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The best gift I ever got was a T-shirt full of holes. The person gave it to me because I was cold. At the time everything they owned was the T-shirt and three ramen noodles. He went cold so I didn't have to.
What'd Walz sacrifice for those candy bars and drinks? As a politician he's chosen ideological slavery. If he wanted to make a real difference he'd have stayed a teacher and football coach.
Wow, what a dogshit take.
Holy shit, a new "worst take I've ever read" for Lemmy!
In your (warped-as-fuck) worldview, we're better off if the good people don't become politicians, and we're stuck with only the self-serving leeches?
He's a politician that takes corporate money and lives a far better life than his constituents. He's not good.
Vs the monsters the right is running this guy is Jesus Christ
Mask off is certainly scarier than mask on.
What corporate money has he accepted up to this point?
Wow, what a stupid question.
So you not only have no sources you have no response. Move along!
Yeah why didn't he give those trick-or-treaters his house and go homeless? Fucking politicians man
Why didn't he live as his constituents and give the rest away?
This picture was taken in front of the governor's residence in Minnesota. Where he lived, when he was the governor of Minnesota.
Kinda hard to give away something you don't own.
He chose to live there.
Do you think he should have left it empty?
Thank you for asking a rare question.
Yes, he should have left the mansion empty. To stay connected to the lives of those he represents while maintaining his well-being and safety, he should live off his $127.6k salary and very nice health and retirement benefits. I'd have enough respect for that choice to possibly forgive him for his choices so far.
Ok well he did that before he was the governor. Tim Walz was an educator and coach before becoming a politician. He's not a career politician, and during his political career he's known for being personable, approachable, and very in touch with his constituents.
Just a suggestion, maybe before criticizing someone you should put in a bare modicum of effort towards figuring out what they're about first.
He didn't have to choose to take corporate money. Once he had then he didn't have to choose the mansion. However, he chose both of them.
He doesn't live the life of his constituents. Maintenance of his quality of life and that of his family is now dependent upon representing the will of the corporate donor. He's very "in touch" with the exploitation of his constituents or he'd not be a candidate for DNC VP.
Just a suggestion: You should ask more questions.
What "corporate money" has he taken?
The made up kind.
State of play: Walz doesn’t own a single stock, according to financial disclosures and confirmed by a spokesperson. Same goes for his wife Gwen, per tax filings.
• His disclosures, both from his final year in Congress and his time as Minnesota governor, also show no mutual funds, bonds, private equities, or other securities.
• No book deals or speaking fees or crypto or racehorse interests.
• Not even real estate. The couple sold their Mankato, Minnesota, home after moving into the governor’s mansion, for below the $315k asking price).
Zoom in: Their only investment assets appear to be via state pensions, including teacher pensions.
Source: Gov. Tim Walz doesn't own a single stock - via Axios
That idiot is just making things up. They clearly don’t know anything at all about Tim Walz. Who, as far as finances goes, appears to have more in common with middle class families than any VP candidate in a century.
Fantastic question. I haven't found anything.
One of the perks of being governor is you get a house for your term.
You too could get a house if you ran for office instead of yelling at people on the internet about it.
One of the perks of being governor
Yeah. There's many "perks" of "service".
It's completely common in most countries that some high-ranking government officials live on state-owned property. Among the reasons for this are security, and the fact that official visits, press events and other official events are held at that property.
If he gave everything away, he wouldn't have anything at all, therefore wouldn't be in a position to lead. Wouldn't you require resources to do these things? Or is it your point of view all leaders should be homeless and penniless?
He needs little more than his constituents to lead them.
I'm confused, he needs no more then his constituents but give everything away. There's no winning with that logic. What you want is socialism?
No. This isn’t socialism he’s advocating for. It’s stupidity.
Big difference between workers owning the means of production and states having governor’s mansions
give everything away
Not much to grab hold of, huh.
Have you given everything away? Or do you only wish to lead from behind?
Is your only source of self worth bashing others online with shallow judgement? Or, do you only lead from popularity?
"moderator" "father" lol.
What are you even talking about?
What...? I think you need some more time to mature before you understand politics.
Beware ye all who enter this thread: Ye be warned, there is not but 2009 Facebook status hot takes beyond this point.
The Widow's Mite, ancient wisdom, is a shit take? Awesome.
I think you need more time to develop the courage to effect your principles. But, I'm sure you're too busy developing the systems of exploitation, "engineer". You could defect. But, that takes courage. It likely doesn't even register as a choice.
So in a democracy you'd vote for no one, as they'd all have chosen to be politicians by definition?
Voting isn't very important in the US "democracy" because nearly all of the politicians take corporate money. It's the same goals with different marketing. All that's changed recently is one party just unwillingly took their mask off. To abide by my principles I don't vote for any candidate that takes corporate money.
However, if I still lived in a purple state, I'd strongly consider sacrificing my principle for those that can't suffer another Trump term. But, in my deep red state I'll vote Green POTUS to put pressure Democratic platform. My POTUS vote will at least have a chance of being heard. But, probably not. There's no way 5% of voters learn how their system works before November. It has to get worse before enough are sufficiently motivated.
Dude, you nailed it with your username choice.
Shouldn't she also have given away all her excess money, or is that only disqualifying for Dems?
