Due_Platypus_3913 t1_jdjhjc8 wrote on March 24, 2023 at 8:55 PM

Reply to comment by Gingerbread-Cake in Struggling high-cost lender Amigo has said it will halt all lending and wind down its business after failing to raise extra funds from investors. by Naive-Maintenance244

Never saw or heard of any of those previously.Most of the “Patriot Act” has NOTHING To Do with 9/11, or even National security.Every piece of “fuck the working folk sideways “ideas they had stacked up,but could never even say them out loud.It was all jammed together,and a vote was called before ANY REPS could even possibly read it.W said ,on TV,”A no vote makes you a t’rist sympathizer!”That,and”Citizens United “have had America in a downward spiral ever since.

Gingerbread-Cake t1_jdk0yd0 wrote on March 24, 2023 at 11:14 PM

Oh, I remember that shit, all right. All my Republican friends were gung ho for it, shit talking about a “war of civilizations” and other such thought-stopping nonsense. My Democrat friends were mostly for it, also, but less emphatic about it.

I saw 9/11 as a bully getting punched in the nose (no offense to anyone who lost someone there, I’m talking geopolitics, not personal) and was a little surprised that view wasn’t voiced more often.

The patriot act should have been repealed wholesale years ago, but no, the “border” of the U.S. still extends way inland, the expanded surveillance powers still hold up, there’s still secret courts etc etc etc.

That’s a lot of words to say that I’m 100% in agreement with you, just persnickety about historic details.

Due_Platypus_3913 t1_jdloq97 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 9:16 AM

Well,you do remember those things pretty much the way I do.

Gingerbread-Cake t1_jdntxg5 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 8:14 PM

It is also good to hear that. I don’t entirely trust my own memory.

Due_Platypus_3913 t1_jdnyz5h wrote on March 25, 2023 at 8:51 PM

They throw so much crap at you.