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'Thanks to Citizens United': 50 Megadonors Have Put Over $1.5 Billion Into 2024 Election (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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The top 50 contributors "skew Republican" but the list includes donors to both major parties, an analysis from The Washington Postshowed.

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[–] TropicalDingdong 29 points 2 months ago

Basically setting up the conditions where a few billionaires control who has access to electorialism, because if you cant marshal a few billion, you can't compete at a national level.

[–] j4k3 13 points 2 months ago

It is open and blatant corruption that anonymity exists in political donations. It is a disgusting lack of ethics and an immeasurable embarrassment on the world stage.

[–] demizerone 7 points 2 months ago

This is what's going to end America.

[+] AtHeartEngineer -31 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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[–] NegativeInf 40 points 2 months ago

If it were pointless to vote, billionaires wouldn't be spending barge loads of cash to convince you one way or another.

The only way your vote doesn't matter is if you don't vote at all.

[–] TokenBoomer 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Voting matters for local elections.

[–] barnaclebutt 4 points 2 months ago

Voting matters if you ever want to stop situations in which 50 billionaires think it is okay to try to buy an election. Nobody likes this crap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Basically how I imagine it's going to be for along time. Federal is mostly nothing but damage control, state is the same depending on where you are, local is where you have the most impact

[–] givesomefucks 10 points 2 months ago

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

-Robert A. Heinlein

As true as it ever was

[–] ramenshaman 5 points 2 months ago

Fucking vote.

[–] Fedizen 4 points 2 months ago

Billionaires: spend billions of dollars to convince you not to vote

You: Guess I shouldn't vote