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I received the Meetup Resist email and could clearly see that it had absolute nothing to do with the Meetup charter regarding bringing people face to face to enjoy shared local interests. Further research showed that it was a misrepresentation to extend this invitation to join to Australian members, who might applaud its politically correct aims but were actually unaware that this was an attempt to gain support and numbers to oppose Donald Trump. I too am resigning from Meetup.

Meetups setting up these Resist groups deeply upsets me. Firstly whatever your belief system I think it is best for companies to stay non political.

But lets unpack what Meetup are supporting. I am traditionally leftwing and consider myself a feminist, I am pro choice, and I also feel very sorry for the Syrian and Iraqi refugees, and I do understand that some innocent people will be caught up in this Muslim ban, and yes I have many reservations about Trump, but at the same time many Muslims around the world are practicing extremely oppressive practices against women, gays, apostates, people of other faiths etc, and there is also the problem of increasing Islamic terrorism.

I have increasingly seen my leftwing and feminist networks hijacked by Islamic extremists who are there for their own purposes. Case in point, Linda Sarsour Co-Chair of the Womens March supports sharia law, and has tweeted in the past that she would like to give Ayaan Hirsi Ali an a*** whipping and take away her vag*na. Hard to believe but true (google it). Particularly cruel considering Ayaan was a victim of female genital mutilation and is currently lives with a fatwa death sentence over her head.

When Meetup takes the side of Islamic extremists then it is obvious to me that they consider my rights as a woman as negligible. And its an incredible double standard for Meetup to decry Trump but support those who support the oppression of womens rights and human rights violations. But of course if I object to the subjugation of my own sex I am called a bigot.

You people just aren't going to be happy until everyone on the planet shares the same "progressive" hive-mind are you? Stop shoving this resist crap in my face. You don't speak for me. You don't get to lecture me about "this is not who we are as Americans". Oh really? Who elected you to speak for all of us? The sense of entitlement of you people knows no bounds. Keep it up bozos, the harder you push, the bigger the Resistance to your agenda is going to be. People naturally don't like what to be told to do or think, people naturally rebel against authority. With as smart as I'm sure you think you all are you'd think you'd figure that out. I didn't even vote for Trump but if you lunatics keep this up I will next time just for spite.

Dear Meetup,

You ruined it.

Why #resist? I think perpetuating this kind of thinking is more divisive than anything, and definitely not what people in this country, or on your website, need right now.

You also seem confused about the issues. The president rightfully issued a temporary ban on people from seven countries not because of their religion, but because many people in those countries wish serious harm to citizens of the U.S. and the western world. Don't you think that Americans (both natives and legal immigrants) should be safe and able to pursue their dreams? This doesn't happen without laws! Our country would literally fall apart. Without structure and safety, we won't be able to offer any help at all to asylum seekers and immigrants, let alone the children of families who have been American for generations.

#Resist what? National security? Law? Reason? Please consider this - the ideology you are spreading is harmful, not peaceful.

Best,

Shannon

Thank you MeetupHQ. With the push of the new #Resist groups you have finally pushed me to delete my profile and end the the years of emails from your site. I'm looking forward to one less spam email now that you've decided to promote the liberal snowflake agenda. Like other celebrities, Facebook pages, other social and mainstream media sites that have decided to weigh in on and promote the lefts politics trying to tell me how I "should" think. I choose to think for myself and in that regard I am happy to be rid of you and the other disappointing sheep of the last 8 years. When you want to return to being an inclusive site for EVERYONE I may return. Until then enjoy your new groups and new role as a propaganda machine for the snowflakes cause.

I've used Meetup successfully over the past two years and never had anything but good things to say about it. That is until I got an email today about this #Resist movement. Seriously, what were you thinking Meetup? I have always valued your site as one that transcended petty political affiliations and was focused on providing an outlet for all viewpoints. To take a side so blatantly and give support to certain voices is beyond inappropriate for a site such as yours.

