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And, when you get into the 999 million club, you also get a red hat that says "I won" on it because you're an insecure dipshit in a cult that needs constant validation because your father didn't love you, elon.

There are some problems with it that make it not as simple as it would appear.

1. If it was 100% perfect and not cheatable then the economy would a just around it as the new norm. In a few years people would say "you can get by on 99 million" and they'd be right. There would be calls to lower it again and the economy would shift around it. Imagine an MMO with a max coin cap and you can visualize the economy of it. The price of everything might eventually come down, but we would still be unable to afford any of.

2. It's cheatable. Elon can't make 70 billion in one year? That's why he has 70 kids and they're all employees of Eloncorp and they each make 1 billion. Or, if you don't trust your kids (which he probably wouldn't since ...) You could just form 70 corporations to hold the money.

Rich peoples money is tied up by accountants and lawyers so tight there isn't a magic fix for it. Elon could litigate through an entire presidency until his paid for politician was elected and could undo the tax laws.

My inner Trotskyist telling me that this is actually a very good transitional demand

It's a whole can of worms no one in the financial sector wants to tax unrealized gains like you're imagining tho. I like the idea in general.

We need Mario.

Because he sadly is. He has more money and wealth than God.

What's really sad is just how fucking cheap it is for him to buy candidates.

Trump and Musk are both ego maniacs. They will have a falling out, just a matter of when and how salty they will be publicly. Fingers crossed for full on social nuclear war!

America reforming its corporate dictatorship is about as likely as it reforming the British Empire or Confederacy.

Citizens United decision was in 2010, and after 2011 they lost the votes needed ever since, so probably more like 2010/2011 was the only time they had enough power to do anything about it.

To be clear, a law banned PACs in 2002 but the courts decided that banning the pacs violated the first ammendment, meaning that simply passing a new law wouldn't cut it. You would need either a constitutional amendment, replacing the courts, or some other measure involving a supermajority.

I heard that Citizens United is woke. Everybody's been saying it.

they had four years, doubt four weeks is going to change anything.

this is just the corporats posturing to appease the peasants for next cycle.

see we wanted to take this away but they wouldn't let us!

both parties are the same, rotten to the fucking core.

Pretty simple, he funds a “moderate” (read: right leaning basically republican who will obstruct regularly) democrat who will play the game for money, will say the right thing, play the role, and openly lie. Even if the funding is traced back to him a great deal of voters don’t pay all that much attention to nuance, they pay attention to headlines

So watch out for a bunch of democrat challengers with a shocking amount of funding following the fetterman playbook: initially appears as an “Everyman” with unclear politics (unless you dig), maybe says some promising sounding stuff about income disparity, cops being too much, the climate, or whatever’s the hot topic at the moment during the election, wears a hoodie! Then gets elected, has a fairly uneventful year, then starts to shift hard right when they need them to.

It has a huge chance of being successful, it’s worked many times. And when it works again what the fuck are you going to do about it? The incumbent has an inherent advantage once installed because people don’t pay attention, recall elections basically never ever happen, there is no accountability for them whatsoever so they will do whatever they want

He doesn’t need people to switch registrations. He just needs the currently registered voters to continue to be mostly low informed and the help of the media to keep them that way