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Pay attention to the particulars of Mastercard's responses, because this a textbook example of how to create plausible deniability.

"Mastercard has not barred any legal transaction" is, technically, a true statement – because Mastercard is not the one processing the transactions in the first place. Mastercard does not deal directly with any merchant, and in fact typically refuses to communicate with merchants at all; there's always a payment processing service sitting in between Mastercard and the merchant, whether that's Stripe or Paypal or any of dozens of other service providers.

Consequently, there are two layers of service agreements in place: the agreement between Mastercard and the payment processing service, and the agreement between the payment processing service and the merchant. That second layer of service agreements, between the payment processing service and the merchant, is where all of these content restrictions are being imposed. Mastercard can thus truthfully claim that they aren't barring legal transactions.

Now, if you've been paying attention, you've probably already spotted the issue: if the content restrictions are being imposed upon the merchants by individual payment processing services and not by Mastercard, why do all of those payment processing services seem to have exactly the same content restrictions?

That's where the critical sleight of hand comes in: while Mastercard's own terms of service do not require payment processing services to bar transactions of particular types, their ToS does require payment processors to bar transactions which could be damaging to the Mastercard brand. What constitutes damage to the Mastercard brand is not defined; it means whatever Mastercard wants it to mean. The payment processing services are thus in a position where they can be held in breach of Mastercard's terms of service for basically any reason, which gives them a strong incentive not to test any boundaries.

And that's why Mastercard can truthfully say they have never barred any legal transaction: they're never the ones doing the blocking. The layer of payment processing services that sits between Mastercard and the merchants are enforcing those content restrictions, based on a series of unwritten handshake agreements between the payment processors and Mastercard regarding what does and does not constitute acceptable content – and because the particulars of those handshake agreements aren't in writing, Mastercard can assert that their terms of service do not compel payment processing services to bar any legal transaction and technically be telling the truth.

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cmon stoned butch blues. please laugh 🩵💙

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Okay, english is not my first language so this might be a matter of communication issues: when I say "children are not directly and instantly traumatised by the sight of a natural naked human body", I mean the bodies of living people. Seeing a corpse in some state of decomposition, without being properly introduced to the idea beforehand within clearly defined boundaries is obviously traumatising to a child, regardless of whether the cadaver is clothed or not.

What I am talking about is children seeing people they know in various states of undress in normal home context. But in case you really are claiming that children are by default scarred for life at the sight of people with no clothes on, you guys are just weird.

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tumblr staff doesn’t want you to know this, but a great way to treat small amounts of granulation tissue to prevent it from becoming hypergranulation inside the canal of your neovagina is to make a hypersaline solution (more in tense version of regular saline) and soak a tampon in it, and then insert that tampon into your vaginal canal

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Every day I am overwhelmed by the way almost everyone in the global north redefines health away from collective survival and toward promotion of individualism and eugenics.

People will talk about "hygiene" and they mean extensive skin care routines and cosmetics instead of preventing the spread of contagious diseases through requiring structural renovations for better ventilation of workplaces, schools, & public spaces and universal healthcare that includes easy, accessible, free testing & vaccinations.

People will talk about "nutrition" and they mean promoting expensive, restrictive diets dependent on imperial food systems and the promotion of anti-fat and anti-black policies, instead of doing anything to prevent the widespread nutrient deficiencies caused by our government's deliberate, ongoing starvation of Palestinian people.

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no reddit bro "if the korean war was a genocide then the bombings of germany and japan also were!!". i dont think you really see entire generations ending in family trees in germany in most cases. or residential centres being destroyed to completion. or anything between 15 and 25% of the entire population dying in around 2-3 years. or dams being destroyed specifically to cause mass floodings, destruction of rice fields and rupture of agriculture and the complete destruction of the electrical grid of the country - all of that leading to millions in risk of starvation. or military pilots shooting peasants in fields due to their lack of actual targets following mass destruction, also using this situation as a way to "amuse themselves".

if you are going to compare the absolute annihilation causes by the US in korea with the bombings of germany, then you are not only a genocide denier, but also manufacturing consent for the neonazi idea that the allies commited a genocide in nazi germany. and you should die

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favorite rambheem moments in no particular order which might as well be all of them 2/?

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yeah this is where this was always gonna fuckin go, unfortunately

she’s 35 years old, by the way

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ik i already said this on twitter but neil gaiman and amanda palmer are the fandom kid version of grimes and elon musk

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“look at this reactionary commercial” no thank you

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“[kink] is bad because [thing the kink is based on] is bad” is such a funny take. we’re acting. you hate theater. you’re standing up in the audience and mansplaining to lady macbeth that killing people is wrong

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To keep all long thing short (more details in gfm below) my roommates (fiance and loved one) and I are trying to fund our leave from a deeply red state to a safer location where we have more affordable housing, consistent work, a welcoming community, better chances of healthcare etc. All 3 of us are disabled, one of us trans, and one intersex and brown a place that increasingly makes that dangerous.

We also need urgent help with healthcare in general, esp because my roommate has cancer, need major surgery her insurance is denying, and will likely need chemo after.

We broke our big moving goal into smaller monthly goals to make it more achievable and in a timely manner so that we actually survive this, but we are not achieving. We have not met the first months goal two months 5 we have urgent specialist appointments coming up.

We've been vetted by @kyra45-helping-others but please message me for proof, more details, updates, etc. I have an art blog @theartistrans as well as kofi and patreon if you'd like to support directly and get something in return.

Immediate heal care needs: $335/$500

Rest of 1st + 2nd month goal: $0/$4,274

$C--PP--V--GFM

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Hi, I'm a disabled trans woman who's a developer working on projects for the public good. I have to cover a few bills for this work and a few things to help with my medical conditions. Please help me if you can. (If it helps I'm also one of the moms of @rickybabyboy)

$45/$150 raised

Venmo: AGIEF

Paypal: agieocean@gmail.com

Ko-fi:

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[Translating_Falasteen & ibrahim._.mohareb] | Kidnapped at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation death trap, 17-year-old Omar Nizar Asfour was released today from Israeli prisons, along with nine other Palestinian children who had been abducted at the same site in the Al-Shakhoush area, north of Rafah. All ten were seized weeks ago near the so-called aid point, where Israeli occupation forces opened fire on starving civilians before detaining children. According to the children’s testimony, they were subjected to electric shocks, beatings with batons, forced kneeling, sleep deprivation, and even grenades thrown into their cells. Starved, denied medication, and blindfolded for days at a time, they were treated “like dogs,” with food slid to them by foot and basic human dignity stripped away The names of the released children include: 1. Emad Mustafa Mohammad Abu Taimah (عماد مصطفى محمد أبو طعيمة) 2. Mahmoud Issam Mahmoud Abu Hadaid (محمود عصام محمود أبو حدايد) 3. Moamen Hani Abdulaziz Abu Hajras (مؤمن هاني عبد العزيز أبو هجرس) 4. Hilal Ibrahim Mansour Al-Bishti (هلال إبراهيم منصور البشيتي) 5. Karam Hamdi Abdulrahman Hussein (كرم حمدي عبد الرحمن حسين) 6. Fares Suleiman Saleh Abu Jazar (فارس سليمان صالح أبو جزر) 7. Qusai Kaid Tawfiq Al-Zaza (قصي كايد توفيق الزازا) 8. Ahmad Mohammad Fadl Al-Helou (أحمد محمد فضل الحلو) 9. Moath Sayed Salem (معاذ سيد سالم) 10. Omar Nizar Asfour (عمر نزار عصفور)

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Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

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