After receiving an email from MeetUp about their #resist events, I unsubscribed from their email list and deleted my account. I am so ashamed and disappointed that this company has chosen to so outwardly express their political views, it's so unnecessary. They made an assumption that a majority of their members are socialist progressives, and we are NOT in fact. Hopefully they will lose membership as I am now joining a resistance to MeetUp, along with many others who are enraged by their recent actions.

Meetup.com has recently set up site and country-wide meetup groups encouraging social resistance 'for democracy'. The groups are called "#resist". These groups are free and sponsored by the Meetup Community HQ (i. E., 'the board'). They flooded members' feeds the other day with political propaganda encouraging people to join these groups due to "concern over where the government is headed". The original banner, which is now gone, also referenced the current election outcome as a key motivator to organizing these groups. Unlike facebook, you cannot block these banners or these groups from showing up in your feed, and unlike facebook, group organizers are charged a fee for this site. This is absolute political propaganda and pushing a political agenda on a site which is supposed to promote diverse interests of many groups. I asked them to similarly sponsor groups for unification, but they have not replied yet. I will "#resist" Meetup and move my group to Facebook if this propaganda and agenda pushing continues... I cannot support any site that promotes social disharmony or discord through resistance movements!

With meetup.com's new settings (currently set as of January 2017), your activities are public information to anyone with access to the internet. So if you are going on a hike with just a few people, or opening up your home for a meetup (e.g., for professional networking, hobbies or a children's playdate), the title of your event, date, time, and the number of people going are information available to anyone in the public searching on meetup.com, not just your members. If the title of a posted meetup event includes the location, then predators will know where to go and when--which is not good if you are a small group, or have kids, or will go into remote areas (e.g. For hiking), or will be in a private home (which is never a good idea with strangers in any case). If you omit the location from the title, predators can still see an easy target, request to join, and once joined, can find out the location of the meetup. Meetup.com is about meeting up with people, including those you don't know (for recreation, professional purposes, etc.) In the past, you can limit your risk by providing meetup information to just your members, but now you are exposed to an unlimited number of people on the internet. I've contacted Meetup Headquarters, and they refused to change the settings so that your event information can be kept private because they want others to know your group's activity so they can join if interested. In other words, they want more people to join meetup groups. The bigger the group, the more sponsors it might get (and therefore perhaps more money goes to Meetup). But sponsors BEWARE. Most members of a meetup group are INACTIVE--they don't even visit the group's website anymore. Here's how sponsors can verify this. Request to join membership of a meetup group. Once a member, click on "members" and click on "last visited". You will then see the members who have visited the website in the last couple days, weeks, months, or year. The bigger the group, the more INACTIVE members there are. Therefore know that the number of membership is meaningless before you pour money or freebies into the group. As for security, Facebook Group is a better alternative since you can keep your group information private with them so far, and it's also free (unlike Meetup, which charges organizers). I'm moving my group to Facebook Group, and hope others heed my warning about meetup.com. Check out horror stories about Craigslist.com to know the types of crimes that can happen. I've written to Meetup Headquarters about this danger, and they refuse to allow people to keep meetup information completely private. Having been put on notice about the dangers means that's negligence, or recklessness, for which they can be sued if something should happen. PLEASE don't use meetup.com for children's events, or to go into remote areas, or to go into a private home for an event.

There are many meet ups that for all sorts of things from meeting new friends to depression groups. Meeting people is so hard these days weather dating or just finding like minded people you get along with. Meet ups allows you to go alone to a meet up and make new friends with no stress and if you are single and looking then at lest you can meet someone in a relaxed stress free environment and meet people face to face. This is a good thing why they are caning dating meet ups is beyond me at least you do not talk to someone for a month and get asked for money and find out the pension is fake and in Nigeria. Worst case if you do not like the people at a meet leave and find another meet up with people you do get along with.