LaRouchites aside, you’re preaching to the choir.

Maybe someone somewhere has made a comprehensive list of reasons porkies do philanthropy. The word philanthropy largely implies that we talking about porky’s ill-gotten gains and not our wages. AFAIK the major reasons are PR; tax advantages; backdoor investment; ego fulfillment; and power, both in terms of wielding it and in accumulating more of it.

As usual, Second Thought’s video provides links for deeper dives: Why Billionaire Philanthropy Won't Solve Anything

Edit to add: Oh, this was a link to an answer. I thought you were asking a question 😄

I created a Comradery account just for her and NC long ago, but had to switch to Patreon because it was in beta and had issues.

Maybe these wet farts were the “surprises”:

Putin’s victory is a geopolitical reality

With a popularity rating consistently crossing 80% in the most recent years, especially as a Russian victory in the Ukraine war began to look a plausible reality, the outcome of last weekend’s election was a foregone conclusion. Indeed, the estimation of Putin’s massive popularity is attributed to a US government-funded polling organisation known as the Levada Center.

Hence the covert operations and terrorist acts to create disturbed conditions within Russia and discredit or undermine the election process. Hundreds of drones were fired from Ukraine at targets inside Russia in recent weeks, some aimed at Moscow and others at St. Petersburg, mainly at power plants and some airfields including Domodedovo located south of Moscow and the second busiest airport in Russia.

The high noon came when a 1500-strong strike force that included Russian speakers in a special unit, a large number of foreign fighters, supported by tanks and armoured personnel carriers (including Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles), and elite Ukrainian units tried in vain a fortnight ago to invade Russian territory in an operation lasting four days. Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov since reportedly told President Vlodomyr Zelensky that the planning of the operation was compromised by a traitor — or so he believed.

The Ukrainian leaders and their backers in NATO calculated that an invasion would work and somehow the Russian elections would be discredited! But it turned out to be a fantasy. It appears that Russia’s battle-hardened security agencies were throughout one step ahead of Ukrainian intelligence and its western mentors.

Russia thwarts Ukrainian incursion attempt

You’re thinking of nitrous oxide. Nitrogen is inert. Air is mostly nitrogen.

We’re at the monopoly stage of capitalism, so it’s not a big step to consider that they might all own each other. And why not, they own the government, after all. It’s one big club that we ain’t in.

Say the line, Vijay.

Thomas Piketty is a liberal.

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Good luck with that, Jaclyn 😂 Anyone can file a suit against anyone for anything in America.

I’m waiting to see what San Francisco does with the resolution introduced this week:
SF supervisors introduce resolution for sustained ceasefire in Gaza

I wonder how they’ll unload this Scrooge McDuck-sized pool of USD.

I’m generally skeptical of polls, and this corporate poll funded & promoted by what I suspect is a crypto-Zionist think tank doesn’t inspire confidence.

I’ve run into this several times since the Gaza prison break a week and a half ago.