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[–] [email protected] 31 points 15 hours ago

We can't give people water when waiting to vote, but this is fine. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Off topic, but that domain name sure is misleading!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Can somebody please take the time to explain to me how this legally works? Like he’s just out here paying private citizens to vote? Fucking. Geeez.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You just ignore the law, and done

If a judge tells you to stop doing something you don't anyway

That's how that works

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

And then you don't go to Prison because you are rich and a Russian asset, and the Russian asset president appointed Russian assets to the head of the DOJ and FBI who are working with you.

The only justice that will happen will come from outside the bounds of the current laws

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

The elite are not bound by the law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Technically speaking, he’s not paying private citizens to vote.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not legal, its just that laws don't matter for the ruling class In the USA. It works because the only people with the ability to legally arrest Musk aren't going to do so, and any court cases can just be endlessly delayed or appealed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

the only people with the ability to legally arrest Musk aren't going to do so

Who are these people?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The district attorneys and the department of Justice. At the state level Elon is vulnerable to the law but the federal judiciary is never going to make a move on Musk until the King of America tells them too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The state supreme court in Wisconsin declined to press charges for it despite what he did being objectively being illegal in that state, honestly I doubt we'll see any action against him in any state due to fear of trump or trump supporters attacking anybody who does try to hold him accountable.

[–] [email protected] 209 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Her disloyalty was accidentally telling the truth. What a fool.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago

Straight to Salvadorian jail

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Donald: I love the uneducated!

[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's a good little free speech absolutist.

Remove content you are responsible for creating because you are self incriminating yourself.

Billionaire fear is back on the menu boys!

Keep it up and one day we'll toast to his incarceration, hopefully with all the "empathy and due process" they've been showing to our America citizens and green card holders.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

It's nice to see that they are worried about her saying "vote" instead of daring the court system to stop them.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The headline doesn't tell the full story.

They then re-filmed it with her not saying the word vote 🤦

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

They refilmed it without the truthiness.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 day ago (2 children)

PACs should be illegal with the power they wield.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Citizens United was a real turn for the worse

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I've lived under that monster my entire life.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah give him the same immigrant treatment they're giving everyone else, no due process.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I feel like that's being too kind.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Legality is irrelevant, only what will be enforced. This will not be.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Nobody is being arrested, so yeah, this is perfectly legal in current USA

USA! USA! USA!

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She said the truth out loud :

"My name’s Ekaterina Deistler," she said in a video posted Monday morning. "I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What's her motivation in this?

Did she realise how incredibly corrupt this is and wanted to call it out?

Did she want to shout out how fantastic the system is, that just by voting for the right candidate she earned a million?

Is she just stupid, and thought this was a brag?

What in the world could make this person admit to selling their vote to a fascist?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is she just stupid, and thought this was a brag?

I'm guessing it's this one. Seems to be a thing for a particular group.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Especially since she would have had to be involved in the rerecording that doesn't say 'vote'. Though of course suddenly losing a million dollars in legal fees might have been motivational...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Екатерина

🤔