A grassroots fundraising campaign for the 2024 election is trending towards half a million dollars raised by Fediverse members.

The Mastodon For Harris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward.

  • delirious_owl
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    5 months ago

    Most people in the US aren’t Democrats or Republicans. Most people in the US don’t vote because those parties don’t meet their needs.

    I’m saying that even more people who might have voted Democrat won’t vote for Harris and won’t vote for Trump. They just won’t vote at all.

    If we had an actual progressive that stood firmly opposed to the genocide, they would easily beat Trump. Harris will probably loose for nearly the same reason that Hilary lost to Trump.

    • Plopp@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      Most people in the US don’t vote because those parties don’t meet their needs.

      Even if that’s true that doesn’t mean they all agree and would vote for the same candidate. In fact that seems very unlikely given how distributions usually look. And in a first past the post system people usually vote for the party that has the biggest chance of beating the party they dislike the most, not for the party they like the most, and over time that usually leaves the system with only two viable parties that a lot of people don’t like. But it doesn’t mean they all agree.