• daddy32@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Nice that US has records of (some of) the bribes politicians receive. Seems very modern and transparent.

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    1 day ago

    Maybe companies that receive government funds (say, if government contracts comprise more than 30% of their annual revenue) they shouldn’t be allowed to make donations to political campaigns.

    Maybe political campaigns should be 100% publicly funded, with entry based on a sufficient number of signatures on a petition. Say 1% of the constituency for an elected position.

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      23 hours ago

      That’s a really good point, they’re just giving the government its own money back to it. And if they aren’t, then why are they being subsidized in the first place?

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    21 hours ago

    Is this corporate donations or are the employees this fucking far gone with their individual political donations?

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    1 day ago

    Don’t worry, Musk just promised to fund ‘moderate’ challengers in democrat primaries.

    And I mean, why wouldn’t he? He could throw tens of millions at every single federal election and not even notice the cost.

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        22 hours ago

        Even more sickening is how filthy rich that sub human piece of shit is.

        Imagine being worth almost half a fucking trillion dollars and still not being satisfied. Words can’t express how much I hate these parasites.