@pluralistic

This and the make-Elon-pay thing are outliers in my VPN-exit-point history. Normally, due to IP geofencing, I very much want my apparent IP address to be somewhere in Europe. With this, I want it to be somewhere in the US; except I'm not willing to allow all my /other/ traffic to appear temporarily in the US just to support these initiatives. Sigh.

@pluralistic The same reasons it's not illegal to prevent people from voting entirely because it is not illegal to prevent people to vote at all, because some whiner politician thinks they MIGHT vote blue.

These are people who bought land purely to prevent Trump's illegal wall. It's a case of 'you stop first entirely and I'll storp entirely'

@pluralistic : as an European, the whole SuperPAC/data about electors is completely unbelievable.

As is the fact that so many people don’t vote (in my country, elections always happen on Sunday and it is mandatory to vote. You can be fined for not voting)

@pluralistic If money is speech, then they are definitely making a statement here about the health of our democracy. Musk could have given EVERY American more than $100 for their vote for the amount he paid for X. Perhaps this is the end stage bread-and-circuses phase of the Republic.