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NireBryce
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every single local chapter front group of these anti-trans places has budgets like that.

DSA had 100k members and a budget of less than 1m even in it's boom year.

they're makework jobs for christofascists that helps them just churn out paper after paper and statement after statement on letterhead they pay someone else to create with websites they pay someone else to create with graphic design they pay someone else to create with canvassers they hire with people they bus in with etc

and we had to carpool to our national convention, had to lean on graphic artist members for our supplies and when we couldn't, draw our own. We had writers but they were too busy writing their agenda to actually really help the movement much, because volunteer work doesn't pay and you're already burning your resume by being a socialist writer.

but they get 12m to make anything happen. And they're still transparent and fragile.

Like the majority of the "comfortable" income bracket of the US, they haven't yet realized that buying services does not build skills.


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

I've been trying to find a business model that somehow scams these orgs (or their donors) for all the money they have without giving them any engagement or being ~actually illegal~, but I haven't hit on one yet. They clearly have more money than sense, so eventually someone has to crack that code.

what if you just posed as a business and then delivered extremely low quality work that is not technically fraud. they cant sue you for being Bad at your Job (probably) and in the worst case, if they dont pay you, you might be able to sue them.

[not a lawyer, no idea how this would actually play out]

excellent. now to get that bag.

the only possible issue i forsee is ensuring that word doesnt get out about one's bad reputation (but maybe if we all vouch for each other it'll work for a while?)

I think the sweet spot would be to SEO your way into a Premier Web Design Firm specializing in non-profits. Godawful web design that your client likes is pretty easy to make, you could charge high, and I doubt they'd realize they were being screwed for years.