05-06-2024, 04:50 PM
(05-06-2024, 03:04 PM)pally Wrote: Qatar, the country that can talk to Hamas leadership.
Of course they can. It's rather easy to talk to someone you're hosting.
(05-06-2024, 04:08 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Correction, they are two funding sources among many who fund a foundation system that provides grants to a lot of different organizations. Among whom, two are astroturfing the protests.
So, Tides Center, one of the branches of the Tides organization had a two page Schedule F in 2022 (foreign grant recipients) and a 55 page Schedule I (domestic recipients). Tides Foundation has a 96 page Schedule F and a 277 page Schedule I. Each of those pages has 9 lines on them which each represents a separate grant recipient. When it comes to the non-profit/grants/community organizing realm I can tell you that Tides and their leadership, let alone their donors, do not care all that much about a single grant recipient or have any influence on them other than what the grant contract says. S mean, we are looking at over 3,800 separate grant recipients.
Call the organizations astroturf all you want to, but tying it back to a third party donor to a foundation the size of Tides that has that many grant recipients is just falling prey to inflammatory media headlines.
I realize these are people with large amounts of money. That said, there comes a point when a pattern rather starts to emerge. Fund whatever you like, as long as it's not illegal, but that rather becomes the point when mass arrests are made at functions funded by organization you financially support. If your money is funding illegal activity you damned well better be aware of it.
