2026-09-28 22:30 UTC
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@tmw@ioc.exchange 2026-09-29 00:49
the image contains only text, as follows: Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $730 MILLION into the 2026 midterms. In 2008, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $6 million. Wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is? It's Big Money."
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@Peace@mstdn.ca 2026-09-29 00:53
@rbreich@masto.ai Hmmm 😉
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@Quantillion@mstdn.io 2026-09-28 22:32
@rbreich@masto.ai It's legalized #bribery. $16 million was already $16m too much.
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@chaekyung@ieji.de 2026-09-28 22:43
@rbreich@masto.ai I think this $ figure is kind of meaningless. It says something, but consider this: If you're Elon Musk and you own twitter/X then your cost of pulling levers not going to show up anywhere since it's zero. The same applies to Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. It also occurs to me that there's a new avenue for election influence: what happens if you ask those "AI" chat bots "Who should I vote for in the midterms?". I suspect that the answer won't be random though the "AI" companies will probably claim it is.
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@TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com 2026-09-29 00:01
@rbreich@masto.ai We've got $730 MILLION dollars we don't need, but let's make sure we squander it pointlessly instead of helping anyone. 🙄 #EatTheRich #FuckTheOligarchy
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@Zelda@m.ai6yr.org 2026-09-29 01:49
@rbreich@masto.ai Citizens United was the beginning of the end for the United States and democracy. Donald Trump and those like him are only a symptom of a much larger problem. #Democracy #UnitedStates #CitizensUnited
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 06:50
@rbreich@masto.ai Simply unacceptable… this needs to have consequences. The endgame of neoliberal capitalism. Total control, manipulation, dictatorship and fascism.