Right-winger Leonard Leo pledges $1B to 'crush liberal dominance' - eviltoast
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    2 months ago

    We need to push for campaign finance reform and we need to continue to draw attention to billionaires and corporations that are dumping piles of money into buying elections.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Good luck with that, considering the Tribunal of Six is fully committed to the idea that money is speech, despite the fact that it is absolutely nothing of the sort.

      Thankfully, the Tribunal of Six also thinks entrenching our right to firearms is a great idea, so do with that what you will.

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        2 months ago

        What else can you do? You fight for it and draw awareness to the problem, or you give up and let the oligarchs take over more.

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          Or things get so bad and authoritarian that that whole second amendment thing starts to get used in the context of the original intent for which it was written.