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c/politics · by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 1y

Musk spent at least a quarter-billion dollars to help elect Donald Trump, new filings show

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/elon-musk-trump-campaign-finance-filings/index.html

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world · 98 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Musk is worth around $232 billion

So $250 million is about .001 of his wealth

It’s like if someone with assets of $500,000

Gave a $585 donation

So

Thanks to excessive greed and Citizens United

Not only can billionaires buy our elections

It doesn’t even cost them all that much

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 1y

And because he's now in control of some government spending, his $250m investment has already paid off several times over.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This probably doesn’t include using his social media platform that he owns and paid many billions for. That’s unquantifiable, but only possible when you’re a billionaire.

Same goes for other sources owned by billionaires. The newspapers that refused to endorse. Facebook allowing all kinds of fake news posts.

billiam0202@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I mean, we can already quantify a floor of $44 billion. So he spent at least that much buying his way into the White House.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

I'm fucken mad, are you?

moral_quandary@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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elgordino@fedia.io · 23 pts · 1y

Plus his part of the $42bn on Twitter

lath@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And on the other side of the ocean there's Romania annulling election results due to foreign interference through social media.

Huh.

Aux@lemmynsfw.com · 0 pts · 1y
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phoneymouse@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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TacoSocks@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y

That's what they do, they push stories of democrat boogie men to bury the story of their own.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

And yet they will because it muddies the waters

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y

In the context of how much wealth eel on musk has, that falls squarely into the range of “petty cash”

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Best democracy money can buy.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Will be his best investment to date. Right up there with Twitter. He will make that back in spades. Can I say that? Ya know...because he's African? I don't want it to be taken as racist.