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> I neither believe it is truthful to call it "occupying the nations capito

People who live in Ottawa disagree.

> To help you along, I also wouldn't be surprised for a charity to redirect 100% of its income to its executives. But that wouldn't mean I would say it was fine for them to do that, even though the reason I gave the money was for clean wells in Africa. That's what you're defending.

This is a textbook strawman. We're talking about a specific situation here, so stop trying to invoke entirely different situations to defend it.

The fact is that this has turned into an occupation. It's not reasonable to expect GFM to fund that.

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Look, I've already explained that I'm not surprised. You are claiming I'm lying? Or what? Also my example is not a straw man. It's a simple analogy. This will be my last comment.

The thing I'm trying to address is your claim that it's just fine and dandy for them to redirect all the money to charities because that's equivalent to what the original organizers were going to do anyway. It's not. It's so obviously not appropriate that GFM immediately realized they could never get away with that and changed their minds and decided to refund all of the money instead. So I don't know why you're even bothering to defend their original plan. You're probably literally the only person in the world who thinks it's fine.

edit: removed potentially inflammatory analysis.

> The thing I'm trying to address is your claim that it's just fine and dandy for them to redirect all the money to charities because that's equivalent to what the original organizers were going to do anyway. It's not.

Not just any charities, charities that were going to be chosen by the organizers, which is in line with the agreement the organizers accepted. I honestly don't understand how you can believe something nefarious was going on when they were following the agreement that was made with the organizers.

> It's so obviously not appropriate that GFM immediately realized they could never get away with that and changed their minds and decided to refund all of the money instead. So I don't know why you're even bothering to defend their original plan.

That's one interpretation. A much simpler interpretation is that they realized it's 100x easier to just refund the money instead of having to vet every charity chosen by the organizers to make sure the money wasn't being embezzled or used for actual nefarious purposes. Go head and look into the organizers of this protest. They're overt white supremacists.

> They're overt white supremacists.

Do you have proof of that?

https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-orga...

This reads like a hit piece. Do you have a more neutral source?

In what way is it a hit piece?

Would you consider one of the main organizers themselves to be a credible source?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericanFascism2020/comments/snw7jn...

> In what way is it a hit piece?

These are the people of the truck convoy who protest: https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/149273926633759539...

Do you think they are racists, fascists and nazis?

These are the counter protestors: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1492825892921479168

What would you call them?

> Would you consider one of the main organizers themselves to be a credible source?

Yes, thank you. Doesn't mean everything he does is racist and what not.

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