Greenland plans to ban foreign political funding over Trump-led election fears

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How? You get a certain amount of funds to be spent on specific regulated activities if you pass a threshold of signatures.

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I used to be interested in the things Andrew Yang had to say back in 2020, especially with regard to UBI, but I'm really put off by him now. His whole schtick is a libertarian technocratic utopian fantasy. The expansion of welfare while simultaneously sucking up to oligarchs is just a way to preserve the capitalist status quo. He wants to breathe new life into the machine that's exploiting us and destroying the planet.

His vision for the future is basically just the UN as depicted in The Expanse.

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Lol yea, dude is a capitalist, but I mean like... I still like him better than like... Joe Biden 🤮

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There's always russia and Isreal.

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I agree in principle, but in practice it’s tricky. You must have courts that are strong enough to throw out election results if foreign interference can be proven. This has recently happened in Romania, but there are also many examples in which these laws were meaningless. The US is the obvious case where the 2016 election result should have been thrown out, but nothing happened. For the Brexit vote I think some pretty meaningless fines were handed out.

Another question is what should happen with foreign interference that is not financial in nature. For instance, Musk speaking at AFD, or the Meta algorithms pushing political content.

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They're both a little busy at the moment. I don't think they have people to send to Greenland and Panama.

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Good on ya fellas. Don't allow our Orange Idiot fuck with you.

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I really do think that a war of bald faced imperial oligarchic aggression would trigger the collapse of the union.

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A non-serious campaign could use those funds to enrich themselves/others even with approved activities. They could pay for staff, buy signs, etc. and all those people & businesses would make money doing legitimate work for a campaign whose only purpose was to employ those people/businesses.

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Not if staff and signs were only provided by the government.

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Fair point, I assumed we were talking about US even though that wasn't strictly specified. I'm not Canadian so you probably know more than I would, but I'm pretty sure Canada has it's own systemic problems.

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They also should block Xitter altogether.

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Everyone should.

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Every country should just make the USA illegal. Nothing specific, just the USA in general.

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This should be banned everywhere by default.

Completely fucked the USA, and it'll do the same anywhere else it's not explicitly made illegal.

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Funny that when Georgia does it, it's anti-democratic.

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Pull your tongue out of Putin's arse.

Dogs do that.

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I assumed we were talking about US

Well, the article's about Greenland, but I guess Ameri-centrism is par for the course.

I’m pretty sure Canada has it’s own systemic problems.

Sure, but we have rules that don't allow donations foreign sources or companies, and pretty reasonable limits for individuals. We have definitely had donation scandals, but they've almost exclusively been because people are breaking the rules.

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TBH, that sounds even worse, and I am saying this as a fan of big government.

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Foreign and corporate. Anything over $2000 from an entity.

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Greenland plans to ban foreign political funding over Trump-led election fears