I wrote about the Great Slate and how tech workers are trolling each other on Twitter into giving to progressive campaigns. The candidates I spoke to — populist underdogs in economically-straitened Republican-leaning districts — called it a lifelinehttps://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17092684/great-slate-fundraising-congressional-campaign …
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Candidates only had good things to say about
@Pinboard but when I told them that he had described himself as a "random computer guy from San Francisco" making a "shady" pitch and forcing them to learn to use YubiKeys, they basically all started laughinghttps://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17092684/great-slate-fundraising-congressional-campaign …Afficher cette discussion -
Something that struck me was that a campaign spokesperson told me that they could spend a whole day at a fundraiser and raise $1000. The median income of their district is 39,000. The other day they woke up and found $1000 in their ActBlue account, thanks to Twitter.
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Marginal amounts of money mean life or death for campaigns that are going door to door in the most disaffected parts of their districts, talking to potential voters about Medicare for all, alternative banking, the DREAM Act, and more.
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The *expanding brain* counter-take on this is that moneyed techies are influencing elections outside of their respective districts, my *galaxy brain* counter-counter-take is that this is a strong data point in favor of the Lessig proposal for campaign finance reform —
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Relatively small amounts of money can completely change the substantive political conversation around the midterms. Making an underdog campaign minimally viable will make it so that the things that could never be said are being said.
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Anyways! This was a fun and headspinning foray into a subject area that's not my beat, now back to our regularly scheduled tech nonsense
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I acknowledge this is a possibility! https://twitter.com/ridethecatbus/status/971831515322703874 …
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the brains keep expandinghttps://twitter.com/tqbf/status/971832834871758848 …
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I am taking wildly disproportionate delight in knowing that 100 grand was raised for candidates ESR hates by the simple expedient of mocking him.
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"he then ranted about some other stuff to me but it was not pertinent" That could describe most interactions with ESR.
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I bounced right out of a session at a tech conference recently when it started quoting ESR on community development philosophies; hadn't realised how strong my allergy had become
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Oh god that dude
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giggling intensifies
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Dumb question... who is ESR?
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I’m sure
@tbqf would have something to say about that.
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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