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Calls to boycott tech company Stripe after CEO posts about recent visit to Israel
(www.middleeasteye.net)
Good luck boycotting Stripe
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2024
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I'm trying to find out a list of companies using stripe and I think it would be easier to list ones not using it... What I'm getting is basically any time I spend money online, and sometimes in person, they get a cut
Yeah pretty much. As a payment intermediary they're actually really good. Top of class one could argue.
The executive's politics aside, trying to boycott them means boycotting all their users. Good luck with that.
I have to pay a parking fine one through stripe. I would have happily boycott that.
I just glanced at this quickly, and saw Shopify Payments, which is actually run on Stripe
My sister in law was boycotting PayPal so she switched to Venmo.
Isn't venmo owned by PayPal for the past 10y?
Yes that was what made it ironic.
Cool I'll boycott them by moving into a cave underground.
so basically he didnt actually do anything boycott worthy. he just had a bunch of perpetually online lefties and righties throwing a tantrum on twitter
Dunno why you're getting down voted.
I visited Israel 10-odd years ago for work and I loved it. Beautiful country and people... if you ignore all the politics. As with the US.
What I hated while there was the demonisation of everything Palestinian. It's like a cult: if you don't agree, you're one of them. (Get fucked).
It's the timing.
Israel is currently engaged in a genocide. Some guy talking about how much they love all the beautiful things about Germany in 1942 would get down voted to hell too.
these beautiful people are doing a genocide lol
I have family in Israel and have been there several times. I liked it there. I liked how all the signs were trilingual and the food was excessively good. I don’t however approve of the Israeli government or how they’ve gone about this conflict.
Does this make me a bad person in other peoples eyes?
There is no conflict, only genocide.
Me paying my taxes has me certainly conflicted. Does that count?
Timing matters. I have family in Austria. I like a lot of things about Austria and I also don't approve of a lot of things the government does and did.
If someone were to have voiced that sentiment loudly in 1942, they'd probably be an asshole.
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Yeah,I had this discussion in other subs but let's say that I was less successful
Boycotting them is basically impossible anyway.
So you'd rather use the platform run by treacherous robbers called PayPal ? So we can't use Stripe (ok fine) & we can't use PayPal, ok any suggestions ? Cuz I got one GNU-Taler
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Image caption: "Dem Khazar milkers man.."
Looks a bit insensitive but it's not even expressing support for Israel's war.
If Israel is a colonial project, any relationship fueling its economy is supporting the war. This includes touristic activities, investments, any kind of business.
The BDS movement worked against South Africa because it was totalizing and any chance to suffocate the Israeli colonial project must go through the same strategy.
Who is disagreeing with this? I want to hear your arguments.
I'd say the only "reasonable" objection would instead be on the pervasiveness of the conclusion. You can't walk out your front door and remain consistent on that.
Right on, second time noticing you here today. You're right again. When I replied the comment was at -2 and now it's +9. I think several people have alt accounts for vote manipulation. Good thing votes don't mean shit!
Edit- My only complaint with the app I use, Sync, is that it only shows total votes and not individual totals.
I use voyager which lets me toggle what I see (I actually switched to individual recently) and the comment I assume you're talking about is at +19, -9 votes, and was about the kid who shot the home intruder
There are lots of down votes on both sides of that thread tho
(Also subtle voyager plug)
It was the comment about any economic support of Israel fueling the war from this very thread.
As in the one you replied to? That one is +9, -0 So people either changed votes or there was weird federation things going on
Yeah that's the one.
Interesting info, thanks.
No problem I assumed it was the other one because I was looking in their comment history for comments with downvotes
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He expressed support by making an avoidable visit. Just like I would express support to the wife beater in my neighborhood by having lunch with him.
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