As GoFundMe pulls Luigi Mangione fundraisers, another platform is featuring one on its front page
As GoFundMe pulls Luigi Mangione fundraisers, another platform is featuring one on its front page
Mangione has seen a wave of support online after it was announced that he was the primary suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thomas.
GiveSendGo stands firmly behind its decision to host content related to Mangione.
“We believe every person is entitled to due process in a court of law — not in the court of public opinion,” Alex Shipley, GiveSendGo’s communications director, said in a statement. “To be absolutely clear, we do not support or condone vigilante justice. However, people have a constitutional right to a strong legal defense, and access to that defense should not be reserved only for the wealthy or those who fit a particular narrative. Our role is to give individuals and their communities the opportunity to fundraise for that defense, because true justice is served when everyone has equal access to a fair trial — regardless of the verdict.”
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I don't really care. People should be allowed to crowdfund for legal defense fees. Taking away that ability would only further hurt poor people and enable the wealthy.
GoFundMe is scared. The other people need publicity so they’re willing to host it. I’m not a fan of that crowdfunding site, because of their religious background, but I’ll donate if this is the only outlet.
Classic case of lemmy liberals moving the goalpost. "They're only doing good when they're helping further my agenda" gtfoh with that stuff
They’re focusing too much on the payment site. Yes, they have fun raised some very questionable people, but I would also argue that Luigi is a very questionable person at this point.
The focus really needs to remain on the fundraising.
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Someone who knows enough about language to be a commissioned grammar cop should also know that "Liberals" ≠ the Left.
Liberals aren't the ones decrying th hypocrisy of bad actors. That's the Left.
An example of typical liberals is the .world admins and mods making it forbidden to discuss jury nullification and removing factual and relevant criticism of Dem leadership, labeling it "misinformation".
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So you don't think he deserves the same quality of defense as Kyle Rittenhouse?
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Wait why didn't a gofundme for Rittenhouse violate their ToS??
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Well fuck you GoFundMe.
"To be absolutely clear, ***^we are legally required to say that *** we do not support or condone vigilante justice."
FTFY
Also fuck you GiveSendGo, even if in this case they're being kind of cool. Their normal clientele are neo nazis and alt right Conservatives [wikipedia]
Previously, when the chance that most of those fundraiser listings were made by scammers, I wasn't too concerned with them being removed.
Now that he has a lawyer, surely there'll be an official listing that will remain. /s
I hope givesendgo has increased their security since the last time i heard any mention of them...
During the covid convoy in Canada.
I still have that donor list CSV file around here somewhere.
Why a fund raiser for a millionaire?
a millionaire
Citation needed.
I've been waiting for which kind of angle they will take to attack Luigi's character to get people to change their mind about him.
It appears that they are going with the "but he was rich" strategy in hopes that would somehow turn people against him. Comment sections will probably be flooded with this shit.
It's unclear so far, how much he specifically has.
His family however, is quite wealthy.100 million from his grandmother, but devided between multiple family members
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13081111/ceo-assassin-luigi-mangione-powerful-family-wealth/
Because a large amount of people have convinced themselves that he's a working class hero, when realistically he was well on track to become exactly the sort of corpo techbro they despise.
Maybe he was on track for that or maybe he would have taken a different path, we don't actually know. But it doesn't matter because what did happen is he became radicalized against corporations (or at least corporate healthcare) and took action. What he did and what he believes now are far more important than who else he could have become.
Nah screw that. The governor of New York should give him a full pardon. He did nothing wrong. He's a latter-day John Brown.
Right, except he didn't do that, did he.