Great. Would you be willing to declare your primary residence at another dwelling you don't live in just to help out a friend? Do you expect that to be an easy thing to do every month in order to trick the system? Do you think the landlord of the residence you're living in would simply lie down and take a fine if they know you've signed a contract to live there and declare it as your primary residence?
Just make it so the dwelling has to be occupied by the owner for 9-10 months a year. Every month it is unoccupied, the owner has to pay the value of a monthly rent as tax multiplied by the number of months it has been unoccupied -->
month 1 = rent x 1
month 2 = rent x 2
month 3 = rent x 3
I think that'll be hard to ignore for most landlords - foreign or not.
Trump is going to be the greatest thing that happened to the planet. It has been promised that he will plunge the US into another series of crisises, estrange the US' closest geopolitical allies, and help the world wake up to the fact that the US is not #1. That the US is dangerous and shouldn't be a template to copy. That new alliances have to be forged and the US monetary hegemony broken.
With any luck, it'll rattle the lazy corpses in that country to finally do something to fix their broken system. Maybe people will realise that Bernie's words weren't just addle-brained mutterings from a communist-infested mind, but that he and many others speak the truth. Maybe enough people will want to rewrite the constitution and get rid of "winner takes all" vote counting, reduce the power of the president, add an age limit to governmental jobs, and so much more.
Things have to get worse before they get better for people to learn, because unless they aren't affected, they have a hard time understanding.
Yes, I am saying that we would be better off by having this money put somewhere else.
I get the notion, however social networks do have an inordinate effect populations and how they think. Spending 5M€ on say, poor communities would help those poor communities (short or long term, dunno), but they could still be influenced by a shoddy social network (or multiple). Whether that sum effect is positive or not is debatable.
It's very difficult to make a judgement on utility of such a (comparatively) small sum and its target.
To be honest, I'm much more concerned about how people spend their money when they go shopping: buying non fair-trade goods like chocolate, clothes, coffee, phones, and so on, where they spend sums orders of a magnitude larger than a paltry 5-10€/month on mastodon.
The existing US-based non-profit entity, the 501(c)(3), will continue to function as a fundraising hub.
Wait, is the money transferred to the US then back to the EU? And will the US-based non-profit still continue to exist or will it be replaced by a truly European one?
Can't wait for PirateGames to shit on this one too and be a great big Blizzard shill again.