As if censorship isn’t enough, leftists have decided to ramp up their demands that those who have a different political view be financially blacklisted. A coalition of far-left political activist organizations known for peddling smears about conservatives held a protest at Mastercard’s annual general meeting (AGM) today, demanding that the international credit card giant financially blacklist wider sections of the political right.
Fortunately, Mastercard didn’t cave to the tyrannical demands of the George Soros-backed groups. According to Breitbart, at Mastercard’s AGM, the far-left groups SumOfUs and Sleeping Giants circled the venue with a mobile billboard stating: “Putting hate groups out of business? #Priceless.”
The groups’ proposal to form a “human rights committee” did not sway shareholders, who voted the measure down. According to a press release published by the two organizations, this was coupled with a speech from Sleeping Giants co-founder Nandini Jammi, “addressing the need for Mastercard to take swift action by cutting off its services to these hate groups.”
Socialists just can’t stand it when people have access to their own money and can spend it how they want. It’s control these sociopaths seek.
SumOfUs is purportedly a “human rights” activist group that now campaigns to make speech with which it politically disagrees unprofitable. Its website lists a number of powerful left-wing foundations among its partners, including George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Tides Foundation, the Media Democracy Fund, and the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation.
Earlier this year, SumOfUs presented a proposal to Mastercard’s shareholders, calling on the company to establish a “human rights committee” that would monitor payments to the “far right.” The protest aimed to pressure Mastercard to accept the proposal. Shareholders voted down the proposal this morning, despite the protest. –Breitbart
Sleeping Giants was formed with the sole purpose of smearing those who have differing political views. The group’s founders initially refused to take accountability for the organization’s words and actions by remaining anonymous. Sleeping Giants was set up in 2016 by far-left political activists with the sole stated purpose of defunding Breitbart by spreading lies about it. The identity of its other founder, a former advertising professional Matt Rivitz, was revealed last year. Sleeping Giants coupled these smears with targeted social media harassment campaigns against corporations whose ads appeared on Breitbart News.
Although Mastercard’s board says it is committed to the principle of allowing “all lawful purchases,” online payments platform Patreon says that Mastercard asked it to withdraw service from Islam critic Robert Spencer, founder of JihadWatch.org, in August 2018. Mastercard also pressured a payment processor to cut off service to conservative activist, think tank founder and author David Horowitz last year, but later the processor reinstated service following pressure from Breitbart News and other conservative media. –Breitbart
There have been some liberal groups coming to the defense of conservatives and sounding the alarm on the blatant censorship and financial blacklisting being demanded by authoritarian control freaks on the far left. In July of last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned that banks, credit card companies and payment processors are becoming “de facto internet censors.” “EFF is deeply concerned that payment processors are making choices about which websites can and can’t accept payments or process donations,” an EFF spokeswoman told Breitbart News at the time.
The only way to prevent censorship and financial blacklisting is to stand against it, and speak out. Free speech can’t be killed with a law as it’s simply a piece of a human being’s free will. But a move toward a cashless society would put the entire financial system into the hands of a few elitists, allowing them to “cut off” those who they feel are socially or politically unacceptable.
We have a 501c3 state church and an underground, like in Red China. Use of the Bible is already illegal, except for casual blasphemy. So, you will be going after one of your very own affiliates, in a fake narrative.
I dare any of those leftist groups to target me. I will stand against them and fight them to the death. They don’t have any damn business dictating anything to anyone. My hat is off to mastercard for rejecting their demands. That’s exactly what everyone who gets targeted by those scum need to do.
I don’t take your bravado literally, because all you would need to do is turn on your TV, or go to any national chain franchise, anywhere, ever, to find trouble. You would have to be more Amish than Amish, not to be naysayed by Satanists, who have made it all the way to City Halls in the last frontier of Alaska.
DR,
Be smart, not targeted.
Pay Pal already targets guns.
I bought a 26.5mm Czech signal pistol.
A transaction normally banned by
Pay Pal although quite legal Federally
and locally. In fact you are required by
laws to have in-date signaling devices
on a boat at night. Boats 16 feet and over
it is required both day and night.
The seller and I worked around the ban
and I have the signal device, paid
via Pay Pal.
There is always a way to work around the system.
Leftists are sick and have a disease. I have a cure,
it is called freedom.
Rellik, I have local source for those flare guns and will be getting one soon. I also believe in the cure known as freedom and leftists will one day be put out of their misery. I’m waiting to see why clown world thinks I’m letting evildoers have their way with me
DR,
This is both my fault and my choice, but
I live on the most remote Island on Earth
measured in distance from any continent.
It is always a challenge to get things here.
Most things people take for granted are
almost always a hassle here.
I’m not sure about PayPal not allowing you to buy guns. I have a PayPal credit card (MasterCard) and I’ve bought an M&P 9mm Longslide, a Springfield XD 45 and a S&W victory and a Ruger Mk IV Lite in the last 3 months. Still going. All via my PayPal MasterCard. I buy ammo and range time all the time with it. EVERY CHARGE SHOWS UP IN MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT. Why have they not shut me down? I buy dies, bullets and powder online, directly, using paypal. No problems. Just picked up a Williams FireSight from Midway, paid with PayPal account.
???
