• jballs@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    4 months ago

    He’s planning on giving $180,000,000 before the election. That’s a lot of free speech.

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    4 months ago

    I’d think he’d be worried about trump removing ev subsidies, as he said he would multiple times, but Tesla stock seems so untied to reality that even if sales plunged the stock might increase as more of his braindead supporters would buy it to own the libs.

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      I don’t, in musk’s mind it’s probably buying a favor so Tesla is excluded from subsidies removal. They’d find another way to get Musk more federal funds by saying their only a tech company and working on AI or some shit like that.

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      (only commenting because it changes the meaning of your point)

      I think you typoed “untied” and in your defense, my phone just autocorrected that to “United”

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    While campaign finance laws are dogshit these days, isn’t there some kind of upper limit on how much one can donate to a campaign?

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      The answer is similar to the answer of, “Do large corporations pay taxes?”

      Technically, large corporations pay taxes and there’s limits to how much an individual donates to a political campaign.

      But, if the individual uses financial constructs such as SPACS and C-Corporations, they can effectively donate as much as they wish, and even do so covertly.

      It’s like most anything else: The rules are constructed for and enforced inversely proportional to fiscal class.

      Small groups can make a substantial difference by using these tools for “good”. A fantastic example of an idea that scaled beautifully is Proton, a C-corp, soon to be majority owned by a trust with zero liabilities, soon forever subordinate to the principle of privacy in digital services.

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    That’s a small price for getting Trumpists to boost Tesla stock price and become a couple billion richer.