I’m not certain, I think the mods are also on salary. Then there’s the cost of bandwidth, for all the traffic FR gets it must be fairly hefty.
Sites like The Kos don’t have fund raisers ‘cause they have a sugar daddy to pay all their bills. I imagine Soros is probably paying more than $300k a year to keep the place running, which is pocket change to him.
I guess that’s my question... what does it take to run something like this? I ancient times I was familiar with a couple “free” dialup BBSs... I was always fascinated by the technical aspects of it.
That’s a good point, Soros and other leftists are funding the left-wing sites and so you never see up-front fundraisers.
Just like leftists are funding modern art, crappy novels, academia, and a zillion front organizations, all without the pain of fundraising.
Conservatives don’t have any sugar daddies. They’ve all gone over to appeasing the terrifying Great Evil Eye in the White House. They all go to Sugar Daddy cocktail parties at the salons of the rich and celebrated and groom one another like the fat cats they are.
We have to raise our own money from the grassroots. We are poor but proud. Tiny but tenacious. Growing and grim and growling.
So cough up already.
Nope - not even...