If you live in California, you have probably been getting spammed a lot lately on multiple channels about a ballot initiative to “protect retirement from new taxes” or another one pushing “spending transparency”.
You will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that these initiatives have nothing to do with retirement or transparency, and everything to do with billionaires attempting to defeat a proposed tax on the ultra-rich.
Follow the money. “Cui bono?”
@darkuncle This gets to the heart of the spam machine, of course its a political party working on behalf of the billionaire class doing it
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation
@MHowell I have been getting probably 50X as much spam from left leaning candidates and causes, but the particular case I’m talking about here is coming from the right
(presumably this is because I have donated occasionally to the left, but never to the right. The volume of spam I am apparently doomed to receive for the rest of my life has assured that I will never donate to anyone again.)
@darkuncle The bad news: Their efficiency is 1.6% of every dollar donated goes to candidates.
The good news: after a couple years of marking every text from ActBlue, etc as spam, the volume has gone way down.
Scott Francis
Led By Gilded Fools