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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

All of this because of the Citizens United decision.

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757sean's avatar

I think I’d put its start way before that.

It’s one of those “where do you even start?’ things.

Elon gets a lot of the attention, but he’s also starting to disclose things like the pipelines that send money back-and-forth among donors, PACs, contracts to NGOs, back to people connected to the pols….

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757sean's avatar

And you do need to weave labor into the discussion.

https://apnews.com/article/nippon-us-steel-biden-pennsylvania-eacf51a38e26280080f49fb280cb70a6

The Admin’s decision to block the deal was against many combined interests, but it happened. Why?

I’m very happy the PRO ACT didn’t pass in 2021. If you want to work anywhere doing anything, you’d have to be a dues-paying union member. The union then funnels money towards a candidate the members don’t support.

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757sean's avatar

And the trends on Twi^H^H^HX today about Craigslist are fascinating.

(I don’t think any government action is going to fix this. Whatever. /GenX)

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