Facebook is getting a really bad return on its PAC money today. Another reason to shut the thing down.https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/984079216785350658 …
I was being facetious. The hearings are theater; what PACs buy is legislation (or its absence).
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You realize that if PACs "bought" legislation, all we'd have to do to get the legislation we want would be to spend more. So why don't we? Because this is not, in fact, how things work. +
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Maybe at some point in the past, contributions could make a difference in a vote. That time is long over. There are very few "persuadable" members of Congress left on any issue. They come into office with their positions baked in. +
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