Post #3664533

2026-07-01 03:29 UTC

All private financing of political parties and politicians everywhere must stop. Just as religion and state must be separated so must politics and money. If you hold more than $10 million in assets you don’t get to influence politics. It’s one or the other, not both.

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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-07-01 04:30

i mean, that’s not quite how it worked for me. politics (at least the kind i did) is basically getting the people with $10 million or more in assets to donate to and get involved with their communities. we had to trade some favors (there are a few musicians on the board who lend their services for such instances. most of the time it was that, once or twice it was “teach my fuckup kid how to work”), but we got funding for homelessness services. if we couldn’t trade those favors, we wouldn’t have any homeless shelters in my county. they ran off grants mostly (during democrat administrations. during republican administrations, we ran off hope and loan forgiveness), but they can’t expand without extraordinary help. which unfortunately takes politicking (which i hate, but they wanted me doing it)

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