Comment on Mastodon's fundraiser for Kamala Harris needs fediversal support to reach it's 500.000$ goal

• cron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    www.ftm.eu/transparency-gap

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