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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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>It’s a private company, it absolutely does not need to be neutral You're talking past each other. OP said should , you're talking about "needs".

The point stands. No private company should be neutral.

The point doesn't stand for much, it's just your personal opinion.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Is this essentially going to be an investigation in which they find that which has made people butthurt is something they signed away in the terms & conditions they never read? Seems like it. Good on GoFundMe.

Terms and conditions aren't bulletproof. Contrary to popular belief (among socialists in particular for some reason), corporations cannot do whatever they want. If something is illegal, no amount of fine print can make it not illegal.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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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.

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Sounds like American political parlance needs to be elevated by people learning the distinction between all of those terms. Which is exactly the point of the comment. Just because a lot of people misuse terms and conflate unrelated concepts, doesn't mean they're right.

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…

It's surely only a matter of time before he calls someone a "pedo guy".

When he sees something getting attention he can't seem to help inserting himself into it.

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.

JFC. Liberalism has both left and right forms since its a goddamn political/moral philosophy and not a specific set of political views/policy.

i dont understand why there is such little knowledge on the history of political theory.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Using a political office to effect political change is against the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act

> Using a political office to effect political change is against the law. From your linked article: >using this language to specify those who are exempt:[10] > (i) an employee paid from an appropriation for the Executive Office of the President; or > (ii) an employee appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose position is located within the United States, who determines policie…

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.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Yeah, it's totally the Republicans who are pro-union.

That's your cognitive dissonance speaking; it's a demonstrable fact that Trump took a large part of the blue collar/union electorate in 2016.

But he wasn't appealing to those voters on the basis of increasing the power of unions against rich business owners.

The question is whether those voters wanted other things more than that (and whether Trump managed to deliver those other things to their satisfaction).

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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Really, how did the media convinced masses that people fighting for all's freedom are fascists?

“All’s” — im sorry but if 50%+1 people will disagree with the cause, your so-called freedom fighters are not fighting for everyone

The "all" in the gp refers to the fought for freedom(s) applying to everyone, not that it has majority support or that is wanted by everyone.

Re: Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

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As much as you may dislike "fascists", you don't get to tell other people who they can or cannot send money to.

GoFundMe tells a lot of people who they can or cannot send money to via their platform. First, there are laws around sending money to designated terrorist organizations, then there are restrictions around violence, pornography and sex work, and many more. The giant list can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/c/terms If you want to mail a check to these truckers, have at it, but GoFundMe is not obligated to colle…

They can't collect the money under false pretense and redistribute as they please. That's clear fraud.
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