Posted on 07/14/2018 4:43:01 AM PDT by davikkm
An organization named Tech for Campaigns and based in Silicon Valley has a new mission get Democrats elected. Silicon Valley firm Tech for Campaigns has one primary aim improve the Democrats online game and get them elected to government. The firm is described by the New York Times as a kind of Democratic Geek Squad which is comprised of roughly 4,500 tech workers who work day jobs at major Silicon Valley tech firms such as Google, Facebook, Airbnb, and Netflix. The group was founded by tech executive Jessica Alter who hopes to convince Democrat politicians that they need to massively improve their online campaigns.
Whats at stake if we dont build a true centralized digital arm is falling further behind the Republicans and continuing to lose ground, the battles on key issues and elections at every level, Alter told the New York Times. If we dont start now, it will be too late in 2020.
Alter stated that the groups biggest task is convincing candidates that social media is one of the most effective campaign platforms. According to recent reports, Democrat party candidates are relying heavily on TV ads and printed mailers. Some Democrats are spending as little as 10 percent of their ad budgets on online advertising while some Republicans are reportedly investing more than 40 percent of their budgets into digital marketing.
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They can throw all the tech they can muster but people who still work for a living are not going to be swayed by more taxes, more regulations, more illegals more intrusions into their lives. The dems have lost their wAy since jfk and have really gone down the rabbit hole
Tell me how democrats are for the little people with all of this globalist corporate payola they get.
On some level, its is hard for me to believe tech folks are REALLY liberal. Back when I went to school, all the engineers and computer scientists were conservative. At some point though, in the last 15 years, this seems to have flipped.
To be successful, techies have to make things work and have a low tolerance for BS — especially if it leads to failure. They are a meritocracy and PC flies in the face of that. My own theory is that the majority are secretly conservative, but suppress it for cultural and professional reasons. This is why the big Tech companies will always be lagging in diversity. At their core, they know they will fail if they truly drink the KoolAid.
I wonder what these tech workers of today would think of what Silicon Valley was like back when one or a couple of companies first moved out there during the late 1950s. Very nice countryside with fruit and nut farms and wineries and the taxes were very low. Bet they’d hate all of that, eh?
“They can throw all the tech they can muster but people who still work for a living are not going to be swayed by more taxes, more regulations, more illegals more intrusions into their lives.”
They can’t win on the issues, they just need to bamboozle a few more percentage of the LIV types to show up to vote. That and bribes like this universal basic income project starting in Stockton CA.
Silicone Valley will destoy this country. Look at the money we are throwing at Bezos / Fruckerberg. they think they are Gods.
Mouseketeers (point and click programmers) are liberal weenies!
It's an IQ thing - they wouldn't understand.
A. Because bringing in Indian/Pakistani IT guys costs 1/10 of what it takes to hire an American...and they're much more pliant and easy to order around.
B. Because they have lawyers who know their ways around tax laws, so they don't have to pay a penny (see Zuckerberg, Facebook).
C. Because they're protest-averse. A pro-American Conservative entrepreneur who advocates Conservative things will have dozens of mask and pussy hat-wearing Antifa thugs picketing their business and home, as well as harrassing their families in the Supermarkets, at school, and at home. It's much easier for an IT dude to simply pretend to be an anti-American baby-killing gun-grabbing piece of $hit.
Exactly right!
Democrats can spend as much as they wish in online or TV or radio or print advertising, but, they can’t sell their crap to the people if they are going to be selling their same old agenda which the people have been rejecting for the last decade or more.
It’s not the advertising method, or the ability to reach the people, you dopes. It’s the content of your messages that counts, and the content is chit. Nobody likes chit.
Looks like in-kind campaign contributions that need to be disclosed, to me.
Guess they didnt like their tax cuts and stock values
So just donate to WORTHY causes and STFU
Leave the rest of us alone
They are. They just see what happens if one opines, so they keep their mouths shut then grin like hell in the voting booth
Revenge is best served voting
I say replace them all with cheap labor from India, preferably Sikhs.
That citation on the resume might be a red flag.
The upper-tier folks who are drinking the globalist Kool Aid suffer from Superiority Complex (if it isn't a psychiatric condition, it should be). They're necessary to every revolution. They're the ones who think they're smarter, better informed, and know what's best for everyone else. What's more important, they think they'll still be around if the evil forces they embrace are successful. They'll be the first to go, once they've served their purpose.
The obnoxious in your face types are always liberals
There's a crapload of fail coming out of Big Tech these days, and has been for many years. Tech threads here, and elsewhere, are just one never-ending complaint form.
If you ask me, most of them turned into virtue signaling, left wing social justice orgs, a long time ago. Their basic products and services now only exist to fund their primary mission of changing the world to suit their utopian dreams.
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