Lol you posting this is what was always meant to happen, same as how I am here and read your comment and replied.

No, you owe me a million dollars! Remember that small loan I gave you?

1984 is wayyy too exaggerated. We don’t need to force people to have a “telescreen” if everyone just voluntarily spend their own resources to obtain them. (Eg: Smart Home Assistants) We don’t need to have a “ministry of truth” when people voluntarily believe in lies spread on news and social media. (Eg: Various Facebook groups, “QAnon”, Fox News)

Plot twist: In this alternate timeline, you go bankrupt for spending all your life savings on gambling

What’s your favorite Subreddit?

/s (why are you asking about proprietary corporate platforms on an open source platform?)

Don’t worry, the 28th amendment was passed officially annexing canada, and grants “Natural Born Citizen” status to all former citizens and residents of Canada, age restrictions were also waived. Everything is fine.

1 million in BTC not 1 million USD converted to BTC, is what I meant

Lol the person I replied to said it as in 1 million in whatever currency they proposed. Not as in 1 million USD converted to that currency. Unless I misread that?

Why not make it Bitcoin? Worth much more 😈

They stop giving you money, spend it on helping your opponent win. Manipulate congress to impeach you. Also they can blackmail you since you technically took a bribe, you just didn’t honor your end of the deal. Realistically, it wouldn’t be the rich person himself/herself talking to you about it, but someone that works for them. They can have one of their goons admit bribing you and they can exchange their testimoney against you for their immunity against prosecution. They might’ve made a secret recording of the conversation, but conviently left out the part of which wealthy billionaire they’re working for. You might not even know the identity of which billionaire, all of the interaction could be through messengers.

Maybe you got a cabinet position for… um idk… Secretary of Agriculture because the president knew you and decided to appoint you for some reason? And then he/she and the VP both got involved in a huge scandal or something and everyone else in the line of succession were fired by the president for snitching on him/her regarding the scandal, then you are now the next in line?

(Don’t think too hard, it’s a hypothetical 😉)

Something highly unethical, but no direct killings or anything. (Think de-regulating oil industry, directing IRS to not audit their taxes even if there’s high suspicion, etc.)

Bribing a congress person is only 1 of many votes. Bribing the president give you control over 1/3 of government, all nominations to executive departments, judicial nominations, and executive orders. I mean obviously 1 million isn’t even a lot, I’m just trying to see how desparate are Lemmy users for money. I mean you can up the offer to 100 million per year for the president and still cheaper than 1 million per year per congress person for at least 51 senators, and 218 representatives. Even a 200 million offer is still cheaper than bribing congress. And 1 million isn’t gonna be acceptable to some of the congress members who aren’t that in need of money.

Only if you are not such a bright person and accepted it.

They know it’s a low amount and are trying to see if their potential new puppet is dumb enough to accept it.

This is assuming you just become president with your current status of wealth. Maybe the internet made a meme and decided elect you “for the lulz”, maybe the electors just don’t care, maybe mass hysteria, divine intervention, doesn’t matter. In this hypothetical; You suddently become president, this is a question of whether you give a shit about ethics (or if you even have a moral compass at all).

I’m thinking of like a scenario where Congress doesn’t lean either side, and a good law narrowly passed congress, and they want you to veto it. Also appoint their list of nominees for executive departments, courts. Using your position to push their propaganda, basically selling your self to be their puppet. Would you just ignore morals and get rich being a corrupt politician?

Why get only 400k when you can have more? 😈

I would, but my instance disabled downvotes, and I’m too lazy to move to another instance.

Guess you need to sort by Hot