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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Literally all they post is cool marxist stuff. It's fascinating that they've been targeted.

If it really is russia that runs them then my suggestion to the russians is that they seek out western marxists who already run operations making and posting this content and drop money into those western marxists instead via several layers of obfuscation for deniability.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

That'll actually get the feds knocking on our doors should anyone be dumb enough to accept foreign, or "foreign" (FBI entrapped) funding.

Trust me on this one, that is a very dangerous idea.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

This is one of the examples listed in "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent" by Harvey Silvergate. If I remember right, it was a small church doing a fundraiser for someone sick in their congregation. Feds show up and arrest the people running the fundraiser. Turns out money from the Lord's Resistance Army (I think?) was donated to them.

Guess even warlords get the feels when they see Americans don't have health insurance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

We don't have to know about it. There's nothing stopping any actor from dropping funds into a patreon or liberapay through a series of shell companies and multiple accounts.

I would be surprised if several governments are not already doing this.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lets just say that the cost-benefit analysis for such actions aren't worth it for either parties and would act as a poison pill for recipients and as a form of blowback for the donor. Anything that makes domestic communist movements even give off the whiff of being foreign-backed poisons whatever credibility they wish to establish.

I'm telling you this both out of historical precedent and from experience, seeking or accidentally receiving foreign funding of any sort is a bad idea for communists in the imperial core.

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Western Marxists are too afraid to be associated with Russia. No way they’ll ever take the Putin bucks.

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

... You guys aren't on the Kremlin payroll? programming-communism

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

They don't need to know about it if it's coming in through patreon or whatev

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