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Mastodon's fundraiser for Kamala Harris needs fediversal support to reach it's 500,000$ goal (secure.actblue.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] cron@feddit.org 29 points 3 months ago

From a european point of view, donating to a political campaign is nothing we would even consider. Additionally, we are not even allowed to donate if we wanted.

This makes this whole post relevant to less than 5% of the world's population.

[-] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago

Quarter of political donations in EU go to extremist and populist parties, data reveals

[-] cron@feddit.org 16 points 3 months ago

If I read this article correctly, then all of euope donates about €150 million per year to policical parties.

Kamala received $ 300 million only in july.

There is literally an order of magnitude between the donations in the EU and the US.

[-] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

I don't disagree.

From the investigators site:

Most political parties rely heavily on state subsidies, but not in Germany where they get hundreds of millions of euros from private individuals and companies.

https://www.ftm.eu/transparency-gap