• anticolonialist@lemmy.cafe
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    5 months ago

    The dichotomy is insane. At one side of their mouth, they talk about getting money out of politics, Out of the other side, they talk about raising $50 million in seven hours as a good thing.

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      5 months ago

      I’m fairly certain legit donations to an election campaign is not the major problem with money in politics.

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      5 months ago

      Would you have us believe that while money is still the deciding factor in politics, we should let our own political campaigns starve and die so that strangers on the internet can’t falsely accuse us of being hypocrites? 🙄😮‍💨

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      5 months ago

      You unfortunately have to play by the rules of the game as it exists before you can have the control to change the rules for the future.

    • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      If they stopped taking money for their campaigns, you’d be complaining that they’re disarming themselves against the oncoming threat of fascism.

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      5 months ago

      For the folks who mistake this as a good-faith argument, let me disprove it. It is illegal to misappropriate campaign funds for any purpose other than the election campaign. The only people “getting rich” from the donations made are the wages paid to employees of the election organization. They are not making 7 figure salaries off this. Most of the funds will be spent on running advertisements, booking venues for speeches, and hiring more people to manage it all. This will create (temporary) jobs for common folks, not deepen the pocket of the elite.

      • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Yeah I always thought lemmy was too small for bots… Seeing literal duplicate comments and how quick the anti-Kamala “about face” was… I’m not so sure now.

        Though it’s often hard to tell the difference between a bot and a person who does no thinking of their own, so who knows.

    • john89@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t even trust the upvoted comments on this board. They read just like shills.