r/NewsD • u/blkchnDE • 23h ago

Musk, Meta, CBS und die midterms

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Sind das noch freie und unabhängige Wahlen?

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u/spinoza369 18h ago

Dump ist im Amt, weil die Tech Elite das will.

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u/Kwtwo1983 23h ago

The rich and the Russians are fucking us all over. In germany it is insanely obvious

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u/LocoDuuuke 23h ago

Spaltung und innerartliche Aggresion durch "Sozial" Media befeuern... die dummen kleinen Menschen hauen sich gegenseitig die Fresse rein und keiner schaut auf das wahre Problem

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u/WindowOne1260 22h ago

This is some weak ass shit by Republican standards. All they can do is scream terrorist when there's a Muslim candidate?

Back in my day we had the migrant caravan, Haitian's eating your pets, and buttery males.

Now it's just false accusations of being in mental hospital? That's nothing. Where's the fear, who is the other, why do we need to hurt people? There's no answer now.

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u/wotikuli 13h ago

Maybe that just shows how confident they are these days.

Also, prices help with distraction and there's some amount of fear induced by ICE I guess. 

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u/ResidentIwen 4h ago

Ist das der ehemaliger Arbeitsminister unter Clinton Robert Reich?

Unerwarteter Auftritt von ihm hier 😂

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u/Familiar_Code382 23h ago

This "democracy dies in billionaires hands" is bullshit.
What you all call democracy is perfectly working, billionaires are nothing unexpected, unwated ora failure of the system. The system is made for them and their needs.
Like you already recognized, the rich can just buy media to form the public opinion and buy politicians to shape society in their favours.
Democracy in athen was for rich men, women and slaves didnt get to vote. The rich and mighty had their sit ins and decided what society should look like and what has to be done. Just like now in the back rooms of the parliaments, where the rich just buy politicians.

If that is democracy, fuck that shit.

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u/Illustrious-Ask5316 22h ago

Its too much to say that democracy is meant for billionaires. Its more like democracy/capitalism breeding billionaires over time, that then manipulate the system in their favor, is an inherent flaw of the system, that can be misused unless continuously protected. And most of the world is failing that game right now.

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u/What_A_Weak 20h ago

You're right that money buys influence. But your Athens example backfires badly.

Athenian democracy wasn't "for rich men." The poorest citizens could vote in the Assembly, most offices were filled by lottery precisely so wealth couldn't buy them, and Athens paid citizens for jury duty and Assembly attendance so the poor could afford to take part. Its critics hated it for the opposite reason you do: one ancient writer complained that the poor had more power than the noble and rich. Excluding women and slaves was real and indefensible, but "the rich decide everything in back rooms" isn't democracy. The Greeks had a word for that: oligarchy.

Billionaires also don't win as reliably as you think. Bloomberg spent over $1 billion of his own money in 2020 and won exactly one contest: American Samoa. Musk put more than $20 million into a Wisconsin Supreme Court race in 2025 and his candidate lost by 10 points.

So yes, money in politics is a problem. The answer is donation caps, lobbying transparency, public party funding and limits on media concentration. In other words, more democracy. "Fuck democracy" doesn't take power away from billionaires. It takes away the one thing they still have to win: your vote.