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  • Sending around to my friends and asking them to send around.

    How is this legal?

    It’s like asking people to check their social security check status on a random website , implying it’s secure to get that info.

    Can people report this to the better business bureau?

    I once reported a charity scam there. I even had evidence and a p.o box mailbox address.

    Never heard back but. I tried.


    Scam was someone saying they were part of a real charity organization and wanted me to give them a photography item I was selling on eBay. (They contacted me on eBay) . I said sure. Asked for their mailing address. Never sent it.

    Feedback on their page showed this was a long standing con. The charity they mentioned had nothing to do with photography or anything that could be related. They didn’t collect random stuff.

    I was selling special effects lens filters. So why would a charity in africa working to bring medicine and fresh water to villages need vintage fx camera lenses?

    I reported them to eBay too. Checked a few months later. Nothing changed. Scammer still active.

    So I reported to bbb. I also sent the charity an email saying someone was pretending to be from their organization and scamming people on eBay and that they needed to contact eBay because I had already reported it and nothing was done.

    This was like 8 years ago. Idk if anything ever came about.

    Anyway. My point is. Can’t hurt to try.





  • Yeah I’m pretty sure they intentionally push hate on immigrants to further exploit immigrants.

    No one will hire you because you are a foreigner? Not to worry friends. This meat packing plant will pay you $4 an hour for 12 hr shifts.

    Oh the meat packing plant gets caught hiring illegals.

    That’s deportation for the workers. Slap on the wrist for the company that just made millions from the cheap labor.

    They don’t want the workers to have legal status. Or rights. They want them scared and desperate.

    That way they can pay them nothing. Put them in danger. Treat them like shit. And no one will call OSHA on them. No one will file a lawsuit.







  • I think you are using the word exploited wrong.

    Exploitation means using desperation in people to force them into agreeing to do low paying work or other desperate acts.

    The U.S, the EU, and Canada are largely responsible for destabilizing many other countries and inciting civil wars and genocides.

    When civilian people from those countries, people who have no responsibility for the state of their home countries, attempt to leave to find a better life. You say they are exploiting the countries they move to.

    It’s those same countries who made the immigrants home country inhospitable.

    The amount of money spent on welfare is pennies compared to money spent on weapons and gifts of money to Israel. And all the tax cuts and tax loop holes they keep giving to billionaires who hoard wealth.

    Investing in people helps them get out of poverty and give back.

    Some times those investments take a generation to show the benefits. But it’s there.

    That said, it’s important that welfare money is spent in ways to help people. Job training. Housing. Food. Education. And it’s balanced so that it’s not a better living to stay on it.

    Like in the U.S. If you are on disability welfare. Let’s say you get $1000 a month. This is not a living wage. So you get a part time job. You can’t work full time because of your disability but maybe you could do 20 hrs a week. But if you do, you lose your disability welfare.

    You won’t make more working 20 hrs a week than the welfare check. And you would also lose health insurance.

    So this discourages people from working who could work part time.

    This is a flaw with the system. Not the people who are forced to play by the rules and choose the best option.

    Likewise. You can’t hold it against people fleeing from an inhospitable country , that your country had a hand in making inhospitable, to go somewhere they have the best chance of making it in.










  • The only place to fight it is off the internet.

    But it is much harder. You have to go out and socialize, in person.

    Plus most people don’t want to talk politics. At least in the U.S, it is considered a somewhat rude or inappropriate conversation topic in casual conversations.

    Like religion.

    Some people still do it and sometimes it just comes up. But generally it’s seen as pushy. Or trying to start an argument.

    But talking politics to friends and family is usually considered fine. Depends on the family members. So I do keep up these conversations with friends and some family members, when I can. Remind them that you can only trust what you hear from real people.

    The internet would have you believe the majority of Americans are maga. When it’s actually only 30%.