there really needs to be limits and caps on this kind of thing
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There are, but also there are loopholes so there actually aren't
donating to superpacs essentially bypasses any of the current caps.
super pacs shouldnt exist :/
Can someone explain to me what the special interest group is?
Which goes to show that the USA almost always has been for sale
Jeffrey Yass likes to keep his name out of the headlines for some reason.
Lol everyone cheered when Sheldon died and forgot about him. Meanwhile his estate/wife has doubled down on contributions.
So much wealth that long after they have died they still control us.
It's time to start murdering these people folks.
And this is precisely why every country needs a maximum contribution per person per year AND a ban on corporate lobbying.
they are using superpacs, in case Pacs/superpacs somehow get limited by laws, unlikely. they probably could spin up a bunch of LLC to cover the rest.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing against money in politics and trying for progress, closing loopholes
Didn't you hear?, companies are people in the US
They are better than people, they get to spend as much as they want on buying politicians and they can't go to prison.
As long as we're not talking about responsibility for war crimes anyway.
Corporations are people will go down as one of the stupidest, most destructive rulings of any court.
It's even worse in that they are apparently only people when it comes to donations. When the company does something criminal, they are suddenly entities that cannot possibly be punished beyond a fine for less than the crime committed.
You could put the articles of incorporation in a jail cell but I don't see what that would accomplish...
Well, if it would only be the articles of incorporation deciding on the donations, it wouldnt be a problem.
They used to tear up corporate charters of criminal corporations.
The problem was that it was effective.
lmao how is that effective? "oh no, we'd better write the charter out again boo hoo"
Yeah I did google it and you know, none of the sources said that the practice was abandoned because "it was effective" 🤔
They do talk about how the law around incorporation was changed, making it ineffective. Because the company officers could just recreate the company.
Which is what I said... but sure, be snarky about it if you like!
So, they changed the laws and made it ineffective, implying it was effective before?
Or you’re saying the incorporation laws were always ineffective against the corporate death penalty, then they changed them to make it.. extra ineffective?
Yes, revoking corporate charters was effective back when corporations couldn't just reincorporate. No, that wasn't "the problem" as you said.
Hopefully we're all on the same page now.
The campaign finance section of ballotpedia is pretty telling too. The R candidate for my district has over a million dollars in reported cash to the D candidates 150k, which is just mind blowing to me...
they try to donate to both, to curry favors from either one if they win, if they only donated solely to Republican they wil face reprisal from a dem if a dem wins. betting on r guaranteeds unregulated "businesses" in that state.
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I would like to see a top 100 by percentage of wealth. sorry top 100 largest donars but then see what the percent of their wealth that donation is. I bet musks is a drop in the bucket
$90 million dollars is about 0.00008% of Musk's estimated wealth
Why is Crypto.com listed as a Republican donor but Coinbase is a special interest donor? Is Crypto.com only donating to Republicans but Coinbase is donating to both parties?
"Special interest" is usually for contributions to campaigns in favor of (or opposing) ballot measures, in contrast to individuals running for office that have registered with a particular political party.
wait.... Ripple still exists and has dozens of millions to blow on elections?
smh
George Soros betting against AI 💪💪💪