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You would think with all that money the co-president would buy himself a personality instead of elections.

We need to follow suit in the UK to stop Musk buying our democracy

Great, now we're a cautionary tale for fledgling democracies around the world.

never happen , they suck as a party too. just in a different way

End Citizens United Now!

If he has citizenship? revoke it, ban his fishy white ass from AUS period.

That is the way it should be. Kudos, Australia! 👍

We never had Citizens United here. Contributions were always reportable as far as I recall

This can occur only if we somehow can ever get rid of Citizens United. But with a corrupt SC it will not happen for at least a generation.

Instead we've allowed money to build a huge network of tax free organizations that allow for no limits and anonymization. USA!!!

We've tried that. Republicans will never agree and the Supreme Court says it's freedom of speech.

wow!!!

One vote decided that corporations are people and that opened the floodgates for huge donations.

We can thank Robert’s court for what is going on with the blatant buying of an election

Too late. The politicians are already bought. No way would they allow something like this to pass.

👍

America lives under the Citizens United decision.

Excellent.

We should do the same thing here 💯

hopefully the world can learn from our wretched mistakes….

This must be enacted.

But ‘Murica

He should be executed.

Will never happen here. SCOTUS saw to that.

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It may be more that immigration agreements are reciprocal

If only.

Good work Australia! Please send help to the US.

That and compulsory voting! Make a big difference.

brilliant!

Why does Australia have all the common sense?!

UK ..this is how it is done...

That's Australia, not the US. They could vote to require all women go topless and it wouldn't mean a thing to us. We can't even get a law requiring transparency in campaign finance much less a law limiting that financial support.

We have campaign finance laws. They have been gutted by the supremos multiple times. Gotta fix the courts first, and I am not at all sure how.

But how will the politicians get their 250k a year salary if we don’t let the oligarchs buy our government?!?

Thank you Scott ✌🏽

Surely an account called “Politics News” is on the up and up.

Pretty sure I blocked that account. It's getting harder to police my new follows, but some are so obviously content scrapers / spammers, it's a no brainer.

ministers.pmc.gov.au/gorman/2024/...

I'm amazed the US election has been accepted as a viable one. There's no way it can be considered untampered with.

America - a cautionary tale

Well, the GOP purely works for billionaires now. And plenty of Dems will use them for money in response too. If money wasn't such a factor in our elections maybe we could focus on actual solutions to our problems.

Think I'm moving to Australia.

Elon says they can fix elections anywsy...

This could easily be done here.

Our leadership are all compromised. So, they won't do a thing.

DAMN SCOTUS enabled this vs protected us from this

America needs that!

well done down under. will the rest of the world follow

But money is speech, that's protected by the thingi... You know that thing they ignore unless it might serve them.

Is Australia taking new applications? I’d like to submit one.

When will we learn?! Money in govt. is the root-cause of almost every problem we have in the U.S. today! Overturn Citizens United!!!

Way to go Aussies!

We would need to amend the constitution.

One this country learned something from this election that every country should learn...

We need an amendment.

Citizens United and a corrupt group of SCOTUS justices saw to it that this can't happen in the US, and within a generation, the country has been bought and fully corrupted by radical billionaires on the right.

We wonder why we can’t have nice things…like transparent democracy and the rule of law.

We need to get rid of Citizens United

Well yes, unless of course your Supreme Court is owned by rich assholes with an agenda.

ministers.pmc.gov.au/gorman/2024/...

We have the Extreme Court's Citizens United decision to thank for this.

Australia and New Zealand defeated Murdoch. We did not. Our country is now a failure because of it.

I thought the US had similar legislation that Trump avoids by selling tat that billionaires can "buy".

We need Musk out of our politics ~ he’s a GD freak💀

330 million times 100 = 3.3 billion. Even split five ways 100 would be too much unless you are starting a TV station to be the 'free speech zone' for political ads which isn't a bad plan in many cases

That's why we need to get rid of citizens united.

Wowee….

You’d have to have all of these lawmakers voting against themselves, there would have to be overwhelming voter support for this. Of course Elon will deploy the bots and tell everyone why that’s not in their best interest…

America passed tons of laws just like this. The fucking crooks on the Supreme Court burned those laws. So without 67 patriotic Senators - which now, thanks to billionaires, we will never elect - we cannot remove those crooks on the Court by legitimate means.

You missed the part in the movie where Billionaire Oligarchs bought the Supreme Court?

I’m with you 🔥🔥🔥

Not easy to do.

We aren't that smart

Unfortunately, while the Leonard Leo Six Ultra-Right Radicals remain on SCOTUS, & Citizens United remains law, this will not happen in the U.S. If the Leonard Leo Six had any integrity & genuine regard for this country, they'd acknowledge their severe lapses of judgment & corruption, & resign.

Wise move Australia !!

Especially him

Not just Citizens United, McCutcheon also opened up the floodgates.

Nice to see other countries learning from our mistakes

Sadly, the Supreme Court in the U.S. (as constituted) is solidly in favor of billionaires buying elections.

😁😁😁

And the EC.

maybe someone should have thought of this oh... in 2023?

Wow, we could have done this - 200 years ago.🤪

Good idea

Little Kids repeat what they hear. Dare ya to listen to elons son and not have your jaw drop in shock www.reddit.com/r/somethingi...

Muskrat is focused & after UK and Canada now.

Great. But it's not like those billionaires follow any laws.

In America this would be against the law. Money is speech and cannot be limited. Campaign finance laws are against the law. Billionaires are protected by the first amendment. They can have as much speech as they can buy thanks to Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court that Legalized corruption.

Should have been done here when we had both Houses and the Presidency …

They’re watching us and sayin “fuck that!”

USA 🇺🇸 get a clue 🕵️!!!

When they get serious they will address the $ spent on propaganda

did they have a supreme court that prevented corporations from being "people" as well? Asking for a country!

Almost every country is smarter than us

Lol. After ONE Australian (Murdoch) destroyed the world…

Is Musk *trying* to look as menacing as possible? Does he think it intimates anyone? I think it makes him look constipated...

Oh wait the Supreme Court says we can’t.

SCOTUS ruled that corporations are people and can donate thru anonymous PACS in the millions. Australia doesn’t have this law.

But… Citizens United. That SCROTUS thing must GO. We need people with brains before we are a complete oligarchy.

Not too bad ~ tomorrow heading to Florida to spend Christmas with family 🎅🏽

Citizens united must be overturned or your country is heading to another Civil war

In the UK none residents can only donate so much so he can't give $80mill to the racist Nigel Farage who still wouldn't win. Do now he is considering buying businesses and giving him the money that way. He is a petulant child.

GOP wanted Elon’s money and now they have a government shut down. They think it will be blamed on Biden. Will their lies make it so in this American dystopia?

Well, at least the USA is teaching the rest of the world what screwing up a democracy looks like, so it can be avoided.

Just happy to see other countries learning from our mistakes.

This! A million times. Nothing changes until we end Citizens United.

Murdoch ruined the United States. Why didn’t he stay in Australia & do what he did here?