Push a billionaire with a lot of reach to cryptocurrency when there's a trade war and possibly a world war brewing, brilliant move!

this sort of pre-emptive PR crap by financial institutions and payment processors is going to backfire.

Kanye is having an episode, so it might not be this go around but this sort of thing is going to wind up getting regulated hard.

Wtf.. wow. We're in the wrong business.

Kanye’s not discussing ultra orthodox habits or genital mutilation or any other aspect of religion. From what we’ve seen, nobody was discussing religion, it’s just racism.

(Just kidding, this perspective would fall under victim blaming, I think.)

It does seem unnecessary for a bank to be interacting on social media, though. How does it make sense for them to spend time on it?

The financial I work for has official channels on most platforms and dedicated teams who do basically advertising and customer support type stuff via social media channels. Complain about something on @OfficalBankChannel, and someone can see it and hopefully respond positively. This isn't just some random employees slacking off on Instagram or twitter or whatever; it's their job.

So if the bank perceives someone is threatening people over a social media channel, it can be treated the same as someone threatening over the phone to a call center or in a branch location. And there can be consequences.

Probably a typo on his part but that’s certainly a threat in my opinion.

Although to be clear I don’t feel bad for Kanye at all. What a fucking jackass.

2. Kanye wasn’t “calling for death con 3”, nor did I ever claim that the truckers were? And since you want to get technical, you’re not even correct: he said he be “going death con 3” when he woke up. Kanye obviously alluding to an impending Twitter rant. Only a fool would misconstrue it otherwise, and if you think people want to ‘follow’ Kanye as a leader, I’ll remind you of his abysmal 2020 election results.

3. Honestly, the truckers got what they deserved too. The truckers were disrupting traffic and causing a nuisance to citizens with whom they had no quarrel. In reality. Kanye on the other hand, well, to quote Dave Chappelle: “Twitter’s not a real place.”

4. It’s a vote for Bitcoin because you can rest assured that the planet is full of people who would prefer to be unregulated assholes if given the choice.

5. > Banks can choose who they do business with and always have.

Weird thing to say, because you’re obviously agreeing with me, but it’s in a context where you’re trying to disagree? You lost me.

Kanye did do that, that is likely the reason JPM closed his accounts. I think the person you’re speaking with thought you knew that and were comparing the truckers protesting to that.

You are fairly unique globally in this view.

My understanding is that you realise Jews are an ethno-religious group, but you believe criticism of Jews is generally based around religious ideas rather than race.

My belief is that unless religious law is specifically mentioned the simplest case - racism - is the most likely reason. Occam's razor and all.

Does that mean that if I talk bad about Christianity that I am racist as well?

2. No Christianity isn’t a race. You could also speak about the negative parts of Jewish religion, ie genital mutilation or orthodox people asking others to use electricity for them, which would be reasonable criticisms.

BTW it isn't just circumcision but spreading herpes to newborns after sucking on the circumcised penises.

It can! I've acknowledged as such in the two threads.

> If you're saying that people that aren't descendents from the region can't be Jews then that is racist.

I haven't said that. It looks like you're just being inflammatory rather than having any kind of response to my points.

HN needs a block feature. dang?