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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 davidw »

mothballed wrote: post #29
davidw wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's incredibly easy to get involved with people like Mamdani or Seattle's Katie Wilson or so many others, if that's your political angle. The same is true on the other side.

We should be encouraging people to be more involved. That helps shape outcomes.

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

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Post by potato3732842 »

lawn wrote: post #27
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.

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?

Louis CK and Genghis Khan were both very effective in their respective lines of work and I'll die on that hill. And while I'm at it, Bill Clinton was an alright president (though the surrounding administration would likely be looked at as a bunch of snakes if not for the even worse Bush2 cabinet that followed).

Heck, Lincoln wanted to ship 'em back to Africa and Henry Ford was a moralizing anti-semite. Nobody is clean under a microscope.

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

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Post by lacoolj »

> ... and to find out whether things like this happen in other countries as well.

I didn't DM anyone, and I didn't run the campaign, but there happened to be the John Edwards campaign HQ near me so I walked inside and said I could help do their IT, next day I was a full-on volunteer.

They took me to Charleston for a rally (which was cool cuz I never been) and even got me a jacket with my name and the campaign logo on it. Was pretty nifty at the time.

Few months later they hired me and sent me to New Hampshire for the primary.

Wasn't long after that that we were no longer in the running, but was great experience.

Highly recommend more young people attempt cold walk-ins/calls/DMs like this article mentions.

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

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Post by euroderf »

lacoolj wrote: post #33

> ... and to find out whether things like this happen in other countries as well. I didn't DM anyone, and I didn't run the campaign, but there happened to be the John Edwards campaign HQ near me so I walked inside and said I could help do their IT, next day I was a full-on volunteer. They took me to Charleston for a rally (which was cool cuz I never been) and even got me a jacket with my name and the campaign logo on…

Seconded. Political campaigns are fun. And if you're not sure it's for you, start by volunteering for a local campaign.

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

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Post by deaux »

baiac wrote: post #18
deaux wrote: post #8

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Not entirely sure how conservatism is related to either - DOGE is far removed from conservativsm, and the second topic I talked about is even less related to it.

Both are views by the politician from this politican who this entire article is about, sounds pretty related to me.

Very strange downvotes as well, not used to that here. I guess they'll remain now that above has been flagged.

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

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Post by deaux »

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.

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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 mothballed »

davidw wrote: post #31
mothballed wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's incredibly easy to get involved with people like Mamdani or Seattle's Katie Wilson or so many others, if that's your political angle. The same is true on the other side. We should be encouraging people to be more involved. That helps shape outcomes.

Katie Wilson's claim to fame is doing the bidding of rich and powerful King County Metro union gang / alias "ATU" for the purposes of using exploitive taxes to take from the population of Seattle (who have infamously been fleeced on massive gouged public transit construction costs) and reshuffle the money to cushy transit union lobby and their benefactors so their precious fiefdom would not be downsized. She then created a payroll tax to enrich rich contractors to create a tiny amount of "affordable housing" (buzz word used to enrich construction contractors at public cost) for a select few. She is basically a shining beacon of a mouthpiece for the rich and powerful as they are all too happy to be the benefactors of her tax policies that largely socialize costs and privatize the earnings albeit under a false flag of helping the poor.

Mamdani has been legally barred from the Presidency, the position we are discussing. He simply cannot. In fact, I suspect that is part of the reason why Trump has been so weirdly chum with him, he's simply not a threat for the presidency and never will be.

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

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Post by mercanlIl »

mothballed wrote: post #29
davidw wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>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.

I fail to see how it’d be any more difficult to get involved in politics for candidates that don’t meet this criteria.

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