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Trump Backer Elon Musk Accused of 'Clearly Illegal Vote-Buying'.
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Cool, so it’s fine if Mark Cuban does the same thing for the Democrats, right?
Right???
No. Is he though?
Of course he’s not, it’s a hypothetical question. It would be election interference if the Democrats did it.
The Republicans, however can ostensibly do whatever the crap they want without repercussions as the FEC looks on with their head all the way up their own sphincter.
The FEC knows if they tried something SCOTUS would shut it down in a second.
~~Idiots~~ Right-wingers will assert that George Soros is, no evidence wanted or needed.
Total coincidence they picked someone Jewish for their conspiracies about bankers secretly controlling the world.
I see articles like this stating he has donated $0 and doesn't intend to contribute anything. He also calls out Musk for what he is doing.
Of course, since most of the internet can't detect sarcasm, you're getting down voted.
Haha, oh well. As long as a few people see the obvious hypocrisy I’m trying to point out in our system. What does the FEC even do if not this kind of stuff????
If "most of the internet" misunderstands you, then you need to work on your communication skills.
Lemmy especially cant detect sarcasm, but then again im convinced that about 40 percent of Lemmy is autistic or clone enough.
I'm real!
And so am I!
This is literally happening for Democrats via the CAH ploy, and according to the posts I saw on Lemmy, it was the most "amazing cool as fuck bonkers ass wild in your face suck it Republicans scheme ever thought up by anyone ever on the face of the planet mind explode!"
So......what's the problem?
CAH also explicitly said that what they were doing should be illegal.
I think that penetrating fruit in a sexual manner should be illegal.
I still do it because it's not.
Yea that's the point buddy.
Yes it is?
I don't understand what the point here is.
I am saying this post/headline/people agreeing with it are hypocritical.
What is the point you guys are trying to make?
You realize they're doing it to point out the hypocrisy, right? They think it shouldn't be legal for either side to do. But while it is, they want to call attention to it.
They basically did the same thing the Satanic Temple often does. Use the rules republicans make thinking only they will benefit. When they are used by the other side as well it has a funny way of causing a reevaluation of if it should in fact be legal after all. My understanding is that CAH made a sort of parody of Musks trick although doing it in a slightly more careful way to make sure that any legal action against them would apply more broadly. I don’t think it’s good that vote buying is a thing, but equating the satirical protest campaign with the actual thing being pushed against is unfair in my opinion. You can argue if they go about it the right way or not but legitimizing the original offense by pointing out people cheered at the counter campaign opposing musk using the same tool and humor feels disingenuous.