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If I have to see Walz or Obama one more time saying they “need” my donation I am gonna lose it.

NO YOU DON’T! THAT’S WHAT YOUR DONORS ARE FOR!

Fucking thieves and charlatans.

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bernie's lasting legacy: massively increasing the fleecing of suckers for small political donations. the Chris Roberts of politics

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

That really pissed me off. Imagine if they used those ads for agitation and education for basic socialist concepts. What a waste of a campaign

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I just saw that The ADF spent $60mil on recruitment ads last year, and I'm really struggling with this information :s fuckers

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

Right? How much is Barry even worth, now? Why doesn't Nancy throw down 100m for the most important election of our lives? Fuck them.

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago
[-] dukedevin@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

me posting on /mutualaid ~~(this is a cry for help)~~

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Why would I give them money? I could buy weed with that money...

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

The lib part of my brain had an idea. What if you could set up campaign donation funds that only get relesed to the candidate for certain policy promises ( i mean they can just break them). Im imagining crowdfunding some sort of "stop the genocide" campaign fund that grows as people donate and is only donated once the candidate vocally supports x policies, or say 'condemn the genocide using the word 'genocide'. If candidate doesnt do the thing everyones money gets refunded.

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Isn't that basically just a PAC with a refund option if it doesn't pay a candidate? Could be good if you could get enough participation.

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah probably 🤷 idk how shit works im just a faceless internet voice.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

under current conditions, whatever person or committee has the power to make the call on compliance (did politician fulfill promise?) would probably get bought off

having strong flashbacks to the cynical bad faith "fact-checkers" at WaPo during the 2020 primary

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

I mean yeah the current conditions are easily fucked. Would probably only be useful for like one thing before it coopted into uselessness

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