Corporates doesn't donate for charity

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

At the time, DoorDash’s campaign contributions in the run-up to the 2025 mayoral election were considered unusually large — it made a single $1 million gift to a super PAC that, at the time, was the largest donation in the race — and faced criticism from other candidates in the race. The food delivery giant’s settlement agreement, the largest worker settlement in the city’s history, brings further scrutiny to those donations.

Wow they cheaped out on lobbying as well paying their drivers ROFL.

Letting corporations have more political influence than actual voting citizens is one of the most fucked up things that's ever happened to democracy.

13 years is all it took for Citizens United to destroy democracy.

Quite honestly one of the most un-neccessarily cruel and evil companies of the last 15 years. Very glad that they are in the "find-out" stage now.

How the company still exists. The drivers hate it, the customer hates it, and restaurants hate it. How do they exist? 

What sucks is lobbying is just a bribe at this point.

The concept of "lobbying" originally came from a time where constituents would have to physically send people via horse & buggy to go to Washington, so they could stand in the lobby (hence, lobbying) of congress waiting for politicians to leave, so they could intercept them and try to speak to them on their issues.

Like, "We have a farm that sells animal feed, and these guys have a rancher farm that needs animal feed, if you approve a road that connects us, we can provide much more food and tax revenue."

Which the politicians in Washington would then discuss and approve/disapprove.

These were average joes who just scrounged up enough money to send someone to Washington on their behalf.

But that isn't modern day lobbying, which is just rich people giving money to campaigns, super PACs, or some kind of dark money organization, to push legislation their way.

Frankly, if we banned campaign donations and brought back actual lobbying, aka average joes being able to actually talk to politicians, the country would be in a much nicer place.

Like, part of Mamdani's appeal is his team actually listens to people on the ground level. Imagine if every politician had to at the very least listen to their constituents and not just rich donors. I'm not saying every little guy is inherently good or correct, but I absolutely trust someone who lives in a community for what to do about that community than rich assholes, who would never even be near that community. Especially this current batch of rich sociopaths.