What are your political leanings, and how much research do you do into charities to make sure they fit those leanings?
For example, I'm anti-war, and anti-intervention. I would like to help out in the middle east, but the whole situation is so politically complex, and the multiple superpowers and upcoming superpowers involved, with their intelligence operations, grass roots operations, propaganda, news influence, etc. make it incredibly difficult to be even REASONABLY sure that your investment would do more good than harm.
So how do you know, for example, when you support a charity for equal rights in the Middle East, that you're not actually funding a CIA grass-roots operation to overthrow a democratically elected leader, or something equally terrible? How do you know that, when you support a campaign to get a "journalist" released from prison after being accused of spying by a foreign government, that it's not really a spy, posing as a journalist, and that supporting him won't be helping to discredit and destabilise a legitimate government?
Also, a second question, if I may: do you fund political parties? If so, how do you reconcile this with individuals who have their own right to vote for a particular candidate, but cannot fund their choice to the same level that you can fund yours?
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What are your political leanings, and how much research do you do into charities to make sure they fit those leanings?
For example, I'm anti-war, and anti-intervention. I would like to help out in the middle east, but the whole situation is so politically complex, and the multiple superpowers and upcoming superpowers involved, with their intelligence operations, grass roots operations, propaganda, news influence, etc. make it incredibly difficult to be even REASONABLY sure that your investment would do more good than harm.
So how do you know, for example, when you support a charity for equal rights in the Middle East, that you're not actually funding a CIA grass-roots operation to overthrow a democratically elected leader, or something equally terrible? How do you know that, when you support a campaign to get a "journalist" released from prison after being accused of spying by a foreign government, that it's not really a spy, posing as a journalist, and that supporting him won't be helping to discredit and destabilise a legitimate government?
Also, a second question, if I may: do you fund political parties? If so, how do you reconcile this with individuals who have their own right to vote for a particular candidate, but cannot fund their choice to the same level that you can fund yours?
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