cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/78227

Elon Musk’s America PAC has dropped $100 million to support the GOP in critical races that could control the future of the Senate. It includes TV commercials, digital ads, and a social media blitz across platforms Musk owns and platforms he doesn’t. The eleventh-hour push is a brazen attempt to stoke the anti-trans moral panic and turn equal rights for transgender people into a make-or-break…

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    Jebus, I really hate my dad, but I can’t imagine being musks daughter and seeing ol’ dad spend 100 million on hating your own kid.

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      True, though it’s probably the same as a normal person spending $1 on it.

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      ikr? Like given infinite money I’d actually really enjoy seeing how much solar I can distribute and running design contests for the most effective housing that still provides access to green space (and then building it). I bet with some help I could design some really awesome parks.

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    How could we, as a global society, ever allow a single person to amass so much wealth that they could spend that much money on political ads, while it leaving no impact at all on their lifestyle?

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      If it’s at all even possible to do, he should be taxed for doing this, but instead he just takes out a loan against his shares that he’ll never pay back before he dies because his has so much wealth.

      You think he’d spend 100m if he had to sell shares and be taxed to do this? I dont think so.

      Edit: there also needs to be ridiculously high tax rates if you’re realizing 100m of wealth

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    How many white south africans have immigrated to america so far? Musk is placing his chess pieces while all of this other trumpian bullshit is providing the smoke and mirrors.

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    Hello Mr Musk

    It is me

    Anti-trans marketing agency.

    Just send the millions and I’ll prompt grok for more slop.

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    Cool, so I guess the tradeoff is: we won’t have to suffer under an agenda of “trans for everyone” and “men in women’s sports” and obviously those were really real problems everyone was dealing with. 🙄

    In exchange for that, we have coverup for pedo rings, endless Middle East wars, donnie self-dealing to the tune of billions, ICE run amok, unaffordable health care, kids dying from measles and other preventable diseases, a food supply we cannot trust, an AI data center in everyone’s backyard, unaffordable fuel, runaway inflation, a future run by oligarchs who want you all jobless and replaced by AI, etc…

    But thank god that I don’t have to put up with men in women’s sports!!!111

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      Hey, you left out no food and water and everything either on fire or under the sea.

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        Hey, you left out the part where they progressively automate away the human workforce, and use AI killbots to mass murder the unemployed until they reach a sustainable population of slaves they can use to rape, hunt for sport, etc.

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    17 hours ago

    Trillionaire found a couple of hundred Mil down the back of his sofa and is having Oligarchy style fun with it

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    And focusing on someone else’s life decisions will surely solve all the issues people have in their own lives… not.

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    With an additional benefit of pumping up Twitter’s ad revenue! Guy’s like taking cash from one pocket and putting it into another.