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Early voting has advantages, one being that once I drop my ballot in the local ballot collection box, I can more easily ignore political ads. It's liberating.
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Just shell companies for various PACs and how rich people donate through dark pools. The Citizens United vs FEC ruling is a sham.
The obscuring seems to be unnecessary these days. I don't know how many people are still fooled by names like "Americans for America" who would actually change their vote after finding out it's just a group of real estate speculators or whatever.
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Just shell companies for various PACs and how rich people donate through dark pools. The Citizens United vs FEC ruling is a sham.
The obscuring seems to be unnecessary these days. I don't know how many people are still fooled by names like "Americans for America" who would actually change their vote after finding out it's just a group of real estate speculators or whatever.
Why in the world is a generic NY Times ad categorized as a political ad?
Good question. These ads don't look political to me: The New York Times: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR047539896236... The Economist: https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR129237820966...
In France we limit campaign budgets to 50M$ (population adjusted) and the state fully reimburses it. US presidential campaigns are 60x more expensive per capita! Have people in the US proposed such a cap to prevent corporations from buying elections, or is that too foreign of a concept ?
The state fully reimburses the campaign budget to each candidate?
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The obscuring seems to be unnecessary these days. I don't know how many people are still fooled by names like "Americans for America" who would actually change their vote after finding out it's just a group of real estate speculators or whatever.
I think it's the other way round. You're a respectable individual, you're buying some low-brow ads - and you don't want a newspaper to publish an expose about you, your employees throwing a hissy-fit, or a neighbor getting upset.
I mean https://www.heavensgate.com/ is still around. Being discredited has the opposite effect as the intended. It instead concretizes the delusions. Exposing charlatans seems to only increase the fanaticism of their adherents.
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This. Something like 5 people are almost entirely funding Trump's slump (hard to call this mess a campaign) towards the White House and for sure they are going to want pay back. This is what oligarchy looks like.
> Trump's slump [...] towards the White House Somehow my mind supplies "slouch" instead, probably because of a poem [0]: > And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, > Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
In France we limit campaign budgets to 50M$ (population adjusted) and the state fully reimburses it. US presidential campaigns are 60x more expensive per capita! Have people in the US proposed such a cap to prevent corporations from buying elections, or is that too foreign of a concept ?
There have been attempts but when corporations are considered people limitations on their "speech" all eventually fail
Corporations aren't people.
The finding was that people dont lose their rights when working together via a corporation.
If you can buy a political sign and your friend can buy a sign, then the two of you can buy a sign together.
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I think it's the other way round. You're a respectable individual, you're buying some low-brow ads - and you don't want a newspaper to publish an expose about you, your employees throwing a hissy-fit, or a neighbor getting upset.
I understand that mentality but it's clearly not how people behave. People who buy into bullshit do so as a core personality behavior. It's like how doomsday cult members double down when the predictions don't come to pass. I mean https://www.heavensgate.com/ is still around. Being discredited has the opposite effect as the intended. It instead concretizes the delusions. Exposing charlatans seems to only increase the…