The staggering $446M Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized

Posted by DeepLogin 22 hours ago

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Comment by ElProlactin 20 hours ago

Only in America can an ambitious young man, born under apartheid to (in his own words) a "terrible human being" of a father, go from illegal immigrant to world's most despicable political powerbroker!

The American DreamX®.

Comment by watwut 20 hours ago

Using the words "born under apartheid" to describe someone from rich white familly that benefitted from apartheid and who became white nationalist ... is something.

Comment by ElProlactin 19 hours ago

I figured most people would get that the wording was ironic given the context but Poe's Law strikes again.

Comment by 0xy 19 hours ago

White nationalist? Isn't one of his primary romantic interests and mother of some of his children Jewish?

Comment by dessimus 17 hours ago

Implying Log Cabin Republicans don't exist.

Comment by kelseyfrog 18 hours ago

People can marry those who they're predjudiced against. Against all odds, tons of misogynists manage to get married after all.

Comment by 0xy 15 hours ago

You're right, you do tend to see a lot of KKK members marrying black women.

Comment by watwut 13 hours ago

JD Vance is super easy to see example of a guy who openly disparages race of own wife and kids.

Comment by watwut 13 hours ago

That does not make one non-white-nationalists. Politics does and that one is white nationalist one. Also, throwing Hitlers salute.

Having a kid with a Jew or sex with non white is not argument here.

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Comment by JackSlateur 21 hours ago

Spending half a billion of hard-earned money, for the good of the people ! Truly inspiring !

Comment by cyanydeez 20 hours ago

The problem with this statement is no one will be able to tell if it's satire or not.

I recommend people not recreate cult language as satire.

Comment by tim333 10 hours ago

I think it's safe to say it's satire. Though satire often gets a bit lost on HN.

Comment by voakbasda 20 hours ago

Pascal’s Political Wager:

- If Musk wins: not satire.

- If he loses: satire.

Comment by jansport123 20 hours ago

Hey, that’s Joe Rogan in a nutshell

Comment by bix6 20 hours ago

> A large portion of America Pac’s output focuses on attack ads against Democratic candidates such as Talarico, often accusing them of being radical socialists or targeting them over supporting transgender rights. The Pac has spent $28m on anti-Talarico content, including between $300,000 and 350,000 in October on a single Google ad targeting the Texas Senate candidate.

“James Talarico supports parents being charged with child abuse if they do not support transitioning their children,” stated the ad, which was shown more than 10m times over an eight day period.

How does Musk sleep at night?

Comment by jansport123 20 hours ago

It’s the win at any cost mindset with the post hoc rationalization that intelligent people can do with politics being utterly corrupt to stop this mess. We should really get money out of politics. SV is the new iteration of “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. These tech guys have way too much money and power. You’d think they cured cancer or something instead of capturing attention and showing ads.

Comment by sjdh76 20 hours ago

More like the people in power protecting his ass are about to be replaced and he is scared. See Circulation of the Elites. There is always some group somewhere trying to co-opt the system. Short term buying ppl works. Long term it doesnt. Through out human history.

Comment by unrented7977 19 hours ago

> How does Musk sleep at night?

On a giant pile of cash, presumably.

The man's a psychopath, he doesn't care about hurting other people or what anyone thinks of him.

Comment by Geof25 19 hours ago

It is always cracking me up when Republicans are pointing on anyone left from the center like a guy is some kind maosist about to seize the means of production. And then they will turn around and offer you 5000 USD per vote if they win.

Not even the thickest european left wing populists would dare to say anything like that...

Comment by nullocator 8 hours ago

The U.S voting cohort is uniquely stupid and/or apathetic.

Comment by xorvoid 19 hours ago

Can musk get over the fact that his daughter is trans already? We'd all love to move on from his annoying political outbursts. Thank you in advance.

Comment by 0xy 19 hours ago

Several of those exact laws are on the books in blue states. Is it an inaccurate characterization of the platform, or are you outraged light was shone on it?