So I was recommended this on YouTube.
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50501. I thought I saw a logo for them at a prior protest. I guess I just dismissed it because I figured maybe I was mistaking it for something else, but is this really the same 50501 I'm thinking of from earlier this year? I remember it being a fucking joke where not even Redditors were taking it seriously. They tried desperately to get traction and got nowhere, but now I'm seeing this group attached to this shit like a brand.
Who the fuck is funding this?
Yes, 50501 is the faggy reddit based political organization. If you pay attention, you see familiar names pop up as organizers for all of these protest across the country. Indivisible is another big one (composed of indivisible action, indivisible group, and indivisible projects) which I did a shallow dive into. They allegedly had a lot more information posted about their funding online before conservative journalist began noticing them. From what's still posted, you can see they are majority funded by big donors and foundations. A politician leaked that the Open Society Foundation of George Soros fame was one of the donors for indivisible. There's also many soft connections between these protest organizations and ActBlue (the main democrat superPAC) along with other protest organizations. They definitely attend the same tea parties. If you are curious how much their top members make, they (the ones which are in 501c3 and 501c4) are required to publish it via form 990s which you can find on propublica. For indivisible, most of their top members make very healthy 6 figure incomes. It's unfortunate they aren't required to disclose their donors in the same forms. Also, many will have a financial audit posted which gives bigger breakdowns of where their money is going.
It's a deep rabbithole. They say they'are "grassroots" organizations. You'd think "grassroots" would mean primarily funded and run by people with no backgrounds in politics along with small donors. Like occupy Wallstreet of yore. However, their websites and job applications have a different meaning for "grassroots." By grassroots organization they mean organizations which primarily target your everyday people to build their influence. As opposed to 'grasstops.' So, flooding comment sections on social media with bot comments, even if it was 100 percent personally funded by George Soros, would count as grassroots even though no normal people were involved. It's clearly astroturfed af and shrouded in glowie double speak to manipulate nigger cattle.
Speaking of nigger cattle, it's interesting watching youtubers cover these allegedly totally organic grassroots protest which all look and sound mysteriously exactly the same and have even similar people in them across the country. If you look closely, you'll hear a few of the protestors talk about their political organizations when they think no one is paying attention, or wear a logo on their shirt, pen, or sign of their political organization. You wouldn't know what it was unless you knew. However, these people never ever admit to being funded or paid in anyway. Despite clearly being there as organizers or representatives of organizers and being clearly asked. They usually respond with the same lines "I wish I was getting paid to be here," if they respond at all. Which is an interesting slip of the mask. I don't think organic protestors would wish to be paid and care more about inacting change or spreading their message.
Assuming they aren't just lying, big assumption I know, I wonder if this is some sort of pyramid scheme. Where they recruit deranged bored people, encourage them to volunteer and buy their merchandise with the promise being if you do enough grunt work then eventually you'll be promoted to a position which pays something and that just never happens.
Still, we do see people getting bussed into these events and they have posted ways to get your travel expenses reimbursed. I wonder if this is another avenue of fraud for these groups. Have a buddy with a small transit company jack up ticket cost by 2x, go to a poor or old person community, and offer people free trips and a fraction of their bus ticket cost which they won't pay, ofc, to go to a protest. Then after the protest, send request to the organizers to reimburse the cost of running your buses for the event, at the inflated prices.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if how most of these organizations survive is via running some type of PAC scam where members of a PAC launder money into their own pockets through establishing 501c3/4s, filling them with easily manipulated retards, And then pocketing a fraction of the PAC money with bs cost.
Lastly, the other interesting thing about these protest are the yellow shirts. Usually in a construction vest with a walkie talkie who larp as security but harass any conservative journalist who try to talk to protestors or cover the event. Including blocking paths, spitting, pushing, playing copyrighted music, stalking and various other passive aggressive behaviors such as obstructing cameras. They are clearly, clearly protecting whatever type of scam is being run. Combine that with how clueless the average protestor sounds when a journalist does talk to them... its hard to see these things as anything but astroturfed. Maybe filled with unpaid useless retards, but definitely billionaires paying to protest billionaires with a healthy mix of fraud.
Nate Friedman does a pretty good soft dive into who are likely being paid or apart of the pyramid scheme at protests.
If you have a primeyes account, you can do the same at your local astroturfed protest. Using the trial, I found some interesting people who look like paid protestors on videos covering these protests but im not paying to unlock more details.
