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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They aren’t, they’re calling attention to it and directly saying “this should be illegal!”. It’s not subtle, it’s a pitch to point out that this should not be allowed.
However the website with the info (https://apologize.lol) now links to their other thing and I wonder if they are working through some legal concerns, lol.
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.
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.
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.
And I’m saying that this is a Republican judiciary that is on Musk’s side, so they won’t rule it illegal.
I take exception to the argument that people shouldn’t do what they think is right, because odds are stacked against them.
When did I say they can’t do it? They can do whatever they want. And I can criticize what I don’t think is effective.