A request for prayers for Turkey/Syria

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    Vknid
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      As we sit in relative comfort and safety this morning I urge everyone to pray for those in Turkey/Syria.  It’s looks really bad there and many many folks are suffering.  I know ideologically we might differ a good bit from this area of the world but they are still people suffering terribly.

      Personally speaking I pray that God is with them and that he minimizes and takes away their pain whether physical or emotional.

       

      “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” — 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

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      Some people are doing everything they can to stop people from supporting Turkey. Turkish left wing streamer Hasan Piker was collecting a donation for the victims but braindead people tried to stop people from donating to his collection, which is kinda fucked

      #293186
      Vknid
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        Well their is a stark difference in supporting a goverment and a people.  Those are 2 very different things.

        #293279

        Of course. As a Finn I despise the Turkish government and Erdogan. They are coming up with lies about Finland and Sweden being anti-islamic countries that support terrorists and refuse to sign our NATO appliance when literally every other country except them and Hungary (which has connections to Russia) has done it. But I still donated a bit because Turkish people have nothing to do with it.

         

        What my point is tho is that the polarization has gone so far that people who dislike other people’s political opinion are doing everything they can to sabotage them from doing a good deed. Hasan who is a leftist wanted to donate to Turkey 500k but right wingers who oppose him were begging other streamers who wanted to donate to not donate and lied about it being a scam. It’s like people judge based on someone’s personality/opinions rather than actions.

        I dislike what Elon did with Twitter and think he is a goofball but I have no problem admitting that he did a good job in running out actual pedos from Twitter. Even if his other changes were awful.

        #293285
        Vknid
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          “What my point is tho is that the polarization has gone so far that people who dislike other people’s political opinion are doing everything they can to sabotage them from doing a good deed. ”

          Yes, there is no call for that whether it is for earthquake victims or whatever the case may be.  Ironically it is normally the hard left that wants to burn everyone that does not agree to the entire doctrine of the left.

          “Hasan who is a leftist wanted to donate to Turkey 500k but right wingers who oppose him were begging other streamers who wanted to donate to not donate and lied about it being a scam”

          How can “rightwingers” stop someone from donating to something?  Especially since Piker’s audience is clearly left.  Why would they so openly listen to their sworn enemies, that makes no sense and I seriously doubt that is what happened.

          “It’s like people judge based on someone’s personality/opinions rather than actions.”

          Yes, wrongthink is real.  And both sides are guilty of damming people they disagree with. Everyone needs to just keep their hands to themselves and go about their day.  Agree to disagree needs to be brought back in a big way.

          #293287

          Yes, there is no call for that whether it is for earthquake victims or whatever the case may be.  Ironically it is normally the hard left that wants to burn everyone that does not agree to the entire doctrine of the left.

          ehh probably but it does go both ways for sure.

          How can “rightwingers” stop someone from donating to something?  Especially since Piker’s audience is clearly left.  Why would they so openly listen to their sworn enemies, that makes no sense and I seriously doubt that is what happened.

          it wasn’t his audience that was stopped, it was the audience of other streamers. For example IShowSpeed was about to donate 50k and his fanbase were about to donate too before people started bombarding the stream saying Hasan is a fraud and a leftist so he’s not trustworthy. Speed got confused and decided not to donate.

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          Vknid
          Moderator

            And those people bombarding are known right-wingers how? Whole thing sounds like a bunch of assumptions and sketchiness to me. IshowSpeed is accused himself of being a scammer so I seriously doubt it’s as simple and clear cut as what you state.  That stuff rarely is in my experience.

            “ehh probably but it does go both ways for sure.”

            Well to some degree yes but the violence generally only flows in one direction although to be honest it typically only has 1 source which is ANTIFA and I am not about to equate every leftist to ANTIFA.

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