Far-right billionaire Elon Musk funnels $366 million to GOP groups, raising concerns about influence in upcoming elections.
  • BigMacHoleEnglish
    67·
    9 days ago

    I HATE Billionaires SO MUCH! Which is why I’m going to Vote for the Person that the RICHEST PERSON ON EARTH funded!

    -LITERALLY Republicans!

      • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
        12·
        9 days ago

        They believe billionaires “work hard” and that their success has “nothing to do with the poor’s poverty” and that they are “why you don’t have it worse ackshaully”

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          7·
          9 days ago

          100%. They believe they got rich through hard work and providing jobs and building businesses and totally not by nepotism, scamming others, and buying up competition.

        • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          8 days ago

          “you’re not a bad person because you’re poor, you’re poor because you’re a bad person”

          a.k.a. the fundamental attribution fallacy

  • santa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    9 days ago

    Elon Musk’s ‘Absolutely Insane’ $276 Million Midterm Spending Exposed in New Report | Common Dreams

    Fixed headline

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    Imagine if that money went towards helping people, instead of promoting hate, stupidity, and greed.

    Billionaires and millionaires shouldn’t exist.

    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I’m technically a millionaire and i’m two paychecks from being fucked. My house is half and retirement is closing up most of the rest. If the market crashes i’m also fucked. I don’t bang kids.

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        While I don’t doubt you work hard, I think having a big income disparity between the low and middle classes is still bad. Both of them suffer from inflated prices, it is just that the low incomer folk can’t navigate their fiscal hellscape with any safety. Middle class people still have to pay through the nostrils for what they want.

        By shortening the gap - say a $20,000 income for the low-income earner and $60,000 for middle class, the prices would be less painful for both of them.

        By imposing floors and ceilings on income, with absolute caps on wealth and assets, the price band for goods and services could be narrowed into something more manageable. Both for individuals, and society in general.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        many millionaire at least build up that wealth. but its the 10-100+millionaires, and billionaires that are born with a silver spoon. of course theres also people that are close or under the poverty line that needs the most boost.

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    This man is so absurdly rich that proportionally, if he had 1 million dollars, all of that election money would just be about 300 dollards spent.

    Shows how $276M is nothing compared to $1T. And yet $276M is still a fantastical amount of money, to be poured on midterms.

    No one should ever have the right to hold so much wealth on their hand.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    Buying more favors from the government. Shutting down all investigations into his fraud wasn’t enough I guess. Probably wants that sweet AI teacher contract for all US students.

    Coming soon to a school near you. Grok Super Intelligent Teacher! With Fabulous lessons plans like “Was the Holocaust even real?”