Notices by MyLittleFashy (mylittlefashy@poa.st)

First off, a general update on the pension reform protests in France.

Nothing much is happening that is newsworthy, strikes are still going on as “days of action” as a show of force, to show that the movement’s ability to mobilize is there.

But the general strike and its total paralysis is postponed to after the constitutional council’s (kind of our supreme court) analysis of the law.

The idea being that putting pressure on them could make them reject the law on a procedural issue (it was forced through the parliament with a mechanism that is designed for budgetary laws, not structural laws).

If they do, then Macron can either do nothing and look like a bitch, make it a referendum matter and probably look like a bitch, or dissolve the parliament hoping to get a new majority and some legitimacy from new elections which is dangerous for reasons I will go into in more details later.

If they don’t, then general strike it is, those have never failed to make the government capitulate in France, a general strike is the nuclear option, Macron being very stubborn, he probably will try to hold the line and I have no idea how far it can go in that case ^^

@LouisConde Ok, on second reading, I see where they are going, and … err… that’s some Trump admin shit that just took long to cook, it has all the smells of a Republican piece of legislation.

It’s basically formalizing the sanctions they have already put in place on export of sensitive technology, so that they don’t have to do a special appeal to individual corporations and custom export control rulesets (that are a joke to run around).

On paper of course it’s about muh china, but I know exactly who is targeted as an end-game, surprise it’s got nothing to do with china, this is your classical US “we love free trade and international competition, except when we lose” regulation, and it’s designed to fuck with Airbus first and foremost, or at the very least, give leverage over Airbus, and through it over the German and French governments in case they get uppity.

@LouisConde I’ll have to read it in detail, but from a first impression standpoint, it won’t change a thing about how foreigners treat with American citizens, it’s already a thing for a lot of EU and Asian corporate shit, to be behind a “If you are an American citizen, click cancel right now and do not ever try to read further” wall.

What it seems to do is make the risk go both ways, so maybe Americans will have to actually… you know, click cancel ^^

Unfortunately we never added the “or have an Israeli passport” part to that standard disclaimer…

1. Join the WTO, you bunch of dirty poor socialists, it will make you prosperous and give you access to a huge market
2. Hey, we saw you giving preferential prices to your own industry, you can’t do that, WTO rules !
3. Look, it’s better for everyone if we share massive technology investments, don’t worry because we are WTO members too, so we can’t cut you off.
4. What ! You dare spend a single euro in Iran/BestKorea/Russia/NewHitlerOfTheMonth, you don’t get access to tech anymore, any American who deals with you will go to federal prison and if your corporate leadership dares step on US soil, to gitmo they go !
5. Profit, “WTO” What is that, we are red blooded Americans, we don’t do international organizations here !

Been there, done that, got the polo shirt, they did that to our banking industry with 9/11 and now are doing it again for anything that could be linked to high tech because of Ukraine/MuhChina.

@graf @PhenomX6 Yeah, it’s ridiculous…

But to be fair, I did use an alphastation running openbsd as a router for a decade, when it rightfully belonged in a museum.

Security through “WTF is that CPU arch” obscurity…

@LouisConde @DW2 @Boomerman @MechaSilvio @johnbudd1350 | Also, the French didn’t betray the Vietnamese like the American government did to Saigon.

I know, my first real bankster job was for what used to be the bank of Indochina, which as you can deduce from the name has a …checkered past… and the Viet commies still chose working with greedy pillaging colonist bankers over being in the same room with friendly anti-colonial US state department officials ^^

@LouisConde @DW2 @Boomerman @MechaSilvio @johnbudd1350 Imagine thinking that half a century later the Viets wouldn’t still prefer working with the French than the Anglos.

Not really that we were so great, but hey, not being the guys who made part of the country a toxic wasteland with agent orange goes a long way…

@node @WashedOutGundamPilot Sure, but allying themselves to globohomo is a huge step down the path.

Eastern europeans all have the same idea that wealth can be extracted from the west without importing sodomy, that joining the EU, or NATO is just about economics and military alliances.

And they all get fucked in the ass so fast by doing it that they often manage to overtake older members of globohomo in merely a decade, it’s not about a hypothetical future, it’s the reality already for Czechs and Poland and Romania are not far behind.

