• workerONE@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Do records show that he donated to a progressive PAC? I thought they show a person with the same name donated but that the age was different

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      4 months ago

      Look at the timing - Jan 20th, 2021. The day Biden was sworn in.

      $15 is not much and could very well be him delivering on a bet over the election

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          4 months ago

          I mean it doesn’t sound like he has friends, but it is weird that a 16-17 year old would donate on his own. It feels like it would go through his parents. Did they give him a credit card or something? Was it cash?

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            Coudl have friends online, back when I was 16-17 thats how I was. Mind you im only friends with the ones Ive met IRL at this point but thats because my other groups imploded or went nuts for no reason.

            Arma ops group imploded because of a shit Zeus.

            And the EU4 group devolved into femcatboy roleplay server, which made me uncomfortable because most of them were like 30.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah that kind of struck me as a potential possibility. Maybe he bet someone that small amount that Biden wouldn’t actually be seated.

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      4 months ago

      The address on the filing has his street address and zip but the wrong city.

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        4 months ago

        Would be common to use the city of Pittsburgh for the suburb of Bethel Park:

        (have not looked into the guy nor his possible donations at all myself)

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      4 months ago

      Even if he donated those 15$ bucks, so what?

      Is the trick to try and convince people that becoming a democrat makes you crazy or something? That shit won’t stick at all, because he was a fucking national hero

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      4 months ago

      I fell into that initially as well, but I checked the FEC filing to get the address, then used the address to check property records, then went back and looked at the interviews with his folks to see their names for reference. The residence is that of his parents, so it seems to be him that donated.

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      4 months ago

      Look at people still arguing about this niggling little detail.

      The RW propaganda machine is powerful af.