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If I find a writer I like, such as you, I would follow them to a different platform (and definitely a different payment system!). Content always wins in my book / preferences, and it doesn’t have to be something I always agree with.

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Thank you, Cindy, I appreciate it. And it is a great point, where would Substack be without the content produced by writers? Nowhere.

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HAS to be an INTL payment processor that is not woke, I would look to singapore or hong-kong and avoid all things UK or USA, or EURO

Trouble is these days you want RUSSIA, but they have banned us from doing Russia, which only leaves HK or Singapore close enough to china, but NOT china;

INDIA like africa would be a big fuck

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Hong kong is a communist vassal city, so they wouldn't be very much good.

Singapore, maybe....but still under the sway of China.

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As long as China processes the payments properly, I do not care if they are commies. One could argue that they aren't real commies anyway since they are a far cry from Mao's bullshit. He would freak if he could see how money-oriented the Chinese are now.

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MAO died almost 60 years ago, he was brought to power by Rockefeller/Rothschild and when he died so did their agenda in UK-London

Might add that their agenda in USSA is right on schedule

Which is WHY they hate Russia & China, cuz they lost it;

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But yes, fuck what people shove up their assholes, if they can process payments with out caring if your shit is orange (trump) or gray (biden), then they are golden.

Clearly nobody in CALIFORNIA can be trusted to process payments, and certainly no server (substack) should be operating in that homo-pedo bolshy shithole

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USSA is bolshevik homo-pedo country

CHINA is 100000x more capitalism than any place in the USA

Me thinks you have never left your boyfriends rectum in Israel

Israel is satanic zionism,

There hasn't been any fucking 'communism' in china or russia since late 1970's

Post 1980's all of ASIA, has been wild-west capitalism as found in western-USA mid 1800's, where men could just build a town anywhere and do anything un-molested

The only problem with HK, is its a small tiny place with limited land, again an artificial contstruct of UK ( Communist bolshy rothschild bankers )

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You are doing a noble thing, but I wonder if kofi, buymeacoffee, paypal, etc use stripe as well. It seems to be the number one payment processor worldwide.

I suppose the true alternativve would be paper checks sent to your mailbox. That's probably the only thing Stripe couldn't intervene in.

I wonder why Substack doesn't use parallel economy or square.

It could go back to being the number one processor world wide.

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I know for a fact that BMAC uses Stripe, but that is beside the point. The issue here is that Substack is ONLY using Stripe, and that has made writers vulnerable to persecution by that company. Substack needs to offer other payment options and not rely on Stripe exclusively. I do not care if they keep Stripe as long as there are non-Stripe options to switch to if Stripe continues to persecute people.

I am gonig to set up some other payment options, but for now BMAC is fine to use to fill in the gap. It will take me time to set up other accounts and to add links to my pages. I must drive today so I do not have time to do it.

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If only payment processors would process paymens and not play social justice warriors.

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Indeed, it used to be that way but woke communism and corporate fascism have combined to turn companies into political units designed to implement the regime's ideological bullshit on everyone.

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BTW, one other thing that I did not touch on in the post: the real relationship that matters is between the writer and his readers. Stripe cannot affect that in any way, so if the writer can find alternative payment options, Stripe has nothing whatsoever to say about it.

In my case, my subscriber numbers are still going up. I own that email list, not Stripe. And when I am ready, I can present other options directly to my readers. Stripe cannot affect that unless I allow them to do so, and I will not allow it.

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Imagine how annoying this would be with a mandated CBDC

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I should have made my earlier Note on this a Post in the same vein as you did, my undead brother.

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It's never too late, grab the Note and expand on it.

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So if I understand right, if you got one of these demands and complied, then Stripe would be able to see all the transactions on your receiving account and that would include the details of your paying subscribers, like actual names. Is that correct? Looks like it will need to be BMAC every month then. I will put an alarm on my phone :) . Great letter, Sir. Chapeau doffed.

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Great quote!! Very proud of your stand, I don’t always agree with you but I appreciate your honesty and passion.

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Thank you. I shall leave Stripe paused for a while and see what happens with Malone's situation and take it from there.

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Agree, Morg...

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Us South Africans don't get paid on Stripe. After 300 posts, I would have appreciated the 7 months worth of food monies that were donated to me but cannot be retrieved.

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We got your back! Keep calm and write on! Now if I can just figure out that crypto thing. 🤣

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Try Blue Wallet, it's pretty easy to set up.

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Strip sucks dick

the problem is credit-card processing sucks dick

all payment processors are stuck in that system, you must think outside the box, and have some kind of payment from bank-account to bank-account, like payment-processor use for INTL payment where they have banks in every country and inividuals just keep a small balance and can request

The problem is PAYPAL is a class example being in CALIF like most the cucks they go woke and decide not to support biz that say sells 'guns',

Now all these payment ppl want to cancel 'right-wing'

Logic says that right-wing need to create their own payment processing

Problem is substack is WOKE, and stripe is woke, so when push comes to shove the right-wing will be purged from jew-stack

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Could you just get a new account at a new bank for the sole purpose of accepting “stripe” payments? Then immediately transfer the funds to your main bank?

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Sure, but Stripe will see the payments being moved to the second account. How long until they demand access to the second account?

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Take the money out from an ATM. Cos you have to buy groceries, after all, they couldn't penalise you for that, could they?

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Good point, I don't know.

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