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Harris campaign rakes in nearly $50 million in 7 hours on ActBlue (thehill.com)

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[-] thrawn@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago

I’ve been outspoken irl, and even on this site a bit, that I do not believe in Harris or particularly like her. I’m quite fond of human rights though, so I too donated and am hoping for President Harris next year. Even if she ultimately loses, I will not regret losing a bit of money in the defense of democracy.

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

Good lad.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago

I gave her some money. Wanted to show that I approved of the new course of the campaign. Get some fresh blood in there

[-] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I am donating every 2 weeks until the election.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Not a bad idea. I might do that as well. I'm already getting daily texts might as well

[-] mdwhite999@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

This is a crazy amount of money to me as someone from the UK. A party running a candidate in every seat in a UK general election could not spend this much money campaigning

[-] en1gma@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The best democracy money can buy!

[+] anticolonialist@lemmy.cafe -82 points 2 years ago

The dichotomy is insane. At one side of their mouth, they talk about getting money out of politics, Out of the other side, they talk about raising $50 million in seven hours as a good thing.

[-] thrawn@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

This is a near copy paste of this comment

[-] lmaydev@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

I'm fairly certain legit donations to an election campaign is not the major problem with money in politics.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago

Would you have us believe that while money is still the deciding factor in politics, we should let our own political campaigns starve and die so that strangers on the internet can't falsely accuse us of being hypocrites? 🙄😮‍💨

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 17 points 2 years ago

You unfortunately have to play by the rules of the game as it exists before you can have the control to change the rules for the future.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

If they stopped taking money for their campaigns, you'd be complaining that they're disarming themselves against the oncoming threat of fascism.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

The alternative is to unilaterally disarm?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

And...?

[-] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Doing the wrong thing for the right reason?

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Seems to be a near copy paste of another comment. This is concerning.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I always thought lemmy was too small for bots... Seeing literal duplicate comments and how quick the anti-Kamala "about face" was.. I'm not so sure now.

Though it's often hard to tell the difference between a bot and a person who does no thinking of their own, so who knows.

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For the folks who mistake this as a good-faith argument, let me disprove it. It is illegal to misappropriate campaign funds for any purpose other than the election campaign. The only people "getting rich" from the donations made are the wages paid to employees of the election organization. They are not making 7 figure salaries off this. Most of the funds will be spent on running advertisements, booking venues for speeches, and hiring more people to manage it all. This will create (temporary) jobs for common folks, not deepen the pocket of the elite.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent.

[-] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Is this all you got? What a crock of shit.

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