Direct link to Patreon's statement: https://blog.patreon.com/on-the-removal-of-come-back-alive
On the removal of Come Back Alive
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Re: On the removal of Come Back Alive
#22You can also donate to entities like https://www.unhcr.org/ . Could someone suggest other reputable options? Tangentially (as far as I can tell this doesn’t apply to the Patreon in this post), seeing social media scam profiting from the tragedy by tricking people into reposting shady donation links is disheartening.
Well, I am sure Caritas Internationalis is there helping.
https://www.caritas.org/where-caritas-work/europe/ukraine/
(I have just made a donation).
Re: On the removal of Come Back Alive
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's self-defense. Or is that bad too?
We all know the final outcome of this. In the face of the overwhelming force Ukraine faces it seems to me any help we provide is just going to prolong the agony.
That's not a given. And dragging out the fight gives other forces a chance, too.
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#24Their comment is technically valid. The timing of the block is bad though. It'd be great if they could comment on the timing.
One twitter comment mentions the account has been active for several years. Call me paranoid, but it's too big of a coincidence that it was closed exactly today.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe violence is still bad.
It's self-defense. Or is that bad too?
There is an important but subtle difference between violence and force, and people use both terms as if they were the same. They are not.
Violence is exaggerated force.
You can kill a man and not be exerting violence (like in self-defence).
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#26"It is a violation of our policies, and so we have removed the page."
What a shit fucking response.
Following a policy that you arbitrarily created yourself is not a reasonable justification for anything.
Re: On the removal of Come Back Alive
#27Russian visitors of my foss project (https://www.filestash.app/) now see the message of peace address to them by president Zelenskyy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwzb_JX7u04
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#28"It is a violation of our policies, and so we have removed the page." What a shit fucking response. Following a policy that you arbitrarily created yourself is not a reasonable justification for anything.
“We don’t allow Patreon to be used for funding weapons or military activity. It is a violation of our policies, and so we have removed the page. All remaining funds in the account will be refunded to contributors.”
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#29The flow of money seems to be one major battleground in this war. The biggest sanctions so far are disallowing to exchange funds with some russian banks. And the "nuclear option" is to disallow Russia from using the SWIFT system. What are the chances that this conflict will completely change how trading is done between countries? Could the USA, Europe, South Korea etc simply "nullify" all Russian holdings of their cu…
Kicking them out of SWIFT would hurt but China built an alternative system called CIPS. It’s nowhere near as big but it out there. But if China and Russia both used CIPS more then that would threaten the US dollar’s power as the global reserve currency.
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#30Direct link to Patreon's statement: https://blog.patreon.com/on-the-removal-of-come-back-alive
I’m so disappointed with their stance here. Russians are slaughtered these folks and they can’t get funds to defend themselves? Sickening.