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VioletTea@lemmy.world to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

Elon Musk Tests What Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Can Buy in the Midterms

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Elon Musk Tests What Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Can Buy in the Midterms

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VioletTea@lemmy.world to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 3 days ago
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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Just to put it in perspective: him spending that much on the midterms is very roughly equivalent, in terms of expenditure::wealth+assets ratio, of me buying a two-day pass to Palisades Tahoe.

    That is absolutely fucking insane, and very obviously indicates a fundamentally broken system.

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    If pills are to be trusted (hahahahaha), a sweeping loss.

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      Not watching polls, but watching the geographic distribution of incoming votes, and its a wipeout.

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        I don’t disagree, but Dems are disproportionately likely to vote early so votes at this stage are not indicative. At least unless you have voodoo-level knowledge of how the votes distribute over time.

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          I mean its not voodoo, its just disambiguating preference from attendance.

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      A fitting spelling error.

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        Ha, I’m leaving it

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    Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    near half a billion so he can throw his heart out to the voters again.

    it is… quite outstanding~

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    Not much, it turns out

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    Prepare to get wrecked.

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