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Great work! If you could implement a payment flow where payouts could be made in Crypto, that would be awesome. It is very difficult getting paid for my softw

Great work! If you could implement a payment flow where payouts could be made in Crypto, that would be awesome. It is very difficult getting paid for my software, and I’m just a little software developer in Canada. I don’t understand how you manage to maintain merchant accounts with the credit card vendors. It seems likely that they’ll shut you down, as soon as someone tries to fund a peaceful protest that goes against the elite’s allowed belief matrix (like the Canadian Trucker’s Convoy)?

Comevius 4y ago
The Canada convoy protest was peaceful, except for the bribery, threats, assault, dangerous driving and setting a building on fire. That and the $6 billion economic loss, or the fact that nobody wanted them there, or that the protesters were protesting the COVID-19 vaccination mandate. And if that's not enough the whole thing was funded from the United States by Donald Trump donors and an American billionaire called Thomas Sieber.
- gruez 4y ago
  >was peaceful, except for the bribery, threats, assault, dangerous driving and setting a building on fire. That and the $6 billion economic loss, or the fact that nobody wanted them there Many of these points applies to BLM protests. Should those organizers be booted from the financial system as well? >or the fact that nobody wanted them there, or that the protesters were protesting the COVID-19 vaccination mandate should this be a factor in determining the acceptability of a protest? Can you do it in a principled way that doesn't simply boil down to "if it's for a Just Cause then you can do whatever you want"? Finally, what does this mean for past movements which were also super unpopular? LGBT rights protests come to mind.
  - wedn3sday 4y ago
    Yes. However much I support the ideals behind any given movement, I strongly believe that after you cross a critical threshold, let us call it the "setting things on fire line" you should stop being able to get paid through the banking system.
    - namelessoracle 4y ago
      I very much doubt you would support everyone participating in the BLM riots last summer be removed from having a bank account.
      - bee_rider 4y ago
        Well, we have no way of verifying this, so I guess we'll have to make an argument based on something other than "but whatabout BLM?"
- blisterpeanuts 4y ago
  Two men tried to set an apartment building on fire. They were apprehended, and were confirmed by the police as unaffiliated with the truckers convoy.
  - Comevius 4y ago
    This is hard to believe since there were conflicts between the protesters and the residents, who didn't feel safe. There was a heightened lack of security, a sense of lawlessness during this time. The Ottawa Police Service was unprepared and couldn't respond. It's questionable if someone would have lighted the fire under other circumstances, plus one of the resident Matias Muñoz said that another resident came into the hallway and asked the men what they were doing and they admitted to being part of the trucker protest. The police obviously had an interest in calling the event unaffiliated, obviously the arsonists themselves weren't interested in telling otherwise, although one of them later went back to put out the fire. The residents think that they only did it because they were dumb and looked dumb.
- pjkundert 4y ago
  It’s difficult to respond to such a deeply distorted perception of reality, but I’ll try. The millions of people who supported this strong and effective display of resolve value their liberty so deeply that those subject to the “totalitarian impulse” are unable to comprehend it. The unprecedented measures of “group punishment” deployed to stop it were stunning in their overreach, and have re-set the assumptions of compliance with government and police for millions of citizens. You have absolutely NO comprehension of the beast you’ve unleashed.
  - rfwhyte 4y ago
    What about the tens of millions of people who actively fucking hated it for being the cesspool of anti-rational, ethno-nationalist, nazi-enabling degeneracy it truly was? Seems to me the folks in the fringe minority (as the convoy types are) are the ones with a "Distorted" perception of reality.
    - pjkundert 4y ago
      QED. anti-rational? There is no risk in forced medical intervention on a global scale? ethno-nationalist? Do you know who drives trucks here? nazi-enabling? Wut? fringe minority? Hundreds of thousands of families directly supporting with presence, materiel and finances in the face of threats from the highest levels of government, law-enforcement and (unified) media? This example of a very, very commonly recited trope appears bizarre, when confronted by the reality of what actually happened, as observed by the people who were there, across the nation of Canada. But, since this support was conspicuously unreported in the media, how would people actually know how bizarre, how divorced from reality, it is?
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rfwhyte 4y ago
The "Freedumb" Convoy "Protest" had Nazis in it, therefore it was a Nazi "Protest." The second they didn't kick out the dudes waving Nazi flags they lost any credibility they claimed to have. And for the record the Freedumb Convoy was reviled by VAST majority of Canadians who saw it as the Nazi-enabling, grift-funded, reality-denying, anti-rational cesspool it truly was.

