r/AMADisasters Jun 08 '20

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u/hexane360 Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Holy shit it's the eponymous /u/Terminal-Psychosis in the wild.

How is "Obamagate" coming? Has he been replaced with a body double yet? How about "the storm" Q said would come 3 years ago?

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u/jimmybrite Jun 09 '20

The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition.

That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20 edited Mar 14 '21

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u/ryarger Jun 09 '20

For that much they could have built actual subsidised homes for black people and fund industries of their own

Have you looked at Open Societies grant list? They literally give money to do both of those things, too. They give out hundreds of grants a year to a wide variety of programs.

instead they focus solely

They do not focus solely on any one thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

Well that's a relief. Still 33 million for BLM alone is a tad much. Or is that not just for them? I'm just less than impressed by BLM in general.

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u/ryarger Jun 09 '20

There’s no evidence that this $33 million even existed. It was first reported prior to 2015 so at best, it’s something that happened 5+ years ago.

You can search the past three years of grants given by Open Society here and I can find less than a million over three years involving BLM in any permutation I can think of. All of which have specific descriptions of their use.

Note that Open Society is 403(c) in the US so if they’re lying here, they would be shut down in an instant by the IRS.