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.
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
They'll just build it in another area though