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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 filed »

darawk wrote: post #157
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #137

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Conservatives could not deny service for a personalized cake to a gay couple without unbelievable fights that they barely won at SCOTUS, but left-wing companies can deplatform as much as they want from their generic service if they don’t like your politics. I don’t have to be conservative to say it’s extremely hypocritical.

The difference in political significance between a broadcasting platform and 10 million dollars vs a cake is a little hard to ignore.

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Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by hervature »

gruez wrote: post #117
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…

I think what they are trying to say is that a country can always increase its GDP by increasing population. Of course, if 2x the amount of people that are eating a pie that is 1.1x bigger, the quality of life has dramatically decreased. For the people immigrating, Canada is obviously appealing just simply from a security point of view. All things equal, they don't really care if their quality of life is the same as long as they won't randomly be killed.

Of course, this all needs to be substantiated with facts to actually show the cause of the issue. I honestly don't know if Canada's immigration levels are too high and causing problems for the middle class or if the OP is just angry that an Indian family now operates their local Husky.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by DeWilde »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #101
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…

As a Canadian, it's been utterly shocking to watch our country crumble in the last few years. This summer I'll be moving away for good. In the last decade I've seen most of my family leave for the US due to the higher incomes. I always kept hope that maybe Canada would get better. It hasn't, it's gotten very bad. The insane level of immigration has eroded away any leverage the working class has. Now you see all that…

I've been looking to move to Canada (vs moving to US due to more sane social services like healthcare and pension system), is what you are describing present all over Canada or just in some parts of it?

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by throwaway48375 »

NeverFade wrote: post #29
bink wrote: post #8

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The article says they've changed their stance and that's exactly what they're doing.

They "changed their stance" after DeSantis initiated a fraud investigation against them for their original "stance".

They also received a massive amount of chargebacks precipitating this decision.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by edmundsauto »

chr1 wrote: post #68
16012022 wrote: post #25

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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?

When you have several groups of people who distrust and dislike each other, and you start using your business as a means to support the fight of one group against the other, you only increase the enmity between the groups and harm all businesses by starting a process that forces everyone to choose which group to support. It does not matter whether the reason for initial distrust is religion, ethnicity, race, sexual o…

You’re going to be really upset then to think about the business organizations that receive tax breaks in order to influence politics. Many non-profits exist only for this purpose.

The only reason abortion is a political issue, for example, is because of the outsized influence that tax exempt organizations have.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by tootahe45 »

I reported a funeral fundraiser for a criminal gang where i live a few weeks ago to Gofundme. These funerals involve reckless, high speed driving by hundreds of bikies wearing Swastika vests who hurl violence/verbal abuse at people if they happen to get in the way. I provided all this info and they didn't do anything.

A reasonable person would think a Gofundme for a group who derive their income from the methamphetamine trade would be higher risk than a bunch of truckies, but then again it didn't raise near $10m usd.

This is the kind of thing the gang does during funerals, for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A30VPyeXVv4

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Post by filed »

thatnerdyguy wrote: post #148
filed wrote: post #144

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Uh, so the solution is to deny food to your fellow human beings because you slightly disagree on marginal political issues?

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Post by stirfish »

alea_iacta_est wrote: post #142
wesleywt wrote: post #127

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Are you sure you are on the right side of the argument yourself? Suppose next year, the government mandate that you lose weight, or stop smoking or run everyday, all that of course for the "greater good". And then the year after that, it requires that you give pills to your children because that makes them "less indisciplined" and so on and so forth. Stop being so certain and think a little bit. By accepting this man…

That's a pretty cool slippery slope you just constructed. You've almost convinced me, but you forgot to tell me that they'll take my guns and make me gay.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by fbaKsq »

If you want to see the spokesman of the freedom convoy directly, this is an interview by Dave Rubin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEXy8yrjYqw

Rubin is Jewish/gay, Dichter is Jewish. But according to Trudeau they are homophobes, racists and white supremacists. The recording is from shortly before the deplatforming, so it not up to date.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by HPsquared »

brokensegue wrote: post #93
peteradio wrote: post #70

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Mandates will always be political.

At least in the US lots of vaccines are mandated (of children) and it's not political.

It is a little bit political, usually doesn't reach the national level though.
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