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I fought the PayPal and I won

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Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by throw_m239339 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #116
hairybobbins wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'TERFs' are just feminists who want to retain female-only spaces. This is not a viewpoint that's even remotely comparable to Nazism, whose adherents are a distinct group with a set of beliefs that are inherently contradictory to feminism.

The venn diagram intersection between Nazis and TERFs is shockingly high. Just look at who is constantly pushing anti-Trans narratives - it's Evangelicals and the wider GQP. Only a very negligible part of the tankie Left is also pushing that kind of crap.

> The venn diagram intersection between Nazis and TERFs is shockingly high. Just look at who is constantly pushing anti-Trans narratives - it's Evangelicals and the wider GQP. Only a very negligible part of the tankie Left is also pushing that kind of crap.

The intersection between the people who want to experiment on children with off label drugs, castrate chemically or surgically teenagers who have mental issues, and nazi doctors such a Mengele is even shockingly higher, because these are the real world consequences of an ideology.

All that insanity will ultimately cease with the avalanche of law suits incoming for medical malpractice, mutilation and torture, all done under guise of "care".

You can't separate the body from the mind, and you can't mend an unhealthy mind by butchering an healthy body, the proof is in the fact that people who suffer from these delusions are in need for constant validation of their alternative reality.

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by aidenn0 »

TheFreim wrote: post #180
bluenotebo0k wrote: post #174

"I suspected it had something to do with my involvement in a certain group named after a certain slavery abolitionist." What's the group? I clicked on the link and it points to a podcast that's over 1.5 hours long.

The only one I could think of would be the John Brown Gun Club. One of their members committed a terrorist attack on an ICE facility back in 2019 so perhaps that's why PayPal flagged the post author. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_John_Brown_Gun_C...

That seems to check out given that the author lives in the PNW.

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And specifically mentions liking guns in the about page.

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by Scharkenberg »

solarkraft wrote: post #226
Scharkenberg wrote: post #144

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AFAIK banks here charge extra for that.

Where's here? Haven't seen this in Germany.

I am in Germany too, currently with Deutsche Bank but moving to ING.

I've never been in a situation where a next-day SEPA transfer wasn't good enough though.

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by phillipdi »

In Australia we have AFCA, the AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY

https://www.afca.org.au/make-a-complaint

This is AWESOME, other countries have it.

Paypal refunded a customer over one thousand dollars despite the tracking number AND the buyer saying the item was delivered after they opened a case, the buyer simply failed to close the case but they commented on the case saying it was delivered and tracking showed it was delivered.

AFCA got my money back, got them to pay me compensation and I got a personal apology from someone in Ireland over the phone.

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by nullc »

baidifnaoxi wrote: post #161

ITT: people that think PayPal was acting alone as a “private” company. I’m under the firm belief that this is just our federal government pushing a censorship and “misinformation” policy that is unconstitutional, but using pressure on private companies to accomplish said policies. Twitter docs leaked: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat... PayPal: https://www.techdirt.com/2010/12/07/visa-mast…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by fsckboy »

IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #256
rjh29 wrote: post #143

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PayPal is excellent for buyers, horrible for sellers. Just don't keep any money in it and don't let them convert currency for you.

But not keeping money on them is NOT enough as a seller to extricate yourself from that morass. They will find subtle ways to force-link your real bank account to paypal, and then its game over. They have the keys to the kingdom. One day you will get some random charge on your account that keeps growing and growing and you don't recognize the transaction at all, but you can't do anything because they can pay themselv…

> They will find subtle ways to force-link your real bank account to paypal, and then its game over. They have the keys to the kingdom.

for most reasonable sized US banks, once you have one account that has enough money not to be charged fees, you can open additional accounts with them, and easily transfer money between them. You could open a paypal-only account and keep it empty. You could also close it, and open another one whenever you need to verify an account with PayPal again

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Post by dawnbreez »

Vecr wrote: post #319
dawnbreez wrote: post #293

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The trick here is that we're looking at dogwhistles. To someone outside the theater of culture-war this takes place in, this looks like a series of perfectly ordinary statements. Of course sex is binary, and that statement doesn't sound like it conflicts with gender being a spectrum, because sex and gender are obviously separate. However, to someone who has lived within this theater of culture-war--who have been deal…

I'm not sure why people talk about insects and goldfish and things like that, when someone says "sex is binary" and they are talking about humans, they mean "human sex is binary". Anything that may or may not be true about other species does not matter for the argument. I'll say "as a general rule, human sex is binary" if you really want that changed.

That's a bit more accurate, though it still sweeps a few edge cases under the rug.

Choosing phrases and words that more clearly express what you mean is a good thing. Communication is hard enough under normal circumstances, and on topics like this, things get even more complicated because of groups who are trying to conflate seemingly-innocent phrases with their own arguments (both to make their own arguments sound like there's already widespread support, and to make their opponents seem unreasonable, as I described above). You should try to be sure that you're saying what you actually mean, and try to avoid unintentional meaning from phrases that have been coopted by others.

On the other hand: Why, exactly, does it matter whether biological sex is binary or not? The other half of trying to say what you mean is understanding what you actually mean. What are you arguing toward?

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by dawnbreez »

leephillips wrote: post #300
dawnbreez wrote: post #296

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This sounds like you're conflating biological sex (i.e., having both breasts and a penis) with gender (i.e., person IDs as female). I understand why; they use almost the same terms. However, it is important to note that, if you are describing a person who was assigned female at birth, and continues to identify as female, that's entirely describing their gender , not the state of their biological sex characteristics.…

I don’t see where I’ve conflated anything, nor do I understand your attempt to show where I have. “Biological sex” is redundant; sex is a biological classification. There isn’t any other kind.

You argue that people who are intersex regularly identify as male or female, and do not like being pointed to as trans representation...but that's not describing their biological sex characteristics, that's describing their gender identity. You're describing someone who identifies as cis-male or cis-female, despite their biological sex characteristics.

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by hairybobbins »

mschuster91 wrote: post #116
hairybobbins wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'TERFs' are just feminists who want to retain female-only spaces. This is not a viewpoint that's even remotely comparable to Nazism, whose adherents are a distinct group with a set of beliefs that are inherently contradictory to feminism.

The venn diagram intersection between Nazis and TERFs is shockingly high. Just look at who is constantly pushing anti-Trans narratives - it's Evangelicals and the wider GQP. Only a very negligible part of the tankie Left is also pushing that kind of crap.

It's not, you have confused several different groups. Those you refer to as 'TERFs' are the feminists with a gender critical viewpoint, who are focused on women's rights and ending sex-based oppression.

I mean, can you imagine a Nazi, or someone in the other groups you mentioned, signing this declaration: https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/declaration-womens-sex-...? It's an entirely different ideological perspective.

This is a good article on where the gender critical feminists are coming from, and the rationale behind their activism: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2

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