I have some ideas about what we should do with Musk and Trump, but they're against instance rules

Fun fact:

George W Bush's entire campaign budget was 198 million dollars.

Citizens United is allowing this one billionaire to donate more than that by himself.

Dude was born and raised in South Africa pretending to be an American (much like Ted Cruz who was born in Canada) interfering in US elections. It’s fucked.

I'm not American. Can someone explain how they are 'allowed' to do this? Similarly, how is the war chest created?

Interesting fact about the timing. He started donating as soon as Trump promised to never release the Epstein files.

Musk plans to give $45 mln a month to new pro-Trump PAC, WSJ reports

Probably tax deductible. Also, aren’t Tesla employees happy their owners gave their billionaire CEO a $50 billion bonus instead of sharing it with all their employees? Now they are just passing the bullshit bonus onto Trump instead of the middle class employees that work there.

US is not a democracy, it is a plutocracy, an oligarchy

Is there a website that tracks the whereabouts of billionaires? If not, how hard would that be to build and maintain?

Asking for a friend.

What's crazy is what its probably going towards.

AKA bombarding a handful of pour souls with ads and messaging in swing counties where it actually matters.

It seems like such a waste.

You get the president you ~~voted~~ paid for!

I was waiting for someone to bring this up, it would be hilarious if Biden does something to put a wrench in this plan as a last FU to the republicans

Musk is a dumb piece of shit that didn’t earn his money.

There were liberal billionaires holding purse strings about college students protesting the killings in Gaza. This isn't a one-party problem. Though Repubs are more blatant about their corruption because they no longer have any shame.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. So many lives could be improved with this, it makes me sick.

The funniest thing about this is as soon as he can trump will betray him.

I'm not saying that this is a good thing, but the meme really wants you to believe that ordinary people have donation limits and rich people don't. This is an oversimplification.

The limit is still $3,300 in individual donations directly to a campaign, no matter who you are. There is no limit on individual contributions to a PAC, so long as the PAC doesn't work directly with any candidate or campaign when spending the money, and this also doesn't matter who you are.

There isn't a literal rule that separates the rich from the poor here. You too can donate your entire savings to a PAC without limits.

The real inequality is how much we can afford to donate. I won't ever have $45,000,000 in my life, so I won't ever get the level of political influence that people like Elon Musk can buy. I can try to exploit the same systems he does, but he'll always be able to exploit them more.

"Broligarch"

Youve heard of corporations are people, now get ready for one person is a corporation.

Wait, this is about Elon Musk. Why isn't it in the Musk community over at !technology@lemmy.world ?

I see, it's not as designed then... I'm not from US and I'm so confused every time I hear about rich people funding your politicians like it's perfectly alright and absolutely not fucked up.

How long you suppose the economy can recover if we ban billionaires and rule that they share their profits rather than hoard them?