America's most prominent legislative critic of Facebook runs hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of ads on Facebook asking for money that she then spends on Facebook ads asking for money, and I don't understand any of it. I think 90% of this morass just runs on autopilot
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I'm 100% on board with the idea of running within a broken system to reform it; it's the circularity of the endeavor that I can't wrap my head around. These Facebook ads really do just raise money to cover the cost of running themselves
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It's like financing a HELP ME KEEP THIS PYRE BURNING sign in 100 foot letters of flaming kerosene while promising to break up Standard Oil
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Cognitive dissonance. Once someone has donated, they will almost surely vote for you.
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She's in a D+29 district
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Fundraising for other candidates, I would think. She doesn’t need it, and her star power helps them.
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She fundraises for herself and is not allowed to give to other candidates (past a $2,800 limit)
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The more money that is raised by politicians by systems like this means they have to spend less time calling for donations. She can say to the DMC I raised X amount so don't need to call donors.
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What could be more on brand here than spending the full budget to create no meaningful value before going back out to ask for more budget? :)
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