You all know how hard I pound the table about using services of your enemies, and how crazy it makes me.
Well, I am subscribed to KiwiFarms founder J0sh on X, and he posted this:
original: https://x.com/XJosh/status/1919476240617996716
archive: https://archive.is/xU11p
"The irate black woman trying to debank @GiveSendGo says they're trying to switch to Stripe, as Square may have already decided to ban them."
I was eating lunch, and damned near spit out a mouthfull of food after reading that.
I swear, the right deserves to get their heads bashed in as often as they do, if they keep doing stupid shit like using either Square or Stripe.
For f*** sake, Stripe just de-platformed Odysee a few months ago over content, THEY ARE A HOSTILE PLATFORM, but GSG thinks they will somehow be able to thread the needle?
Stripe and Square are both enemy forces, but when it comes to the financial industry there's not a lot of good options.
Do you have a MasterCard?
I don't, specifically because they are an enemy corporation. Visa isn't engaged in the same level of direct action against the right, but they are basically on-side with the Left. That leaves Discover and American Express. For all Credit and Bank cards.
You might think that's just a good analogy. It's not.
MasterCard owns Stripe. That is why Stripe is behaving the way it is.
Now, for online payments, I'd like to remind you that PayPal is also an explicit enemy actor.
And for online services Amazon Web Services is an enemy actor.
Gents, I don't like it, but the financial industry doesn't allow for many alternatives. We simply don't have the BitCoin Banking Infrastructure needed to do the shit we want yet. You gotta cut support where you can, but you also gotta make hard choices, and that's the point of the system being built to defend itself.