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America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Hey all, in an interesting spot here.

My girlfriend is American, and while I want to reduce how much I use American services, currently deleting accounts I no longer need or have found alternatives for, her birthday is coming up, and I want to send her some funds so she can get herself a gift.

I'd send her something on my own, however because of personal reasons, we've agreed not to exchange addresses until she feels comfortable with doing so. Slow buildup of trust sorta deal.

I've sent her money through PayPal before when we got each other gifts for Christmas and Valentine's, but I've been thinking quite heavily about deleting my PayPal account. Do I need to keep my PayPal account to send her funds, or am I able to do so still without an account? Are there perhaps any ways I can send the money over without using PayPal or other American services?

Thanks for any help in advance.

EDIT: Alright y'all, go ahead and downvote me. I know why we're not exchanging addresses, and I'm not going to fucking reveal my girlfriend's private life to appeal to y'all, so how about instead of getting into my personal life and assuming crap, you either give me an answer, or learn some basic reading comprehension and realise from my post this isn't a one-way street.

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[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There's personal, private reasons involved that I'm not at liberty to disclose.

Also, literally stated in the post this is reciprocal.

Edit: You live in Denver, what the hell are you doing in this community?

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm also boycotting as much of the US as possible (and was doing it before it was cool, check my post history Mr. "Don't Assume Things" if you give a shit). You think all Americans are just sitting around taking the shit they are shoveling? There were 5 million of us protesting 2 weeks ago ffs. Also I can read any community I want so kindly go to hell.

If only Paypal had some kind of support system where you could ask this question instead of having other people on the internet guess for you. Just use Western Union to send her your life savings and get it over with.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

5 million people standing outside some buildings in order for their local reps to have a brief look out the curtain as they continue to rob that crowd of their fundamental rights. If only that many more Americans went out to vote instead of not bothering to vote at all.

Also yeah, regular back and forth, totally the same as being a sugar daddy being taken advantage of, and sorry for deciding to ask a twofold question to a public community.

Americans I swear. The lack of reading comprehension shows when you're so hung up on this point that I already addressed in my original post.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“Do something!”

We do something.

“What a waste of time!”

You’re hilarious.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well excuse me for thinking that it's not enough being done when your country is quite literally threatening to annex mine. After all these years of applauding "efforts" to no avail, perhaps it's high time I start only applauding results.

Gonna quickly ask here what the Women's March protests accomplished while I'm at it. Oh that's right, nothing but a giant virtue signal that simply died off after nothing of substance came as a result, and I'd be shocked if the "Hands Off" protests resulted in anything different.