Personal behaviour vs employment
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- stui magpie
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In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
Help Nick's: http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm
Help Nick's: http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm
Revealed: Folau seeks $3 million from donors for fight against Rugby Australia
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/rugby-u ... 51zm0.html
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/rugby-u ... 51zm0.html
- stui magpie
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And copping a serious backlash about it. Calling it "the fight of his life" hasn't compared well against the terminally ill and other genuine cases who want money for medical treatment.
A bloke who's earned millions over a 10 year sporting career seeking everyday people to donate money to him to pay for lawyers to sue Rugby Australia to get more millions (and potentially bankrupt Rugby Australia in the process) isn't getting a lot of sympathy for some reason.
I understand he does or used to tithe a lot of his earnings to the Church, so maybe just ask for some back?
And copping a serious backlash about it. Calling it "the fight of his life" hasn't compared well against the terminally ill and other genuine cases who want money for medical treatment.
A bloke who's earned millions over a 10 year sporting career seeking everyday people to donate money to him to pay for lawyers to sue Rugby Australia to get more millions (and potentially bankrupt Rugby Australia in the process) isn't getting a lot of sympathy for some reason.
I understand he does or used to tithe a lot of his earnings to the Church, so maybe just ask for some back?
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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i just signed a petition to take the page down!
https://www.change.org/p/gofundme-get-i ... taken-down
https://www.change.org/p/gofundme-get-i ... taken-down
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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This is politics now, apparently: a pantomime in which the only priority is that villains get their comeuppance, structural considerations be damned. I have no particular opinion on whether Folau should be able to crowdfund his legal fees, but this petition seems pretty puerile, and it would probably be a bad precedent if Gofundme acceded to the request.
I’ve been thinking of writing a piece on this, obviously in support of Folau. Won’t the reaction to that be edifying.
I’ve been thinking of writing a piece on this, obviously in support of Folau. Won’t the reaction to that be edifying.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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Well, yeah, pretty much. But I doubt many people signing that petition have a strong view on the ethics of crowdfunding or have even thought a great deal about such principles. All that matters is that Folau is a bad guy and Something Must Be Done.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange