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I really don’t understand how Haley Stevens can say with a straight face we need to get dark money out of politics when AIPAC has given her $65 million.
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Anonymous 7w

"my dark money doesn't count"

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Anonymous 7w

If it were dark money you wouldn’t know about it. Dark money would be the MAGA super pacs that supported Sayed because they felt he was the weaker candidate in the general.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

people being nerds and being smart enough to find out a shell pac is affiliated or created by aipac despite it doing everything to hide that fact doesn’t make it less of dark money. it just makes people nerds and really smart who figured it out

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 7w

Yea, that’s totally what happened. And not the domestically funded and operated organization that adheres to the legal structures of campaign finance submitting public records so rapid inbreds can track down every fungible dollar within sniffing distance to call Israeli

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not corruption

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Do you consider any money spent on campaigns corruption? Were Justice Democrats, Our Revolution, or Working Families Party PAC all corruption? I’m just curious why one gets treated as a malicious foreign actor for the exact same behavior that the others don’t?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

I think any money that doesn't stem from the constituents is corrupt because it creates a massive conflict of interest

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

It's pretty clear that the super organized foreign entity who gives our politicians millions upon millions on the largest scale ever known in return for billions and billions of tax payer money to their country and not to mention the weapons from us committing warcrimes with then is what makes it malicious.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

That’s exactly the thing. It’s not foreign. It’s domestic. It raises money from American donors. It’s less of a foreign entity than CodePink or the Omidyar Network are. The National Beer Wholesalers Association even out spends them in Democratic races. They’re just not the juice you pretend they are.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

AIPAC is domestically funded by constituents. Also, the data overwhelmingly seems to indicate that special interest funding doesn’t override a representatives positions against the desires of their voters. The bigger issues tend to be equivocation of language or lack of political capital

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