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This is such an indictment of so much that is wrong with our society.

His first amendment is bigger than ours

This is the kind of shit that makes me wanna take up smoking

that's shocking

A better (yet probably more depressing) comparison would be to the median net worth, instead.

Hang on, wasn’t Melon going to start his own party? What happened to that?

If things go well, Musk’s $366 million will have as much effect on the election as my $32.

America's little dick-tator.

A better thing to compare this to is, Musk's expenditure here is equal to about ten percent of all the money spent by ALL congressional campaigns in the 2024 election cycle. (source: www.fec.gov/updates/stat... )

The party and the candidates need to be running ads on "Musk's men and women in Washington (or state/district)" reminding voters - "When he's buying the office for them, who do you think they will represent? You ... or him?" and end with the image of him giving a Nazi salute.

Thank you for providing that context. It's hard to wrap our minds around the scale of Musk's wealth. If more people could, maybe they'd recognize just how his and other billionaire's influence distorts democracy.

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people. if we look at those who have the money, they can often be like monarchs....inbred. the $ destroys them and everyone they take it from. the look is very clear....women like plastic dolls until they are replaced with younger ones, alot of drugs, bad habits....pedos.

Wow

If it weren't for a handful of wealthy fascists, the GOP would have disbanded years ago.

that's really not a fair comparison. $32 matters to a normal household. $366 million changes absolutely nothing about elon's life.

Buying Congress people is like a public radio donation for Elon. I wonder if he gets a tote bag?

So when he offered Ashley Sinclair a $40 million NDA, that would have been less than four dollars relative to his net worth?

I was going to complain about comparing wealth and income, then I locked it up and saw the median net worth in the US was only about 2.5x household income. It's still a bogus comparison, but doesn't change the magnitude. A median household would spend $80 to match musk relative to wealth.

Insane Tired of being low wealth in this country

So what is the conclusion here? That we have to fight the evil money power with educating the voters. People cannot counter it with money. People don't have that kind of money. Either we all go out and educate people to the evil that these oligarchs do or we continue to go down - with Democracy.

trump’s war and policies are causing people to have to pay higher prices and losing much needed benefits. Doesn’t matter what lies they come up with when people can personally see and feel the consequences of Republicans’ actions.

intensifies

Probably some combination of diminishing returns and general voter backlash to influence peddling.

France is investigating him for election interference in their election. He has to restrain himself somewhat for the time being.

Why would he, that's more than enough to secure the loyalty of every important Republican official and keep Democrats glomming onto his ass hoping for a taste. Are you holding back when you only pay $2 for a soda

I feel like his contributions are foreign interference

Tax. The. Rich. 91%.

Several members of the Supreme Court thinks the founders would approve of this

The list of examples why every billionaire is a public policy mistake continues to grow exponentially.

The USA is for sale