• @Rapidcreek
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    Musk is worth around $232 billion

    So $250 million is about .001 of his wealth

    It’s like if someone with assets of $500,000

    Gave a $585 donation

    So

    Thanks to excessive greed and Citizens United

    Not only can billionaires buy our elections

    It doesn’t even cost them all that much

    • @Blue_Morpho
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      411 month ago

      And because he’s now in control of some government spending, his $250m investment has already paid off several times over.

    • @danc4498
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      141 month ago

      This probably doesn’t include using his social media platform that he owns and paid many billions for. That’s unquantifiable, but only possible when you’re a billionaire.

      Same goes for other sources owned by billionaires. The newspapers that refused to endorse. Facebook allowing all kinds of fake news posts.

      • Billiam
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        21 month ago

        I mean, we can already quantify a floor of $44 billion. So he spent at least that much buying his way into the White House.

    • @Sanctus
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      81 month ago

      I’m fucken mad, are you?

  • @lath
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    201 month ago

    And on the other side of the ocean there’s Romania annulling election results due to foreign interference through social media.

    Huh.

  • @phoneymouse
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    141 month ago

    Conservatives can never say another word about gEoRgE sOrOs

  • @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

    In the context of how much wealth eel on musk has, that falls squarely into the range of “petty cash”

  • @[email protected]
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    Will be his best investment to date. Right up there with Twitter. He will make that back in spades. Can I say that? Ya know…because he’s African? I don’t want it to be taken as racist.