Someone Is Trying to Crowdfund a Greek Bailout, and Donations Are Surging - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Code3Response;48088397]Can someone explain to me whats up with Brits and leaving the EU. Seems like its their solution to everything.[/QUOTE] while there are good and bad reasons to leave, there is a tendency to blame the EU for all the bad things. essentially it is a form of scapegoating

[QUOTE=Code3Response;48088397]Can someone explain to me whats up with Brits and leaving the EU. Seems like its their solution to everything.[/QUOTE] It's pretty much the same reason why Texas wants to leave the US, because theyre not getting their way

[QUOTE=Sableye;48088739]It's pretty much the same reason why Texas wants to leave the US, because theyre not getting their way[/QUOTE] There is no serious discussion in Texas about leaving the US.

TBH no amount of money would save greece

I don't understand what stops him from (most likely) pocketing the money if it got funded.

[url]https://s3.amazonaws.com/igg-errorpage/greece_message.html[/url] Lol

[QUOTE=Code3Response;48088397]Can someone explain to me whats up with Brits and leaving the EU. Seems like its their solution to everything.[/QUOTE] Only uninformed idiots think that the UK should leave EU. It's like how some people here think that the trickle-down economics works and we should adopt it. [editline]30th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=KillerJaguar;48089131]I don't understand what stops him from (most likely) pocketing the money if it got funded.[/QUOTE] pretty much nothing. Crowd funding is pretty fucking sketchy.

[del]People here seem to have no sense of just how much 1.6 trillion € is. That's more than 10 times as much money as [url=http://www.theactivistinvestor.com/The_Activist_Investor/Blog/Entries/2014/6/3_Who_Has_the_Biggest_Cash_Hoard_2014_Edition.html]Apple had in liquid assets at the end of 2013[/url]. Do you really think Indiegogo, their payment processors, the campaigner's bank, the British government, the EU, etc. would all cooperate with filling this one guy's private bank account with that?[/del] [editline]a[/editline] Yes, it's 1.6 [B]billion[/B], I'm an idiot. It's still not the kind of sum that just goes into your account having had nothing before without raising quite a few eyebrows.

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;48089448]People here seem to have no sense of just how much 1.6 trillion € is. That's more than 10 times as much money as [url=http://www.theactivistinvestor.com/The_Activist_Investor/Blog/Entries/2014/6/3_Who_Has_the_Biggest_Cash_Hoard_2014_Edition.html]Apple had in liquid assets at the end of 2013[/url]. Do you really think Indiegogo, their payment processors, the campaigner's bank, the British government, the EU, etc. would all cooperate with filling this one guy's private bank account with that?[/QUOTE] Why do you lot keep saying 1.6 trillion? 1,600,000,000, that's 1.6E9 or 1.6 billion, not 1.6 trillion...

[QUOTE=Jelman;48089304][url]https://s3.amazonaws.com/igg-errorpage/greece_message.html[/url] Lol[/QUOTE] what kind of shit servers do they have

I really doubt they are going to come up with €1.6 billion in 6 days... they're only sitting at €425,806 at the moment... they'd have to be pulling in as much as €120 million per 18 - 24 hours. Good effort in trying though, kinda bringing power back to the people & literally giving the middle finger to the ECB & IMF.

[QUOTE=LNKFAN;48087214]if that hits the goal, the Greeks are in for one hell of a potato salad[/QUOTE] I understood that reference.

[QUOTE=LNKFAN;48087214]if that hits the goal, the Greeks are in for one hell of a potato salad[/QUOTE] Eaten on the best china, which will be smashed afterwards :v:

[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;48089131]I don't understand what stops him from (most likely) pocketing the money if it got funded.[/QUOTE] Anti-fraud legislation, and the banking system preventing easily laundering that amount of money. If Feeney pockets it he'd probably be liable in quite a few countries his backers come from too. [editline]1st July 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=shutter_eye5;48090072]I really doubt they are going to come up with €1.6 billion in 6 days... they're only sitting at €425,806 at the moment... they'd have to be pulling in as much as €120 million per 18 - 24 hours. Good effort in trying though, kinda bringing power back to the people & literally giving the middle finger to the ECB & IMF.[/QUOTE] If anything I'd interpret this as protest campaign to show just how much that debt is in real-world terms.

The comments on the fundraiser page are really tuggin' at the old heart strings. [URL="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greek-bailout-fund#/comments"]Give them a look.[/URL]

I find it particularly hilarious that the solution to Greece's economic crisis is crowdfunding... when only half of Greeks pay their taxes, and only a tiny percentage of those actually pay them in full. Which, aside from the grossly short-sighted economic policies, tiny GDP, and no major export, is why they're in the trouble they're in.

[QUOTE=opaali;48089073]TBH no amount of money would save greece[/QUOTE] You're right, it would have to come from within. They have to actually pay their taxes, retire later, remove their corrupt politicians and actually work hard. But that's not going to happen overnight. That's what Germany and the rest of the EU is trying to do with Austerity. They're trying to get the Greeks to suck it up and get done with it. But of course the little shits are mewling about how unfair it is when it's nothing but themselves that got them in that situation.

Greece's crisis is their own fucking fault and imo they should either have to suck it up and fix it or get booted from the EU. There's a huge difference between a little bit of economic downturn or issue that is reasonable to approach with some help from your friends (the rest of the EU) but then there's being a piece of shit mooch that sleeps on your couch and was supposed to have found a place to live months ago. Like a bit of debt in nation sized economics is no big deal as anyone with half a brain knows, but this is basically your homeless and jobless "friend" who was only going to stay on your couch for a week and then just never left.

Does Indiegogo do the same thing as kickstarter where, if something fails, everyone's money is returned? or will this man successful scam the whole world out of about million or two euros for his own gain? [editline]GREEK YOGHURT[/editline] Okay, I just found the little fixed funding thing, okay, so it's just a big waste of everyone's time.

wow 800k

Why are people treating this like it isn't a joke

[QUOTE=smurfy;48093385]Why are people treating this like it isn't a joke[/QUOTE] It's not a joke. It's a cute gesture.

-nevermind

So the campaign closed at 1.93 million €. It's now relaunched as a serious charity campaign, with flexible funding and a more generous 1,000,000 € goal: [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greek-crowdfund[/url]