Stop ruining our dreams . <| sep |> This play calling is atrocious . We literally need inches for a fucking first down . Run the goddamn ball up the middle ! Sneak it ! <| sep |> Lol sure thing Mr . 2 Rapey <| sep |> Holy shit . So it automatically executes evasive maneuvers bc they spin an unbalanced object along the axis to give it stability and the lateral motion is just a super awesome freebie ? <| sep |> For the unaware . This is Athene <| sep |> Do you have an appropriate name connected to that address ? Odds are very good that no one noticed . Most foreign donations don ' t get caught . Some percent do , and he pays fines for this . Trump was just in the news for his total bill , and some of it was from perfectly normal shit like this some being the key word . Happens to every candidate . IIRC Bernie paid close to two mil in fines ? Something like that . Makes sense to me . It isn ' t practical to police the donations , as by definition they fall outside of our jurisdiction , so make the campaigns responsible for the money they take . From the campaign ' s perspective they now make a choice about how much they want to invest in assurance . Ultimately they ' ll decide on a certain level of investment that will prevent a certain level of illegal donations , and then accept a certain level of what they don ' t prevent having a financial cost associated with it . So we end up with a practical force that limits the problem to an acceptable level , while not being unduly costly to enforce . But I don ' t know that my facts and assumptions involved actually hold true . I ' ve seen data , but I haven ' t really looked at how it ' s compiled , and how accurate it really may be . In principle though , seems the right approach to me .