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Re:Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army by standardUser on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:13PM (#22369551)
It's actually perfectly in line with our democratic process. It's not subverting it, it's working exactly as designed. Spending a personal fortune is well within the rules. We should be criticizing the design, not the people taking advantage of the design.

In other words, hate the game not the player.

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Re:Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army by CydeWeys on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:20PM (#22369620)
It hasn't always been allowed within our rules, and indeed isn't allowed by the rules of most other functioning democracies.
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Re:Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army by pmoriarty on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:58PM (#22369972)
To the extent that the US system of government is more influenced by money than it is by votes, it is plutocratic rather than democratic.
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