The incessant begging emails are the product of many decades of direct-mail advertising techniques, where different kinds of appeals are tried, the results of each are carefully tabulated and compared, the least successful are eliminated and the most successful are refined. The overall effect is to converge upon approaches that appeal most strongly to the least common denominator. Most potential small dollar donors are totally baffled by the byzantine complexities of US politics.
The collision of the internet, direct mail techniques, and the simple-minded political perspective of the target audience produces the results you see in these emails. It doesn't do any good to feel insulted. The pols are just captive to the need to find the most efficient way to raise money and, for now, this is what works best.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Does it do good to do anything, Aimless? Sometimes I wonder about who are the cynical and nihilistic ones.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
seriously
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
as I understand it Gorsuch is actually surprisingly good on American Indian rights issues, he consistently rules in their favor
he's LDS, Mormons have a whole thing with regard to Native Americans
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
or wait no he's presbyterian??? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/02/01/neil-gorsuch-belongs-to-a-notably-liberal-church-and-would-be-the-first-protestant-on-the-court-in-years/
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
as I understand it Gorsuch is actually surprisingly good on American Indian rights issues, he consistently rules in their favorβ Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, June 30, 2022 5:12 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
β Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, June 30, 2022 5:12 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah it's his thing
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-tribal-rights-sonia-sotomayor.html
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
he must be charles m. russell collector or something
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
he is the only western judge on the supreme court right now fwiw
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
Sometimes the appeals are for people to show up. Perhaps the pollsters are thinking of disposable income and disposable time and weighing their appeals accordingly. Apathy is hard to escape. Most people don't expect an effect and come to weigh and parcel out their contributions or efforts to when enough people feel the same or they can ride a common sentiment and not stick out. (xpost)
― youn, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
I think Trump's politics have been described as transactional and the most corrupt governments might be considered the same. There is a notion of giving for a cause or belief that is distinct from a direct payback for survival.
― youn, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
Is there a sudden spate of decorating walls with dripping ketchup or similar condiment. Is there a specific canonical ketchup one needs to base things on ?
― Stevolende, Friday, 1 July 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Looks like the hearings are having some effect:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/gop-megadonors-turn-on-trump-look-for-2024-alternatives-after-jan-6-hearings.html
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 July 2022 09:57 (one year ago) link
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1912-09-23/ed-1/seq-29/?loclr=blogloc
"Commoners' food"; also mustard, with cheese in Ulysses IIRC; ~= false embellishment
― youn, Friday, 1 July 2022 10:22 (one year ago) link
Biden stated that he wanted to overturn the filibuster and codify abortion rights.
Is that news?
― the pinefox, Friday, 1 July 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
So what are we calling the July thread?
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 1 July 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link
Orange Jesus Take the Wheel (just kidding)
― Am I doomposting? I would say youβre not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Friday, 1 July 2022 12:17 (one year ago) link
"I'm the effing president"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 July 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
so i've been trying to do something with this overwhelming anger i've felt over the last few weeks, months, years and was hoping to do more in local criminal justice. does anyone know of databases that store crime, charges, age of accused etc?
― Heez, Friday, 1 July 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
We. Would. CRY.: US Politics, July 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 July 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link