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GoFundMe suspends Candace Owens’ campaign to help bar owner in stunning censorship move
BizPac review ^ | June 7, 2020 | Tom Tillison

Posted on 06/07/2020 2:11:30 PM PDT by kevcol

a GoFundMe account set up by Candace Owens, titled “Mob rule has no place in America,” which was subsequently shut down after raising $205,000 in a few hours.

The conservative activist launched a GoFundMe campaign in support of Michael Dykes, a Birmingham bar owner who called George Floyd a “thug” — Floyd served at least four stints in prison, including a 5-year sentence for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. The media narrative is that at the age of 46, he was turning his life around, though a toxicology report said he had fentanyl in his system at the time of his death, as well as meth.

Dykes also called the protesters idiots, suggesting a “protest tax” should be added to drinks for having to close early due to curfews imposed over the protests.

“Mr. Floyd was a thug, didn’t deserve to die but honoring a thug is irresponsible,” the bar owner said.

The intolerant left called for boycotting the business after a now-former employee leaked Dyke’s words, which were expressed in a text message to two managers

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; birmingham; candaceowens; censorship; georgefloyd; gofundme; internet; michaeldykes; technotyranny
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To: kevcol

Pretty sure another conservative could have done this without interruption.

Candace Owens probably scares them out of their minds.

She can awaken black Americans with coherent arguments. They’d love to shut her down.


41 posted on 06/07/2020 3:05:50 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: GOP Congress

There are conservative alternatives.
Been posted on FR a few times.


42 posted on 06/07/2020 3:08:26 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: kevcol

GoFundMe is a company based in NY run by koolaid drinking
liberals.


43 posted on 06/07/2020 3:08:34 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: kevcol

GoFundMe is being RACIST!!!


44 posted on 06/07/2020 3:13:00 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: dp0622

This bar owner got over a million bucks for his gofundme

https://www.gofundme.com/f/scores-bar-mpls-riot-rebuild


45 posted on 06/07/2020 3:13:13 PM PDT by RummyChick (Don't be offended because I don't care anymore. Realize I once did but your hatred blinded you.)
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To: Thank You Rush

It’s the twenty-first century Tower of Babel.


46 posted on 06/07/2020 3:19:20 PM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: GOP Congress
We need a GoFundMe alternative for conservatives

We need alternatives for a whole bunch of stuff.

47 posted on 06/07/2020 3:25:38 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: kevcol

The TRUTH will set you free.


48 posted on 06/07/2020 3:25:51 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Thank You Rush
“”The entire social media platform is toxic and killing freedom””

It won’t end until social media ends. Anyone could see this coming from a long way off - nothing but problems. How did the country survive before it? Well enough, thank you very much.

To put this into the perspective it deserves:

“From the London Times of 1904” – Mark Twain – published 1898

Funny to think of “1904” as being in the distant future!

In this short story (written at a time when the landline telephone was a new thing), Mark Twain dreamed up an invention called the “telelectroscope”.

In the story, this telelectroscope used the phone system to support a global network for information sharing (Um, anyone else thinking dial-up?) which would be visible and audible from anywhere. His short story involved people from around the world being able to keep up to date with each other’s daily deeds, to quote “the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues”. So, basically, he predicted both the internet and social media way back in 1898 when most people hadn’t even heard the sound of a phone ringing.

7 Science Fiction Stories that predicted the internet (and how we use it)
49 posted on 06/07/2020 3:34:50 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Bratch

That is a bit too much like the Babylon Bee these days. It really isn’t funny.


50 posted on 06/07/2020 3:40:52 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: snarkytart

2 Timothy 3
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these


51 posted on 06/07/2020 3:46:24 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: higgmeister

Very good - thanks. We have a lot of modern day Mark Twains today but they don’t get the recognition they’ve earned because they’re all conservatives!


52 posted on 06/07/2020 3:54:08 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SmokingJoe

“There are conservative alternatives.
Been posted on FR a few times.”

Link to FR post?


53 posted on 06/07/2020 4:03:52 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: demkicker
I had donated through go fund me four days ago. they allow you to with draw support from a cause . I with drew my support and they asked how come. I let them know the reason was there treatment of Candace Owens. I told them they had a choice to be a group that helps fund charity or to be a political action group supporting a ideology. they decided to be a political action group and I decided to with draw my donation and to never use there service again....Go fund me is not a charity it is a for profit group that can be used to collect money for charity. they collect a 15 percent fee for there services.
54 posted on 06/07/2020 4:09:49 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: PCPOET7

“I had donated through go fund me four days ago. they allow you to with draw support from a cause.”

Technically, such a site can be sued for breach of contract as the rules are not specified. In the past, this would have been a slam-dunk case, but for some reason I look down the road and see John Roberts joining with the RBG crew and denying the user, which will then open the floodgates to allow blanket discrimination in all industries against conservatives.


55 posted on 06/07/2020 4:20:15 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: Thank You Rush
You are welcome, but for ages now I have used a little trick to save my sanity, of imagining how nothing in the world is different from comparable things in the past.

Individuals are the same the world over and are no different from now, to Dickens' time, to Shakespear's time, to Chaucer's time and before.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version (KJV)

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.


56 posted on 06/07/2020 4:22:41 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: kevcol

There is no honor, they are using his death to promote evil.


57 posted on 06/07/2020 4:31:10 PM PDT by mulligan ( En bbnnEeThe tC)
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To: kevcol

Get him teh $205,000 and set up another page for him.


58 posted on 06/07/2020 4:42:20 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: kevcol

It doesn’t hurt her but does hurt the bar owner. Way to step in it GFM.


59 posted on 06/07/2020 4:49:22 PM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: kevcol

So...GoFundMe mimics President Obama’s/Lois Lerner’s IRS targeting of conservative groups for more than two years prior to the 2012 presidential election.

And what became of that, anyway?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unresolved-irs-scandal-1525905500


60 posted on 06/07/2020 5:05:24 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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