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I'm mixed on this. I understand the sentiment, but it probably depends on who they're running against. If it's a red state and they're running against a republican, I would be fine with them taking the money.
Musk is a nazi, as evidenced by his nazi salute earlier this year.
Any democrat that accepts nazi money, it's saying they're fine with nazis, which makes them a nazi, because the only scum that's fine with nazis, are other nazis.
You can't condemn nazi behavior while taking money from nazis, and allowing them to support you. You tell them to fuck all the way off, because the only thing a nazi deserves is the comfort of a grave.
I would say the more compelling evidence is the fact that his entire family wealth is a direct result of Apartheid, and now that it has earned him literal richest man in the world status, he uses that status to go out in public and, without a hint of irony, say that white people in South Africa are victims of racism.
It'd be acceptable if they also invited him on stage and shot him dead. Take advantage of his comfort towards what he assumes is moral duplicity and stroke his ego a bit, then well kill him.
I see what you're saying, but taking nazi money from a nazi to spend and then using it to do good in the world? It's like an ethics trolley problem.
Taking nazi money by seizing his assets is how you go about using nazi money, not by accepting the support of a nazi. If you're accepting the support of a nazi, you're no better than conservatives currently accepting the support of nazis.
I feel like that's the best option and you're right. I just don't see that happening in America now or in the near future. The next best option is to do what the other poster said and say they will not be bought and won't be doing anything he asks before they take the money. Also, again, they're not going against another democrat.
By accepting money from a nazi, they're saying they can be bought by a nazi. It's lobbying, and it's why we file taxes for a return every year, why climate change is ignored, internet isn't a utility, weed is federally illegal, and the fairness doctrine got chucked out the window.
Just ignore the labels for a second- would you prefer to vote for the nazi-funded candidate?
They'd both be nazi-funded candidates.
I wouldn’t say I’d be “fine” with them taking the money under any circumstance. But it’s never going to lead me to voting for repugnacans either directly or indirectly through abstaining.
That's what I'm afraid of, that this would lead people to vote 3rd party or republican. Republicans being split up would be great too.
I’d go so far as to say Musk donating to a democrat candidate may be done explicitly as a poison pill to reduce support from the base.
You can refuse donations. Or publicly disavow his support if it's in the form of independently bought media.