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Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Oct-2024 07:39:09 JST Glyph

gonna keep this off the main super swing districts thread here https://mastodon.social/@glyph/113347385643868594 because I can't predict for sure that this is how campaigns use money, but one reason that I personally think that it's important to give to smaller campaigns—even, or maybe especially, this late—is ratfucking. The republicans are engaged in a truly staggering amount of ratfucking in this election and a lot of candidates are going to be blindsided and need to pay legal fees to defend spurious, inane challenges
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  Okay, time to properly launch this: SUPER SWING DISTRICTS! https://superswingdistricts.org This is a slate of Democratic candidates calculated to give the maximum impact to your direct-donation dollars. National campaigns receive a ton of money, but can't always deploy it locally in the places that the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and … shenanigans mean it needs to be spent. But figuring out which local campaigns *can* use it is a lot of work. This site represents the output of that work.
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  Everything is going to be way more expensive and slow and uncertain than it needs to be, even in the case of a massive, spectacular win for dems. And it would be nice if more campaigns in critical places were flush with cash to ease *whatever* procedural nonsense crops up.
  
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  (If you are not familiar with the term, it has a specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking)
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    Ratfucking
    
    Ratfucking is an American slang term for behind the scenes (covert) political sabotage or dirty tricks, particularly pertaining to elections. It was brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men (1974), the book that chronicled their investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal. Origins As a term, ratfucking was commonplace in Southern California and possibly other college slang from the late 1950s to at least the early 1960s, meaning a prank. Around that time, Tony Auth was the cartoonist for the Daily Bruin. One of his cartoons showed a large, inebriated rat suggesting to another rat, "Let's go PF-ing tonight!", a play on ratfucking or "RF-ing". The lead story in the January 6, 1961, California Tech, Caltech's student newspaper, was headlined, "Tech Scores First Televised RF". The article chronicled the Great Rose Bowl Hoax, which had just taken place. A political context was irrelevant to such usage. At the end of the article, an Editor's Note both explained and bowdlerized: "RF (for Royal Flush) is a contemporary college colloquialism for a clever prank...

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