Billionaires aren't compatible with life. They are economic black holes who increase scarcity, uncertainty, entropy, and isolation. In a different verbiage, they are demons.

In normal democracies donations are capped to like $100 a year.

In Canada we have conspiracies about wealthy and powerful elites using lots of individuals to max out donations... and even that would only get them 5 figure or low 6 figure donations. lol

The MAGA asswipes in Texas will vote for Paxton and fully support their neo-Nazi movement.

Every federal government candidate has rich sponsor(s) because our political system is a massive cash laundering machine, as it has been since "we" (not the voters) decided that corporations are people and money is free speech.

They will always win, because they have much more money than the voters themselves. These multi-generational constructs control our rotting political system.

There is no legal solution, unfortunately. Our "representatives" aren't going to wake up tomorrow and say "you know what? I have so much money that I actually feel guilty. Let's throw a bone to the proles ( i.e. raise minimum wage, universal healthcare, term limits).

With our legal bribery system, there's no longer any need for backroom cash deals, it's very efficient. Their only limit is their discretion, for appearances sake.

If someone gets busted for bribery or similar, that only means that they have displeased someone else with a bigger pile of money. That's it. So we get the appearance of the rule of law without any actual rule of law.

At this point, the only thing that will drag down this decrepit empire is the inevitable economic collapse that is our heritage. The unbridled greed becomes unsustainable.

But please vote, I did! Every good comedy routine needs a "straight man", the "foil", and that is our role as voters. Just be in on the joke.

Flushing 158 million dollars down the toilet for a criminal instead of using it to do something positive for humanity.

What a fuking loser!!! Imagine having all the wealth in the world and doing this with it. How fuking lame can you be!!!?

Capitalism is not compatible with democracy.

Democracy is equal political action.

A person who can pay someone to do political action for him has twice as much political ability as anyone who can't afford to do that.

Either you restrict political actions of the wealthy or the amount of political power a person has can be measured by that person's bank account.

And what a coincidence. In the United States, your political power CAN be measured by your bank account.

Richest man in the world: zero friends, zero cool, zero enjoyment

If billionaires must exist, I’m happy at least this one’s a miserable fucking loser

why do billionaires have this need to rule the world. i get that they like money and want more of that. but to ruin other peoples lives for the purpose of money, that i dont understand. i dont understand how poeple can sleep at night doing that day after day.

America isn't a democracy any more ... I think it stopped acting like a democracy for a while now ... probably much longer than everyone likes to think.

It's a Plutocracy ... 'a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.'

But they are the end goal of capitalism.

Therefore Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.

Could feed tons of hungry families or cover their healthcare or any number of good things, but no lets use it to bribe some asshole senator that's not going to accomplish anything anyway.

I think 158 million sounds about right for the purchase of american politicians. It used to be cheaper but now they are all holding out for that big subscription tech bros money. Sadly, most everyone has a price.

If we take the headline that Elon Musk is a trillionaire to be true...

Lets say you are a working professional something and make 100k a year. You are doing well. Not great, but you are getting by.

A 150 million dollar donation from Elon Musk, if we take their trillionaire or even near trillionare status to be true..

That's equivalent to you donating about 15 bucks. Thats what 150 million represents to Elon Musk.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

But all forms of governments have billionaires: Putin, MBS, Jung Un, Xi Jinping, Mansa Musa, Khufu, Darius, William the Conqueror, Ceasar, Alexander, Khan, Hammurabi, etc.

All that money and still no friends.

Going by that photo, Elon is apparently turning into a Lovecraftian fish person.

See, call me crazy, but like, I thought there were laws and caps to how much a person could donate to a candidate?

And yes I know its some silly loophole, PAC, citizens united corporate bullshit whatever... but like, it "feels" like we all understand the spirit of the law right? And so we all can plainly see that this doesnt respect it? So maybe we dont need to get hung up on technicalities when the violation is blatantly obvious, yea?

You can’t fix stupid, but you can certain purchase it.

They give each other medals, jerk each other off and even fuck the same sex trafficked children. Talk about an in-group.

Can Elon Musk just stop his crusade against "the woke mind virus"

It's not real and it didn't kill his daughter.

Why don't you give me $150 million you flaccid fuck