This is a beautifully ironic thread, since Ball's grift in 2018 was to pay herself a six-figure salary for the "People's House Project" while giving the progressive campaigns she was notionally fundraising a few thousand bucks at most. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article210775574.html …https://twitter.com/krystalball/status/1242852383920701442 …
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Don't trust anyone in punditry who has figured out how to transform your outrage into a personal income stream. It is not in their interest to win power. All the progressive podcasts and NGOs will thrive under a second Trump term. Find and help the people who want to win!
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Replying to @Pinboard
Serious question: is the Great Slate any better just because you don't personally grift it? Is ActBlue not grifting through it? Does ActBlue not benefit from the same outrage machine? They are also the mechanism of a large segment of the outrage economy. What differentiates?
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The Great Slate is way better because the entirety of donations are passed through to the several campaigns. I have no idea whether ActBlue earns enough to keeps the lights on, or all drives late-model Mercedes. But they are payment infrastructure, not an outrage driver.
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That feels like a difference only by degree. Google spends massive amounts of money to get & keep people online because they know their dominant advertising business will see a huge benefit. ActBlue benefits financially (admittedly to a smaller degree) from increased outrage.
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For example, the 2017 salary for their executive director is 2.5x more than 2014. That's not because her work is that much better or voluminous. It's because their revenue is 11x what it was. The difference between PHP and ActBlue sure seems like margin vs volume to me.
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That's not to say I endorse either grifts. Quite the contrary. I think the Great Slate is giving a thin, undeserved veneer of legitimacy to ActBlue's grift. I'd love to contribute but I follow your advice re: outrage and I don't donate through ActBlue.
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I would love to find an alternative as well
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