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1. Three-alist 🌲 (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 09:07:58 JST Three-alist 🌲
   In the last 5 years alone, the 200 most politically active companies in the U.S. spent $5.8 billion influencing our government with lobbying and campaign contributions.
   
   Those same companies got $4.4 trillion in taxpayer support — earning a return of 750 times their investment.
   
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   • Three-alist 🌲 (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 09:11:58 JST Three-alist 🌲

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     One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

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   • lonely ranger (lonelyranger@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 20:57:46 JST lonely ranger

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     @threalist the phrase the elites control the country is true. They just keep proving it. The save meh democracy people don’t realize we like in a republic.
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