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iwriteok.bsky.social • 1 day ago

God dammit people

$93k given to a GFM created for the economic blackout.

From the website, here’s where the funds will go.

thepeoplesunionusa.com

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anarchashadow.bsky.social•1 day ago

Meanwhile mines been stalling for four, five days at a time and I can barely afford food.

kierajune.bsky.social•1 day ago

shit like this is why my political optimism tanks are completely empty. just astonishing how badly boned we are

colbosch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cool, I'm desperate for $100 so I can buy groceries, but let's throw 930 times as much to an unknown "charity."

annaphallactic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh no

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/style/john-schwarz-peoples-union-economic-blackout.html

meave.bsky.social•1 day ago

oh mannnnn that’s gorgeous

gyrozeppili.bsky.social•1 day ago

That said, still not something I think we should be financially supporting.

gyrozeppili.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean tbf eating a couple of bites of pudding and passing out does sound like complete bullshit. The amount of drugs it can take to knock someone out can be staggering, especially when not combined with booze. The pudding would have had to basically been so drugged finishing it would be near fatal.

lonelyknightess.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Are you a toxicologist?

raaatbird.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lmaooo of course

boomies-n-zoomies.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly, lot smaller grift haul than I expected.

batwingcandlewaxxe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nope, that's not sketchy at all... 🙄

taylus.bsky.social•1 day ago

the people yearn to be grifted

sqdizzy.bsky.social•1 day ago

give money to queer people instead

wmaemae.bsky.social•1 day ago

TBH I’m not mad. In the big picture it isn’t a huge amount of money and organizations with grants far far larger have done far far less. This is probably the first large scale nationally successful action that anyone has done. The only other thing the left has is FAFO which is the actual nightmare.

magpie.tips•1 day ago

I would argue the tesla takedown is more effective and has earned more coverage without the grift

wmaemae.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh yeah the Tesla thing is good. I think they’re working well together. And movement orgs would benefit from seeing the juice behind consumer boycotts/anger at corporations and shift organizing to meet what these flash issues are bringing up with long term organizing homes. I don’t see a grift (yet)

hanlongotcut.bsky.social•1 day ago

If I wanted to take advantage of the current political climate I'd find people who felt scared and helpless and offer them hope. I'd ask people to join me in being part of the solution. Just give me money. Then I'd get some volunteers to do a website (a platform) and pocket the money.

hanlongotcut.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lots of calls to action of course. Make people feel like part of something so you can validate their identity with sweat shop merch. If a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people go to target on Tuesday instead of Monday we'll show those fat cats!

erinsopran.bsky.social•1 day ago

Over $92k of this is going to unspecified "future allocations"

wmaemae.bsky.social•1 day ago

But that’s how most organizational fundraising works. You fundraise for future projects that you plan and execute. I’m not saying he’s not a grifter but fundraising to pay himself or others to work on these boycotts for the next time period when he obviously did a good job is not a grift…

erinsopran.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is a decent thread.

https://bsky.app/profile/wincenworks.bsky.social/post/3ljbnbkv3fc2r

erinsopran.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh no. I'm sorry. If you're going to be able to break down to the dollar every cost of a website you can do way better than this at describing your plans and ideas. This is a grift 100%.

defdiz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Part of the problem with this post is you think that donated amount is not a huge amount of money. Any penny given to a grifter is a penny too much

iwriteok.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/s...

meatmobile.bsky.social•1 day ago

Broken link

logothetes.bsky.social•1 day ago

$93,000, I will pay off credit card debt, buy a cybertruck, load it with airplane fuel, and drive it wherever you want. I might even jump out before impact.

orangeisopod.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you aren’t gonna jump out you should probably max your credit card first, bc fuck them credit card companies

karlamarx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Welp that didn’t take long to turn into a grift

clioe21.bsky.social•1 day ago

ugggh

shanemcoyle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe not the best time to announce my Solanadarity Forever meme coin

guerillawarlock.bsky.social•1 day ago

Going to start an org people can donate to where i spread awareness about orgs people shouldnt donate to

ignatiusmusic.bsky.social•1 day ago

call it https://www.orgception.com

intelstation.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you're not demanding a bank run, you already lost. That's the easiest and most disruptive thing activists could do right now.

