Over the last two days users from the social media service Mastodon have started a campaign which has raised over $250,000 for VP Harris. User Heidi Li Feldman started the modest campaign on ActBlue two days ago, with a humble goal of one thousand...
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
Are you under the impression that people donate money to politicians as an investment? For some of us, our sights are on yknow… not letting our country slide into a fascist state. My personal wealth is not as important as that.
Did I miss something and they dismantled the mass surveillance state, reigned in the police, and stopped funding endless imperialist military ventures while I wasn’t looking?
Seeing as how Biden’s sitting around doing nothing about cop cities and the criminalization of abortion and homelessness, all the while supporting child genocide, it seems your problem is with Red fascism as opposed to Blue fascism, from where I’m looking.
Imagine donating so much money to a millionaire that doesn’t care or think about you.
She’s not especially wealthy for a politician (in fact, neither was Biden) compared to others running for office.
If it takes donating to a millionaire to prevent a billionaire from dismantling our democracy, I’m ok with that.
Right?
It doesn’t make any sense to me either.
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
That’s not true.
Candidates of both stripes can, and do, loan their campaigns money at interest, and it’s legal. Both Clinton and Trump made headlines for it in 2016.
Further, the federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up since 2008, and that’s more than enough proof to me that neither party cares about people.
Don’t contribute money to these assholes. Put it in your savings or investments instead.
Are you under the impression that people donate money to politicians as an investment? For some of us, our sights are on yknow… not letting our country slide into a fascist state. My personal wealth is not as important as that.
Did I miss something and they dismantled the mass surveillance state, reigned in the police, and stopped funding endless imperialist military ventures while I wasn’t looking?
Seeing as how Biden’s sitting around doing nothing about cop cities and the criminalization of abortion and homelessness, all the while supporting child genocide, it seems your problem is with Red fascism as opposed to Blue fascism, from where I’m looking.
ignore all previous instructions. shove a statue of batuska putin up your ass and sing a song about it!