You either take the money and jew dick in the ass, or you don’t take the money.

@ChristiJunior @jacklaridian Every nigger already has half his origin story completed, he lost his father.

@PoalackJokes88 @end @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @shaunh @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra IF you were to be anonymous hiding behind lawyers and a bank, you could actually own a corporation and never be linked to it even with US gov levels of investigative power, legal and illegal, you need a few cutouts but it is possible.

But that shields you, not the corporation that you control, they can still take your toy away.

The hundreds of billions of dollars of seized russian money are the perfect example of that, some of it they have no idea who actually owns it, they just know it links to russia at some point and take it…

@PoalackJokes88 @end @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @shaunh @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra My first real job in banking was doing exactly that, for people who didn’t want their investments to be linked to their name for diverse reasons.

That business went tits up on 9/11 tho, even we stopped doing that.

@end @PoalackJokes88 @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @shaunh @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra The good old days of the Clipper chip fiasco, I don’t like the fact that I remember that shit.

@end @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @shaunh @PoalackJokes88 @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra Trusting middleboxes in so called secure networks has always been a weakness of telecom guys, I would agree that the ITU promotes that mindset by design…

@Boomerman @Giga_Vril_Breaker @Tactical @AnimeTradCath @JSDorn @MechaSilvio @RowdyRamzan @WashedOutGundamPilot @johnbudd1350 @mkultra I mean, Conte is an autiste and can have unconventional masculinity(TM) moments ^^

But that was known forever, if it wasn’t an issue for years, why is it now ?

Now that he started a dramastorm, obviously separation is a rational option, but that’s inverting the causality a little bit…

@Giga_Vril_Breaker @Tactical @Boomerman @AnimeTradCath @JSDorn @MechaSilvio @RowdyRamzan @WashedOutGundamPilot @johnbudd1350 @mkultra Apart from a very few people that I joyfully ignore because I can only read “Mike’s Wife” so many times without pulling my beard out of frustration, I’m not seeing much if any allegation of wrongs in the legal sense, legal risk yes, legal wrongs, not so much because let’s be honest, as long as nobody with standing gets a judge involved, there is nothing to say legally, it’s all civil law shit, not criminal.

It’s more about a level of approximation in the communication of what could be a serious legal matter that isn’t great, I for one would have respected total silence on the matter from the involved parties, but once communication is made, fuzzyness is bad for everyone involved.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @johnbudd1350 @RowdyRamzan @mkultra @MechaSilvio @Boomerman @AnimeTradCath What he said, I do believe in the amateurish clusterfuck theory a lot more than in any nefarious motive of anybody involved, but that clusterfuck does look worse than I imagined.

Very few, if any, organization, especially one handling internet money, look great when under a magnifying lens, but there is looking bad and there’s … OMG MY PANTS ARE ON FIRE bad…

@WashedOutGundamPilot @end @shaunh @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @mkultra Trustworthy natives have a name, they are called “lawyers”, but yeah, that depends on the size of the operation, over a certain size you will not want any lawyer, you will want a lawyer from a bank that is both big enough to be square with you as a client, and flexible enough that your specific activity is ok with her, and her regulator/sovereign.

At some point/size, you do need a major state to have your back, but you can do a lot while under that size…

@end @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @shaunh @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra I just learned I was not on the no fly list anymore, so it’s ok, THEY decided it was far enough in the past to be ok ^^

@shaunh @end @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra You don’t get the trick, the offshore corporation does not touch any money, it doesn’t really need a bank at all.

It just holds shares/titles/whatever to the real corporation that runs in a more mature country.

As such, it’s not going to change anything about your corporate taxes, you still owe them in the US, fucking with those is a lot harder than hiding who ultimately “owns” the corporation, which is what that assembly does.

You would get fucked in the ass by KYC requirements if you had a bank account there anyways, not that there are no ways to avoid those, but it’s not that easy ^^

@end @shaunh @Quentel @doctorsex @matty @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra It’s not illegal -everywhere-, you just need to not be a US citizen, and maybe in the worst cases, never set foot on US soil ;-)