• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t the max political donation supposed to be like $1300? I’m not looking to start a discussion about the specific loopholes they’re using to skirt that rule. I’m confident that would only be depressing. I just find it insane that it’s clear enough what is happening that a headline like this can be written without being cause for either a libel suit against the author or criminal campaign finance charges being brought against this billionaire. We’re all just like “yep, that’s where we are now”.

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      Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson has spent $95 million on her political action committee (PAC)

      The loophole is in the opening sentence though. We gotta ban pacs (difficulty god mode)

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      We’re all just like “yep, that’s where we are now”.

      Yep… America: land of the fee, home of the billionaire.

      A government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.

      :(

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      In 2010 an unelected group of theocrats decided that the wealthy are allowed to spend as much money as they like on propaganda.