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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There are ways to say it should be illegal without normalizing the practice.
It should be illegal to use dark money in campaigns. That doesn’t mean I want them to start being part of that.
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.
“It’s normal because cards against humanity did it”
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
That would be deranged, and so would I be… if that’s what I had said. What I said was normalizing. It is a different word.
Here, I’ll help you: thinks that are normal are not normalizing.
Similarly, a rising elevator hasn’t already risen.
So are you saying cah can’t do this because it may be misinterpreted by utterly deranged people? Should we just give up then? Anything can be misinterpreted if the interpreter is deranged enough.
Also, I don’t know what you mean with “a rising elevator hasn’t already risen” but such an elevator would experience infinite jolt and would thus be physically impossible, except maybe if the elevator was a photon or something.
There is zero chance that Musk’s bullshit would be shutdown if this didn’t draw more attention to it.
Who is going to shut it down regardless? You would need congress and the judiciary. Good luck with that, they’re on Musk’s side.
Yea - they are on Musk’s side - they aren’t on Cards Against Humanity’s side… if precedent is set against CAH then it can weaponized against Musk… this whole thing is CAH trying to get a clear ruling that this bullshit is illegal.
When The Satanic Temple starts putting Baphomet statues in government buildings or their clergy members in schools it does not normalize the process. It’s them saying “these are the rules? Then we’re going to push them as far as they go to show you how absurd that is and get you to change the rules.”
And that has also achieved nothing since Louisiana has mandated a specific set of Ten Commandments be displayed in school and Oklahoma wants every school kid to read from the Trump Bible.
Satire is funny. I enjoy it. I enjoy both that and this on that level.
But TST didn’t change things. It’s gotten worse. We’ve become, as a nation, more Christian when we shouldn’t be. Meaningful change will not happen while Republicans are in power, and they have gamed the system so that they will likely retain congressional and judicial power in perpetuity.
Sure, but thing’s haven’t gotten worse as a result of what TST is doing, and they aren’t being normalized because of what CAH is doing. You’re right, it’s fucked up. You know it’s fucked up, I know it’s fucked up, CAH keeps saying “it’s fucked up that we can do this.” The point is to keep telling people “This is fucked up”. Not responding to what Musk is doing would normalize it more than shining a light on it.
Taking the high road has been working like such a fuckin banger since 2008, we should definitely continue doing it!
Alternatively:
Do every borderline legal thing to win or make these things illegal by mutual agreement. It’s stupid to play by the rules when youre the only one doing it.
You want to gerrymander? Cool, let’s go. You want to force court appointments? Game on. You want to stack the supreme court(s)? Hold. My. Beer.
Sometime right around clinton’s impeachment, it became clear we are not playing in good faith anymore, and adding more good faith after 20 years isn’t fixing it. It’s time to draw some political blood, and this CAH business is the most softcore possible way of doing that.
