Why does hive Dao need additional funding from repurposed funds?

Because, I've said before, we need a strong & robust warchest to help fund all types of projects, events, and initiatives.

Especially the 500 or so HBD taken from people who supported witnesses?

Not everyone placed on that list was correctly placed on that list. They deserve a "trial" of sorts.

Why remove advertising and replace it with decentralized fundsing? In both cases it upsets some people. At least I am not impacted by ads on a game I don't play.

Anecdotal and irrelevant. You are also not directly impacted by developers earning from the DAO ( more at bottom of comment ).

Look at the overall game space. Tons of complaints about ads, in-app purchases, excessive "micro" transactions. Hive could be the home to both paid games but also "free & fair" games. Open-source game development could find a new rebirth on Hive.

It's fine if you don't care about it, but I promise you you're not the majority.

I won't support an airdrop to anyone who supported Justin Sun's sock puppets and am not alone.

The SteemWorld developer voted for 2-4 of Justin's witnesses, in addition to the old witnesses, as a form of "making a compromise". He did not think a fork would happen, so he wanted to try & make some peace on the platform he cared about.

If you think that a passionate & respected developer of a very useful site for our blockchain does not deserve to at least make an appeal to receive support on here, than that is a point I will never corrupt myself into agreeing with you on.

You're thinking that burning tokens is the greatest tactic in the world, because why? It'll help with the inflation and boost the coin value?

Wrong.

Burning supply does not automatically mean each coin is worth more. Value only comes from one place ( when speaking of HIVE ), demand. If we have lots of demand, then value will rise according to supply, but if we slash 50% of our supply & there's no demand then... Nothing. Go on, slash another 10%. How about 25%.

Burn 100% of it, you still won't generate more demand.

Demand will only come from real people wanting to invest, which I strongly believes is in relation to our dapp ecosystem. I want people to play games on Hive, write on Hive, watch on Hive, stream on Hive, do DeFi & other business on Hive.

That will cause demand, which will give you the result that you actually want.