• @[email protected]
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      021 days ago

      Giving politicians money is a good idea, when you can be reasonable sure it’ll be beneficial to you or society. Money is needed for elections, and if you don’t give the rich will win all of them even more so

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        021 days ago

        Elections shouldn’t NEED money. They are operated by the government and there is a public option. What elections NEED is less money, specifically no corporate or super pac money laundering.

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          020 days ago

          Public funding of all elections would solve SO MANY problems in the US!

          Just think, no more negative ads and no more money = speech.

          All the candidates get the same funding and they have to use it wisely.

          The ONLY other “advertising” allowed is individuals and groups saying I endorse “whoever” and that’s it.

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        021 days ago

        Lol right?

        These idiots act like there are good options that also have a chance.

        Usually there’s a good option with no chance, then a corpo Democrat then a religious corpo Republican who has a random hill they wanna die on like pedophilia or banning porn or something.

        Like golly who do you pick?

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      021 days ago

      I mean, who was his Republican counterpart? Because I feel like Fettermen would likely be better than them.

      Not saying I don’t wish there had been a different dem candidate in his place, but you can’t really fault voters for not realizing he was a bait and switch. Be it intentionally or the stroke.

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        021 days ago

        The republican challenger was Mehmet Oz, also known as Dr. Oz. We dodged a bullet with Fettermans win.

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            021 days ago

            I remember being so pissed off about Oz even being in the race. Dude is from NJ, he shouldn’t have ever been running in PA. I expected better of Fetterman when I voted for him, but I’ll take most anyone over Dr Oz