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

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    293 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
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    133 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
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    73 months ago

    This is what’s going to end America.

    • @NegativeInf
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      403 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.

    • @TokenBoomerOPM
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      153 months ago

      Voting matters for local elections.

      • barnaclebutt
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        43 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.

      • Irremarkable
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        33 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
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      103 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

    • @Fedizen
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      43 months ago

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

      You: Guess I shouldn’t vote