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[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 205 points 4 months ago

Her disloyalty was accidentally telling the truth. What a fool.

[-] j0ester@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Donald: I love the uneducated!

[-] JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 154 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's a good little free speech absolutist.

Remove content you are responsible for creating because you are self incriminating yourself.

Billionaire fear is back on the menu boys!

Keep it up and one day we'll toast to his incarceration, hopefully with all the "empathy and due process" they've been showing to our America citizens and green card holders.

[-] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago

It's nice to see that they are worried about her saying "vote" instead of daring the court system to stop them.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 122 points 4 months ago

PACs should be illegal with the power they wield.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 67 points 4 months ago
[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

Nah give him the same immigrant treatment they're giving everyone else, no due process.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

I feel like that's being too kind.

[-] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

Citizens United was a real turn for the worse

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I've lived under that monster my entire life.

[-] KbSez@piefed.social 106 points 4 months ago

She said the truth out loud :

"My name’s Ekaterina Deistler," she said in a video posted Monday morning. "I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars."

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 9 points 4 months ago

What's her motivation in this?

Did she realise how incredibly corrupt this is and wanted to call it out?

Did she want to shout out how fantastic the system is, that just by voting for the right candidate she earned a million?

Is she just stupid, and thought this was a brag?

What in the world could make this person admit to selling their vote to a fascist?

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Is she just stupid, and thought this was a brag?

I'm guessing it's this one. Seems to be a thing for a particular group.

[-] Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Especially since she would have had to be involved in the rerecording that doesn't say 'vote'. Though of course suddenly losing a million dollars in legal fees might have been motivational...

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 93 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The headline doesn't tell the full story.

They then re-filmed it with her not saying the word vote 🤦

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

They refilmed it without the truthiness.

[-] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago

Can somebody please take the time to explain to me how this legally works? Like he’s just out here paying private citizens to vote? Fucking. Geeez.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

The elite are not bound by the law.

[-] alkbch@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Technically speaking, he’s not paying private citizens to vote.

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

We can't give people water when waiting to vote, but this is fine. 🙄

[-] amadeus84@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago
[-] tiefling 38 points 4 months ago
[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Legality is irrelevant, only what will be enforced. This will not be.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Екатерина

🤔

[-] blurcosp@leminal.space 8 points 4 months ago

This piece of shit needs to be hunted down like the rabid dog he is. He doesn't get to walk away from this and continue to run his companies like nothing happened for the rest of his life.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

They somehow don't like it when their crimes are documented and exposed...

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Experts suggest that offering money in exchange for voting could be interpreted as a violation of bribery statutes.

Really softballing that one huh? YOU FUCKIN THINK IT MIGHT MAYBE POTENTIALLY BE A TEENSY WEENSY BIT ILLEGAL? They criminalized giving water to people waiting on line to vote for FUCK'S SAKE.

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