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[–] 201 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hey look, a foreigner actively engaging in voter fraud!

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Next he’ll be eating dogs… right?

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  • [–] 141 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's too fucking bad that the FEC is essentially powerless due to partisan politics.

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  • [–] 114 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Republican partisan politics.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh, 100% - I should have been clearer that this erosion of enforcement is entirely driven by the GOP and quite intentional.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is in contrast to the regular legal type of vote buying of course.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    You mean like the practice of handing out water, watm beverages, and sometimes snacks to people stuck in long waiting likes to vote in mostly southern and majority, minority districts. If only giving a $1 bottle of water away for free was nearly as bad as giving away $1,000,000 to potential voters.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Musk claims it is "a random $1 million payment each day to one registered voter" but is it really random or he is cherry picking 'specific' supporters?

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    Garland: "I will treat this with as much importance as I do with everything surrounding Trump doing bad things...."

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    And Speech is free money. Source: Skyrim

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    In principle, the same is true for the real world.

    It it one of my favorite silly thought experiments: what could someone do if they were persuasive enough? The answer is, in principle, pretty much anything.

    Imagine someone with the Devil's charisma; they can literally persuade anyone into anything. Such a person, coming from nowhere, could be running the entire country in an afternoon.

    1. Walk to the White House gate. Persuade the guard to let you in to meet a staffer.

    2. Meet the staffer. Persuade them to let you meet with the president and vice president.

    3. Persuade the Vice President to resign, and persuade the President to nominate you as the new VP and set up a meeting with key house and senate leaders.

    4. Persuade the House and Senate to confirm your nomination.

    5. Persuade the President to resign.

    In the real world, if they had a high enough "charisma score," anyone could literally become president in a single afternoon. They could be an absolute nobody with zero background in leadership or high office. But if someone had some demonic ability to just talk people into anything, they could be running the country in an afternoon.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    Is this like that email that if you forwarded it, Bill Gates was gonna make you a bazillionaire, because he invented the Internet or something?

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

    “Clearly illegal” has become the new “our best iPhone yet.”

    You can expect to hear it very regularly and also expect that it will make zero difference.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

    Cool, so it’s fine if Mark Cuban does the same thing for the Democrats, right?

    Right???

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    Of course, since most of the internet can't detect sarcasm, you're getting down voted.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Haha, oh well. As long as a few people see the obvious hypocrisy I’m trying to point out in our system. What does the FEC even do if not this kind of stuff????

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I’ll be more shocked if anything comes of it

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