Summary

Elon Musk was revealed as the sole funder of the RBG Pac, donating $20.5M to promote misleading claims that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg aligned with Donald Trump on abortion.

The PAC’s ads, denounced as deceptive by Ginsburg’s family, aimed to counter Democratic criticism of Trump’s abortion stance.

Musk’s political spending for the 2024 election exceeded $260M, including major contributions to Trump and RFK Jr.

  • Th4tGuyII
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    836 days ago

    Man, to think that $260M could’ve been used in so many better ways to benefit society… Yet was instead used by a power-hungry billionaire to “contribute” to that POS

    • @blazeknave
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      05 days ago

      Lmao is this the norm now? We just write this shit on the traceable Internet? Forever archived?

        • @blazeknave
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          85 days ago

          … Jfc… you’re right. I’ve lamented it for years nonetheless. I guess I’m actually thinking "are people really saying this about the team that will actually use Prism (remember that whole govt access to internet thing?) to hunt down threats to their agenda? "

      • @[email protected]
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        65 days ago

        If enough people write about it on the internet, they will never find the one who does the killing.

        • @blazeknave
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          55 days ago

          Remember being scared to text your weed dealer? Was the FBI never a real thing?!

  • @MimicJar
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    5 days ago

    Anyone who thought or for some reason still thinks that Ginsberg and Trump align is an idiot. @ me, you’re an idiot.

    Ginsberg had a specific and nuanced legal argument that essentially came down to, a law should be passed to clarify the right to abortion. Ginsberg was pro choice. However as a judge and Supreme Court Justice she had a specific and nuanced opinion, but ultimately believed Roe v Wade provided the correct answer, but how it got there did have some shakey legal ground.

    • @Feathercrown
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      35 days ago

      My cousin is a lawyer and that was his view as well. Framing it as a privacy issue is pretty shaky, and we need to just pass laws for it.

    • @TrickDacy
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      45 days ago

      What is with this @me thing I keep seeing?

  • @hperrin
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    385 days ago

    Now there’s a CEO to get that United treatment.

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      95 days ago

      Surprised Boeing hasn’t tried yet either.