u/Dry-Environment5122

other than the fact that folks don’t like the outcome. but from a legal perspective this was the case as I understand it

1. there was a law that prevented corporations from funding ”electioneering communications” within 30 days of an election (in this case it was a primary election)

2. defendant politcal non profit made a documentary about Hillary Clinton within that timeframe which triggered a lawsuit.

3. SCOTUS overturned the law citing free speech of both individuals and organizations,

4. dark money exploded in politics

perhaps I am wrong on the facts so please correct me if I’m wrong here. Now I’m not going to say the outcome is good, but looking at the law I can’t see any alternative other than overturning it. like what even is electioneering communication? if I write a book about global warming in those 30 days and one candidate goes around citing my book, did I electioneer? did the publisher? Practically *any* speech at any time can be construed to be political in nature, and uses some form of organization to amplify it (social media as an example). so is there actually a good reason to uphold that law that I’m missing? Perhaps the opinion was too expansive, but the law seems stupidly problematic

so I ( a queer ally) was hanging out with my friend who is a trans man. he mostly passes ish (call it a 7/10 if I had to put it on a scale), and he noticed a sign advertising a queer night at where we were hanging, and made a few comments about how queer these days generally means femme, and that trans men, and masc presenting people in general tend to get met with underlying hostility wven if they are “welcome” under the banner theoretically.

now I’m not questioning my friends experience, but it is also just experiencing his pocket of queer space. is this the norm these days?

First off I have no problem with creators getting paid, and CR members deserve to get paid. However, C4 podcasts are full of ads, I feel like I’m constantly fast forwarding.

in C2 (I skipped C3) it was simple, pre roll ads, in podcast reads, game on. game breaks 2 hours in, mid roll ads, 2 more hours of game post roll ads. It flowed with the podcast and im happy to see CR get paid.

I jumped into C4 and it’s 2 2 hour podcasts and I was like “oh ok it’s probably for some engagement metric where 4 hour podcasts get less algorithmic support, whatever” Turns out 1 hour in MID SENTENCE, it cuts to ads, often ads read by CR folks, entirely ruining flow, multiple times this happens each podcast. And then I notice the “Subscribe to beacon for no ads”. it seems like they intentionally flooded their podcasts with ads just so they could “sell you the solution” of giving them money. it isn’t put in by the podcast platform either, or they wouldn’t be read by CR cast.

honestly it’s making me hate an otherwise good campaign.