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jxf 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This statement doesn't go far enough given Elon's direct and hands-on involvement with DOGE and the 2024 elections. Very few of the richest people of the world are personally entangled in meddling with government agencies directly, for example.

	▲	Gareth321 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it would be extremely naive to believe that the rich weren't literally writing the laws. They're just usually more quiet about it.

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enragedcacti 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he promised to hand out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.

> The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office, which can choose to bring criminal charges over violating the state law against election bribery. Prosecutors have 40 days to report back to the commission.

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-wisconsin-election-mill...

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scottyah 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> "Likely broke"

Journalism has gone wild these days. He's already been sued and won a couple times. An for what? Encouraging people just to vote (he did not say which way). It's going to backfire hard for all the ad spend by MTV, Meta, and Google who also spend lots of money to encourage certain demographics to vote.

	▲	enragedcacti 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Likely broke" is according to the Wisconsin Election Commission, as is attributed at the end of that very sentence. > Encouraging people just to vote And "Criminal Conspiracy" is just making plans with friends. Just because you can describe it in vague terms doesn't make it A-Okay. > It's going to backfire hard for all the ad spend by MTV, Meta, and Google It will not, because running ads is definitely not election bribery, whereas what Musk did likely is under Wisconsin law.

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Certhas 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Elon Musk has actively endorsed the right wing extremist party in Germany.

The one that often has trouble running it's events as businesses try to avoid serving them. And which has prominent members that the secret service considers definitely fascist.

Musk has gone a long way beyond simply being the standard rich person lobbying for their own interests, and has moved into actively promoting people that are trying to tear down liberal democracy.

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rlt 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	hackyhacky 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not sure you put "wrong" in quotes. Much of what he's done, both in election interference, and subsequently in DOGE, is illegal.
	▲	goatlover 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The wrong side is the authoritarian side that wishes to co-opt democracies around the world.
	▲	nibbleyou 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Idk I just don't like the richest man on planet and the owner of the "town square of the internet" to post fake news blatantly to promote hate against a group of people.