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A Tsunami of Right-Wing Dark Money Is Barreling Toward Harris and Walz (newrepublic.com)

submitted 2 months ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] msage@programming.dev 80 points 2 months ago

I mean I know the answer, but just how did it go so wrong...

Fuck the rich.

Please tax them out of existence. And dismantle the stock market while you're there.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We should smother Citizens United, right now.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Need to un-fuck the Supreme Court cost and foremost; Biden’s proposal is definitely a step in the right direction. However, it’s going to be a long struggle to undo all of the damage from the last 8 years, and rebuild the public’s trust in the institution.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

We can smother some of them too.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Citizens United is only the last in a long sequence of bad SCOTUS decisions that need to be overturned.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Let’s take all the money that currently gets spent on bullshit pork barrel projects because all of this is how our political campaigns get funded

And spend it on publicly funded elections instead

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

And yet it's likely to be beaten by a shitpost about couch fucking and "weird".

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Trying to buy influence now