@rbreich

As long as coprorations are people they'll simply do the wrong thing. Who knew?! Overturn #CitizenUnited

@gleick Well, #scotus doesn't seem to have a problem with bribery as such, does it?

#citizenunited on one hand, and then there was in the past years I think at least some verdicts that narrowed the scope and made prosecution harder.

And yes, it seems roughly half of the voters don't care at all?

@Holberg

Tesla, like X & SpaceX, is not a publicly traded company intended to generate revenue & ROI.

Musk's investors give him money for a different agenda.

Money-losing investments in tech platforms like X, Meta, & Google are funded to provide data & disinformation for fossil fuel funded election meddling.

The Twitter investors were willing to flush billions using #CitizenUnited straw donor schemes geared to foreign oligarchs.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-fidelity/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-investors-elon-musks-x-revealed-court-filing-1942970

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@ginaintheburg @stux

Trump's GOP kneecapped the FEC long ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/books/review/dark-money-by-jane-mayer.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_money

#KochNetwork bought a Supreme Court and enabled a broad sweep of public corruption with #CitizenUnited
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/22/citizens_united

https://verfassungsblog.de/the-us-supreme-court-and-plutocracy-elections-citizens-united/

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/15-years-later-citizens-united-allows-corporate-greed-to-fuel-climate-disasters/

https://campaignlegal.org/events/15-years-citizens-united-how-big-money-dominated-2024-election

https://www.commondreams.org/news/crypto-elections

https://jacobin.com/2024/10/dark-money-political-spending-transparency

https://daily.jstor.org/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission-annotated/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fifteen-years-later-citizens-united-defined-2024-election

https://theconversation.com/what-is-dark-money-political-spending-and-how-does-it-affect-us-politics-236294

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-koch-backed-effort-to-block-the-largest-election-reform-bill-in-half-a-century

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Republican billionaires have done this many times in the wake of #CitizenUnited

Many very qualified people lose their seats from GOP gerrymandering, "redistricting", & vast spending on ad buys.

Claire McCaskill targeted by #KochNetwork
https://apnews.com/united-states-senate-senate-elections-6e6f6da93dc64f6995096e7feca0d325

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article199751929.html

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/stung-by-trump-and-midterms-the-koch-network-changes-its-approach/

2024 cost over $20 billion.

It's quite likely 2018 was the last election winnable by Democrats because Thiel is learning his lessons at the hands of experts in unDemocracy.

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...the gun manufacturers.

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/trump-aims-to-crush-legal-curbs-on-his-climate-rollback-but-it-may-not-be-easy/

After all, the oil industry spent $445 million getting the GOP into office. They see it as advance payment for rulings & legislation beneficial to polluters.

They want what Australia got: wildfires, drought, and "fossil fuels forever" public policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/15/climate-plans-of-australian-companies-would-be-exempt-from-private-litigation-for-three-years-under-proposal

#KochNetwork bought a decision that kneecaps the EPA and made buying elections & bribery legal with #CitizenUnited
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/

@monk @Daojoan

Americans do not choose to have only two parties. Our PACs, media, and billionaires choose that for us. #CitizenUnited cements the fact that our choices are binary.

A few places (such as in Alaska) are allowing #RankedChoiceVoting as a path for other parties, but in the end (even there)... We are still dominated by the two parties.

Long, expensive campaigns for Congress and the WH mean that big money needs to back candidates. Big money means one of the two major parties MUST back you financially.

#ThirdParty candidates have almost always been spoilers for the Democrats' success and helped Republicans.

Tell us how to get corruption, big money and billionaires out of our system, and how to convince our corrupt politicians to get rid of the same #CitizensUnited that profitd them... THEN maybe we could have more parties.

Until such time as we can magically make that happen, we will have only two choices.

#USPol #TwoPartySystem