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GoFundMe Canceled Account for Canada's Freedom Convoy

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0:00 [Music] so um you guys know about the uh the freedom convoy in canada yeah i know that they're full of hate hate for trudeau uh nah that's not what i heard i heard they flew a swastika i heard they're violent protesters and they're fighting people i heard they had a confederate flag i heard they're a part of the alt-right and they're anti-vaxxers and actually um i heard that they're all vaccinated and they're just like hey we wanted you we want the choice to interesting to vaccinate you know that's what i heard that's what i heard too they just want to not have the mandates and let it be a choice for people there's actually a lot of vaccinated truckers that are just like wait because wasn't it messing up the trade laws or like making it difficult yeah they just couldn't work it ████ with their

0:50 entire livelihood wow well uh there was a gofundme that was created in support of the freedom convoy and go fund me just uh suspended and cancelled the fundraising account wow after it already raised a million dollars in support whoa that's crazy do they get all that back to everybody else refund no they don't they don't get it well if you donated you have until a specific date to get your money refunded back to you if you don't uh just steal it they're not going to automatically refund it they are going to redistribute it to a different charity that the freedom convoy um wants it to go to but that charity also has to be approved by gofundme why did they take it away from them because apparently in the terms of service of gofundme which i don't know if this is like a new change or whatever they believe that uh if if

1:42 um a fund seems like it is gonna result in an unlawful or violent occupation then you're not allowed to uh to have yeah cause they don't wanna go fund like the isis or something yeah it's like hey help us like jihad our ████ you know yeah i think it was the uh the categorization of its change from being some sort of like peaceful convoy to suddenly like an occupation because they were like outside of like canada's like capitol hill or whatever and blocking or yeah you know what i mean so but isn't that what what protest is i thought protest was what you know what they did when occupy wall street like went to um they were in wall street right and they were like hanging out in that area like nobody was like that's ████ up yeah i mean wall street was was there any any moment of potential violence or anything that happened no the thing is that uh there might have

2:33 been different like uh there could have been different incidents but basically there was pressure from uh from trudeau on gofundme to like kind of not to cut this off and uh essentially that's what happened because gofundme says oh we received information from the police that this peaceful protest is turning is there me i haven't i haven't keeping up on the media with this because like i don't really know what's truth or not right now media but um is there proof of violence happening because i hear rumors of like yeah there's like people fighting and violence but then like there's no video of so people say that the truckers went into like this area where they used they they feed homeless people and that truckers were violent there and that they jacking like we're jacking food

3:23 there but then the truckers say that i mean a couple of people um were told that they could eat the food there and then um somebody at the um who was feeding the homeless people didn't recognize that this trucker wasn't a homeless person and they fed them and then a bunch of truckers thought that you could get eaten so that's the counterpoint but i don't know what the truth is so how's that violence i don't know well so far it sounds like nothing's really going on at this thing that hasn't gone on in a lot of these protests it kind of seems like okay it's a ████ protest a lot of s███'s going hey those outliers yeah so far the only thing i've seen is this comparison of uh this versus like some of the blm protests where it's uh i guess it's supposed i don't know too much about it but i guess they're saying like they both had two organizations or two organized demonstrations or whatever

4:13 both of them have gofundmes this one there's been like a building set on fire this one generally no physical whatever no violence but then this gofundme was allowed to continue while this was that's the direct comparison that's getting the most heat because elon musk steps in and he calls them out with evidence of times where gofundme itself on their own accounts were endorsing for people to donate to uh the blm chop members oh seattle chop over into the autonomous zone capitol hill occupied protests and they were raising funds on gofundme for uh riot gear protective stuff so that's already first and people died inside the chop so then you could do the same thing the truckers that's happened in truckers right where you're like well didn't violence happen like associated with this and so therefore it validates

5:03 the whole movement that movement's violent right yeah so here's uh elon musk's uh tweet right here where do you put amateur thieves and it's the package stuff on the train and then professional thieves is go fund me ah i hear a lot of shady stuff about gofundme this is gofundme's uh this is gofundme's actual tweet when they were saying to support chop they said right here in a community with no police this farmer is feeding people and bringing them closer together learn how you can support marcus mission within the chop so they're actually like lobbying for people to donate on their platform did you see chop garden though did you ever see it i did see a little bit of it yeah they put cardboard on the ground like in like a place with soil put cardboard down then they put like a little layer of soil and then they just put plants they look like ████ so it's not even so much that like yeah it sucks without anybody dude when these protests

5:53 get out of hand like of course that sucks for everybody but it's the double standard within gofundme that yeah because the main thing here when there were uh when there was vandalism and stuff happening during the blm protest it wasn't the blm marchers or whatever it was like antifa it was like ████ vandalism there's just people ████ it up for everybody but they didn't get the bad rep they tried but then people were like look this is a separation between weirdos coming in vandalizing looters coming in maybe you know opportunities yeah right yeah and then people and then gofundme was like all right cool how come they don't give the truckers the same ████ that's weird standard right that's the absolute devil that's not fair the thing is i found out that a lot of these truckers they're actually a lot of them were fully vaccinated and then so they're not some anti-vaxxed like alt-right group that's like matter robert malone's like vaccinated but that doesn't matter he's anti-facts yeah so

