• exanime@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    regular federal officials were up for sale way before this… the combined “corporations are people” and “money is free speech” nonsense meant anyone can openly throw money at anyone up for election and that’s A-OK because free speech

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      5 months ago

      I meant more like non elected officials, like a Contracting Officer.

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        5 months ago

        who cares about those?, when the Secretaries and all the high level officials running everything can be bought

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          5 months ago

          Because you get things easier and faster that way.