The NRA has a deep hold of Republicans and primaries anyone who goes against them. Same with AIPAC and Democrats. The corruption runs deep.
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AIPAC also donates to hundreds of Republicans. They don’t discriminate when it comes to corrupting Congress.
Their entire raison d'etre is bribing American politicians to always favor a foreign country, though. That's textbook foreign interference.
Keep your eyes out for Delta Defense LLC and National Shooting Sport Foundation as well. Those two pro-gun groups far exceeded the NRA in contributions last year.
While that's true, only one of these two groups is essentially foreign interference.
The NRA laundered millions from Russia in the leadup to 2016.
That's what they meant
Then they were wrong about AIPAC.
Nope, both are. AIPAC coordinates with the Israeli government and its sole purpose is making sure that the US keeps sending billions in aid and weapons no matter how many crimes against humanity are committed using those same weapons.
Yes I was talking about APAIC. The NRA is fully homegrown.
Not really, no. Like the GOP, it's very much intertwined with Putin's fascist government
Wow $2,500! That's like a percentage of the... Let me check my notes here... $256,000,000 in revenue. Really significant. Totally relevant foreign interference.
Yeah fuck trying to wash away American fascism as some sort of foreign interference. It is fully homegrown. It would still exist if American society was surrounded by vacuum.
On the other hand, APAIC exists solely to support a foreign state. And laws were changed specifically to allow them to do that.
First of all, the 2500 was just what they'd initially admit to. If you read on just a tiny bit, you'll see this:
The NRA later said that it had received more money from two Russian nationals previously disclosed, including Alexander Torshin, a Russian banker, with links to the Kremlin.
At the time, Torshin was under an FBI investigation into whether any Russian money was funneled through the NRA to help Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Second of all, I'm not trying to whitewash American fascism. That they're cooperating with Russian fascists makes them WORSE and also more hypocritical for all their bigotry that they call patriotism.
It would still exist if American society was surrounded by vacuum.
Not true. If American society was surrounded by a vacuum, everyone would suffocate, including the fascists.
APAIC exists solely to support a foreign state. And laws were changed specifically to allow them to do that.
No argument there.
My brother in leftism, it can be both. They can be homegrown fascists that are in bed with Putin.
If you seriously don’t think the NRA is a Russian proxy, you have not been paying attention at all.
A dozen senators don’t fly to Moscow on the 4th of July to courier a handwritten letter to Putin just for fun.
Russians hacked both Dems and Repubs and yet only released the Dem files.
Along with the literal thousands of other blatant links between them.
No surprise there. They own half the politicians in this country. Bought and paid for with your tax dollars. What a fucking disgrace.
Ban AIPAC
AI is already doing enough to make things worse. LLMs don't need their own PAC
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Sooo who waaants to start an organizational institution that helps any qualified individual step up to try and get elected to a seat? Minimal funding. The entire point, apart from actually landing the rare seat, is to drain quite literally as many resources from the more malicious organizations. Such as the one mentioned.
I'm certain there are better ways, though this one comes with the added benefit of giving you permission to cackle maniacally with your pinky up.
Get Israel's money out of our politics.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former US Capitol police officer Harry Dunn has lost his congressional primary election in Maryland, after a pro-Israel group spent millions of dollars supporting another Democrat in the crowded race.
Dunn, a first-time candidate who gained national attention after publishing a book about his experiences protecting lawmakers during the January 6 insurrection, lost to state senator Sarah Elfreth in Maryland’s third congressional district.
Elfreth raised roughly a third as much money as Dunn, bringing in $1.5m, but her candidacy received substantial outside financial help from the group United Democracy Project (UDP), a Super Pac affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac).
In March, UDP suffered a defeat in California’s 47th congressional district, where Democrat Dave Min advanced to the general election despite the Super Pac spending $4.6m against him.
However, fellow candidate and labor lawyer John Morse, who received the endorsement of senator Bernie Sanders, made his support for a ceasefire in Gaza the focal point of his campaign.
In a statement to the Guardian last week, Dunn framed the infusion of Super Pac money into the race as a threat to democracy and an insult to the legacy of Sarbanes, who made campaign finance reform one of his top priorities over his nine terms in Congress.
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no cops in congress please.
while the two events in the headline are truly sequential, I have my doubts they are related.