• Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    And probably earn more votes. A lot more votes. No campaigning or anything, just funneling all the campaign funds into something that actually helps people. Social media would have done all the work. Sooner or later someone will remember the “bread” part of “bread and circuses” and they will rule completely unchecked. It will probably be terrible.

    • Piment [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      I feel like we’re so far past bread it would be viewed on an equal level as Elon giving a million to a random person for voting, a candidate that used their campaign funds to help people would probably get investigated and somehow disqualified from running.