Billionaires Think Your Votes Are Worth Millions — You Should Too
These four tech bros are spending over a half billion dollars to buy your vote. That is a measure of how important your vote is.
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Every election, people living in jurisdictions holding close elections are inundated with a tsunami of gross political ads paid for by the richest people and corporations in the country. These players don’t give a rat’s ass about you, but they do covet your vote.
In California, you have Google’s Sergey Brin and others pouring roughly $340 million into campaigns against the wealth tax that is on the ballot this year. Elon Musk is spending at least $442 million to help Republicans keep the House and Senate. Marc Andreessen and AndreessenHorowitz are spending around $115 million this election cycle. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is spending $65 million on state-level political races and super PACs across the country.
Unfortunately the big spenders have generally been rewarded by voters who are easily swayed by fear tactics such as scary visuals, ominous music, and outrageous claims. You see this play again and again.
As a general rule, if the oligarchs buy ads to support something or someone, vote the opposite way. Vote in your own interest and not in response to the billionaire-funded media machine’s propaganda campaign of the moment.
While you’re here enjoying DonkeyHotey’s latest cartoon, please take a moment to read these articles on related topics:
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- Other DonkeyHotey cartoons
The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Sergey Brin caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY 4.0), body (Super Festivals / Flickr – CC BY 2.0), Marc Andreessen caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY 4.0), body (Fábio Emilio Costa / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0), Mark Zuckerberg caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY 2.0), body (Super Festivals / Flickr – CC BY 2.0), Elon Musk caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY 4.0), body (peyj_turner / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0), logo (Meta Platforms / Wikimedia), and logo (X / Wikimedia).
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