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>...crap like this really fuels the republican fire. It feels unethical. It feels like yet another attempt to jam politics down my throat at every turn. Unders
by chroem- 9y ago
>...crap like this really fuels the republican fire. It feels unethical. It feels like yet another attempt to jam politics down my throat at every turn.
Understatement of the year. The fact that the Clinton campaign thought that it would be a good idea to create an online astroturfing group, and then tell the world about it like it was a brilliant idea, is what made me vote third party.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoThe fact that you didn't know that the Clinton campaign did no such thing contributed to our current situation.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoAnd the fact that GP still doesn't know to this day suggests our future is bleak. Democracy relies on an educated electorate. With that out of the way, using spam to educate the electorate as in this Tinder example or as in GP's imagined Clinton campaign rubs me the wrong way.
- chroem- 9y agoSure, it was a PAC, but to deny that it existed and the two had close ties is a gross misrepresentation of the truth. The amount of gaslighting by the old guard in the DNC to justify why they supposedly lost unfairly does not bode well for the next election. You need people to actually like you in order to win elections. You can't do that by selling out to big business, and then trying to smooth things over with billions in ads and outright sockpuppetry. Here, read up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record
- lern_too_spel 9y agoWhy don't you read your own link? Nowhere is there any evidence that they were astroturfing. All of their social media accounts were clearly marked as paid for by the PAC, just like the social media accounts of any other PAC, as required by FEC rules.