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Re:America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism by UtopiaPunk on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:41PM (#35140404)
Spending lots of money counts as easy if you're ridiculously wealthy
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Re:America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism by throwawaymaths on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:06PM (#35142649)
It's not actually easy though. If someone airdropped you 100M and told you to spend it on some policy initiative, you, UtopiaPunk, would probably not be able to figure out how to move that money to a successful political end in DC.
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Re:America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism by emodendroket on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:28PM (#35145449)
He also probably doesn't employ a bunch of people specifically for this purpose so it seems like an irrelevant scenario
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