A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers (wired.com)
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- News link: https://politics.slashdot.org/story/25/08/28/1135244/a-dark-money-group-is-secretly-funding-high-profile-democratic-influencers
- Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
That sounds pretty normal (Score:3)
Specially given it's a country that has literally just two parties.
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Literally not true, but certainly the two parties have the bulk of the power. I vote for the apparently non-existent libertarian party candidate whenever he or she is not a nut job.
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So... never?
What MAGAt subverted slashdot? (Score:1)
That's the way this story reads.
We'll ignore dark money "Heritagae Foundation" (Fascist). And all the others...
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Sounds like she's on her way to Owensville, if you catch my drift.
The best government that money can buy (Score:2)
And the Americans are OK with it. Talk about becoming a paradigm of stupidity.
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Who's to say we're OK with it?
Unfortunately based on both written law and interpretation by the court setting precedent, it is the way it is. At some point you're a fool to not use the tools available to you when they're demonstrated to be effective.
I would love for Citizens United to go away, and I'd love for lobbying to be determined to be bribery where campaign contributions are involved, but that's not the way it is right now, and the political right has been using this tactic since the Dubya's adminis
Okay what did Trump do? (Score:2)
Every time I see a flood of press attacking the Democrat party I can be sure the Republican party just did something especially nasty.
The hard part is there is so much nastiness right now I can't pick one. There's the fake Epstein file release where they just released a bunch of files everyone already had and acted like everything is good. There is the attempts to distract from the big beautiful bill by renaming it. There is Trump's rapidly declining health and clear signs of senality that even our news
Undemocratic (Score:2)
If they are being funded by "Dark Money" then they are not democratic.
Article is using the wrong term to describe them.
Another conservative tactic to steal (Score:1)
My idea is to create a grassroots version of ALEC: [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org].
ALEC is a billionaire-funded organization that creates 'model legislation', hands it to representatives at all levels of government, and says: "introduce this or we will fund your primary opponent". Famous examples which passed include the Stand Your Ground law in Florida, Right to Work in Wisconsin, and the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
My idea:
1. Web app where users enter a bill idea for the local/county/state l
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
Free Speech (Score:2)
This is how America works. Spending money in the name of political promotion is protected speech in America.
On one note (Score:2)
Because of these dark money organizations and paid influencers the articles, discussions, news stopped being interesting.
Normally a person have doubts sometimes, change mind from time to time, but not anymore: everything sounds on the same note to please a supervisor.
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> everything sounds on the same note to please a supervisor.
Zampolit.
Oh well. (Score:2)
Gotta replace that USAID funding somehow.
Is this ... (Score:2)
... the reincarnation of ShareBlue? Because those people have shuffled money and personnel around between organizations faster than a Soviet spy changed passports trying to make it over the border.
Which Democrats Are Benefiting? (Score:2)
If the money is going to Neo-liberals like Hakeem Jeffries, Elizabeth Warren, or Nancy Pelosi, then it's going to be wasted. They're simply trying to bring the United States back from Fascism to its former state of Oligarchy.
Once this is over (and it will be over one way or another), I think that the entire structure of governance in the United States (or the remnants of it) needs to be changed to remove this dark money corruption that has been a stain for far too long.
And we should care because? (Score:5, Insightful)
This has been a tactic on the opposite side of the aisle for decades. At this point why should we care in the slightest?
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> Because if this group is a foreign government its literally illegal.
I remember that same busted-ass talking point during the 2000 presidential campaign, levied without evidence against Gore.
If you don't like it, why don't you push for Citizens United to be overturned through legislation. Otherwise shut up or get some new material.
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You mean this case? [1]https://www.latimes.com/archiv... [latimes.com]
[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-sep-21-na-fec21-story.html
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> If you don't like it, why don't you push for Citizens United to be overturned through legislation. Otherwise shut up or get some new material.
You would have more credibility if you actually understood what happened with Citizens United. The law limiting campaign contributions was largely overturned in Citizens United on constitutional grounds. So new legislation will change nothing. This leaves two possibilities:
1. Stack the Supreme Court with justices who will overturn it (like the fate of Roe vs. Wade)
2. Change the Constitution.
Neither are likely to happen for decades.
I didn't hear a lot of talk from your side (Score:3, Insightful)
When Tim pool got outed as a Russian asset. Tucker Carlson too but I mean at that point we already knew it was just getting formalized.
And there were a couple dozen other popular right wing YouTubers and pundits who got caught taking hundreds of thousands of dollars directly from Russia State media without disclosing it.
I'm not really calling out right wing hypocrisy because the right wing is completely incapable of the emotions of shame and self-awareness that are associated with hypocrisy.
I mo
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Yeah... but rsilvergun said it, so anon cucks all agree, it must be retarded.
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You mean this - [1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/r... [cbsnews.com] - where all of six podcasters were deceived by an intermediary about where funding was coming from? Those six (not dozens) say they didn't know RT was providing the funds, and it looks like at least a couple of them were also suing the intermediary for lying to them.
Russia seems mostly concerned with widening the partisan gap and tossing monkey wrenches into whatever they can. They throw money at some right-wing podcasters, throw some more to BLM. They
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-tenet-media-right-wing-influencers-justice-department/
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Yes, because there's absolutely no foreign influence coming in on the right.
How about we get all dark money out of politics and remove all the corruption at once? Sounds good, right? Then let's overturn Citizens United.
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> This has been a tactic on the opposite side of the aisle for decades. At this point why should we care in the slightest?
I see. Can you name any of the dark money orgs funding right wing influencers? If we're going to be pointing fingers, let's get them all out in the open so everyone can be more aware.
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[1]Let's start with Russia. [cbsnews.com]
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-tenet-media-right-wing-influencers-justice-department/
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Big Dark Money on both sides of the aisle.
One Nation — boosts Republican/Conservative Senate allies.
Majority Forward — boosts Democratic/Liberal Senate allies.
Americans for Prosperity — Koch network; backs conservative/Republican causes.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce — pro-business; often Republicans, sometimes centrist Democrats.
All of these have strong digital outreach spending. It's hard to pin this to actual "influencers", but it definitely funds advertising, and influencers are defini
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> I see. Can you name any of the dark money orgs funding right wing influencers? If we're going to be pointing fingers, let's get them all out in the open so everyone can be more aware.
How about AIPAC? PAC payments don't have to be under the table in order to be 'dark'.
Israel is paying many American politicians and influencers lots of money to soft-peddle Israel's actions and to deny that what's happening in Gaza is a genocide. Israel lets these people know in no uncertain terms that they have to say certain things and vote in certain ways if they want the gravy train to keep rolling.
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> This has been a tactic on the opposite side of the aisle for decades.
Only one side of the aisle? Very informative
Not to change the subject, but there's this bridge I'm trying to sell. Convenient downtown location, great view, and a really terrific price. If you're interested, get at me
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It's only called "class warfare" when we fight back.