I tend to use AmEx where I can - they seem to be the least cucky of the big three.
Long term, Crypto is our only hope. Seriously, have a genuine look at it. It is impossible for a government or bank to seize funds from people they don't like, or stop individuals or businesses from trading with each other.
I made a post about this before: https://thedonald.win/p/FzU0D7hI/x/c/12jcY3eX8K
Essentially, this is why major corporations virtue signal so much. The people who run these companies have no interest or stake in the success of the company - rather, their job is to cling on to power by being part of the "elite". Virtue signalling earns you points, and criticizing the left costs you points. At this point, we are very close to a full soycalist dictatorship, being run in collaboration with these huge corporations and the deep state (essentially one and the same, hence why they get preferential treatment in terms of government bailouts).
The only thing stopping us going all the wsy is the ability for small and medium sized businesses to exist. Which is why the left HATES small businesses so much, and so much of their behaviour and policies target smsller businesses the worst (high crime rates, pointless regulations, sky-high business taxes, needing to apply and pay for loicences to do anything, and now bank and payment censorship).
The ideal end-goal that the leftists want is a soyciety where the only businesses are massive corporations, and everyone will either be an effective government employee at one of these corporations, or be on welfare.
So Minneapolis have basically introduced their own UK police farce. (For those who don't know, the UK police don't bother investigating actual crime. Instead, they spend their time virtue signalling on Twitter, spending taxpayers' money on painting their cars with the pride flag, and go around harassing law-abiding citizens for posting mean comments on the internet. "Welcome to the UK, where everything is policed except crime.")
They have more power than the government. Visa and MasterCard can literally dictate who is allowed to trade with whom. No government has ever had that level of control over individual's finances in this way.
Imagine if every bank account and card you own was frozen overnight. Most people would be screwed. If they carry on like this, then people will literally starve to death.
Also fuck MasterCard for their own censorship (threatening to shut down Patreon unless they banned the accounts of people they did not like)
EDIT: And double-fuck Visa for their owner (Bank of America) giving $1BN to a terrorist organisation.
It's all very deliberate. It is the same reason that it is always the same people who end up on the board of these corporations, no matter how many businesses that they have destroyed through their failed leadership before. Once you're invited up to the elite, you will never be kicked out - there is always a very generous severance package and a new board position waiting for you if you fail. The only exception is if you start to challenge leftist dogma - then you will be 'disgraced' by the leftist media and forced out.
Another interesting fact - have you ever wondered who actually owns these corporations? And how these board members can still keep getting away with failure in the name of wokeness? Well, it turns out that nearly all of the major publicly listed corporations across the world are majority owned by pension/investment funds. Which means that pretty much anyone who has a pension or stock market investment account would hold a very small share in these corporations. In a bizarre twist of events, it turns out that Marx's dream of "the people" owning the means of production is already very close to the truth. But much like real socialism, the people have absolutely no say in how these corporations (the means of production) are operated.
The trouble is, the people that you would interact with as a shareholder could not care less about the future of the company, as long as it doesn't affect them. So your voice as a shareholder doesn't really count for anything. Much the same as most of the people in government not caring at all about the future of the country, as long as they get to keep power. Hence pushing for deeply divisive and unpopular woke policies. These massive corporations are much closer to being governments than most people realize.
Once you realize this, you can see why the left hate small businesses so much. They are the only barriers in the way to becoming full soycialist/woke.
I really hope so. The BLM stuff crossed quite a few lines with people here - destruction of war memorials does not go down well with the average Brit.
I like to think people here are a lot more aware of what is going on - how biased the media is (especially BBC) - how they shrug off murder, rioting and destruction of property as "peaceful protest" but when anyone stands peacefully in opposition they are described as "far right extremists".
Especially mixed in with the Covid stuff here - a few months back, they police were literally using drones to spy on people walking alone in the countryside and posting it on Twitter. Yet, when statues get destroyed and there's anarchy on the streets, the police celebrate it and join in.
The trouble is, the deep state runs very deep here. As you saw, you can now lose your job for simply being associated with a wrongthinker - not only that, but the press will print your name and address so you get to experience left wing nutters throwing bricks through your windows and vandalising your home. And you have to stand by and watch it happen. (Self-defence is technically legal under very strict conditions, but it is purposely very difficult to prove and you will bankrupt yourself when the government takes you to court over it. Of course, no guns allowed for self defence here.) There is a lot of other very nasty stuff the government can do to you if you decide to go against them - watch Tommy Robinson's Oxford speech, and also look up Carol Woods (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN8dvWXyK-s) and Melanie Shaw on Youtube if you want to see the extent the government will go to when you stand in their way.
With respect to demographics, the main issue is feminism - and I can't see this being corrected anytime soon. The UK law is extremely biased against men, both explicitly (family courts/divorce laws, "misogyny" being treated as a hate crime whereas misandry isn't) and implicitly (police and courts will always side with a woman, unless there is a literal mountain of evidence contradicting her). The laws are also structured in a way that makes it pretty much impossible for men to meet women naturally, as any time a woman claims that she feels "uncomfortable" or "pressured" technically means jail time - no matter the actual circumstances. As such, there are very few people in relationships having kids - and the ones that are follow their own version of the legal system that they are allowed to have (i.e. Muslims). There are a lot of single mother households however, but these have their own issues.
The UK government fight it every step of the way, swamping you with miles of red tape and a legal case running into the millions. Most cases give up at the first appeal stage, very few make it beyond as the costs at that point exceed the price of an average home. The only people who do make it to the end tend to be terrorists on "legal aid" - something that is definitely not open to the average citizen.
More relevant in the UK where three white men were stabbed to death in yet another peaceful terrorist attack of tolerance the day before the plane flew.
As usual this only got a brief mention in the media before running countless more race-baiting articles intending to stir up further hatred of white working class people.
The UK police (despite them being a complete joke) only killed two people last year - one of whom was a terrorist who already murdered people. So the BLM message makes no real sense here.
Just install Windows 7 and block automatic updates. That will stop the Windows 10 'speciality' of unremovable spyware whilst still maintaining compatibility with nearly all games. There is a reason why Microsoft is so desperate to get people to "upgrade" to 10.
BLM