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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 年前

Elon Musk is offering people cash to identify new Trump voters. What could go wrong?

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Elon Musk is offering people cash to identify new Trump voters. What could go wrong?

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 年前
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  • waywardninja@sh.itjust.works
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    Well, cards against humanity could get involv…

    How is this not illegal??? Cards Against Humanity is PAYING people who didn’t vote in 2020 to apologize, make a voting plan, and post #DonaldTrumpIsAHumanToilet—up to $100 for blue-leaning people in swing states. I helped by getting a 2024 Election Pack: www.Apologize.lol

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      "Is there some way I can force Elon Musk to pay $47 to Cards Against Humanity PAC?

      Funny you should ask! If you’re a registered voter in PA, GA, NV, AZ, NC, WI, or MI, just type your name into this dumb website for his PAC, put “MuskIsDumb@cah.lol” as your referrer, and they’ll be legally obligated to pay us $47. The more people who do this, the more Musk money we’ll get to un-fuck America.

      If he doesn’t pay up, we’ll sue him again."

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        I’m not a huge fan of their game, but I love their political work.

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          I was reminded that they are currently at odds with Musk (and SpaceX) because of land they bought to interfere with the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

          https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/business/cards-against-humanity-musk-texas-land/index.html

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            Oh yeah! I forgot about that even though it was just a few days ago. Way too much is going on in the world right now!

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          Same. I never really intend to buy (or play) anything, but for a while now their emails and campaigns have been fantastic and hilarious. I can’t afford not to contribute. Must be my mind virus.

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            Brain worms will do that.

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              For the Absolute?

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                https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/05/09/1250201358/rfk-jr-brain-parasitic-worm-tapeworm-kennedy

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    I think right wing idiots are complete nut jobs … but if you’re offering cash, I’ll identify whoever you want … and I’ll never change my mind about my politics

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      but if you’re offering cash

      Except you know, he isn’t. Sure publicly he is, but you know, in reality, it’s just lies.

      I’m looking forward to those news articles with scoot’n’fruity.

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        He’s not liying, he’s exercising his free speech.

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          In which case, $100 to you.

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      Republicans know a lot of women are voting to restore abortion rights, full stop. Compared to the hundreds, if not thousands of dollars that it would take for us to travel out-of-state to receive abortion care, $47 is nothing. You can’t buy my vote, let alone for such a pathetically low-balled price. I’d rather lose money and reinstate Roe V Wade than gain money and leave people to suffer.

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    Is it just me or is Elon starting to morph into Kim Jong Un?

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      He’s certainly trying.

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    apologize.lol

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    Ideally, prison time.

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      That would be “what could go right”, though.

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    How long before he offers cash to identify Harris voters?

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    What is the goal here? collect a bunch of wrong information showing there are eay more Trump voters then whip it out as evidence when he loses?

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      I figured it was vote buying, ala Tammany Hall

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    Mister Musk, sir. I can identify a new voter. Yaas sir. That would be me. Where’s ma $47?

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    Just give me cash. I’ll vote for Trump and not tell anyone I got cash.

    Also to make conservatives prouder I’ll actually vote for Harris ripping said conservatives off.

    Deal Elin?

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      *Leon

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    Then we just need a cross-reference them with the people that trumped identifies as having good genes, and we’re all set to make the new master race.

    Somebody put these two fucks in jail? Why is this shit legal.

    Like, the moment that our presidential candidate starts talking about That’s kind of shit should be a red line in the sand but not only immediately disqualifies them, puts them on fucking death row

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    Just because someone is an idiot doesn’t mean they don’t stumble into a good scheme from time-to-time.

    People in swing states create fake voter accounts en masse for the reward. Those fake voters all try to vote for Trump.

    The game is to destabilize everything enough that a court case advances to the Supreme Court so that they can steal the election. Thousands upon thousands of fake voters helps them tremendously.

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      People in swing states create fake voter accounts en masse for the reward. Those fake voters all try to vote for Trump.

      If it were that easy to fake voter registration, they wouldn’t need this scheme.

      It’s nowhere near that easy.

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    DOJ and IRS are now looking at Elon to see what mistakes he makes that will get him into a difficult problem to get out of

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    Done and done! Thanks for the tip!

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    lol please nobody setup a program for making completely ficticious swing state voters

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