• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    5 months ago

    Maybe we can use this?

    Since bribery gratuities are legal now, apparently, and the Supreme Court is legislating everything from the bench, maybe we can pool a sort of PAC and put together a prize sheet for different positive things we want. If they rule for those, they get the prize indicated. Kind of like the prizes you’d get for selling certain thresholds during school fundraisers.

    Also kind of like the Criss Points system:

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      5 months ago

      Even if all the peasant in US united and pitched in, out collective buying power would still NOT be enough v top 10% but like even top 1%

      Think about that.

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        4 months ago

        But the bribe amounts have very little to do with how unfathomably rich the “donors” are! If you look at all those bribes, the amounts are still within the realm of what the 99% could put together.

        But I don’t even think it would cost the 99% that much, because it would force the 1% to up their game (in other words, there’d be bribe inflation) until the 99% can’t follow suit, which means the 99% wouldn’t even need to pay, in the end. But the higher price would make some bribers think twice, which might lead to less bribery happening.

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        5 months ago

        Which is sad, but should remind some people it was a similar situation regarding the French Revolution. The less you have, the less you have to lose.

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        5 months ago

        Not about the SCOTUS, but there was a report a while back showing that many senators votes were purchased for only a few grand… we could probably swing that.