And in one case an elderly dementia patient is the republican nominee!
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They only refunded 1/3? What a bag of dicks. That’s elder abuse.
Subscription plans for donations? We truly are on the worst timeline.
Eh, NPR mentions a "sustained donation" during their monthly support pledge drive.
There's also Patreon for ongoing support for content, and newspaper/media outlet subscriptions for ~~un~~ less-biased coverage like The Guardian.
I'm not defending elder financial abuse by any means, only widening the lens with examples.
Unrelated to US politics, but I genuinely worry about how social media is fucking over the older generations.
My mother in law is 76, and only gets her news from Facebook these days. On Saturday she told me that Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, has been voted out during the week. Fuck knows where she got that from because it’s just not true. She doesn’t even live in London, but he’s a demon to the kind of ‘news’ sources she’ll read because he’s a lefty who does lefty things.
It’s mad.
Harris should strongly put her foot down on this. No dem organization should be employing pre-checked recurring donation boxes. If that's what it takes to win, then we don't deserve to win. Let the US turn into a militaristic Christian dictatorship before we cheat our own.
We need to go to further and make pre-checked recurring illegal.
While you're 100% correct, this is why Dems lose. The GOP doesn't make thus sort of morality check. They just say, "survival of the fittest," and move on.
And that is why having laws prohibiting things like fraud and political dirty tricks and then actually enforcing them, Merrick Garland, you useless piece of shit is essential to preserve democracy.
Not necessarily. I think dems lose for quite a lot of different reasons, and not sufficiently abusing the trust of their own people is not one of them.
How about no to both
That would be ideal. In a less than ideal world, though, we should still remember the importance of ethics as a principle and how some voters at least, do take note of it.
I consider this elder abuse and I am deeply disappointed that both sides seem to revel in this.
While many mainstream Democratic candidates have backed away from the practice, both the Trump and Harris campaigns have recently been using donation pages with pre-checked recurring boxes to raise money, a CNN analysis of fundraising emails and Facebook and Instagram ads found.
because the two main parties that have stolen our country have no solid campaign platform to run on that would attract voters other than football politics and have to resort to these kinds of tactics