PACs are a way to funnel dark money and hide donors with no limits.
Admittedly, I am not attorney. But, from those that are I think they would agree with you, if they view the constitution from a strict textual analysis of the 1st amendment.
I am with the dissent on this one. The First Amendment protects speech, but it does not guarantee the right to use unlimited economic power to dominate elections. Under a democratic-protection and historical-practice interpretation, the decision was not constitutionally correct. This case being 5-4 and what it addresses is obviously a contested ruling with good arguments on both sides.
But, states were left with the ultimate power to regulate corporations, which I think they need to do better at.
That’s not what the decision said so not really the issue. It basically repealed an 8 year old campain reform law. The decision really got turned into something it wasn’t and was parroted as the reason for all election money issues “corporations aren’t people.” Well people have restrictions on direct contributions to candidates too. A dumb slogan like “kids in cages.”
I don’t mean to make this a rehash of an old debate but it’s just something that annoys me. I don’t think that was your intent anyway. Recent elections proved the candidates that spend the most money don’t always win. And yes, there’s room for laws to be made if congress wanted to, but they dont.
I don’t think Carlson is spot-on at all. I think he’s rowing in the wrong direction.
Carlson has written a long screed that will only bolster Fuentes’s audience, and he achieved this by leaving out an awful lot of important information about Nick Fuentes and National Socialism as it existed in The Third Reich, along with how they actually managed to come to power.
Carlson’s post strikes me as something a woman might write. All emotion, no facts.
So I’ve only just become aware of Fuentes in the past year and whenever i see him interviewed, I don’t see this. Now he’s definitely a little too into blaming Israel for everything, but the media portrayal of a hateful reincarnation of Adolf hitler isn’t really accurate.
I didn’t fall for a media portrayal of his words, I heard them from Fuentes himself. I could dig up the X clips and all, but the guy seems to fall pretty firmly within the actual Nazi camp, as long as we substitute white Americans for ethnic Germans. Maybe he’s just a dumb kid and maybe he’s just joking about his admiration for National Socialism, but he’s definitely planting an awful lot of shitty ideas into young mens’ heads. He’s also making a lot of money doing it.
I think theres some of this. He became somewhat notable at 19. I think he’s like 25 now? Probably a little overzealous in his youth with some of this stuff. I’m glad there’s no record of my political thoughts at 19.
Also worth considering his appeal to young men, if they kill your Charlie Kirk they get your Nick Fuentes.
I don’t watch any of it. If I’m going to watch propaganda, I only watch the propaganda I agree with (half joiking, but serious).
For example, the only reason I saw Mamdani (and his “appeal”) was because he was at the WH with Trump, and I was curious to see how Trump woud handle it. I’ve never watched anything Mamdani related voluntarily.
I think that’s it in a nutshell actually. His immediate dismissal by the mainstream is what draws young people to him. Instead of answering him and explaining why he’s wrong he’s often dismissed at the onset. Younger generation is curious why old people don’t want to hear it.
I listened to Charlie Kirk. Imo (agree or disagree with him), I don’t think there was hate, or blame game, in his messaging at all. I used to just check his twitter feed to get a (fairly) objective perspective on all the “controversies” going on in the Right/MAGA. Now, I have to read way too many posts to get a rational perspective on what’s going on; too tiring…
If you’re gonna blame ‘da Jews for controlling everything, it’s Wall Street you should be looking at. When the shit hit the fan during the financial meltdown, Henry Paulson of Goldman Sachs basically ran this country for GW Bush. It’s most likely no different now, except there’s no need to come out in plain sight.
I agree. Kirk seemed to be a genuine compassionate Christian conservative. Not hateful it the least.
I see the Fuentes popularity as a further consequence of Kirk’s death. “If you get killed for a moderate position, might as well embrace a radical one,” would be the thought process.
I know quite a few that don’t think he goes far enough on many views lol… males under 30. And not incels or losers. Competent, educated, successful etc.
Fuentes is definitely a smart guy, but being able to rile people up with criticism of the present and a distorted view of history doesn’t mean his ideas will lead anywhere good.
I see the narrative of “Hitler’s economic miracle” being revived, which ignores all of the now well-documented economic ponzi schemes that achieved their short lived bubble in the 1930’s.
It also placed them on an unavoidable path to war. Their economy would have collapsed without plundering Europe and North Africa to keep the Deutschmark propped up. It was one scam after another with those guys and their conception of socialism.
Just like the communist version of it, it worked great until they ran out of other people’s money. It was a catastrophic disaster for the young men of Germany who got slaughtered.
It’s definitely working out well for Nick Fuentes though.
Maybe not, but ignoring him / the plight and grievances of his audience and simply saying all of his fan base are basement dwellers and losers will do nothing but grow his base.
Taking this tact will embolden his base in their views and prove them right in their sense of being disregarded and used.
We just hit $39 trillion in debt. Still printing money like it’s going out of style. Inflation isn’t stopping. H1Bs are still in vogue as is sending billion and billions all over the globe. And this just scratches the surface of the fucked issues.
I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this ends well for anyone regardless of Nick Fuentes.
Oh you mean like social security?
I find this a bit comical when we are $39 trillion in debt and printing trillions annually.
