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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 seanw444 »

buscoquadnary wrote: post #141
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No it's not and this harmful absolutist rhetoric casting it as a tribe vs tribe till extinction matter will only further exactrebate the problems we are seeing. Most people are not angry idealougues hell bent on revolution most people are not white supermacists that hate all other races as inferior. Most people are decent people trying to make their way in the world for themselves and their families, the constant bom…

I'll be an absolutist against deplatforming and government overreach to the death. Wherever that lands me on the political spectrum over time, I don't care.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by 88j88 »

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".

the article says the opposite, that the investigation started after it was announced they would be refunded automatically.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by darawk »

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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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I'm vaccinated and I support everyone getting vaccinated. I do not think mandates are appropriate, though. Nor are they necessary at this point. The truckers are protesting forced vaccinations. I think if someone doesn't want to do their job because their job is forcing them to undergo a medical procedure that they do not want, that seems very legitimate to me.

And it also seems like a basic principle of liberal democracies that I thought we had all agreed on quite a while ago. Apparently not anymore.

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Post by emkoemko »

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Spotify hosts Joe Rogan, so I'm having a hard time seeing how they're leftist. If they were activists, they would have left that money on the table and never signed a contract with Rogan in the first place. It seems to me that they follow the money like most companies.

what? why do people keep calling a person who endorsed Bernie Sanders right wing? can someone explain this to me?

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by sixothree »

wesleywt wrote: post #127
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…

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They're protesting public health in general. Not just vaccines.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by filed »

saila wrote: post #182
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What you're framing as an extremely un-nuanced left/right dichotomy is really a power dichotomy. All the companies you're calling "leftist" seem quite conservative to me, regardless of their supposedly liberal veneer. They act within the existing political/economic system, have every incentive to maintain the status quo, and have nothing to gain by dismantling "the system (man)." They bow to pressures of the market a…

So maybe the problem is gov power and which companies are doing their bidding.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Post by defaultname »

This sort of discussion never goes well, but using GoFundMe to finance occupations, especially across national borders, is an incredibly dangerous game.

If a GoFundMe to harrass and harangue Ron DeSantis -- to effectively sponsor people to park outside his home and blast horns, among other things -- would he be okay with that? How about if Canadians paid millions for people to park on US interstates? Is that okay?

This is entirely outside of the mission of GoFundMe. And it's interesting how exactly the same group of people lamenting the paying of bail for BLM protesters are falling in line with rights for this trucker group to harass and occupy Canadian cities.

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Post by batty »

alea_iacta_est wrote: post #154
krapp wrote: post #146

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>By accepting this mandate we're not only accepting this jab, we're accepting all the future crazy ideas that the government will come with. No we're not. Accepting mandates doesn't somehow force everyone to automatically accept anything any politician claims or does in the future. That's not how anything works.

> That's not how anything works. That's how everything works, it's called a precedent.

That's not even how a precedent works.
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