• @sorval_the_eeter
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    the guy who famously never pays his vendors or his rent until he gets evicted is promising to send money?
    wow sign me up…

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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    No water or other assistance for voters in contested areas.

    Here’s $100 to say you like trump.

    Man, this is a fucked up place.

  • @GottaKnowYourCHKN
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    I’m going to slap the next person who tells me racism is over and everyone is treated equal.

    How the hell is this even LEGAL? This is the state of our country? Really? Blatant bribing? Corruption? And it’s STILL a close race?

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    I really liked this line:

    But it’s also possible that Musk is simply doing the rich guy thing—and the classic rich tech guy thing—of walking into a new situation and assuming all of his ideas are important.

    What a chud.

  • @cosmicrookie
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    Buying votes straight up. The only way this could get any worse is if it was funded by Trump or if Trump did it himself.

    It would be hilarious if Trump asked Musk for $100 for voting Trump though

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      Turnip does not pay any bills. He’s just a grifter.

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    I don’t know but I think that any minimally civilized country would be a crime… just saying

    PS: I forgot that the US is not a civilized country and they live under a plutocracy of Capital

  • OhStopYellingAtMe
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    Jesus titty-fucking Christ. If someone like George Soros were paying people to vote for Harris, right-wingers would be losing their collective shit and flinging it at the moon.

    The double standard is amazing.

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      They don’t care about truth, or consistency. They care about power. Specifically, the power of their in-group.

      Conservatism has been aptly summarized as “There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect.” That’s pretty much the whole thing. Conservatives are, in a kind of fundamental way, bad people. They value the in-group far too much.

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      The double standard is amazing.

      “Yes, but I’m right.”

      They think their collective belief in the correctness of their group identity is more important than law. This explains why right-wing politics doesn’t care about consequences.

    • @GottaKnowYourCHKN
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      Well yeah, but this a white guy doing it-- so you know…it just CAN’T be wrong!

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      I’ll take his money and then not vote for Trump. It’s not like he can tell.

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        Honestly, I kinda hope he can tell. I’d love for there to be a paper trail of me accepting $100 from Elon and then voting for Harris. Hell, I’d put the money toward renting a highway billboard as close to the Tesla HQ as possible showing the receipts. Fuck him.

    • @NavySqueal
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      Highly doubt Musk will pay, also hilarious that the reason is “to protect constitutional rights” when the person who he is endorsing has 0 integrity for that asides for freedom of his own speech…

    • @over_clox
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      The term you’re looking for is bribery.

      • @Telodzrum
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        The term is actually “electioneering.” And, he’s getting close to the illegal kind.

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    You can tell capitalists are getting desperate when they start offering brides … bribes … to voters during an election

    EDIT: beautiful how a simple typo can grab people’s attention so much

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    Amateur hour shit. Ask the other billionaires the correct way of buying elections if any of them still want to hang out with you at Epstein’s

    • @sorval_the_eeter
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      when the numbers start getting this close, buying electoral college electors to convince them to be faithless starts to be possible. Its probably not even very expensive, compared to what you can grift off a presidency.

  • Mearuu
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    I think this can be used as “evidence” that more people voted for trump than Harris.

    For example, elon says that he paid 1000 people for this in a certain district but the vote tallies show that only 500 votes for trump in that area. It would add to the magats incorrect belief that they were cheated. Then the magats would want to start a civil war over it.

    I hope I’m wrong.

    • @jeffwOPM
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      This isn’t payments for votes though

      • Mearuu
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        I didn’t say he was. Did you mean to reply to me?

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    Jesus fucking Christ literally billionaires buying elections… Will they riot? Of course not because they win with this. If Mark Cuban offered the same thing for Harris there would be blood in the streets and Fox news would be calling for his head after Trumps coronation…

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      The real question is… why aren’t we rioting about it?

  • DrSleepless
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    As if he’ll pay them, can’t even pay his IT bills

    • Bizzle
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      won’t.
      Of course he can, but he won’t