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For those who think this is far fetched and have the freedom to work remotely and want to experience most of the tactics from this article first hand, try movin
by manxman 4y ago
For those who think this is far fetched and have the freedom to work remotely and want to experience most of the tactics from this article first hand, try moving to The Isle of Man.
If you’re British and work in tech you don’t even need a visa and the tax rates are good. Things will seem relatively normal for around the first year - sometimes longer sometimes less.
You’ll notice subtle negativity from people and think they don’t get it. But that’s what they want you to think. The low tax economy is a privilege the locals keep for themselves. They fund it by creating psychological hell for newcomers they don’t like using most of the tactics documented in the article and bleeding the targets dry. The police and justice system are totally complicit and will overtly signal they part of the game.
You will eventually have legal trouble and find the lawyers (called advocates on the island) do not provide any client confidentiality and lie to you while relaying any information they learn about you (all while bleeding you dry).
The locals all know each other. You will be told this and will initially think it’s quaint.
What they really mean is they are very practiced in messing with your psychology and everything you do will be observed and communicated by “nice neighbours” who are really the equivalent of Stasi informers. Repeating conversations or repeating information they research about your past in parallel stories is also what they do. Not seen the audio projection tech used but there’s a book published by Springer on the technology so it does exist.
Still sceptical? Look up the flag of the Isle of Man and then the flag of Sicily… draw your own conclusions.
- sacrosancty 4y ago> Still sceptical? Look up the flag of the Isle of Man and then the flag of Sicily… draw your own conclusions. Do they all have Legge locks on their doors by any chance?
- walterbell 4y agoThe historical evolution of these local practices would be interesting, including any agreement to exclude such practices from written history. Is there a process by which some new people are approved, or is the local population self-sustaining from new births?
- manxman 4y ago“In all revolutions the vanquished are the ones who are guilty of treason, even by the historians,” Vest said, “for history is written by the victors and framed according to the prejudices and bias existing on their side.” The idea that written history is an objective record is something that is loved by modern academics. In places that aren't seen to be "that" important, local social factors can affect what gets recorded. The Russians rewrote their history books. Britain still omits from its education system bits of history that are inconvenient or uncomfortable. Re: the population being self sustaining, not really. There is a fair amount of inbreeding that is visible in the population but not enough to sustain the population and keep the island running. Workers are imported and are left to do their thing. Higher incomes or high net-worths are a legitimate target - not just for the financial benefit but for sheer entertainment of the pedigrees.
- walterbell 4y agoThanks for adding to the online historical record, a necessary step for rebuttal, corroboration or triangulation with other jurisdictions.
- manxman 4y agoYep. Or if you're into the blockchain scene it could be argued that this centralised historical record is open to abuse and needs to be cryptographically verified and distributed in order for it to be in any way reliable? ;)
- walterbell 4y agoHistory is littered with mythical black boxes which fell short of hype and promises. F2F humans are gifted with multiple sensory channels of signal for evaluating narratives and records, no need to outsource judgement to shiny black blocks.
- manxman 4y ago
- heavenlyblue 4y agoWhere is this from?
- pif 4y agoWhich conclusions are we supposed to draw from the flags?
- brobinson 4y agoMafia tactics.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> draw your own conclusions. Sounds like the QAnon mantra "do your own research".
- GFlaneur 4y agoI moved to the Isle of Man in 2008. Personally I have not experienced "most of the tactics from this article". It seems that "manxman" may be getting some targeting that I am not.