We are the best country in the world.....
then why do we have the highest prison population in the world? Why do we have homeless? Veterans committing suicide (22 a day) PTSD and other ailments. The veil is slowly being lifted, the Matrix is being exposed and people can't accept it.

That's the Matrix in a nutshell. Free your mind!


SGG

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It is not the Matrix, it's the Republicans. Did you mention Bush v Gore (2000)? Yes, you did. That case was decided by Supreme Court Justices Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, all nominated by Reagan the Republican and Supreme Court Justice Thomas nominated by Bush Senior the Republican. These Justices claim they are without politics and only decide based on the Constitution. I am going to go out on a limb and say that the Justices appointed by Republicans are real Republicans, not logic machines making apolitical decisions.

And the banking laws being undermined by Congress? It is not really all of Congress, it is really Sen. Richard C. Shelby, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and a Republican.

The government is not beyond our control as in the Matrix analogy. The majority in Congress and the Supreme Court is Republican. If you don't like the government, then stop voting Republican. 6IXSTRINGJACK thinks President Trump is no ordinary Republican and he will bring a big change for the better. I think Trump is a another Republican and there won't be any such a change imagined by 6IXSTRINGJACK.

I realize that most people can't name the politicians (other than the Pres.) that screwed them. Instead, it is always the foggy idea that the "government" screwed them. If you don't know the names, and which names did what, you can't place the blame where it belongs. Nameless politicians can do anything and never get blamed.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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