From a european point of view, donating to a political campaign is nothing we would even consider. Additionally, we are not even allowed to donate if we wanted.

This makes this whole post relevant to less than 5% of the world's population.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Quarter of political donations in EU go to extremist and populist parties, data reveals

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months 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.

https://www.ftm.eu/transparency-gap

[–] homesweethomeMrL 4 points 3 months ago

The post about electing the next American President? Okay, bye.