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@fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 10 months ago

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  • @RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    I’d be ok with anonymous donations if they were truly anonymous both publicly and to the management of the institution receiving the money.

    Maybe this is something that the government could facilitate - pool these resources, then help distribute them where they are needed. Almost like how taxes work.

    Maintains uncomfortable eye contact with the camera

    • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      If anyone is aware of the source, it’s not anonymous, it’s undisclosed.

      • @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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        Agreed, literal anonymous, way cool. Undisclosed, much less so.

      • @abbadon420@lemm.ee
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        27•10 months ago

        The tweet speaks of “dark money”. I like that term better. It feels worse

      • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I work for a nonprofit and “anonymous donor” definitely means “c-suite folks know who it came from”

        • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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          So in this context, it’s always doublespeak?

    • @norimee@lemmy.world
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      This exactly. If you really want to stay anonymous then use a middleman and do it anonymous to the recipient as well.

      Everyone involved with the institution, students, parents who pay tuition, teachers, authorities who financially support the institution (…) have a right to know in whose pocket they are.

      • Rain World: Slugcat Game
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        do like onion routing, use two middlemen, i guess you’d literally use locks, sorta like that encryption analogy

    • @hate2bme@lemmy.world
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      Just like they do social security? The government is terrible at the distribution of money. Edit: Damn, y’all really hate SSI

      • @Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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        Elaborate?

        • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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          16•10 months ago

          You know they can’t

      • @RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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        15•10 months ago

        They seem to be pretty good at making sure the military has all the finding they need

        • @hate2bme@lemmy.world
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          Wait til you hear how much of that money is unaccounted for. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2023/11/21/pentagon-fails-its-sixth-audit/

      • @vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        The program that lifted millions of seniors out of poverty. That money.

        • @hate2bme@lemmy.world
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          I’m talking about how no money was to be taken from it for any reason but they figure out ways to do it all of the time.

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