A ton of progressives are now arguing that ActBlue, which has life or death power over a campaign, can do whatever it wants because it’s a private platform, while those same people pound away at platforms like Facebook for their decisions. Please pick a principle. Which is it?? https://twitter.com/Aaron4KS37/status/1298357644311355392 …
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Replying to @ryangrim
When ActBlue etc. inevitably destroys the campaign of actual good progressive candidates without unacceptable baggage, wake me up. Until then, shut the fuck up about this kid. He fucking sucks and you're making us look bad continuing to talk about this embarrassment.
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Replying to @SoyBoyDeluxe @ryangrim
The worry is that they start with this, then next cycle it’s someone slightly less bad. Offenses on the level of, like, Bloomberg. Then the next cycle it’s someone like alex Morse
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Replying to @Touchdown_al @ryangrim
That was the entire point of my comment; I know it will inevitably happen. But dredging this up for this particular kid is a losing prospect. Have to wait for it to happen to someone that's actually decent in order to get outraged. Otherwise it looks bad.
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Because let's be clear here: No matter how people holler and rail against this, it happened. It was always going to happen. Much better to save our outrage for when it inevitably happens again. They're going to bring up how ppl were so eager to defend a misogynist on this.
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You don't have to consider the personal moraliry of Aaron Coleman if you just reject the idea that a private corporation should be able to eliminate a political campaign on principle. This is actually really clear.
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Replying to @DeaThShiNoBi403 @SoyBoyDeluxe and
Furthermore, I think the "saving outrage" argument is hollow. If you don't want to get outraged over this on principle, then you're implicitly conceding that it's ok for a corporation to destroy a political campaign, and people will use that whiplash against us when it matters.
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Replying to @DeaThShiNoBi403 @SoyBoyDeluxe and
ActBlue isn't a neutral carrier like an ISP or a payment processor in any sense Look at the name, look at the basic nature of what it is -- it's a partisan PAC, it's supposed to support the Democratic Party and "progressive causes"
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Indeed, as a nonprofit org that takes donations based on its mission statement, it not only CAN drop fundraisers if it feels they don't align with "progressive values", it HAS TO
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DeaThShiNoBi403 and
But in any case you can't possibly say it's just supposed to be a payment platform for political candidates and otherwise be "neutral" If it were then why can't Republicans use it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DeaThShiNoBi403 and
Can't he just get a Paypal account or something?
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