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Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by Mikeb85 »

16012022 wrote: post #25
temp8964 wrote: post #15

GoFundMe should be political neutral, but it openly turns left. I recommend a long post explaining this phenomenon: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-is-everything-libe...

It’s a private company, it absolutely does not need to be neutral. They can choose any side they want. If you don’t like it, don’t use their platform. Gosh, when did the notion of private firms got so mixed up with so-called political neutrality? Are people this naïve?

> It’s a private company, it absolutely does not need to be neutral.

Then state that they're not neutral on the TOS and don't accept funds.

They accepted funds and then tried to straight up steal them.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by lowlevel »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #75
scythe wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>why answer honestly with Canada’s level of restrictions and penalties? Surely you jest. Polls are anonymous. And even if the security is bad, nobody is scrutinizing IP logs of poll respondents. Maybe in Kazakhstan or something, but freedom in the West has not fallen that far. People do lie on polls, of course, but it's usually about self-expression, not self-protection. I'd imagine that vaccinated truckers are more…

This poll was not conducted online.

And probably had only answers that supported whatever hypothesis they were trying to assert.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by Natsu »

jsploit wrote: post #82
throwawaysea wrote: post #4

Apparently Elon Musk also got involved and called GoFundMe “professional thieves”, because they were going to redirect donations intended for Canadian protesters to other (likely left leaning) causes: https://nypost.com/2022/02/05/elon-musk-gofundme-professiona... He also called out their double standard for claiming to not support protests that aren’t peaceful after they funded so many violent riots and illegal acti…

> they were going to redirect donations intended for Canadian protesters to other (likely left leaning) causes Per the article you linked, donors have two weeks to request a refund, and any remaining funds will be redirected to causes chosen by the Freedom Convoy organizers: > Donors have until Feb. 19 to ask for a refund, and the rest of the money the group raised would be allocated to “credible and established char…

A few things regarding this:

* They already reversed that policy and plan to do direct refunds.

* This policy itself was new and a departure from past practices, likely due to the legal troubles it would create for them.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by dang »

johncena33 wrote: post #110

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Please do not add hellish nationalistic flamewar—which is what this comment points straight into—in addition to the ideological flamewar we've already got with this topic. These things are not what HN is for. We want curious conversation here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30224349.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by krapp »

jakelazaroff wrote: post #91
temp8964 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s just a far-left claiming everyone else is right-wing. It’s a common thing in their group.

Literally three comments up is someone claiming “Democrat” and “Communist” are synonyms.

I mean, I've seen Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama referred to as Marxists and Communists numerous times. "Liberal" has been a pejorative for Democrats and progressives for decades. Nuance is not a property that American political discourse possesses.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by iqanq »

bigodbiel wrote: post #63
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even more stupid: Canadian media and Twitter users saying they are “fringe” because by a poll (totally no incentive to lie on those), 85% of truckers are vaccinated. To which I say: A. I bet more than 15% are unvaccinated because why answer honestly with Canada’s level of restrictions and penalties? B. If it is actually 15%, that’s not fringe, and also that’s low enough that dropping the mandate should be reasonable…

I can’t understand this dichotomy. Just because one is vaccinated, does not mean they are pro-mandates.

In fact, shouldn't it be the opposite way? Imagine getting vaxxed just so you are forced to stay home or wear a mask everywhere just like everybody else.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by gruez »

mercy_dude wrote: post #71

I spent a decent part of my adult life in Canada and I can’t believe what in God’s name is happening to that place. Canada is experiencing a severe housing bubble at the backdrop of Chinese snow washing, wage stagnation is real and middle class is slowly getting wiped out. The only thing keeping the GDP at the level it is is high level of immigration which favours the wealthy in the name of a “point based immigration…

>The only thing keeping the GDP at the level it is is high level of immigration which favours the wealthy in the name of a “point based immigration system”.

Is that supposed to be bad? The main factors that contribute to your points are language skills, education, work experience, age, and job offer. It's true that those requirements favor the wealthy, but would canada be better served by immigrants that don't speak english, are inexperienced, old, and don't have a job lined up?

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by baud147258 »

driverdan wrote: post #23
throwawaysea wrote: post #4

Apparently Elon Musk also got involved and called GoFundMe “professional thieves”, because they were going to redirect donations intended for Canadian protesters to other (likely left leaning) causes: https://nypost.com/2022/02/05/elon-musk-gofundme-professiona... He also called out their double standard for claiming to not support protests that aren’t peaceful after they funded so many violent riots and illegal acti…

Why does anyone care what Elon Musk says about this situation? It has nothing to do with his businesses.

People can have opinions outside of their jobs and donate money too.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by tandymodel100 »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #27

Also keep in mind that in the backdrop of all this is the fact that our Prime Minister has called the protesters racists and misogynists. Probably inspiring someone who ran over some protesters in Winnipeg. Canadian news and politicians are desperately trying to denounce the protesters while ignoring the fact that Canada has some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world at the moment, while the US has hardly a…

> protesters racists and misogynists

That's probably because of the Nazi and Confederate flags people are waving.

In my opinion, they should cry it out or quit given Canada's 1 dose vaccination rate is in the 80% range.

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