Quote (ofthevoid @ 5 Feb 2022 09:37)

Workers are uniting and protesting peacefully, meanwhile you’re Team government and using powerful corporations to enforce compliance.

Lol. This is what Marxism looks like in 2022, it’s hilarious 😂

Quote (Superman @ 5 Feb 2022 08:35)

I think if people are stupid to donate money to a questionable gofundme, they deserve to lose their money.

Why don't they burn their money?

Quote (Superman @ Feb 5 2022 11:35am)

I think if people are stupid enough to donate money to a questionable gofundme, they deserve to lose their money.

Why don't they burn their money?

Quote (InsaneBobb @ Feb 5 2022 09:42am)

I think if people are stupid enough to spend their money on fast food and soda that's going to make them obese and cause them untold health detriment, they deserve to lose their money and not get their fast food or soda, either one.

Why don't they burn their money?

It's the same scenario. Either way, you put your money towards something, regardless of what others may think, that's what it goes to. If it goes to something other than what you specified it for, it's fraud.

This topic isn't about the convoy, it's about the potential for fraudulent use of funds. What evidence is there that this GoFundMe is somehow "bad"? None. Apparently, in a legal protest involved some 50,000+ people, a random person robbing a soup kitchen and "claiming" it's for the protest makes all the protestors guilty? Or perhaps you're going to point at the fully masked, identity hidden guy who was waving around a confederate flag, that the other protestors (none of whom were masked) kicked out? The bottom line is that the GoFundMe was set up to help with a protest. If GoFundMe has decided they don't want to be connected with that protest, even though they helped get funding to BLM riots for years, that's on them. I don't honestly care. I think justifying their stance is more difficult than you make it out to be. All I care about, and the subject of this topic, is that it has been suggested they may fraudulently misuse those funds, as opposed to properly refunding them. :)

Quote (Superman @ Feb 5 2022 11:46am)

If I buy fast food, I get what I paid for. Terrible analogy.

They knew what they were donating to. GoFundMe just didn't like it. Gofundme should unfreeze the funds and let it go through. Let the stupid donaters learn from their mistakes.

As for the donating to random charities part, the IRS should get involved.

Quote (Skinned @ Feb 5 2022 09:51am)

Someone setting up a GoFundMe and saying it is for the trucker convoy is hilarious you gotta admit. Trump and Bernie can still win, etc.

People seeking donations are the biggest scammers in earth.

Remember Lock Her Up! What a good one. I should start a gofundme to put HRC in prison.

Quote (Superman @ 5 Feb 2022 08:46)

If I buy fast food, I get what I paid for. Terrible analogy.

They knew what they were donating to. GoFundMe just didn't like it. Gofundme should unfreeze the funds and let it go through. Let the stupid donaters learn from their mistakes.

As for the donating to random charities part, the IRS should get involved.

Quote (Skinned @ 5 Feb 2022 08:51)

Someone setting up a GoFundMe and saying it is for the trucker convoy is hilarious you gotta admit.

Quote (InsaneBobb @ Feb 5 2022 09:59am)

GoFundMe is a for-profit private company. They charge 2.9% + $0.30 for every donation. Their business model requires that their customers trust them.

The top donors to GoFundMe have been heavily involved with things like Antifa, BLM, and other such groups and their connected riots, as well as various hoax hate "corrective" funds.

Effectively, their client base is far enough to the left that GoFundMe even being seen as somehow "supporting" some "right-leaning" pro-worker cause, such as bodily autonomy, could lose them a metric fuckton of business.

I understand fully why GoFundMe would not want to be involved. From a business standpoint, I can even agree with them simply refunding everything. From their business model's perspective, I'll even disagree that they should unfreeze the funds. A refund would be better.

There are other processors who'll allow for funding for the trucker convoy protest. GoFundMe doesn't need or want to be involved, therefore they shouldn't be.



If whoever set up the GoFundMe was cleared to use the funds, and utilized them for anything other than what was claimed (less reasonable administrative fees) then they would also be guilty of fraud, and would likely end up in prison. It's happened many times before.

Quote (InsaneBobb @ Feb 5 2022 11:59am)

GoFundMe is a for-profit private company. They charge 2.9% + $0.30 for every donation. Their business model requires that their customers trust them.

The top donors to GoFundMe have been heavily involved with things like Antifa, BLM, and other such groups and their connected riots, as well as various hoax hate "corrective" funds.

Effectively, their client base is far enough to the left that GoFundMe even being seen as somehow "supporting" some "right-leaning" pro-worker cause, such as bodily autonomy, could lose them a metric fuckton of business.

I understand fully why GoFundMe would not want to be involved. From a business standpoint, I can even agree with them simply refunding everything. From their business model's perspective, I'll even disagree that they should unfreeze the funds. A refund would be better.

There are other processors who'll allow for funding for the trucker convoy protest. GoFundMe doesn't need or want to be involved, therefore they shouldn't be.



If whoever set up the GoFundMe was cleared to use the funds, and utilized them for anything other than what was claimed (less reasonable administrative fees) then they would also be guilty of fraud, and would likely end up in prison. It's happened many times before.