anarchotrowerist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Could someone explain the issue here?

anarchotrowerist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like where we're the guns supposed to go? Compared to where they went?

anarchotrowerist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Funds*

guerillawarlock.bsky.social•1 day ago

Scam/Grift/Con/Racket/Other preferred synonym

anarchotrowerist.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean yeah I understand that but what are the clues that lead you to that conclusion? Like based off this post?

magpie.tips•1 day ago

There are no specific activities or outcomes (I guess the last one is... Kind of)

guerillawarlock.bsky.social•1 day ago

This one is also in the quoted thread if Robert's post doesn't offer enough

dangrously.bsky.social•1 day ago

if it's a short term racket, the money is quickly embezzled and everybody disappears.

If it's long term, the funds will be used to organise more stuff, all of which is ineffectual, with the organisers suddenly finding themselves buying fancy equipment, heelturning and becoming the next Tim Pool.

tritypemarsygo.bsky.social•1 day ago

People rightly identify conservatives as morons, but I saw a lot of progressives and leftists posting this bullshit too.

chromolygon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dawg you don’t understand. I just need a few more grand or so to make a plan to think about what we’re going to post on our socials

themidnightoil.bsky.social•1 day ago

I feel like we're gonna learn Shaun King is somehow behind this

openridephl.bsky.social•1 day ago

I feel like even Talcum X isn’t this shameless

trance.bsky.social•1 day ago

worse

foxglovebazaarium.bsky.social•1 day ago

Never fails, huh🙃

foreverambre.bsky.social•1 day ago

This can’t be right because I was assured today this was a good thing! People will never learn.

bradcopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Economic blackout includes "don't give money to some dodgy charity" too! People really gotta learn about supporting local.

nietszeggende.bsky.social•1 day ago

Support your local grifters!

dangrously.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wouldn't be surprised if Putin's Internet Research Agency has a bunch of these going, raising money and making sure any effective resistance to Trump's oligarchs is completely ineffective.

anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social•1 day ago

Economic blackout except us give us money

richardrdotson.bsky.social•1 day ago

We are desperate for a solution to this hellscape. Something within reach.
There's a solution. Hope we find it in time.

zelenskyys-alt.bsky.social•22 hours ago

What we need now is a shadow currency

mishazgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

I knew it felt TikTok 1 day "general strike" and had low hopes, but if it was a straight up grift all along I'm going to be deeply pissed, and not at the people who fell for it.

thedimpsler.bsky.social•1 day ago

If it literally isn’t finer dudes passing a hat around for the protest fund it is ALLLLLLWAYYYYYS a grift.

futuremonkey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Please give me a mere $7500 for no reason.

hugetinymistake.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you give me 93k it will go towards paying off my car, my wife's student loans, and comic books.

cat-wrangler.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you’re paying off like 9,000 copies of Das Kapital I could see the grift being somewhat true.

turnitup5000db.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shit them out like gideons bibles.

turnitup5000db.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’ll I’m not even actually a Marxist but damned if we don’t need people to at least understand the critique. Right now they literally don’t.

squeakzilla.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gross.

madscitool.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't really get the point of a one day boycott. Now a one month boycott, if everyone canceled all of their streaming subscriptions at once then we might see spot run.

falconis.bsky.social•1 day ago

There are additional plans for longer targeted ones. This was a warm-up to get some initial buy-in from the public.

graphitesummer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sometimes you gotta build up to things for those for whom these kinds of ideas have been previously unthinkable.

alt-rides.bsky.social•1 day ago

This

nv-desert-rat.bsky.social•1 day ago

If the point is to not spend money for a day to flick rich thieves on the nose, then giving money to some randos using the idea for a bit more clout seems counterproductive.

itchystarfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

oh no

https://thepeoplesunionusa.com/meet-the-founder

newbie-1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Explain for the clueless among us (me)? I think you are saying this is a scam?

magpie.tips•1 day ago

There is no tangible action described in this list of what the money will be spent on except for Vibes. Vague sentences that sound like good things aren't the same as specific activities being funded, basically. Why a one day boycott would need 93k is beyond me

contririmiri.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s giving Kony 2012

just-slothlike.bsky.social•1 day ago

it's gonna take a loooooot of work...

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