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.

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    1 year ago

    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 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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.