China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms

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• psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Come on NYT, put it in the fucking headline: *China’s advancing efforts to elect Donald Trump raises concerns *.

  Stop being shy. Call it like it is.

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• Beetschnapps@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember when democrats were saying that citizens united would open the door to foreign influence on elections and republicans said the law had nothing to do with that and was free speech thing to make videos about Hillary Clinton?

  Then it paved the way for super PACs, dark money and a direct donation to bank account pipeline that totally isn’t a bribe.

  Remember how US elections were before citizens united? Remember how it was before republicans on the Supreme Court said the rules need to change to allow all that money that wasn’t ever needed previously for 100+ years of democracy to function… cause reasons…

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Congress could fix it if they felt they needed to.

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    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shitty take. “Congress” assumes republicans don’t exist.

      publicintegrity.org/…/democrats-say-citizens-unit…

      Seizing on the specter of Russian election influence, they’ve ramped up their quixotic effort — with minimal effect — to blunt Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the controversial 2010 that unleashed a torrent of special interest spending on U.S. elections. In doing so, they’ve introduced two dozen bills related to money in politics.

      Dems have introduced plenty of bills to address this including a constitutional amendment in Jan 2023. The article I quoted really only criticizes dems for not solving this 2010 issue back in 2008 when they used a majority to expand access to healthcare instead.

      Mean while GOP leaders are on tape literally saying “putin pays two people, trump and rotabacher” (hint they are both republicans)

      The issue isn’t CONGRESS it’s REPUBLICANS.

      Im not lumping in Dems because they didn’t single handedly usher in a utopia in 2 years after Bush cratered the economy.

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    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Republicans are part of Congress, and control the house. Because they benefit from this law, they have no need to change it. So no Congress won’t be changing it unless at least Democrats have more control of Congress

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• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The country influencing US elections: israel

  NYT: CHAINAAA

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