Amazing fact: It's illegal in the United States for anyone to donate more than $3,300 to a candidate in any federal election. That's the absolute limit. No kidding. There's a vast apparatus meant to enforce it.

Just one exception: if you're very rich, you can do whatever you want. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/113617945518251067

I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO.

"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."

https://www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-solutions/

🤦🏻‍♀️"Jared Birchall, the head of Elon #Musk’s family office, has interviewed a few candidates for jobs at the State Department.

Mr. Birchall has no experience in foreign affairs."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-silicon-valley.html

Hate is a sticky substance. It clings to you, seeps into your bones, and becomes the defining feature of who you are if you let it. There’s something undeniably appealing about it — this feeling that your disdain, your disgust, your burning dislike for a person, a group, or an ideology can somehow make you sharper, smarter, or morally superior.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-defining-yourself-by-what-you-hate-makes-you-miserable/