At some point the lefties will cross a red line and start paying a higher price then they bargained for. It’s coming; only a matter of time.
Clown, you can say what you will but I’m dead serious. I never let any evildoers have their way with me. That’s why I’m still alive.
You have allowed lots of evildoers to have their way, up to this point, so why write about it, to get their attention. I’m going to get my fill of news and mmyofb.
Clown, maybe I didn’t make myself clear. I was referring to me in particular. What makes you think otherwise? Maybe I’m missing something here so fill me in.
“have their way with me.”
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CW;
VERY FEW people are willing to risk losing their kids,their spouse,their job, home/property, all their cash,etc.,and even fewer are willing to spend the rest of their life in prison.
Posters here like to “vent” their frustrations,but they tend to allow their emotions to get the best of them.
I think Soros really jumped the un on this one.
He’s trying to employ the biblical prediction that you won’t be able to purchase anything without the mark of the beast. This proves to me that the mark is not necessarily a physical mark. The mark is symbolic. Like a check mark on paper, it symbolizes. Call it a check, a mark, a chip, it’s symbolic of being acceptable by an evil.
Soros has some kind of megalomaniac idea that his money makes him some kind of superhero. He can defy the laws of nature, fly like a bird, and do whatever the hell he wants to do without any consequences. He’s going to take daddy’s credit card away from the wrong teenage girl, and then we’re going to see hell unleashed. Haha, it will be funny as hell when he’s taken down by a leftist crybaby who can’t buy treats for the poodle in her handbag. Lol. Soros is overstepping his authority (which is none). But it can only help to crystallize the threat he poses. There is an awakening of even the most sleepy giants among our people because of the stupid hubris of Georgy Soreass. He made a big mistake, a very big mistake.
This also proves that it is a mistake for Americans to rely on plastic cards. Use cash. Buy locally. Buy American. Become as independent from the system as possible. If trucks stop bringing in food and supplies, you will be forced to rely on local producers.
Right now there is a bigger threat than losing one’s credit card. The black plague, also called the bubonic plague is back, as well as typhus. The trucks will not deliver to areas where the epidemic is, making it impossible to buy food and or supplies. Make your preparations. You and your family’s survival depends upon your level of preparedness. The time is at hand. Procrastinators and nonbelievers need to confront the reality of the dangers we are facing from the diseases brought in by third world imports sponsored by Soros, and fleas from rodents (rats) caused by filth and neglect.
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The Biblical God has a sense of irony, fwiw. First, plaguing the Egyptians, using their river and animals, which they worshiped. Later, plaguing people afraid to touch the dollar.
“And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.”
— from Rev 16
HP,
” Use cash. Buy locally. Buy American. Become as independent from the system as possible”.
I think I have repeatedly told of my local dual economy.
the “offical” one and the cash one. Most of my food is locally
sourced, but we still buy stuff from the store or Amazon. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
Buying American is the hard one.
I have a Japanese pickup truck that was assembled in
New Jersey USA, with a German motor, Japanese transmission, Canadian drive train, and Mexican brakes.
It is a Mazda, which was owned by Ford when it was built.
Get it?
The true beauty of our system is that we take the best
from the entire world to build our systems.
Do not ever think we know it all.
My favorite Calculus professor was Iranian.
My favorite History instructor was Canadian.
My favorite Engineer is Vietnamese.
The guy that save my bu tt in Linear Algebra
was Chinese.
You get my drift?
I’m just a white guy raised in southern CA.
Oh and my favorite boss was a Mexican.
Wise words Rellik,
There are a lot more of us out here than we think, i meet them all the time,
Thats the interesting thing about the 808
Rubber slippers, shorts, tshirt,
We all look the same sorta
If only Russia was as serious about getting their hands on Soros as the US was about getting their hands on Assange…
Don’t really care for their message, but these so-called “activists” are shareholders in Master Card and, as a result, can bring up any motion they want at the stockholder meeting. As you can see it was voted down. Mebbe y’all should buy yer own stock in Master Card and bring some far right proposals to the table for a vote? Seems they actually organize to try and get their agenda (whatever that may be) brought up instead of bitching about the other side on irrelevant blogs.
moderation again? You’ll read this a day after posting.
I don’t care much for their censorship message, but they are shareholders in Master Card and, as such, can bring whatever proposal they like to the table for a vote at the stockholder’s meeting. As you can see, it was voted down. Mebbe y’all can buy sum stock in Master Card and submit yer own righty proposals for a vote instead of bitching about them “dang lefty buggers” on some irrelevant blog.
Well, I guess Clown didn’t have an answer for me. That’s OK.
And then there are the shills such as the latest fuss with Ravelry banning Trump supporters. Yep, it’s a real thing. ht tps://www.ravelry.com/content/no-trump
For pity’s sake, it’s an online knitting group. I liked their patterns but never joined because there are plenty of good free things available online. Also I never cared for their support, obvious or not, for numerous things I find objectionable. If they just stuck to their knitting (pardon the pun) like many other online hobby groups, I’d be fine with it. They don’t so I go elsewhere.
Money losing its value. Easier to spend yourself into debt. More ways to spend money you don’t have. Every financial transaction is more easily tracked. More cryptocurrency. Where is it all leading? Mark of the Beast.
Soros needs to be put in a gas chamber. He’s the devil