“According to FEC filings, the Synapse Group has worked for Republican Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination this cycle, as well as GOP candidates for Congress. Synapse has also been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for field and canvassing work by America PAC, the outside spending group started by allies of Musk that has spent millions of dollars this election cycle to boost Trump and oppose Democrats.”

  • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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    32 months ago

    Sure, but retaliation like that shouldn’t be possible. It’s a mark of a terrible, failed democracy.

    • @DMCMNFIBFFF
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      12 months ago

      If a corporation can fund 2 parties, why can’t anyone else?

      • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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        12 months ago

        I don’t think corporations should fund parties either.

        • @DMCMNFIBFFF
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          12 months ago

          So if an American gives $200 to the Democrats wt:thon couldn’t give $100 to a Green Party candidate and $100 to a Libertarian Party candidate?

          • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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            12 months ago

            No. Nobody should be donating to political parties because it inevitably leads to the rich having too much influence, and wasting billions of dollars on a pointless advertisement arms race to nowhere.

            • @DMCMNFIBFFF
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              So how do parties get their money? From the government based on past votes?

              If 80 million Biden voters each contributed $125 to his campaign, that’d be $10 billion. What corporation would match that?

              • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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                Any of the following:

                • Campaigns are each given X million for their campaign as public funding if they qualify for the ballot. Say with three qualifying candidates, the DNC, RNC, and the greens each get 10m, use it wisely.

                • Campaigns work based on a shared pool of funds. If candidate A raises X funding, all candidates then recieve X/num candidates funding that they are permitted to spend.

                • No funding is allowed to be spent at all, for any candidate. Candidates can only ever explain their policy on information cards presented at the ballot, on public posts on the internet, press interviews, at debates, etc.

                I’m sure there are other ways. But the point is, no candidate should have a monetary advantage over the other. In an actual democracy, all ideas and therefore candidates should be given equal thought, and therefore funding. Whether it be $0 or $100 billion, all campaigns should be equally funded/defunded.