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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good luck boycotting Stripe

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have to pay a parking fine one through stripe. I would have happily boycott that.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just glanced at this quickly, and saw Shopify Payments, which is actually run on Stripe

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My sister in law was boycotting PayPal so she switched to Venmo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't venmo owned by PayPal for the past 10y?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes that was what made it ironic.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Cool I'll boycott them by moving into a cave underground.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

these beautiful people are doing a genocide lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no conflict, only genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Me paying my taxes has me certainly conflicted. Does that count?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah,I had this discussion in other subs but let's say that I was less successful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Boycotting them is basically impossible anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Image caption: "Dem Khazar milkers man.."

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