You're the only one who asked a decent question, so far. Thanks.
I assume you mean Stein? She sucks because she's isolated from the negative consequence of her proposed means and cares little for the agency of those who'd pay the price. I'd not vote for her if she could win. The Green candidate doesn't matter until they could win.
The value is platform. Green has been fiercely loyal to their platform for decades. Five percent of the GE would place immense pressure upon Democratic platform immediately because the social populist platform would be on every ballot in the next cycle. Then, after fours years, their choice of candidate would matter.
So essentially, you will vote for whatever will have the greatest potential good effect. Deep red state? Green, Dems won't win so why not pressure politicians? Swing state? Blue, best not to let the fascists drag everything further to hell if you can. Deep Blue? Green, Dems will win, so pressure them. Green? Find a party even more likely to drag the overton window back to left, if they exist. The furthest left sane option is likely to win? Protest vote of nobody as now you can tell them the system itself is the problem
I can respect that
So essentially, you will vote for whatever will have the greatest potential good effect.
Yes.
Deep red state? Green, Dems won't win so why not pressure politicians?
Deep Blue? Green, Dems will win, so pressure them.
These are the easier ones.
Swing state? Blue, best not to let the fascists drag everything further to hell if you can.
I'd probably vote for Kamala if I lived in a swing state. But, shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. I could respect other choices based upon the reasoning and lived experience presented with them.
Find a party even more likely to drag the overton window back to left, if they exist.
Sure, if electoral means is the way one wants to contribute to our future. But, the Greens are doing fine holding on to a framework of ballot access and I discourage party loyalty. Critically right now, and relative electoralism, there's more meaningful alternative contributions individuals could choose.
The furthest left sane option is likely to win?
That's what we'd like to think about ourselves. The truth is that when movements scale they suck. The best humanity can seem to do at scale is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Protest vote of nobody as now you can tell them the system itself is the problem
I thought about doing this. But, by time I got through the line I realized I'd waste two minutes of a hundred people's time for nothing. I voted my races and got out of the way.
I can respect that
Thank you.
Bruh admitting your wisdom is outdated isn't the flex you think it is.
The principle of personal sacrifice in love is outdated?
Get well soon.
Who said anything about love? Are you trying to establish personal romantic relationships with the politicians you are a constituent of?
Weird.
What is politics but scaled, anonymous love for fellow humans?
I don't know, hoping a rapist dictator doesn't get into power and throw all the Latino and queer people into concentration camps?
"Ancient Wisdom" applied stupidly can indeed lead to shit takes. In this case, you're criticizing this politician because... he didn't give halloween handouts proportional to his income? His halloween candy bars weren't a sufficiently significant sacrifice? And then you're knocking this commenter because their opinion that your take is shit means they are blinded by the "systems of exploitation" they create as an engineer and their lack courage to share your moral views about the virtue of dispensing halloween candy proportional to ones wealth? You're like a charicature of a cringey philosophy major - and I was a philosophy major. Stop pontificating and think logically about your argument.
Look at Protestants in America "interpreting" their "ancient wisdom" in all sorts of wacky ways. The Baptists' "ancient wisdom" tells them they'll go to hell if they dance. The pentacostals' "ancient wisdom" says that the Holy Spirit will possess you and make you speak gibberish if you believe hard enough. The "christian science" people's ancient wisdom tells them to pray cancer away - and if they fail to, it's because they aren't righteous enough.
Just because you can loosely relate some "ancient wisdom" to a situation doesn't mean that it's applicable or that you're correct.
My wisdom would tell me that this guy's halloween handouts don't really say anything about him other than either that he: just likes giving out halloween candy, sees it as a smart political move, or both.
I'm criticizing the politician for living a significantly higher quality of life than his constituents. And, I'm criticizing the masses for aggrandizing the meaningless action because he's a politician. I think we deserve much better leadership.
It'd been nice if you asked a question instead of creating a strawman then spending three paragraphs defeating it.
Dude he was a coach and a social studies teacher before he became a politician. I guarantee you he knows what it’s like to live on a middle class budget
He stopped living that life and chose another. He's no longer that person.
If the strawman fits, burn it when you come to it. That's what my grandpappy always used to say
You're typing a lot, but you're not saying anything.
He seems like the kind of person that really likes hearing the sound of their own voice and goes on and on even if he has nothing of substance to actually say. An exhausting person to be around.
Imagine being their mother and having to listen to this every time you make them their bagel bites.
Perhaps you're not understanding and choosing the convenience of shallow judgement.
You should have let him keep the shirt, dude. He had much less than you, so he deserved it more.
He'd built up much more of a tolerance to the cold conditions than I had. It wasn't even a day before another prisoner found out what he'd done and gave him a long sleeve. And, once I was on my feet I bought the old man a couple sets of long johns. No one needs asked to take care of a man who'll literally give you the shirt off his back.
With tears in his eyes, the old man cut fresh holes into the brand new long johns and offered me a pair.
/r/ThatHappened
Dumb.
What does your strife have to do with the price of eggs in China?
The Widow's Mite.
The Widow's Mite? Are you Jesus or the widow? If you say you're Jesus, then you're self righteous, if you say you're the widow, then it's a lie because the widow never complained about her goings-on