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Do they have to be viable candidates? I don't mind being in a permanent state of casual campaigning
by np_tedious 6y ago
Do they have to be viable candidates? I don't mind being in a permanent state of casual campaigning
- giancarlostoro 6y agoWe can even make a political party out of it where everyone in the party is a candidate.
- analognoise 6y agoThis has a very Slack vibe to it that I can dig.
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- analognoise 6y agoNo love for the Church of the SubGenious?
- giancarlostoro 6y agoI gave you an upvote in the previous comment because I knew what you were talking about mainly due to Slackware's reference to Church of SubGenious. I don't think many know what that is though. For those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
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- ObsoleteNerd 6y agoThe Privacy Party is born.
- app4soft 6y agoAll Aboard the Pirate Ship![0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party
- giancarlostoro 6y agoTo be fair the Pirate Party is very pro privacy for seemingly obvious reasons.
- yumraj 6y agoThat is indeed a great idea. Where and how do I sign up. It would be a great act of civil disobedience.
- closeparen 6y ago>An individual running for a seat in the House or Senate or for the office of U.S. President becomes a candidate when he or she raises or spends more than $5,000 in contributions or expenditures. One generally needs a certain number of petition signatures to appear on a ballot, but apparently not needed just to legally be a candidate. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-candidate/house-senate-president-candidate-registration/ https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registeri...
- Descartes1 6y agoDo you have to actually spend that $5000? Or can you just have it "raised"?
- aperrien 6y agoCreate a nonprofit to accept the "raised" contribution, and then swap it with another candidate in the pool for "consulting fees"...
- boredgamer2 6y ago> Create a nonprofit I like the enthusiasm, but this would get you slapped by the IRS (eventually). Any other ideas? Maybe if we just pay each other in a ring through a legal escrow? Everyone puts in $5,001, the escrow pays everyone back $5000.
- godelski 6y agoSo we start a party where we all sign to get each other on the ballot and donate to a pool that allocates $5k to each of us? Can this $5k just be moved around per candidate which counts as spending?
- voldacar 6y agoThis would become a problem if someone just joined the party with the intent of cashing out the 5k$ and leaving. Maybe you could fix this somehow with smart contracts? idk
- chrisco255 6y agoI nominate np_tedious for President, along with the rest of Hacker News.
- DrScump 6y agoI thought we were an autonomous collective.
- dredmorbius 6y agoSome of us are more autonomous than others. Some are more collective.
- StillBored 6y agoOh, that is great! I would like to add, just think of the chaos at the primaries if the act of declaring candidacy one also declares they are running for the R|D nomination. The voting machines can barely deal with 20 presidential candidates. Imagine what would happen if you had to thousands of people running for a congressional seat!