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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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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