having worked for a decade in “Soros-funded” progressive orgs I have some insight. in fact, I worked in the 2012 “Path To Citizenship” immigration campaign which was so FULL of contradictions that it split the coalition in two. First, Obama’s admin deported more ppl than any admin prior, but the whole campaign was di…
having worked for a decade in “Soros-funded” progressive orgs I have some insight. in fact, I worked in the 2012 “Path To Citizenship” immigration campaign which was so FULL of contradictions that it split the coalition in two. First, Obama’s admin deported more ppl than any admin prior, but the whole campaign was directed at Senate Majority Leader John Boehner. the org i directed was a coalition oif small businesses and i was directed to go out to our Research Corridor and find some tech biz to join the campaign. Well guess what…the tech corridor is connected to the local university’s engineering program and is full of kids who are in DEBT for the rest of their lives for an education that might not be worth anything—so they’re natural enemies toward H1B Visa program and told me so.
later i had to pitch the campaign to local union coalition. it was a meeting of all local unions…i gave my pitch, and then was asked by the leader of painters’ union if i cared to step outside for a smoke…where he unloaded on me (in hushed tones) about the history of immigration campaigns and unions. THE TWO ARE NATURAL ENEMIES, which if you think about it for 2 seconds makes absolute sense.
in both of these scenarios you have immigration that’d benefit the class of ppl we call OWNERS in marxist thought. the workers hated it with purple passion.
i thought i was working with an org that stood with workers! turns out the orgs and the funders work only for OWNERS and they want cheaper labor. they want wages depressed across the board. and some of those creeps apparently want to traffic children. idk much about that.
as far as Selena Gomez…her cosmetics line is great. don’t let this get in the way of a good liquid blush. BUT what she’s doing is non-paid work for Reid Hoffman and other big prog funders who i’ve been told explicitly, use celebrities to launder their bullshit messaging. this is prolly why she took the message down; she realized she was being used.
in the story below i tell the story of learning about the practice of using celebrities as a “media strategy.” since i’m a media person (publisher from way back), i was offended—to say the least. this was just months after a shadowy organization had started using BLACKLISTS against alternative media from both sides (left and right). I expected a publication like DailyKos to have some *solidarity* with those pubs!
anyway, this is a quote from where i start to really get into it: “in 2017 I attended a Daily Kos conference in Death Valley where a plan was presented for how Democrats would use celebrities with large social media accounts as a substitute for a media strategy. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” more here (it’s jaw-dropping how nothing has changed since 2017) —> https://www.brookhines.com/p/neoliberals-glamping-in-death-valley
OF COURSE celebrities are part of a media strategy. They ARE the media--many of them famous simply for being famous (Hi, Kardashians!). They pass gas and it makes headlines. What's that phrase again? Oh yeah, useful idiots.
Also "don’t let this get in the way of a good liquid blush" FTW!
Karmellow very much liked using celebs. I think their world is far removed from ours that they have no idea about the real world and how it works. Not sure anything they say or think is credible.
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having worked for a decade in “Soros-funded” progressive orgs I have some insight. in fact, I worked in the 2012 “Path To Citizenship” immigration campaign which was so FULL of contradictions that it split the coalition in two. First, Obama’s admin deported more ppl than any admin prior, but the whole campaign was directed at Senate Majority Leader John Boehner. the org i directed was a coalition oif small businesses and i was directed to go out to our Research Corridor and find some tech biz to join the campaign. Well guess what…the tech corridor is connected to the local university’s engineering program and is full of kids who are in DEBT for the rest of their lives for an education that might not be worth anything—so they’re natural enemies toward H1B Visa program and told me so.
later i had to pitch the campaign to local union coalition. it was a meeting of all local unions…i gave my pitch, and then was asked by the leader of painters’ union if i cared to step outside for a smoke…where he unloaded on me (in hushed tones) about the history of immigration campaigns and unions. THE TWO ARE NATURAL ENEMIES, which if you think about it for 2 seconds makes absolute sense.
in both of these scenarios you have immigration that’d benefit the class of ppl we call OWNERS in marxist thought. the workers hated it with purple passion.
i thought i was working with an org that stood with workers! turns out the orgs and the funders work only for OWNERS and they want cheaper labor. they want wages depressed across the board. and some of those creeps apparently want to traffic children. idk much about that.
as far as Selena Gomez…her cosmetics line is great. don’t let this get in the way of a good liquid blush. BUT what she’s doing is non-paid work for Reid Hoffman and other big prog funders who i’ve been told explicitly, use celebrities to launder their bullshit messaging. this is prolly why she took the message down; she realized she was being used.
in the story below i tell the story of learning about the practice of using celebrities as a “media strategy.” since i’m a media person (publisher from way back), i was offended—to say the least. this was just months after a shadowy organization had started using BLACKLISTS against alternative media from both sides (left and right). I expected a publication like DailyKos to have some *solidarity* with those pubs!
anyway, this is a quote from where i start to really get into it: “in 2017 I attended a Daily Kos conference in Death Valley where a plan was presented for how Democrats would use celebrities with large social media accounts as a substitute for a media strategy. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” more here (it’s jaw-dropping how nothing has changed since 2017) —> https://www.brookhines.com/p/neoliberals-glamping-in-death-valley
OF COURSE celebrities are part of a media strategy. They ARE the media--many of them famous simply for being famous (Hi, Kardashians!). They pass gas and it makes headlines. What's that phrase again? Oh yeah, useful idiots.
Also "don’t let this get in the way of a good liquid blush" FTW!
Karmellow very much liked using celebs. I think their world is far removed from ours that they have no idea about the real world and how it works. Not sure anything they say or think is credible.
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