• HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    I’m so tired of reading this. When it was announced recently that he was doing this again, we all knew it was probably breaking laws. If we’re not going to actually do something about it, then what’s the point of even talking about it. They didn’t do anything in November about it, and it was even ruled ok to do, apparently, so it’s just losses all around. The only thing that could happen is he pulls a trump and doesn’t pay anyone, but again, the damage is done, so who really wins?

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      You need to still talk about it otherwise us watching form outside will give up on you entirely.

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    Don’t worry I’m sure there will be consequences for rich people breaking the law.

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    So long as votes are secret I don’t care what. You need to be able to vote for whoever you want.

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      That’s not really how election laws work. There are a ton of different things large and small that powerful people can do to distort the equation “people learn what’s going on -> people vote for good outcomes -> good outcomes happen” and a lot of American democracy comes from people making deliberate efforts to try to preserve the functioning of that system. Just having “you can vote” and calling it good is no guarantee of anything at all. People in Russia can vote with secret ballots, for example.

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip
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      Except there are definitely good chunk of people who will vote for whoever the price giver wants them to vote for. If past elections have showed us anything is that people are dumb.