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They can choose to take the money and not do whatever it is Musk is telling them to do.

This is the absolute black-and-white with-us-or-against-us purity spiral that I've been criticizing this whole thread. If you're going to refuse to support a Democrat the moment he strays slightly from your perfect ideal, even by association rather than by any actual action, then you're useless when it comes to helping America's political disaster. You just keep screaming "Nazi, nazi, nazi!" And provide no actual benefit.

This discussion well and truly Godwinned.

And so Musk can instantly and trivially get you to drop your support for any Democrat he wants to. He decides who you vote for.

You're saying choose the lesser of two Nazis.

When you have only two choices, then yes choose the lesser Nazi. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. You think it's appropriate to chose the greater Nazi?

And you're worth talking to? You're fine with handing a vote to a Republican based on nothing other than where the funding for the Democrat's campaign came from.

As I pointed out above, the US is a two-party system. You pick one or you pick the other. You're picking the Republicans. Good luck with that.

The "and orders" part is something you're assuming.

He's buying a Democrat into power.

If Musk donated money to an animal shelter would you conclude that puppies must be evil? Look at what's being done, not who it's being done by.

You really strongly believe in Citizens United, I guess? A dollar means nothing. It's something you exchange for goods and services. If Musk gives a dollar to a Democratic candidate, he's simply empowering that candidate. It's not some kind of evil spell that instantly contaminates the candidate.

Sheesh, no wonder American politics is such an irredeemable mess of authoritarianism.