Wealthy American conservatives and Russian oligarchs previously spent the bulk of the money on anti-gender advocacy in Europe. Today, 73% of the overall cash pot comes from EU donors, with Hungary, France, and Poland standing out as the countries with the largest funders.

Hungary — a country whose prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has styled himself as a defender of Western Christian civilisation — has been at the forefront of that effort.

“If you dig enough, you can find that they [conservative entities] are all funded by some Hungarian state entity of some sort,” Datta, the author of the EPF report, said.

Overall, the European donor base spans a heterogenous alliance of moneyed aristocrats, ultra-conservative tech entrepreneurs, and ideologically aligned businesses. Alongside private donors, the report uncovered that a critical amount of money — at least $171 million or 14% of the total amount — stems from EU public funding.

When it comes to public funding, the political patronage model outlined by Datta showed that not only governments, but also the EU itself has systematically channelled cash to anti-gender groups disguised as youth organisations via its Erasmus programme — including the World Youth Alliance (WYA), a Catholic NGO that lobbies against abortion in family planning, since 2009.

So here’s the targets:

Moneyed aristocrats, ultra-conservative tech entrepreneurs, and ideologically aligned businesses.

The question we have to ask here, if we want to help, is how can we subvert and counteract their efforts.

I want to add before I continue that these are just some kernels of ideas. I’m not a specialist in all these areas. And I’d hope that others could take some of these ideas and bring their own skills ans input. I dont expect everyone reading this to have the ability to do all of these things; but I think its a fair assumption that collectively, with he enough people who give a shit about this cause, we can actually make some difference by working together.

Bring Money to the Cause

Obviously you can donate to groups that fight to promote LGBTQ rights, and particularly trans rights. But I doubt you’re all that wealthy.

I think its pretty obvious looking at the targets, that they’re not all that ideologically motivated, but rather, monetarily motivated. So if we want to counteract this, we need to draw more wealthy monitarily motivated people to the trans cause.

I appreciate that this is deeply cynical. But frankly, the people who are suffering because of this need actual help, not principles.

Syphon Money from the Anti-Trans Cause

It occurs to me that when you have this much money pouring into a movement, then there’s the oppurtunity for exploitation.

• Set up fake anti-trans groups. Seek funding. Funnel the funding back to the trans cause.
• Set up fake anti-trans sites and promote them. Take the donations, funnel them back to the trans cause.
• Look for exploitations in current anti-trans sites and attack them.

  DDoSing to bring the site down. XSRF to get the database and identify the doners. XSS to trick doners into giving us money. There are people who know a lot more about this shit than me. And guess what, you can pay them to do this.

Attack the Source

Looking at the figures, we can see that the majority of money here comes from Hungary. So, how can hurt these people?

I’m not familiar enough with the current political situation in Hungary (aside from Orban). But I assume there is an opposition.

Can we get money to mainstream and extremist opposition factions? I’ll leave this one for someone who knows more about it than me.

I mean some people might be into that.

Do we know how the age verification process is gonna work or is this gonna be one of those neoliberal dystopian spystate kinda deals where the means of data collection is left to corporations only to be subsequently tapped by the state when the want to target individuals?

Absolutely. Super easy to use this in blackmail. Especially in a country as repressed as the UK.

“This is not a plastic problem, but a waste management failure. It is the failure of plastic waste management that leads to pollution, not the material itself,” said Segun Ajayi-Kadir, Director General of MAN.

Want to make the world a better place? Kill this man.

Police are the mechanism of state violence. They are inherently bad - as an institution.

Whether a politician is bad depends on their policies.

Her answer:

No step on snek 😔

I mean, Louisiana’s best governor was the Kingfisher in my opinion and that guy was corrupt as fuck.

If there’s a state that should really Thank God for Mississippi, it’s Louisiana.

A penis.

Isnt there an award winning book about ghosts and a plantation?

jfc, would someone please dom this man already and help him get all the bootlicking out of his system in a healthy way that doesn’t jeporadize international affairs.

In all seriousness though, this is sad as fuck. What a pathetic waste of flesh and bone.

Cybercrap

For about the last 3 years I’ve been hearing about YouTube cracking down on ad blockers. Not once has it affected my. Ublock still stops ads on the browser. Revanced stops em on the phone.

What is a Usenet?

I remember reading a story about how the North Koreans would dig tunnels under the border. It took years and the ultimate goal was to dig all the way to Seoul. I remember feeling bad for all the time and man hours the North Korean state wasted on this stupid protect. This reminds me a lot of that.

Thank you!🥳

Say this to an Irish person. I dare you.

I recall having a conversation with a transphobe and it coming down to me going, ‘I just don’t understand why you want to be cruel to trans people.’ He tried to brush it off but it was obvious that he was simply trying to dress up his bigotry with pseudointellectual bs.

That, and the tried and true, “I’m just concerned about women in women’s spaces. Post transition women commit the same number of crimes as men.”

Where did you read this? Can you show me what crimes they commit? Who did the study?

“Oh I can’t remember this now, can’t we have a debate about this.”

That’s when I realised that this was pointless. Because, for him, this was just a game. That the rights of trans people were something we could “intellectually” parse out. All while actual, real world people are being harassed, discriminated against and killed.

Fuck that shit. And fuck that guy.

Oh yeah, have there been reports on this ?

(Not trying to shut you down, I’m genuinely curious)

A carrot perhaps… Or a very big stick.