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Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by rhizome »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #10
nl wrote: post #4

If 2016 was the year 4chan won the US presidency maybe 2018 will be the year HN wins an election? Almost everyone quoted in this story is a well known HN account... It doesn’t help that Ceglowski is insistent on giving the candidates briefings on information security. He carries YubiKeys — hardware authentication devices that are the gold standard of two-factor authentication — with him to meetings with those running…

> If 2016 was the year 4chan won the US presidency maybe 2018 will be the year HN wins an election? I suppose it's possible, but I seriously doubt it. I live in Arkansas. I was born here, grew up here, and recently bought a house and moved back after living five years in Charlottesville, VA. While I'm not in Spencer's district I know several people who are. From my perspective, this article is going to be a millstone…

Stoneman High School and Roy Moore should be enough, not to mention Trump, do Arkansans like violence against children?

Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #19
ZeroGravitas wrote: post #8

Interesting article, shame to see the continuing pattern of demonising the DCCC for being pragmatic. If someone could unlock a way for idealists and pragmatists anywhere to the left of fascism to work together better then the government would far better reflect the views of the population (which, polling tells us, are all in line with the Democrat platform). It's only gamesmanship from the Republicans, and apathy fro…

> the population (which, polling tells us, are all in line with the Democrat platform) In Arkansas? Citation, please. Here, Democrats have to be very careful not to align themselves too closely with the social platform of the DNC, while Republicans have to dance around the issue of farm subsidies. > their [Republicans] unpopular ideas Yeah... about that. In Arkansas, our incumbent GOP governor has a single primary ch…

I was talking about the nation as a whole. Arkansas accounts for about 1% of that population but even there I think my point holds true.

There's measures and processes that can ensure politics better reflects the will of the people. I would guess that in Arkansas, like many other places, it's Republican's who are fighting against these things, and Democrats that are fighting for them. Why? Because the Democrats know that in general, the people support their policies, and the Republicans know in general, the people don't support theirs.

I just googled "Arkansas Voter Suppression" and found this recent story:

http://fortune.com/2017/03/25/arkansas-voter-id-law/

"Arkansas’ governor signed a measure Friday requiring voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot, reinstating a voter ID law that was struck down by the state’s highest court more than two years ago.

...

The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit that led to the previous law being stricken, said the latest measure raises the same concerns that voters will be disenfranchised. Holly Dickson, legal director for the ACLU of Arkansas, said the sworn statement provision in the latest law is an improvement but that the measure still will risk hurting voters.

“Of course we have concerns that voter ID is going to do harm because that’s been Arkansas’ experience so far with voter ID,” Dickson said."

Extreme primary challenges like you mention only really have an effect in first-past-the-post systems, because the party thinks it can win with 30% of the vote and has no need to reach across the aisle to work with the other 70% if they can get a small group motivated enough to vote. Obviously targetted voter suppression makes this even easier, while moves to require votes, or just make it easier to vote complicate it.

Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by nl »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #10
nl wrote: post #4

If 2016 was the year 4chan won the US presidency maybe 2018 will be the year HN wins an election? Almost everyone quoted in this story is a well known HN account... It doesn’t help that Ceglowski is insistent on giving the candidates briefings on information security. He carries YubiKeys — hardware authentication devices that are the gold standard of two-factor authentication — with him to meetings with those running…

> If 2016 was the year 4chan won the US presidency maybe 2018 will be the year HN wins an election? I suppose it's possible, but I seriously doubt it. I live in Arkansas. I was born here, grew up here, and recently bought a house and moved back after living five years in Charlottesville, VA. While I'm not in Spencer's district I know several people who are. From my perspective, this article is going to be a millstone…

I think at some point any Democratic candidate is going to have to address the "they are supported by Californian liberals" issue.

If they could get people to read the article they'd quickly note the bit about how he didn't get support from the DNC...

Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by ux500 »

baldeagle wrote: post #5

I know some people running for public office. Can't even get them to use Signal, much less a dongle. I would welcome an Intro to Privacy for Campaigns MOOC though; maybe that would teach them? Are there any concise refernces for how to securely communicate yet remain flexible and welcoming?

https://www.belfercenter.org/CyberPlaybook

Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by RickJWagner »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #10
nl wrote: post #4

If 2016 was the year 4chan won the US presidency maybe 2018 will be the year HN wins an election? Almost everyone quoted in this story is a well known HN account... It doesn’t help that Ceglowski is insistent on giving the candidates briefings on information security. He carries YubiKeys — hardware authentication devices that are the gold standard of two-factor authentication — with him to meetings with those running…

> If 2016 was the year 4chan won the US presidency maybe 2018 will be the year HN wins an election? I suppose it's possible, but I seriously doubt it. I live in Arkansas. I was born here, grew up here, and recently bought a house and moved back after living five years in Charlottesville, VA. While I'm not in Spencer's district I know several people who are. From my perspective, this article is going to be a millstone…

I have no idea why people down-vote this post.

Yeesh. Some people.

Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by LyndsySimon »

RickJWagner wrote: post #25
LyndsySimon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If 2016 was the year 4chan won the US presidency maybe 2018 will be the year HN wins an election? I suppose it's possible, but I seriously doubt it. I live in Arkansas. I was born here, grew up here, and recently bought a house and moved back after living five years in Charlottesville, VA. While I'm not in Spencer's district I know several people who are. From my perspective, this article is going to be a millstone…

I have no idea why people down-vote this post. Yeesh. Some people.

Now that this has fallen off the front page, I'll go ahead and mention - if people have downvoted that comment, an equal number have upvoted it. Its score is "1 point".

Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by [deleted] »

kevinburke wrote: post #14
baldeagle wrote: post #5

I know some people running for public office. Can't even get them to use Signal, much less a dongle. I would welcome an Intro to Privacy for Campaigns MOOC though; maybe that would teach them? Are there any concise refernces for how to securely communicate yet remain flexible and welcoming?

Yes, here. https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm

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Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by nl »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #27
RickJWagner wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea why people down-vote this post. Yeesh. Some people.

Now that this has fallen off the front page, I'll go ahead and mention - if people have downvoted that comment, an equal number have upvoted it. Its score is "1 point".

And I'm at -2, but I'm pretty sure that's just the 4chan alt-right people who get annoyed at being called out. Shurg

You must be getting downvotes too, because I upvoted you.

Re: Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates

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Post by lzy »

idlewords wrote: post #13
baldeagle wrote: post #5

I know some people running for public office. Can't even get them to use Signal, much less a dongle. I would welcome an Intro to Privacy for Campaigns MOOC though; maybe that would teach them? Are there any concise refernces for how to securely communicate yet remain flexible and welcoming?

This is the training outline we use: https://techsolidarity.org/resources/congressional_howto.htm...

> Use Google Chrome as your default browser on your laptop. We should have installed this and set it up during the training. Avoid Safari and Firefox.

Why the advice to avoid Firefox for non-techies?

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