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Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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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.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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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?

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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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...

This article does not support your claim. It talks about things being liberal, which is a right-wing, pro-market ideology and fundamentally incompatible with leftism.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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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 any and European nations are mostly moving to remove all restrictions.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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If you send money to fascists be prepared for the money to be intercepted. Simple as that

The people opposed to government-enforced medical mandates are fascists?

The wordhas truly lost all meaning. Though according to Orwell, it already had even before the end of WW2

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Why do people have to request refunds? Shouldn't they able to do that automatically?

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".
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