The Powerball jackpot's at $1.55 billion. Immediate cash value is $679 million. Certainly not enough to abolish all of the police, but after taxes, we could perhaps try to bribe the city of Atlanta double the amount of the police budget in exchange for abolishing their department. Unfortunately, (1) they'd never take the deal and (2) we'd be murdered by either the police or the feds or at least indicted for sponsoring terrorism. Therefore we'll need to save some of the money for security that can't be infiltrated and lawyers and/or judges to have our backs.
What, then? Fund every Stop Cop City org beyond their wildest dreams? Saturate the airwaves? Buy a few city councilors?
Since the odds of winning are 1-in-292.2 million, we should just donate to an active org directly instead of wasting our two dollars, obviously. But what the hell. I saw the jackpot and couldn't help wondering what it could do in the right hands.
I mean they already are using RICO on the protestors so they'd just add you in to the "conspiracy"
Right. So how to use the funds as quickly as possible, before your assets are frozen?
I think you'd have to spend it in a way where you'd get the state working against itself.
It may not be the most effective, dollar for dollar, but you could buy ads and blanket the airwaves and fund some think tanks to start moving the Overton window.
That way, you'd have people wanting to get the money, who could apply pressure to the government to keep the money flowing.
This assumes however that they just all don't refuse to take the money. Accepting it may jeopardize other revenue streams that are more "safe"
If you could get some right wing meme / conspiracy theories going that would be counter to the cop city plan, like "cop city will be used to train national guard units in Biden's Jade Helm style invasion of Texas" or something, it would be delightful
Wait you might be on to something we should do that anyway
it could genuinely be as easy as making the memes and posting them with burner accounts to reddit
Maybe buy the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (from one of Cop City's most important funders), and hide all leftism until the newspaper is in our control.
Just move all the money out of USA into a Swiss bank account or some other neutral/enemy state of the US first
A covert slant drilling operation under cop city to undermine the structure to the point of collapse. I call it The Boring Company
see if you can buy some manpads from the slava ukrainy crowd, I hear there's a fire sale on NATO hardware
I don't know about the cop city specifically, but what if someone were to buy commercial slots on every major TV network and fill them up with jury nullification PSAs expressing the idea specifically that juries are, regardless of what the law and evidence says, under no obligation to side with landlords during eviction trials, throw people into prison for using drugs, or side with cops during police brutality trials?
Pay a bunch of Instagram and TikTok influencers a few thousand each to make a series of informational ads.
Sponsor some popular YouTube creators. “A big thank you to our sponsor of today’s video: Stop Cop City”
Buy some troll farm labour and flood Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter with thousands of ‘organic sounding’ posts and memes against it.
Use their own methods against them.
Pay necessary third-party contractors like Accident Fund Insurance to drop their contracts with Cop City. I don't feel like that feels good, but it would get us there.
IMO, the only real chance to put the money into good use without getting caught before you spend it all (ie they freeze your account or something) is to make the site completely uninhabitable. Like, you use the money to buy the nearest factory and purposely vent toxic or at least rancid smelling gases to give the pigs lung cancer. You could spend the money to buy the closest property and begin to dig tunnels below Cop City in order to undermine its foundations.
you could probably irradiate the whole site for the price of an SUV
You could probably just buy the police department and close it down.
Maybe try to buy the land at a super high price that the city would be dumb to refuse?
Become NORINCO and give RPGs to crips and bloods to invade the location, duh
