• Flying SquidM
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    1571 year ago

    Slavery may have been abolished, but as politics proves, you can buy anyone in the United States.

        • @[email protected]
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          541 year ago

          Slavery is still legal in the US now, they just need to be convicted of a crime first. Easy enough to find crimes to put people away for, and you can even selectively enforce laws against the people/race you don’t like

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            Good thing the force behind enforcing laws and charging people as criminals is famously good-natured and held to the highest of accountability standards to prevent any possible corruption!

            Oh wait.

          • MacN'Cheezus
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            11 year ago

            Okay but that still makes Taylor Swift owning Kanye illegal because she is a private person.

            • SuperDuper
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              I’m sure she could put some of that $700M towards buying a private prison and then bribing the cops, the D.A., and the judge to get him sentenced there.

              • @Cort
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                41 year ago

                Wait, so if Kanye gets convinced of a crime, T-swift could buy the private prison where he’s serving his sentence and then effectively own Kanye? Is a billion dollars enough to buy a prison? They can’t be that expensive, right?

              • MacN'Cheezus
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                31 year ago

                At least theoretically.

                IDK about you, but I can picture Kanye playing that from time to time and low key kicking ass far more than I can picture her doing it.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Do you think Bloomberg could’ve won last time if he spent all his money?

      With a net worth of $55.9 billion, 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg is more than 17 times richer than Trump

      • Flying SquidM
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        31 year ago

        I doubt it. People didn’t like him much.

        • @BigWheelPowerBrakeSlider
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          11 year ago

          People don’t like Rick Scott but he spent enough of his money to get elected. And Bloomberg is 50 fold wealthier. And Bloomberg seems much more personable. So I don’t know.