Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hate is a pretty strong word for people resisting government overreach.
Quoted post unavailable.
No post body was provided.
Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
241–250 of 731 posts
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#242I hate both the protest group and desantis but honestly he’s right. The only reason gofundme (or any org with similar practices) do this is because they know that some people will miss the deadline, and the it becomes pure profit.
GoFundMe almost immediately changed their policy and instead directly refunded everyone
If this was a matter of politics, I think their politics would actually push them to make this decision more because the alternative was to make the organization that organized it choose another charity to give it to. That charity would likely be something that does not align with the politics of the average GFM employee
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
This is a classic slippery slope argument. Losing weight is not the same thing as a pandemic like this. The two-fold reason that these measures are taken is A) over-filling of hospitals and shut-down of all non-emergency services and B) extremely high death rate. Smoking or whatever scary slippery slope you think we're on is not the same thing as the ICU's filling up way over capacity and hundreds of thousands of peo…
This thread doesn't deserve your patience, and yet we are still blessed by this comment. We could all (myself included) try to be more like you.
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#244Anyone have commentary on how cryptocurrencies will step in to this space? Platforms like GoFundMe provide such a thin veneer of value. It's easy for them to overstep their bounds to the point where it's not worth it. If I were a journalist raising funds for a documentary I would be wary of such platforms.
(Didn't see this mentioned elsewhere in the thread)
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That's not how anything works. That's how everything works, it's called a precedent.
That's not even how a precedent works.
Oxford definition: "an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances."
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither i nor ii above apply to political (elected) officials. They are absolutely covered by the Hatch Act. If an elected official were to direct one of the exempted classes to perform a political act, the act of directing them would be a crime.
>Neither i nor ii above apply to political (elected) officials. They are absolutely covered by the Hatch Act. From the linked article again: >Its main provision prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government, Do "political (elected) officials" count as "civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government"? My memory from civics class is a bit hazy, but I reca…
The president and vice president (executive branch) are elected officials.
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#247Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#248This 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? T…
"This is entirely outside of the mission of GoFundMe."
https://twitter.com/gofundme/status/1278759152492220416
It is not if they agree with what is happening. They are fine with occupying if they back the cause.
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#249This 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? T…
The thing is BLM protesters broke laws. They started fires, destroyed businesses, trapped drivers in tunnels, attacked police, set fires in people’s homes, and declared an autonomous zone that claimed to secede from the country - and this is just from my city. GoFundMe happily allowed them to be funded while Facebook and Twitter happily allowed them to organize. Driving trucks and using the roads as they are meant to be used does not seem anywhere nearly as egregious (I know some did more than this). It also seems appropriate given that bodily autonomy is the most fundamental civil liberty. If you don’t have control over your body, what do you have in terms of liberty and why does rule of law matter?
Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
#250Also 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…
Quoted post unavailable.
> "Prime Minister has called the protesters racists and misogynists."
> He didn't. This is absurd.
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1488660359422648320...
He did. Also said it a bunch of times in person.