pay the gatekeeper, suck it up, and get on with life.

and if you get a chance to knock him off, so be it!

If everything in life, for you, is so tainted by state corruption that it's not worth trying; then why not just stop eating and sit down until you're dead?

I'll bet the food is corrupted by the state

the sidewalks, the parks

you can't take a walk

it's corrupted by the state

how about i just bypass the gatekeeper or just our right remove him?

lol, try if you can sure

do i have to give up on that to "not give up on everything"?

don't let impossible ambitions get in the way of those within reach

I'd love not to pay for saudi rockets into yemen, or accidentally for palestinian rockets into israel

but heh

the price is set

I either do what I can, or I do nothing.

perfection is the enemy of progress

if I pitch 20 bucks into a gofundme for a border wall

and ten of those bucks go to the treasury in general

oh well, that's the price of the meme

so i'm not allowed to express dissatisfaction even if i give money anyway, because that is also giving up?

because i don't recall saying i would give up.

you say these things as though they're reasons not to bother

I did it for the lawlz

that's why I respond the way I do

I _know_ this has a risk of being taxed by the IRS

i thought it being taxed would be a funny joke, that it is ironic and annoying. not a show stopper

I _know_ this has a risk of not being directly involved in the construction of a border wall

fraud is the more concerning issue

and is there a problem with questioning how my money goes from point A to B?

well, I find it unlikely that they could succeed in a fraud like this

they have advertised it as going to a specific place

you can’t defend against that. The gov can appropriate private land for such things, and even if the wall were somehow all going to be on private land it would be an ugly awkward looking mess.

so if it doesn't go there, the money comes back

inevitably

There’d also be a slew of regulatory challenges to it. It would also be outrageously hard to organize so many landowners to such a thing. Some of them don’t want the wall.

the U.S. legal system is well set up for this

@Coochie coo sure, but you could just talk to CBP and ask them what would be an effective private use of $11mm to $1bn

they advertise it as going to a specific cause

the how seems still a little iffy

well, if they fail, refunds are likely

GoFundMe is capable of refunding on a scale like this.