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[–] waywardninja 135 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Well, cards against humanity could get involv...

How is this not illegal??? Cards Against Humanity is PAYING people who didn't vote in 2020 to apologize, make a voting plan, and post #DonaldTrumpIsAHumanToilet—up to $100 for blue-leaning people in swing states. I helped by getting a 2024 Election Pack: www.Apologize.lol

[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Is there some way I can force Elon Musk to pay $47 to Cards Against Humanity PAC?

Funny you should ask! If you’re a registered voter in PA, GA, NV, AZ, NC, WI, or MI, just type your name into this dumb website for his PAC, put “[email protected]” as your referrer, and they'll be legally obligated to pay us $47. The more people who do this, the more Musk money we’ll get to un-fuck America.

If he doesn’t pay up, we’ll sue him again."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not a huge fan of their game, but I love their political work.

[–] waywardninja 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was reminded that they are currently at odds with Musk (and SpaceX) because of land they bought to interfere with the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/business/cards-against-humanity-musk-texas-land/index.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah! I forgot about that even though it was just a few days ago. Way too much is going on in the world right now!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Same. I never really intend to buy (or play) anything, but for a while now their emails and campaigns have been fantastic and hilarious. I can't afford not to contribute. Must be my mind virus.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Ok, but it is really fucked up how transparent voting seems to be for you guys in the US:

How do you know who didn’t vote?

				We formed a Super PAC and bought the personal voting records of every American citizen from a data broker we found on the internet. It’s pretty fucked up. 			

How do you know who’s “blue leaning”?

				We got your partisan lean from the same data broker who sold us your voting history. You wouldn’t believe how easy it was for us to get this stuff. So fucked up! 			

I used to love your card games before you got all political.

				Your mom used to love you before you got so fucking stupid. 			
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That third one is 24K gold

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

FYI if you want to see what data they have try to sign up to get paid. Even if you have never voted they may have data on you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The first and second one just seem wrong somehow. Voting is definitely supposed to be anonymous. Why would (aside from stupidity) would that sheriff recently make the statement about noting who has democrat signs in their yards if they could just find out everyone who voted democrat?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Why would (aside from stupidity) would that sheriff recently make the statement about noting who has democrat signs in their yards if they could just find out everyone who voted democrat?

It was mostly for intimidation. And I don't think that Sheriff in particular has easy access to these records. Sounds like you need to form a PAC, find the data brokers, and then buy it off them.

Much cheaper to just intimidate the local population with thug tactics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Whether we voted is not anonymous, but how we voted is anonymous. It's just that our political leanings are pretty transparent in our personal data.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So let's brainstorm how we can exploit that to get his money and/or break the the process.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not really a difficult system to game. Sign up Dems and take his money.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago

Cards against Humanity is using a referral code to force elon to pay into their new dem super pac! it only applies in certain states, though.

from https://www.apologize.lol

Is there some way I can force Elon Musk to pay $47 to Cards Against Humanity PAC?

Funny you should ask! If you’re a registered voter in PA, GA, NV, AZ, NC, WI, or MI, just type your name into this dumb website for his PAC, put “[email protected]” as your referrer, and they'll be legally obligated to pay us $47.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

But what other consequences might there be? I would do that (I'm in a swing state), but I worry the people I name would end up spammed to within an inch of their lives or harassed or something. (And on top of that, I wouldn't put it past Musk to find some excuse to renege on the deal.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sign up the CAH email (see other comments)

[–] jballs 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstood the CAH thing. They're saying you need to sign up yourself and use their email as a referral.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ohhhh yea, doh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't put it past Musk to find some excuse to renege on the deal

I tend to agree, but he never did find a way out of buying Twitter, so history says he's not so good at that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

But Trump is, and now they're besties.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I think right wing idiots are complete nut jobs ..... but if you're offering cash, I'll identify whoever you want ... and I'll never change my mind about my politics

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

but if you're offering cash

Except you know, he isn't. Sure publicly he is, but you know, in reality, it's just lies.

I'm looking forward to those news articles with scoot'n'fruity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's not liying, he's exercising his free speech.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

In which case, $100 to you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Republicans know a lot of women are voting to restore abortion rights, full stop. Compared to the hundreds, if not thousands of dollars that it would take for us to travel out-of-state to receive abortion care, $47 is nothing. You can’t buy my vote, let alone for such a pathetically low-balled price. I’d rather lose money and reinstate Roe V Wade than gain money and leave people to suffer.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it just me or is Elon starting to morph into Kim Jong Un?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

He's certainly trying.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just give me cash. I'll vote for Trump and not tell anyone I got cash.

Also to make conservatives prouder I'll actually vote for Harris ripping said conservatives off.

Deal Elin?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What is the goal here? collect a bunch of wrong information showing there are eay more Trump voters then whip it out as evidence when he loses?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I figured it was vote buying, ala Tammany Hall

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Mister Musk, sir. I can identify a new voter. Yaas sir. That would be me. Where's ma $47?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Remember when Musk thought he was real slick and tried to convince everyone he was a D voter, but that it was only because rapists kept losing their jobs that he became a R voter?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

That would be “what could go right”, though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

How long before he offers cash to identify Harris voters?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

lol please nobody setup a program for making completely ficticious swing state voters

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

DOJ and IRS are now looking at Elon to see what mistakes he makes that will get him into a difficult problem to get out of

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just because someone is an idiot doesn’t mean they don’t stumble into a good scheme from time-to-time.

People in swing states create fake voter accounts en masse for the reward. Those fake voters all try to vote for Trump.

The game is to destabilize everything enough that a court case advances to the Supreme Court so that they can steal the election. Thousands upon thousands of fake voters helps them tremendously.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

People in swing states create fake voter accounts en masse for the reward. Those fake voters all try to vote for Trump.

If it were that easy to fake voter registration, they wouldn't need this scheme.

It's nowhere near that easy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Then we just need a cross-reference them with the people that trumped identifies as having good genes, and we're all set to make the new master race.

Somebody put these two fucks in jail? Why is this shit legal.

Like, the moment that our presidential candidate starts talking about That's kind of shit should be a red line in the sand but not only immediately disqualifies them, puts them on fucking death row

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Done and done! Thanks for the tip!

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