Elon Musk becomes biggest donor of US midterms cycle with $366M spent (theguardian.com) 4 points by geox 8d ago ↗ HN
[–] kccoder 8d ago ↗ Unlimited political contributions is incompatible with democracy. The idea that more money means you get more speech is absurd. [–] nojvek 7d ago ↗ well, it seems the supreme court thinks more money = more free speech.citizens united case set the precedent, and no party has the balls the actually get the tillman law back in.In US, democrats and republicans are an illusion of choice. Both love their billions of PAC money.Bernie is the only exception who refuses to accept PAC money. Everyone else is varying levels of shade of corruption.
[–] nojvek 7d ago ↗ well, it seems the supreme court thinks more money = more free speech.citizens united case set the precedent, and no party has the balls the actually get the tillman law back in.In US, democrats and republicans are an illusion of choice. Both love their billions of PAC money.Bernie is the only exception who refuses to accept PAC money. Everyone else is varying levels of shade of corruption.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 9.3 ms ] threadcitizens united case set the precedent, and no party has the balls the actually get the tillman law back in.
In US, democrats and republicans are an illusion of choice. Both love their billions of PAC money.
Bernie is the only exception who refuses to accept PAC money. Everyone else is varying levels of shade of corruption.