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[–] 57 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I’ve been outspoken irl, and even on this site a bit, that I do not believe in Harris or particularly like her. I’m quite fond of human rights though, so I too donated and am hoping for President Harris next year. Even if she ultimately loses, I will not regret losing a bit of money in the defense of democracy.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I gave her some money. Wanted to show that I approved of the new course of the campaign. Get some fresh blood in there

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  • [+] -32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Oof. Good way to hand the presidency over to Trump.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You already made a top level comment saying the same. Shut the fuck up and get out of the way, you're not contributing to the conversation by just parroting "Good job promoting Trump by promoting his strongest contender" over and over again. Either make an argument so there's something to discuss, or leave.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is a crazy amount of money to me as someone from the UK. A party running a candidate in every seat in a UK general election could not spend this much money campaigning

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  • [+] -33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Kamala is a terrible choice and it's a guaranteed way to hand the presidency over to Trump.

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  • [+] -82 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    The dichotomy is insane. At one side of their mouth, they talk about getting money out of politics, Out of the other side, they talk about raising $50 million in seven hours as a good thing.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Would you have us believe that while money is still the deciding factor in politics, we should let our own political campaigns starve and die so that strangers on the internet can't falsely accuse us of being hypocrites? 🙄😮‍💨

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Seems to be a near copy paste of another comment. This is concerning.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I always thought lemmy was too small for bots... Seeing literal duplicate comments and how quick the anti-Kamala "about face" was.. I'm not so sure now.

    Though it's often hard to tell the difference between a bot and a person who does no thinking of their own, so who knows.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    For the folks who mistake this as a good-faith argument, let me disprove it. It is illegal to misappropriate campaign funds for any purpose other than the election campaign. The only people "getting rich" from the donations made are the wages paid to employees of the election organization. They are not making 7 figure salaries off this. Most of the funds will be spent on running advertisements, booking venues for speeches, and hiring more people to manage it all. This will create (temporary) jobs for common folks, not deepen the pocket of the elite.

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