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I would have a very difficult time voting for someone who received funding from musk.
Any Dem funded by a Nazi won't get my vote for sure.
If a guy has a vote record of regulating industries, taxing the rich, expanding welfare, etc then he's got my vote even if David Duke endorses him. Let's clarify this for all the morons who think this is only effects the headlines they have to see for the next 4 years; we're voting for legislators not personalities.
I would rather vote for someone who got spite funding by a nazi than to vote for an anti-America, nazi/terrorist. And that's anyone supporting the current regime.
I would too, but I'd rather vote for people willing to tell them both to go fuck themselves
Vote for that person in the primary and hope he musk money person loses there.
But if they don't, little choice after that.
Exactly, primaries are when you vote your conscience. General elections don't benefit from anything but strategic voting.
You got a lot of angsty democrats responding here with basically "c'mon bro, please, bro, you don't understand, if we don't take the money to do the Hitler, then the Republicans will do it completely for free, please, bro, be reasonable!"
Fuck that. I'm normally a pretty practical person, but if the dude who's directly financing neo-nazism parties around the world like a one man CIA starts dumping cash into the democrats, it's because he means to turn them into the neo neo Nazis, and they will not be getting my vote. Will the country burn? Yeah, but it's going to do that because the democrats think fundraising is more important than having literally any principles or strong policy positions at all, regardless of whether I vote for them or not.
Exactly. American liberals have lost their fucking minds already sticking up for this guy after what he’s been doing.
And this is exactly why Trump won. Twice.
Do you have no principles? Like look what Musk has done. And you want democratic candidates in debt and aligned with him? He’s just going to continue what he started, he’s not going to do an about face.
We should be incriminating millionaires putting money into campaigns, not accepting them
Liberals will never admit that their lack of principals is a large part of why the USA is what it is right now.
Taking Musk’s money and influence to make the world a better place isn’t a problem.
Letting him pick a direction for the party or make policies would be my red line.
People don’t give money without expecting something in return. And these spineless democrats will 100% let him run circles around them if he promised to keep them in office.
Those who side with nazis are no better than the nazis themselves.
There’s so much wrong with your little thought terminating sentence there.
Taking Musk’s money to get power isn’t siding with Nazis.
The level of naivety you have to have to think people give campaign donations while expecting absolutely nothing in return is just crazy man. I don’t even know where this logic line could even be coming from.
Start a party where you only accept donations from ideologically pure sources and see how far it gets you.
You’re justifying taking donations from nazis right now, just so we’re clear. What would it take for you to actually draw a line?
Just like I said a couple comments ago.
Yes but you disproved that almost immediately. So what I asked was what would it take for you to actually draw a line. It was more rhetorical than an actual question because we know now that you have no line that’s meaningful in any way bud.
Considering he hasn’t made policies for the DNC or picked a direction for them it seems you’re just arguing things you’re making up.
We’ve been talking hypotheticals this whole time genius.
Pretty impressive that I’m able to disprove a hypothetical then I guess.
Written as someone with truly no idea what the fuck they're talking about
Welp, that commits my mental map of the next 8 years, here comes a Musk-funded Democrat to divide all of us again for another Conservanazi win. Yippee.
Which is why I favor succession through usurpation.
so fucking do it, you won't
I have insufficient resources.
insufficient to find some group to join?
The left doesn't have armed militias.
...wait, why don't we? The skinhead neo-nazis do.
Mostly it's because our intelligence agencies have been running aggressive counter-intelligence operations against the domestic left for seventy or eighty years. If they can't harass them into quitting or discredit them (see COINTELPRO), then they get them assassinated (MLK Jr). The CIA specialized in launching reactionary coups across the global south to destroy democratically elected and peaceful left wing governments (see: The Jakarta Method) and there's no evidence that they ever really stopped. To be honest, much of 2016 and on has reminded me a lot of the Jakarta Method; I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA has turned inward on the US.
Who was it? Ro Khanna I think is already out there on socmed kissing his ass.
Why do they have to suck so goddamn much?
I’m not surprised, just irritated. That’s way too fast.