If you really believe that we can just elect the total collapse of American culture away, then I think you need to do some soul searching. Learn to be resilient, nobody is coming to save us.
I can’t even with you people. “Not voting” is never going to get you anything you want. Ever. You think “voting is showing my undying love for somebody!” when it’s really “Which of these assholes is going to lead to a better outcome?”
If you don’t think Pritzker would lead to a better outcome than Trump then you’re probably too stupid to figure out the voting ballot anyway.
I vote. I vote in the primaries, and the general elections, and the special elections. That doesn’t mean I’m deluded enough to believe it’s actually doing anything, but obviously harm reduction is the only path we have.
Trump is just continuing the same policies that every other president has put forward. Some times the have a D next to their name and they nicer things for social issues, and then everybody forgets that they’re also war criminals who are enacting a massive anti-immigrant deportation policy.
If you think Pritzger is any different, than you’re probably too stupid to realize you’ve been voting for all of this to happen the whole time.
Oh, so I wasn’t feeding and clothing immigrants in the largest open air detention facility in the history of the country during the Biden admin? Weird, I guess that was a dream. I guess I dreamed all of the family separation and children in prisons back during the Obama admin too.
It’s not. People act like this rise in fascism came out of nowhere and I’m saying that there were signs. People didn’t want to read them because it would have interrupted whatever fun weekend they were having, or whatever, but the signs were there. This has been an ongoing project for decades. It didn’t start with Trump and it won’t end with him either
Actual legitimate question. I’m not a fan of billionaires but it seems different between just being born into the family vs actually doing the exploiting yourself, add to that he seems to be at least teetering on the edge of being a class traitor.
Regardless of the possibility that Pritzker’s a good 'un who somehow slipped through the net, we should still have a policy that causes existing billionaire to not be billionaires anymore, and to prevent the emergence of new billionaires.
If that were to happen, Pritzker would still be a good 'un (if he really is) but inequality would have been reduced a little.
If we don’t snip off that long tail, democracy won’t have a chance to recover.
In my opinion, it does not. He could choose to spend every penny he has on making life better for folks until he’s as poor as the rest of us. Instead he chooses to get richer.
Yeah. Mackenzie Bezos inherited her fat stacks and she’s been dropping like a stone on the wealth rankings. Inherent in the state of being a billionaire is having more money than you could ever need and not using it to help others.
I’m down with eating him last, but as long as he is one of them, I’m not voting for him. There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire
Ok then enjoy president JD Vance or Marco Rubio I guess.
Good thing Pritzker’s not the only possible choice.
If you really believe that we can just elect the total collapse of American culture away, then I think you need to do some soul searching. Learn to be resilient, nobody is coming to save us.
Oh no, I’m much more cynical than that. I vote, even though I know it’s pointless.
I’m not sure that’s cynicism. It sounds more like bog-standard hypocrisy.
I can’t even with you people. “Not voting” is never going to get you anything you want. Ever. You think “voting is showing my undying love for somebody!” when it’s really “Which of these assholes is going to lead to a better outcome?”
If you don’t think Pritzker would lead to a better outcome than Trump then you’re probably too stupid to figure out the voting ballot anyway.
I vote. I vote in the primaries, and the general elections, and the special elections. That doesn’t mean I’m deluded enough to believe it’s actually doing anything, but obviously harm reduction is the only path we have.
Trump is just continuing the same policies that every other president has put forward. Some times the have a D next to their name and they nicer things for social issues, and then everybody forgets that they’re also war criminals who are enacting a massive anti-immigrant deportation policy.
If you think Pritzger is any different, than you’re probably too stupid to realize you’ve been voting for all of this to happen the whole time.
Bull. Shit.
Oh, so I wasn’t feeding and clothing immigrants in the largest open air detention facility in the history of the country during the Biden admin? Weird, I guess that was a dream. I guess I dreamed all of the family separation and children in prisons back during the Obama admin too.
You understand how stupid this argument is… right? God I hope so.
It’s not. People act like this rise in fascism came out of nowhere and I’m saying that there were signs. People didn’t want to read them because it would have interrupted whatever fun weekend they were having, or whatever, but the signs were there. This has been an ongoing project for decades. It didn’t start with Trump and it won’t end with him either
He inherited it. Does that not change things?
Actual legitimate question. I’m not a fan of billionaires but it seems different between just being born into the family vs actually doing the exploiting yourself, add to that he seems to be at least teetering on the edge of being a class traitor.
Regardless of the possibility that Pritzker’s a good 'un who somehow slipped through the net, we should still have a policy that causes existing billionaire to not be billionaires anymore, and to prevent the emergence of new billionaires.
If that were to happen, Pritzker would still be a good 'un (if he really is) but inequality would have been reduced a little.
If we don’t snip off that long tail, democracy won’t have a chance to recover.
In my opinion, it does not. He could choose to spend every penny he has on making life better for folks until he’s as poor as the rest of us. Instead he chooses to get richer.
Yeah. Mackenzie Bezos inherited her fat stacks and she’s been dropping like a stone on the wealth rankings. Inherent in the state of being a billionaire is having more money than you could ever need and not using it to help others.
Money-hoarders.