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Hackers For Harris Donate $150,000 To Kamala Harris’ Campaign

www.forbes.com Hackers For Harris Donate $150,000 To Kamala Harris’ Campaign

Support for Kamala Harris is rapidly gaining traction, and an unlikely group is now throwing their weight behind her: hackers.

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In a surprise announcement, the Republican National Committee has revealed it is bankrupt. A spokesman for the party said they had plenty of money in their accounts last week, but today they just don't know where the money has gone. But not everybody is going begging. Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the United Negro College Fund announced record earnings this week, due mostly to large, anonymous donations.
- Hack the planet!
- Bankruptcy is a specialty of their leader. Perfect!
Of who's money? 😜
I hope they paid in Dogecoin
Stop posting US politics here. Why would anybody outside the US who comes here for "Technology" be interested in that?!
- Just because the technology involves politics shouldn’t mean it can’t belong here also. Why do they have to be mutually exclusive? I’m not pushing my beliefs on anyone here.
  
  If you read the article (which I can only assume you did), it goes into detail about a how even hackers from Black Hat and DEFCON (two well known cybersecurity conventions) were donating to a cause they believe in. It even goes on to talk about hacking voting machines.
  
  Seems like “technology” to me.
  
  Literally every second word is about politics, names or institutions. Technlogy was merely mentioned.
- Is this politics?
  
  You mean my answer? I'm in Germany. I don't care about US politics. President this, president that. Literally don't care.
- Stop posting US politics here. Why would anybody ~~outside the US~~ who comes here for "Technology" be interested in that?!
  
  Seriously, IDGAF where it is, this post is not about technology at all.
  
  I can't prove it's true for you, but every time I read messages like this I think "lol look at that Uber conservative with bad ideas"
  
  Edit: in your case the problem appears to be explosive diarrhea, not being a conservative. Consider me corrected. However another person heavily agreeing with you validates my bias so I'll stick with it ;)
  
  Exactly! Why are we even downvoted for this? People with political agendas are increasingly using every popular sub for posting their shit. Don't care. Don't want to see it.
- Unfortunately, unless it is a moderators’ rule, this just won’t happen.
- 206 up, 20 down.
  
  The nerds have spoken.
  
  I agree with you though.
  
  The majority of english-speaking Lemmy users are from the US. Sadly, they think that they are the onle ones. More importantly, they think that US politics is important to everyone outside of the US.
- Well, it's technically related
- Shut up.
Criminals donating to prosecutors never works out well.
- I hate this stigma, hackers aren't criminals, yes there are criminal hackers, but hackers aren't criminals, I don't have the time or patience to type out everything on my phone, but look up events like defcon, without friendly hackers our cyber security would be a joke.
  
  This. Thank you
- And we know this because....?
- Hackers stealing from criminals usually works out fantastic though!!!
- I assume you're joking but this isn't Reddit.

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