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Amazon's Charity 'AmazonSmile' Funds Anti-Vaccine Groups (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
Amazon appears to be helping fund anti-vaccine not-for-profit organizations through its charity arm, the AmazonSmile Foundation. The AmazonSmile fundraising program -- through which Amazon donates 0.5% of the purchase price of a shopper's Amazon transactions to an organization of their choice -- is promoted on the websites of four prominent anti-vaccine organizations... Numerous other anti-vaccine organizations are also listed by Amazon as eligible for the donations.
Amazon's donations are just the latest example of how US tech companies have -- wittingly or not -- helped to promote and finance the anti-vaccine movement... Not-for-profit organizations are key players in the anti-vaccine movement in the U.S.
Amazon's donations are just the latest example of how US tech companies have -- wittingly or not -- helped to promote and finance the anti-vaccine movement... Not-for-profit organizations are key players in the anti-vaccine movement in the U.S.
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A system setup to give to charity based on the customers choice of charity is a problem? Oh, you just don't like this one, gotcha.
Is it against the law to deny essential medical care to your children? Where Yes, enforce it and this goes away. Where No, maybe that should be reconsidered.
Anti-vax folks are just the hated group of the moment and while I think they are quite wrong I don't like the calls for censorship as that machinery WILL be used against the next group of the moment.
We did not used to have to advertise vaccines, and embark on huge censorship campaigns about them. What happened?
What's with all the sudden hate groups against anti-vaxers? Now they can truthfully claim they're being targeted and discriminated against.
To receive donations, the organization must be a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization. If these groups get approved by the IRS for this status, it would be hard for Amazon to stop it.
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Are we talking about pro-plagues organizations?
When:
a.) a 501c3 is issued without vetting
AND
b.) a 5013c certification is simply accepted without looking into it who/what is behind it.
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This is just one instance where this becomes glaringly obvious. Personally, I would not mind so much that a lot of people are complete morons. But the anti-vaxxers do harm others and that is not acceptable.
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... it kind of defeats the "charity of your choice" nature of the program. "Your choice of the charities we approve of" isn't what they advertise.
... since you're require Amazon to judge "charities" on appropriateness.
Were I Amazon, I'd decline to discern between them beyond the required IRS-status, even in the absence of a law requiring me to not discriminate. Because the moment I start to discern, people will complain about my decisions, at which point I'll simply drop the entire program.
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Yeah, from the cousins of the people who put fluoride in America's drinking water, turning brains into jelly, just so they could mold 'em any way they wanted to - thanks to this mental floss. The International socialist.
Vaccinations are suspected to be covertly supported by a coven who secretively call themselves "Bernies". They are Socialist Blue collarless, jobless, Volvo driving welfare cheats bent on destroying the new world order, and herald into power a left wing International Sanderneesta Government.
If destroying America ain't bad enough, now they're promoting herd stupidity with vaccines that probably do more damage than good.
Despite the fraudulent news mess, some president's own Dr. Harry Freakin Boringstein found that vaccination is based on shoddy science and overdosing Bernies. Just think of the children! Vaccinations put them at risk of developing a predilection for the bad guy buzz.
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Bullshit, they could remove it from the options of their system on a whim.
Holy shit are you even listening to your own words.
Yes they could remove anything "on a whim". So maybe someone who works there decides to remove pro-gay charities "on a whim". Or a charity giving aid to refugees...
Once you start doing things "on a whim" it ends badly for everyone.
What is you damage that you even care if these groups get money? Don't like it, contribute or form a pro-vaccination group and get out the word! Don't start blocking out everything you personally find wrong or crazy for anyone else to view.
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So look through the list of other charities and there's tons of good ones...a bunch of schools often use Smile to help fundraise.
If you don't know a good charity I know I can recommend a small school northern MN - Vermilion Country School. It's a small school in a rural area trying to provide different experiences for students who don't get a lot of options. Donation funding goes towards school supplies and field trips.
Yes, they could remove the anti-vax charity from their system or demand the charity not give to that cause, on a whim. What part of this is hard for you, retard? They run their own show, they can do whatever they want with it.
If the bad PR from supporting anti-vax outweighs the good PR from the "let me be free to be stupid on YOUR system" types, like yourself, they will absolutely without a second thought get rid of you and your ridiculous faggot shit.
(You're a moron, not a mind.)
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But if they choose a charity whose cause is the fining of people for not baking cakes, that's fine ... or a charity whose cause is the promotion of strange anti-scientific beliefs like that human embryos aren't human, that's fine.
Who gets to be the charity police?
They fund almost whatever charity you want. The vaccine industry is a big money and power grab. If they work, you shouldn't care if I and my family are not vaccinated; you should be covered, right? -- and the government shouldn't be telling me what kind of medical care I have to have. There are other ways to prevent disease, such as improving your immune system with diet and supplements, which Big Pharma doesn't want you to do because they will lose money, and the government doesn't want you to do because they will have less control over you (and probably vice versa). People who are immunized can still carry the disease and, in some cases, the immunizations themselves pass it on to others. And most of the people who are catching the diseases are already immunized against a different strain of the virus or bacteria, because you can't possibly immunize for everything, and often even against the commonest strains, because they only offer temporary protection. Meanwhile, the onslaught of vaccinations is causing an epidemic of autoimmune disorders that we had barely seen before. Immunize yourselves, if you want, but quit attempting to force this flawed health solution on everyone.
No one here seems to know anti Vax motivations. Here are three:
1) Many vaccines are only derived from abortion stem cell lines
2) strong distrust of aluminum adjuvants and the perceived link to autism, asperger spectrum, and autoimmune disorders
3) more recently, provax militancy fueling a distrust of government and big pharma and left-wing SJWs that make up the biggotry against antivaxers.
Provax people come off folks in the same vein as climate change nuts like OAC. Someone interview her stupid ass in ten years when the world hasn't ended... again.
Antivaxers are also made up of homeopathic oriented liberals who think the Vax are unnatural and poisonous to the body.
Repeat prescription as required
The CDC provides a list of side effects that occur with each vaccine. Interestingly enough they have ratios for all of the side effects except for severe adverse effects, which they call "very rare". They don't give a ratio, instead they give a 1 in 1 million doses answer. The reason they do this is if you actually calculate the number of doses children receive of a vaccine, this number actually translates into 1:13,513 doses. That doesn't translate as "very rare" to me, in fact vaccines by the CDC's own admission cause (look on their website also "very rare" reactions) "deafness, long-term brain damage, long-term seizures, coma, lowered consciousness, etc. etc.). That's all on their website. What's not on their website however is actual trials with controlled study groups using a placebo vs. an actual vaccine. There’s never been a controlled study to a placebo (beyond one tiny Gardasil 9 study with 400 people in it). That's why CDC uses weasel words like "rare" "very rare" to describe reactions. They truly don't have actual research to back up their claims that vaccines are safe and effective (despite saying it in the news over and over and over and over again).