A Social Justice Warrior Business Model
This right here is cracking me right up:
Disruptive Start-Up Transforms Tweets From Donald Trump and the NRA Into Money for Progressive Causes
MoveOn.org and Mom’s Demand Action For Gun Sense In America team up with iKeedo, using the divisive social media posts of Trump and the NRA as trigger events for micro-donations
That there is a not insignificant portion of the population that uses language like that flummery amuses me to no end. That they’re serious about it is pathetic. But continuing:
Fundraising just got a whole lot more interesting. iKeedo is a new platform that turns data from “the enemy” into donations for good causes. The fact that Moms Demand Action can transform tweets by the NRA into money to support sensible gun regulation is a game changer. Ditto for MoveOn.org who will use Donald Trump’s twitter feed as the mechanism to automate donations for progressive causes. According to Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director of MoveOn.org, whose 8 million members fight for progressive values, “Thanks to this partnership with iKeedo, every time Donald Trump takes to Twitter to spew his hateful message, he’ll be raising money for grassroots progressives to stop him or any Republican at the polls in November.”
The trouble with your business model, sparky, is that there is no grassroots on the anti-gun side. If Moms Demand makes more than a few dollars, I’d be surprised. And Moms Demand can’t change much of anything as it is.
March 11th, 2016 at 6:45 pm
As I try to understand their business model, idiots pledge to pay for to their chosen cause every time the “opposition” tweets. I say idiots because they act like the opposition is suffering while they get to bankrupt themselves. Who could possibly be that stupid?!?!?!?!? Oh, wait, they really are that stupid. Hey Trump and NRA, tweet this nitwits out of existence! Tweet away!
March 11th, 2016 at 10:09 pm
These anti gun organizations go way back, historically, with an elite ruling class at the top and a few “useful idiots”:
“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” –Aristotle
March 12th, 2016 at 2:15 am
That’ll show us! I wonder, is this operation being run by some right wing wags that have figured out a way to skim the top off the flow of money from stupid to evil? That would be masterful. “Every time someone you hate says something, punish him by giving him money!” I’m sure there are “administrative costs” here…
March 12th, 2016 at 9:13 am
They openly discriminate.
The NRA should go try to open a fund raiser and then sue them out of existence when they are denied access.
March 12th, 2016 at 11:13 am
Their highest grossing “campaign” has raised ~$630.
This is my impressed face: 😐
March 13th, 2016 at 8:44 am
Interestingly enough, a similar thing ended up raising around $2,000 for gun rights groups on reddit about a year ago.
Long story short, the progun sub had suffered from an influx of anti rights trolls, do people started making donations to gun rights organizations in their names.
As a tactic, it more or less worked, because it forced the trolls into a situation where voicing their opinions had a pretty good chance of resulting in money going to groups they hated.
As a psychological tactic it worked pretty well, and the number of anti rights trolls measurably went down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/progun/comments/34ec50/take_the_rprogun_charity_troll_challenge/
That said, I don’t see how this startup makes any difference because the nra isn’t going to stop tweeting, because frankly, they simply don’t suffer the same sort of self-inflicted mental anguish that the folks at ikeedo get when our side receives donations.
March 13th, 2016 at 11:08 am
I don’t see how they can expect to get donations from people who for the most part depend on other peoples’ money for their livelihood.
Maybe Bloomberg is going to pick up the tab for everyone?
March 13th, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Donny, I remember that. Watching the donation receipts come in reply to Antis goofyness was fun.
March 13th, 2016 at 6:53 pm
I’m reminded of an experience from 40 years ago. A multi-story building next to my business was taken over by a New York TV evangelist called The Reverend Ike. It was his mail processing facility, (and just incidentally had an IBM mainframe installed). His racket was that he sold “prayer cloths” to his marks. One a month. I made a point of watching one of his broadcasts, and I can summarize it all with this line: “You too can have a nice car, you too can have fine clothes, ALL you got to do is SEND ME MONEY.”