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[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

If donations did not affect outcome, no company would donate.

Even when a legislator's decisions are unaffected by lobbying, companies still control legislation by ensuring legislators who earnestly believe in legislation that favors the corporations over the people get elected.

This is how Biden sided with banks and the prison-industrial complex for half a century yet didn't have enough money to fund his son's cancer treatment without selling his house until Obama paid off his medical debt.

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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