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I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign

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Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign

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Post by wjsdj2009 »

mananaysiempre wrote: post #20
wjsdj2009 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not familiar with the situation you’re referring to, but my experience was different. From my side, the collaboration was positive and genuinely respectful. Just wanted to share another perspective.

That isn’t necessarily “different”. Someone with truly horrifying opinions can be genuinely respectful and pleasant to work with, unless you fall into the wrong social group. (I know nothing about this guy’s opinions and don’t have much reason to care, either, I just feel the need to point out how people tend to overestimate the alignment between “nice people” and “people I agree with”. Much as they do the one betwee…

@mananaysiempre I completely agree with your point.

Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign

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Post by wjsdj2009 »

roetlich wrote: post #19

Interesting! The article talks mostly about how this all worked, but rarely about what was actually discussed. Which opinions of the party do you like or support?

Thanks for the question!

I’d prefer not to dive into policy positions here — the main focus of my post was the product-building process and what it was like to work behind the scenes.

Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign

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Post by lawn »

wjsdj2009 wrote: post #11
deaux wrote: post #8

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I’m not familiar with the situation you’re referring to, but my experience was different. From my side, the collaboration was positive and genuinely respectful. Just wanted to share another perspective.

Thousands of serial rapists, murderers, and abusers also have the ability to be very positive, funny, and genuinely respectful to others when they choose to.

Would you like to share another perspective for them too?

Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign

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Post by davidw »

deaux wrote: post #8

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Who you work with certainly matters, but it does show that it's incredibly easy to get a foot in the door with a lot of political things.

People complain so much about politics as being this completely foreign and detached thing. But it's not if you put a bit of effort into it.

Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign

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Post by mothballed »

davidw wrote: post #28
deaux wrote: post #8

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Who you work with certainly matters, but it does show that it's incredibly easy to get a foot in the door with a lot of political things. People complain so much about politics as being this completely foreign and detached thing. But it's not if you put a bit of effort into it.

Well yeah of course it's not hard to get involved in politics, if the involvement is supporting people who are rich and powerful even if it is via the use of a more modest looking young mouthpiece. OP was supporting a conservative party, so basically going with the flow of a bunch of what a bunch of influential and rich people wanted as their pawn. If you have something that is of little consequence to the rich, like mothers against drunk driving or something, sure you can probably get it done as it's a token gesture and the powerful just pull strings to get out of those prosecution anyways.

If you look at actually trying to move the meter away from the status quo of the rich and powerful, rather than just repainting the pieces on the chess board, you see politicians like Bernie Sanders or Ron Paul found the whole thing rigged against them. Bernie was railroaded by the upper echelons of his own party and Ron Paul found his name magically erased from practically all the talks on the high level debates in the press to the point they would just skip over his name in the primary poll rankings.

Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign

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Post by skybrian »

skybrian wrote: post #24

Here is the politician’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jun-seok

These parts jumped out:

> He has been noted for his staunch antifeminism and support from South Korean idaenam (young men).

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> He became popular in the 20s and 30s due to his opposing stance against political correctness such as "faux feminism," introducing reforms supporting meritocracy rather than outright equality of outcome.

I know only a little about Korean politics, enough to know that it’s very dramatic with wild stuff happening, but not really to understand it. From the outside, the politics around feminism there seems rather strange.

> Lee was an early proponent of the finger pinching conspiracy theory, a claim alleging hidden radical feminist messaging in advertisements

Speaking of strange.

> Lee's advocacy of merit-based processes such as exam scores, credentials, and measurable qualifications has been viewed by supporters as aligning with younger voters' expectations of fair competition.

I suppose all the political content was left out of the linked article, but it would be nice to have more context.

Also, looks like he’s at least somewhat technical:

> After graduating from Harvard University in 2007, Lee returned to Korea to perform military duties working as a software developer (alternative military service as industrial technical personnel) at 'Innotive', an image browsing software startup, a subsidiary of Nexon.

> After completing his national service, Lee prepared to start his own venture. He received funding from the venture startup program backed by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups on 5 August 2011 and founded Classe Studio: an ed-tech startup that developed personalized tutoring software and workplace training applications.

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