Some of the candidates being targeted have already capitulated to the right on trans rights.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/78227

Elon Musk’s America PAC has dropped $100 million to support the GOP in critical races that could control the future of the Senate. It includes TV commercials, digital ads, and a social media blitz across platforms Musk owns and platforms he doesn’t. The eleventh-hour push is a brazen attempt to stoke the anti-trans moral panic and turn equal rights for transgender people into a make-or-break…

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  • mtoboggan@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    How could we, as a global society, ever allow a single person to amass so much wealth that they could spend that much money on political ads, while it leaving no impact at all on their lifestyle?

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      If it’s at all even possible to do, he should be taxed for doing this, but instead he just takes out a loan against his shares that he’ll never pay back before he dies because his has so much wealth.

      You think he’d spend 100m if he had to sell shares and be taxed to do this? I dont think so.

      Edit: there also needs to be ridiculously high tax rates if you’re realizing 100m of wealth