Great technical work, horrible candidate
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
#52Earlier 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…
> Bernie was railroaded by the upper echelons of his own party Bernie Sanders is an Independent, he doesn't have a party.
I see you've disregarded I used past tense in regard to his 'railroading' and then changed the tense, which I find underhanded. To bring it to a more plain level, he , at a prior time, under his more notable POTUS bids, ran on the Democratic ticket.
What's also worth pointing out is that the person Democratic upper echelon nominated, without even a primary, the last election was someone who did so abysmally in the popular primaries that she was at single digit percents yet magically got installed as the POTUS contendor without even a a vote. When you consider our voting system is set up that writing a candidate in is essentially throwing your vote away, a popular primary does not even happen (imperfect as it may be), in practice the two parties are operating as bureaucrats of in-party members who are giving you a choice of two people that represent the in-party elite albeit with some different kinds and volumes of scraps tossed to the general populace.
And for the most part, our founding fathers warned us of exactly this.
Re: 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
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seconded. Political campaigns are fun. And if you're not sure it's for you, start by volunteering for a local campaign.
I can't wait to volunteer after my 8AM-5PM job at a non-paid position, IN POLITICS!
Then it's not for you. Doesn't mean only unemployed people find something like this not just desirable, but actually rewarding.
Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
#55Earlier 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…
>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.
You've quoted a single sentence then ignored the second paragraph where I explained things even Jon Stewart famously pointed out:
https://youtu.be/SqRt8Lbk5eY?t=387
It's easy to "fail to see" when you do not look.
Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
#56> ... 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…
For anyone out of the loop, Edwards was caught in an infidelity scandal and his candidacy collapsed. OP didn’t do such a bad job with IT that the campaign failed lol
Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 cre…
I wasn't discussing 'the presidency'. I'm saying it's easy to get involved - especially so for the local races that matter more to most people's lives in any case, where things like zoning and school curriculums are decided, or where money either gets invested to further fossil fuel infrastructure or for cleaner things like bikes, walking and transit.
Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
#58Interesting! 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.
You write:
> I want to see what it would look like if someone like this had more power and responsibility.
You were attracted to his campaign because of his policy positions, which most people see as dangerous and offensive.
Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
#59Here is the politician’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jun-seok
This politician is basically a Korean knockoff of Charlie Kirk.
In his 40s, touring the country "debating" college kids. Selling middle-school level economic arguments that appeal to online community addicts.
Basically a spokesman for the "I tell it like it is" crowd.
Re: I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
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Do you have links to back up your claims? The only context I have is that the OP helped a right-of-center political candidate in his country of origin.