Respectfully, your comment continues to say nothing about who is behind it and where the money comes from… WHAT group of people don’t you find to be problematic, and based on what? Who are the people that you don’t have a problem with?
You just linked a subreddit… on Lemmy?
Anyone think these scattered recent attempts at protest might be astroturfed by the right and the listed website might be a trap to create a mailing list of targets for the right to monitor?
Need clarity on organizers and money behind these protests and if any established groups like DSA, Indivisible, ETC. are attached.
Edit: A bit more potentially from USA Today. So next question is if anyone knows Kay Evert directly and can speak to their legitimacy in the space? Trust, but verify - We don’t need to fight within our own movement, but we also don’t need to follow anyone blindly.
Labor strike on weekdays
Consumer purchasing strike on weekends
Also, labor strike on a Saturday was being floated… Travel to state capitol on a weekday at noon? Agree with some others speculating that these are either baby steps of a desperate movement forming with growing pains (fine) or deliberate astroturfing bullshit meant to sap energy, sow confusion and make people disengage. With the calculated and frantic pace of the other heritage foundation/2025 moves to date, wouldn’t surprise me if this was the right.
Anyone have any back story on the organizers and money backing any of these recent protest efforts?
Remember that if you can see something that obvious, imagine all the quiet changes people are making that aren’t being immediately found. Not only the deliberate horseshit from musk and his facsy tots, but other attempts to distort data from traditional bad actors like China and Russia
A savvy consumer, glad you mentioned. Felt better than hitting it on the nose.
Something something… Only phone number I remember is your mother’s phone number (Implying that is for when I’m calling her to arrange a session of sexual intercourse, that she willingly and enthusiastically participates in).
Corporations and politicians: “oh great news everyone… It worked. Time to kick off phase 2…”
Next up is Tim apple announcing his conversion therapy was successful and that he will now be marrying a blonde fox news anchor on the white house lawn. He’ll then run for Lindsey Graham’s senate seat and carry on the tradition of being the most closeted man in the Senate… And the world.
When Lindsey Graham was asked who his first lady would be should he ever win the presidency, he replied… “My sister”.
Just can’t take those swinging bachelors off the market… one at a time ladies.
Large corporate farmers maybe (you’ve provided no support to your claim). In my experience though (a decade in fine dining, with direct relationships to many market farmers) there are more small farmers without their heads up their asses. They understand how they are being fucked with water rights, climate change and no right to repair. While nobody is doing enough on these things currently, they recognize that trump is gasoline on the fire that disrupts their lives.
If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.
PayPal… owns Venmo?
Again, you are weird to spend energy defending semantics around this corporation… are you okay, bud? Temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
PayPal was acquired by Ebay for 1.5 billion in stock. Group that benefitted from that transactionmost already included musk, thiel, etc. They are intrinsically tired together forever. You also see PayPal as an option for all transactions in eBay, the very recent addition of alternative options, after decades of socializing people on PayPal as the default option doesn’t change much.
Imagine your side of this “argument” being the hill someone dies on… I sure hope you’re a bot, because otherwise you seem a pretty sad, confused human
Maybe we just throw an ad on the windshield… Like a little one… Off to the side?
Depends on which function you want to replace?
You operate under the false premise that people think this is about binary choice, it’s not. The shades of gray matter here. Again, as I stated, perfection isn’t the goal, it is how much of an effort you make to consciously navigate the bullshit we are forced to live within, while also hopefully working to fix the larger broken systems somehow in your lifetime. Progress, not perfection.
You very baldly read as extremely selfish and again, you performatively forgive yourself in public forums so you don’t have to try. You sound like a professional victim. Start listening to those rogue thoughts at night when you’re staring at the ceiling, the ones that tell you you might be completely full of shit, they are on to something…
Oh boy… Look up peter thiel, elon musk and david sacks to start - three stains on humanity working very actively to end it as we speak. They were the basin founding faces of PayPal (I mean, I think musk came on after the fact or was pushed out early or something, continuing the trend of him never actually creating anything). Currently they are alll very active in the trump admin - two with officially appointed positions, one in the shadows. Vance is also created by thiel. Look up that “Dark Gothic maga” video (musk’s stupid name) that’s been shared often recently.
Then separately, PayPal owns Honey, and it turns out has been scamming millions, maybe billions away from online creators for years, probably some of your favorites included in that list. Active lawsuit ongoing - look up legal eagle’s video maybe as a start.
All these billionaire fucks made their fortunes through Paypal and still likely hold stock and maybe board positions, can’t recall?
The nazis weren’t as competent and intelligent as you suggest, that work was outsourced to IBM - Yes, that IBM.
You know that Watson product that IBM sells and advertises so often? R one that plays chess and was on jeopardy (Fun!) Turns out that Watson was the name of the dude that signed off on them accelerating the Holocaust for the nazis. Some believe the nazis couldn’t have been nearly as efficient at unrepentant large scale murder without IBM joining the fray, yet they skate on by…
Wrong time to put money into government…
A group of different bad people behind Zelle. But maybe enough to stop supporting those few South African ghouls working to role America and then the would beyond. You’ll need to decide where your line is, but deleting PayPal account and uninstalling their apps is a start. Maybe you go to Zelle and use that while you research if there is something decent somewhere.
Maybe it means going back to small credit unions? paper checks? Direct bank transfers with friends/family? Not sure what best alternatives is currently. Banking in general is just not really ever going to contain good people - maybe if we allow personal banking at the post office one day - but that’s a pipe dream as fascists are denying judges rulings and releasing January 6 criminals who tased a cop in the neck and admitted to it under oath.
Prices will continue to steadily rise until morale improves