• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    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 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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      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.