Some Countries Choose Not To Commit National Suicide..
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Actually Trump was one of Elmo’s cheapest buys, and most profitable it seems.
How about we just outlaw all political donations. It’s all government funded. You get a certain amount of money and that’s what you have to work with.
South Australia just outlawed all political donations to parties, candidates, and members of parliament. New candidates are eligible to receive donations of up to $5000, so as to not make entrance in to politics unachievable.
Aaaand it’s not a facepalm.
Trumps political career would’ve ended the moment he taunted and ridiculed a physically impaired journalist in Australia.
The way I heard it explained is that while good in theory, the only parties it will mainly affect are the minor parties with little to no other way of receiving other funding
The main parties will have no problem considering they will only have to worry about each other rather than the minor parties (if they even follow the law to begin with)
The federal limit on personal candidate donations is $3300 per candidate. Unless Australia bans super PACs, there will always be a loophole.
The uk is doing this as well right?
Citizen United. SCOTUS would slap this down.
Why is this a facepalm? It’s just Smart!
Elon Musk in this picture, is a FROG. A frog with the stomache full of flies.
Canada needs to adopt this too.
We are back in the robber baron era.
Once again Australian is out America-ing America, good for them 🫡
Also any politician that has accepted money from corporations or a foreign state should be sacked and barred from holding any future office.
That’s probably 90% of them.
What’s it like to live in a country where there are actually people in government who care about the people and the country.
We had this before 2010.
They’ll find a way through charitable donations via shadow companies etc… to sway votes and buy government backed policies, there’s nothing new here just a government denying liability when they turn a blind eye to what’s going with under the table deals
The American system is a feature not a bug..
This seems to have an easy loophole, like Musk gives 22k to 10000 Tesla employees as bonus, they all donate 20k, there you have 200M political donation with 20M operating expenses.
Elon bought USA for 4 years.
The UK and Germany should definitely do this.
In France, the limit is 7500€/year/campaign.
If better than no limit, it is already too much.
I always argue that campaign finance reform is the number 1 issue. Without it politicians aren’t even trying to solve the right problems.
Not a facepalm + america has a similar law except they just funnel it through other organizations
The fact of the matter is when you have 100 billion dollars you can leverage there’s not a damn country you can’t influence, America will never do this sadly
Countries are taking notice of the downfall of America so why not make the changes needed so it doesn’t happen there.
They’ve introduced the bill, but have they passed it?
We could start by repealing ”Citizens United”, eh?
I’d move there in a second if it weren’t for the giant spiders. And snakes. And sharks. And crocs.
Solid country. Well run.
About 50 years too late
We needed this…
He’ll just do it indirectly.
Did it pass?
I bet it doesn’t include unions or companies
That bill will never pass in the U.S. Congress.
Australia seems like it’s making some smart choices lately with stuff like this. I’m wondering if I should emigrate there?
This is a great start elections should be the voice of the people not who has the most money. This conversion to oligarchies and plutocracies can be stopped we just need to grow a pair and stand up to them.
Between this and preferential voting (which is a perfect idea), they seem to have some things figured out from watching America burn.
Good on them.
They will just funnel money in through various other ways. “Here’s $20,000 from Space X, another $20,0000 from Tesla, $20,000 from Twitter and so on. Nothing will change.
It’s sad that it took Elon for basic protections like this to be put in place.
This is because eloon has promised to donate £200 million to nigel farage, head of reform uk (wankers).
Australian politics are just as corrupt and inept as their American counterparts. Governments here pander to big corporations and neglect the people
Remember, there are people who lionise the wealthy even while they’re struggling to feed themselves. America is a great example of this.