6:44 then they're so they're trying to paint them as that but then the message is being buried because i just took the original message was uh literally they're trying to just get to work without being blocked with the backs or not backs or whatever right it's also crazy if you're vaccinated but you're anti-mandate then you're also anti-vaxx yeah right because most people i think are just anti-mandate they're just i'm anti-man not ████ vaccinated yeah same dude yeah just like just give us a choice we can make our own choices is what people are fighting for but it's immediately labeled anti-facts yeah i don't think it's up to the government to to to do this you know it's and especially i feel like if the original argument which they were like well you need to protect other people and also when you take the vaccination you're not gonna get sick that's what

7:34 they were saying in the very beginning there's news clips out there where people were all shilling the same story they used that as a way to say mandate the vaccinations to protect everybody else and you can't spread it and you can't spread it when you get it that's what they were saying right but now since all of that ████ is debunked it's kind of like you could still get it what so what's the ████ point for the government to make you take the vaccinations if you could still spread it i don't get it i don't know well joe it's very simple um i uh let the news speak for me can somebody turn on the news just trust the science right just shut the ████ up and trust the science and i guess that's what ethan says he just says i'm not smart enough to know so i just listen to whatever the science has to say as you know and i guess people could make the argument like hey if you take the vaccine vaccination then if you get covet you're

8:24 not gonna get it as bad right that's fine but i also think it's up to the person's stupidity if they want to die let them ████ die no one's telling me it's the same thing as the food right it's the same if it's gonna be the same thing as getting a flu shot right where it's it's literally like the same ████ where you it's your choice to get it whether you want to get it or not and if you get the flu if you get a really bad flu and you have previous health conditions and you die that's on you it's not the government's job to tell you to ████ take yeah aren't you killing everybody if you don't get the vaccination though like aren't you killing everybody that was the original argument dude because they were saying oh you want to get vaccinated then you're going to spread it how come they can't update the software now that we know that that's not the case how come they can't just go like well okay that's not the case now it's about this because nobody has made a statement about it nobody has gone back on saying hey we said this we were wrong but this is what

9:16 it is like nobody has ever gone out to make this very clear and the people that are talking about the actual real application of all this stuff that nobody really wants to listen to the rock said it it's all about pride it's all about power the rock said he'll say that you know what this reminds me of it it reminds me of the whole weapons of mass discretion destruction ████ right they're going to afghanistan looking for osama and then they pivot and go let's go to iraq and everyone's like wait what wait what did they find out that like osama wasn't even from really from afghanistan like well he's saudi arabia exactly and it's like this is like all saudi exactly so everyone's just like what the ████ is going on but nobody ever talks about well there's a civil suit against the saudis because of like all the 911 damage like hey we're going to sue the saudi government because ████ you guys but then our state department stepped in and said you can't do that yeah so exactly yeah yeah so gofundme

10:08 was flip-flopping over the stance on the freedom common fundraiser they suspended them twice and then uh before ultimately removing the campaign they uh started refunding donations before uh they even canceled this what see that's that's an example of a centralized protocol and they're sketched you're super sketchy go dance or go so this is one of those situations where it's like gofundme is supposed to be a community type of lead initiative where people can you know outside of the government can speak their voice in order to support causes that they believe and under the stipulation of you know of course there's got to be some sort of rules and stuff like that but it's governed by the people who provide the money and stuff right so as long as it isn't causing some sort of harm or providing finances to something that's gonna harm other people this is exactly why we need to have more centralized places especially when

10:59 it comes to the finances because somebody can come in and have their own agenda or have their own you know double standards and whatnot and just be like push a button nope you're not going to get the money let's just do this you know what i mean i like it but do it with more pop and lock i like it dude i've seen people go on gofundme to be like i'm going to thailand this year can you can you pay for my ████ vacation and they post it i've seen that they should take that ████ down because that's ████ yeah i mean in a decentralized place that should also be fun for a lot of people nah dude ████ that there were a lot of people during stop asian hate that were lying and saying that they were attacked because of asian hate but it was unconfirmed or was a ████ total loss yeah there are lots of ghost gofundme frauds yeah there

11:49 was a fraud of this this dude i think he was like australian or something and they used a picture of him all ████ up in a bed all beat up and he was oh he tried to stand up for an asian elderly and some guy beat him up and then uh no record of it and then of course like ████ tons of asian pages didn't even really research that ████ and reposting it money racked up on that thing and then only a few of us were like no this doesn't this seems like ████ and like i was getting called out for my comment on it because i wasn't ████ sensitive and then it turned out it was a total fraud and they suspended and deleted the whole ████ and i'm like ████ asians do better god damn it like not every one of these is gonna be every race got somebody who just jumps the gun yeah do it with the dance jump the gun bro jump in the ████ gun we reached so many new people whoa [Music]

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