Comevius 4y ago

The Canada convoy protest was peaceful, except for the bribery, threats, assault, dangerous driving and setting a building on fire. That and the $6 billion economic loss, or the fact that nobody wanted them there, or that the protesters were protesting the COVID-19 vaccination mandate. And if that's not enough the whole thing was funded from the United States by Donald Trump donors and an American billionaire called Thomas Sieber.

gruez 4y ago
>was peaceful, except for the bribery, threats, assault, dangerous driving and setting a building on fire. That and the $6 billion economic loss, or the fact that nobody wanted them there Many of these points applies to BLM protests. Should those organizers be booted from the financial system as well? >or the fact that nobody wanted them there, or that the protesters were protesting the COVID-19 vaccination mandate should this be a factor in determining the acceptability of a protest? Can you do it in a principled way that doesn't simply boil down to "if it's for a Just Cause then you can do whatever you want"? Finally, what does this mean for past movements which were also super unpopular? LGBT rights protests come to mind.
- wedn3sday 4y ago
  Yes. However much I support the ideals behind any given movement, I strongly believe that after you cross a critical threshold, let us call it the "setting things on fire line" you should stop being able to get paid through the banking system.
  - namelessoracle 4y ago
    I very much doubt you would support everyone participating in the BLM riots last summer be removed from having a bank account.
    - bee_rider 4y ago
      Well, we have no way of verifying this, so I guess we'll have to make an argument based on something other than "but whatabout BLM?"
blisterpeanuts 4y ago
Two men tried to set an apartment building on fire. They were apprehended, and were confirmed by the police as unaffiliated with the truckers convoy.
- Comevius 4y ago
  This is hard to believe since there were conflicts between the protesters and the residents, who didn't feel safe. There was a heightened lack of security, a sense of lawlessness during this time. The Ottawa Police Service was unprepared and couldn't respond. It's questionable if someone would have lighted the fire under other circumstances, plus one of the resident Matias Muñoz said that another resident came into the hallway and asked the men what they were doing and they admitted to being part of the trucker protest. The police obviously had an interest in calling the event unaffiliated, obviously the arsonists themselves weren't interested in telling otherwise, although one of them later went back to put out the fire. The residents think that they only did it because they were dumb and looked dumb.
pjkundert 4y ago
It’s difficult to respond to such a deeply distorted perception of reality, but I’ll try. The millions of people who supported this strong and effective display of resolve value their liberty so deeply that those subject to the “totalitarian impulse” are unable to comprehend it. The unprecedented measures of “group punishment” deployed to stop it were stunning in their overreach, and have re-set the assumptions of compliance with government and police for millions of citizens. You have absolutely NO comprehension of the beast you’ve unleashed.
- rfwhyte 4y ago
  What about the tens of millions of people who actively fucking hated it for being the cesspool of anti-rational, ethno-nationalist, nazi-enabling degeneracy it truly was? Seems to me the folks in the fringe minority (as the convoy types are) are the ones with a "Distorted" perception of reality.
  - pjkundert 4y ago
    QED. anti-rational? There is no risk in forced medical intervention on a global scale? ethno-nationalist? Do you know who drives trucks here? nazi-enabling? Wut? fringe minority? Hundreds of thousands of families directly supporting with presence, materiel and finances in the face of threats from the highest levels of government, law-enforcement and (unified) media? This example of a very, very commonly recited trope appears bizarre, when confronted by the reality of what actually happened, as observed by the people who were there, across the nation of Canada. But, since this support was conspicuously unreported in the media, how would people actually know how bizarre, how divorced from reality, it is?
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rfwhyte 4y ago

The "Freedumb" Convoy "Protest" had Nazis in it, therefore it was a Nazi "Protest." The second they didn't kick out the dudes waving Nazi flags they lost any credibility they claimed to have. And for the record the Freedumb Convoy was reviled by VAST majority of Canadians who saw it as the Nazi-enabling, grift-funded, reality-denying, anti-rational cesspool it truly was.