The progressive card game company is paying new voters who come up with plans and disparage Donald Trump online.
The company behind the game Cards Against Humanity is aiming to one-up Elon Musk with its plan to pay blue-leaning swing-state residents who make voting plans and agree to publicly condemn Donald Trump.
The company announced an initiative Tuesday to encourage people who didn’t vote in 2020 to go to the polls this year by handing out up to $100.
On a website created by the game company, eligible voters are asked to provide their personal information, which is then checked against voter data that the company said it bought from a data broker. “You wouldn’t believe how easy it was for us to get this stuff,” the website said.
If eligible voters didn’t vote in 2020, Cards Against Humanity offers them a payout, provided they write apologies for not having voted four years ago, create voting plans and publicly post “Donald Trump is a human toilet.” If the voters lean blue and live in swing states, they can earn more money.
According to the website, over 1,700 eligible voters have already participated.
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It’s satire, and it’s borderline genius. The actual campaign text would probably change your opinion, it is very deliberately telling people to tweet about how it should be illegal. They give you exact text to post about how it should be illegal. It’s the opposite of normalizing. Ostracizing? Idk
ETA: one of the many other things I like about it is they explain very succinctly how it works. Form a SuperPAC, buy the data from a data broker, act barely (but strictly) within the law. It really feels like one of the few serious pushes back I’ve seen, it’s way more positive than you’re thinking.
It’s not satire if they actually pay people. It’s just doing it in the name of satire. Very different.
Satire can take action in its execution. A man with a tuba following a nazi march is satire mixed with action.
You don’t like money in politics, and this is still money in politics. That’s a different and valid complaint, but this is still effective satire.
Effectiveness in what way though? If Republicans retain control of congress, which they probably will due to gerrymandering, this won’t change.
As I said, I appreciate the satire and I agree with their point. I just think this is more likely to achieve the opposite of what they want.
Specifically the language seemed intended to troll such that Republicans miss the satire (not hard), get angry about the fucked up campaign finance situation, and then we can all say “yeah this has to change”. I understand skepticism about achieving that, but it’s a coherent goal and strategy, and I’m very enthusiastic that we’re getting actual real pushback from somewhere. I’m not gonna tear it down in any way, I think it’s fantastic and I want to see more clever, patriotic efforts to drag into public view the ugliness we’ve allowed to take root.
I just don’t see why they would get angry when Musk is promising to pay them.
In fact, that’s what they say every time they get mad at something they think is unfair that they think the left is doing: “we get to do it too.”
For someone who seems to really want more left leaning stuff in our politics…you just seem to have dug your heels in on this one, without knowing very much about it. Every answered question or corrected assumption produces yet another, smaller complaint. This thing they’re doing is good. Even if it’s flawed, so what. It’s good. So few things are.
I’m out, cheers.
My complaint has remained exactly the same since the beginning: they will not achieve their goal, Republicans don’t care, they want this normalized. This helps them. The only thing that will change this is if congress and the judiciary aren’t on Musk’s side. They are and they will be thanks to gerrymandering and a stacked court system.