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by mhh__ 2007 days ago
They're actually illegal in the UK (although the web seems to be a huge grey area) - I can't imagine how fucked the country would be if we had those kinds of spending and broadcasting rules.
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Speaking on behalf of US residents:

We can imagine it.

At this point the most successful grassroots political movement of the last several years acted on behalf of a dictatorial head of state and took guns into state capitols to explicitly threaten state-level politicians in order to convince them to give everybody a deadly virus. And is threatening to do the same to the national legislature in a couple weeks in order to convince them to create a new category of President For Life.