(07-01-2023, 03:57 AM)Ninurta Wrote: This is hilarious! Not just the fact that they are putting this fear-porn out, but especially the fact that they are making folks believe it's happening and coming for them. Be afraid, be VERY Afraid! This dumbassed ESG crap and their D.I.E. scored are just fear porn distractions.
This ain't China. If you're reading this from China, I got one question - WHY? For the rest of us, we're not in China. This is not applying to us.
How the hell are they possibly going to score me? How will they know what I buy or who I buy it from? Do I get my own personal secretary to follow me around with a notebook and record my purchases? I use cash or barter only - no plastic. if you're in the plastic habit, well, here's your sign I reckon!
How the hell are they gonna know who I voted for? There's no party affiliation on my voter registration, and when I hit that booth to vote, I habitually throw an sharp elbow back to make sure no one followed me in... so how in the hell are they gonna know?
They're going to use my credit score? Good luck with that - mine is 30 years out of date. That's how long it's been since I used any credit. The only thing left on it now is my student loans, and they'll always be there - that system is designed to keep you in perpetual servitude, and to give the lenders a lifetime (yours) income. I've paid back 27,000 bucks on 9,000 bucks worth of loans, and they tell me I still owe 24,000 bucks - so, if you do the math, you'll see that I'll never live long enough to pay them off. That realization is part of why I got off that credit treadmill 30 years ago.
Just go down their ESG scoring list and evaluate each data collection point in light if the fact that you can just say no to their drugs. You might be amazed.
And what are their threats? they're not gonna let me invest in stuff? Well damn! That just scare the livin' shit outta me. well, I mean I guess it would, if I had money to invest in something... I got out of playing the stock market about 28 years ago. Not enough profit, too many bookkeeping headaches.
Maybe they're not gonna lend me any money to throw away on dumbassed "green" investments - you realize when you borrow that money to invest it, you're just taking it and giving it right back to them, with interest, right? So they get their money for nothing and their kicks for free, and leave you holding the bag and giving them MORE of your money (interest payments) for the privilege. It's just a way to extract your money from your own hot little hands into theirs, and make you think you're getting something for it when you aren't. But maybe that's their main threat... but, oh, remember what I said about getting off the credit hamster wheel above? Well shit! That ain't gonna work for them, either.
So, really (and to borrow a term from China) this is a paper tiger, with just paper teeth. Fear porn, nothing more, nothing less. They can kiss my ass with their D.I.E. scores. If you grow a pair, you can tell them to kiss your ass too. All it takes is to just say "NO" to their bullshit, and stick to it.
What are they gonna do? take away my birthday cake? Make me write bad checks - I don't have a checking account, hint, hint. So they can just kiss my ass and get outta here with their fear porn. I ain't skeert.
All they are doing with these threats is pushing a terror fix, and distracting folks that buy into the bullshit from more important issues.
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I hope so , but this will always be in the back of my mind. All this worry about whatever change they come up with next.
They are just high on power , but it won't stop some a**hole from trying this.