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Re:Swiss Billionaire’s Mega-Influence on U.S. Politics by woodruffw on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:15PM (#31418556)
There's a reason there's an operative "dark" in "dark money."

On net, I don't care if the billionaire is a foreigner or not. I care that they're a billionaire.

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Re:Swiss Billionaire’s Mega-Influence on U.S. Politics by daenz on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:28PM (#31418642)
You seem to care about their political alignment as well, otherwise you wouldn't have attempted to discredit the RCP's reporting for having a bias against a foreign progressive billionaire.
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Re:Swiss Billionaire’s Mega-Influence on U.S. Politics by woodruffw on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:59PM (#31418811)
Not especially. I do care about special pleading, particularly the when pleader is the one that lit the fire in question.

I would like there to be no private money in politics, full stop.

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