90 Miles From Tyranny

Monday, October 17, 2022

PayPal Appears To Be Desperately Offering Bribes Of $15 To Stop Droves Of People Cancelling Accounts

“Give me $2500 for spreading misinformation and I’ll consider keeping my account”

PayPal is reportedly offering account holders $15 to prevent them closing their accounts after the platform shamefully threatened to steal their money if they express the ‘wrong’ opinion.

PayPal announced that it would reserve the right to take up to $2500 from people’s accounts if they ‘spread hate’ or ‘misinformation’ – meaning opinions they dislike.

After a massive backlash, Paypal backtracked and then a narrative was created by so called ‘fact checkers’ that the entire thing never happened and Paypal never intended to fine people for wrong think, despite writing an entire policy update expressing an intent to do so:

Now, as the company’s stock price continues to plummet amid users cancelling their accounts, PayPal appears to be offering free money in an attempt to retain customers:

Some had a counter proposal for PayPal:

Others suggested taking the fifteen bucks and doing something positive with it:

Knowing PayPal, there will be stipulations…

Some report that they can’t even close their accounts:

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You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

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from the beautiful to the repugnant,

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If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

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America’s Suicidal Energy Policy Has Very Real Costs

Last week, Saudi Arabia announced, in conjunction with OPEC+, that it would be cutting oil production in the face of dropping prices. That decision came in spite of the Biden White House's lobbying in favor of increased production, which included a sycophantic visit by President Joe Biden to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In response to the Saudi announcement, the White House quickly announced that the United States would be reevaluating its relationship with the Kingdom.

Meanwhile, the White House announced that it would be “preparing to scale down sanctions” on Venezuela's tyrannical regime, according to The Wall Street Journal. The goal: increased oil production from the Marxist dictatorship via loosened restrictions on pumping for Chevron. The White House continues to keep channels open with the Iranian mullahs as well, soliciting concessions from the same regime that shoots women in the streets for failing to properly wear Islamic head coverings.

There is an obvious question to be asked in the face of this random and chaotic non-strategy: Why, precisely, doesn't the Biden administration just ramp up energy production by unleashing the power of America's oil industry? After all, America is still the world's leading supplier of oil and natural gas. And we have billions of dollars in investment sitting on the sidelines; refineries have been dropping offline and energy companies transitioning away from the precise forms of fuel that actually power the globe.

The answer is just as obvious: This administration is far more tied to its ideological predilections than to reality. Actually, reality actively angers this administration: when it fosters a foolish policy and predictably dire results follow, the administration's response is pique at that cause-and-effect relationship. This administration pursues green energy boondoggles while begging for energy from America's foes, watches those foes hold Europe hostage in the midst of a potential nuclear standoff -- and then, of course, yells about how cruel our foes are for cutting off energy supplies to our allies. This is both unproductive and geopolitically imbecilic.

But at least it makes the leaders of the free world feel warm and fuzzy inside. And if America's enemies gain comparative power, at least we'll have the comfort of snootily lecturing those enemies on the certainty of their political isolation; as State Department Senior Advisor for Energy Security Amos Hochstein recently stated, “low income countries have seen that Saudi Arabia and Russia are colluding against them.”

Odd, then, that low-income countries are disproportionately siding with Russia and Saudi Arabia. Perhaps that has something to do with the continued dedication of wealthy westerners to the proposition that the most effective energy policy for rising from poverty ought to be phased out -- that the ladder to prosperity ought to be pulled up behind rich European nations in the name of sophistry spouted by Swedish teenagers who specialize in...

No fines, deplatforming or suppression for the Left.

You probably saw video of this latest environmentalist terrorist stunt in the UK. A current eco-terrorist trend is to attack great or at least, in this case, famous works of art.

Just Stop Oil activists have thrown tomato soup over Van Gogh’s masterpiece Sunflowers at the National Gallery. A video shows the two women wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts gluing one hand each to the wall below the painting, which is protected by a pane of glass.

Unlike so many conservatives, Just Stop Oil is able to freely operate on Twitter and Facebook, not to mention Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google’s YouTube with no censorship or interference.

YouTube won’t let you upload videos with views they disagree with, but an ecoterrorist group is allowed to maintain a dedicated channel promoting its latest outrages and recruiting members.

Just Stop Oil’s site uses numerous Big Tech services including those of Google and Facebook. It also fundraises openly through a site known as CrowdfunderUK.

This tweet openly shows Just Stop Oil fundraising off the Van Gogh attack.

The link goes to the CrowdfunderUK site. I’ve reached out to the site and to its founder, Phil Geraghty, who also created ActionStorm, an activist site whose name speaks for itself, and who promotes radical leftist causes, about whether domestic terrorists can fundraise for criminal activity on its site. There has been no response.

CrowdfunderUK’s current partners include the Mayor of London and Santander Bank. I’ve reached out to both as well. Other partners include Marks and Spenser, the UK’s Calor gas company, ironic considering that the eco-terrorists want to get rid of gas so pensioners can freeze to death over the winter, and the Aviva insurance company.

In a time when PayPal is threatening $2,500 fines for political dissent, Big Tech companies routinely collude to deplatform and silence conservative critics, leftist terrorism is protected by a public-private partnership of government authorities who favor them and refuse to enforce the laws, and by Big Tech companies who enable and protect them through...