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  • LouNeko@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 days ago

    The worst part is, he isn’t even American. Imagine if Americans would go into a foreign country and try to influence the elections… Oh wait.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 days ago

    Put him behind bars for that and I start believing that the government takes this vote seriously.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    43·
    2 days ago

    Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality, this one is clearly illegal. See 52 U.S.C. 10307(c): “Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both…” (Emphasis added.)

    I mean, if it’s clearly illegal then can we, you know, apply the law?

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    The best part about this is that unlike a lot of the other illegal shit his PACs are doing, Musk can’t separate himself from it and say he wasn’t personally involved. He personally handed out the giant check.

    If Harris wins, and if her administration actually decides to crack down on this shit, Musk could end up behind bars. I’m not holding my breath, but it’s a still a pleasant thought.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        2 days ago

        Remember: the reason Garland got nominated for SCOTUS in the first place was that he was so conservative Obama figured Mitch McConnell couldn’t possibly object to him.

        • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
          18·
          2 days ago

          Merrick garland was actually recommended by one of the senate GOP members, Grassely, who headed up the senate judicial commitee. He said Garland would be “reasonable” choice that Obama would never nominate.

          So Obama nominated him to make a point, and the Senate tsk tsked anyway and refused to fill the seat for the first time in its history.

  • gargamel@leminal.spaceEnglish
    36·
    2 days ago

    I mean, I guess I would take a million dollars from a deluded billionaire, but I would still vote for Harris.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 days ago

      Make him pay it for each entrant. It’s probably still pocket change because a hundred billion dollars (or whatever it is now) is effectively infinite money.

      Sometimes the depth of the hole we’ve dug ourselves is just astounding.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      Apparently nothing. I live in PA and want to sign up, but I really don’t want Musk to have my email or phone number or home address.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Understandable. I’d greatly consider it (if I didn’t already turn in my mail-in ballot, and he offered to California) but the idea alone that I’d be giving my private info to “I am a massive fascist and enabler and funder of them” just so I can grift a grifter.

        But the simple fact that even if I could give them what they demanded for payment, they would probably see a disabled, queer, poor person and go “Oh, well, you’re one of them so… Face the wall.”

        I’d rather be a poverty-trapped queer in a red county as I am now, than sell my morals for money. That’s what people with the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair do.