"Want" is the key verb here.
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@zer0billionaires also, that when we elect officials who want to help us, they will.
We should elect more of them
@ShadSterling @zer0billionaires How are billionaires going to get the tax breaks they pay $0 on already if we keep electing people who try to help the rest of us?
I'm sorry, but I just don't see how your suggestion helps the billionaires.
(Yeah, I'm being jaded and sarcastic. I 100% agree with you, just apparently most people don't because Facebook/Fox/etc told them not to.)
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"Want" is the key verb here.
@zer0billionaires My county treasurer might want to help me, but there's not much they can really do.
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"Want" is the key verb here.
Should pragmatic utopians advocate eliminating the upper class or the lower class? Are there any terms on which the upper class would allow the rest of us to buy them out? Being so severely outnumbered, they ought to be willing to negotiate. Their frenzy is sustained by their ability to take advantage of the kindness of strangers -- all the reasonable and agreeable people who just want to do their part. Enough already.
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Should pragmatic utopians advocate eliminating the upper class or the lower class? Are there any terms on which the upper class would allow the rest of us to buy them out? Being so severely outnumbered, they ought to be willing to negotiate. Their frenzy is sustained by their ability to take advantage of the kindness of strangers -- all the reasonable and agreeable people who just want to do their part. Enough already.
@oregon_slim Pragmatists will compromise. Arseholes will always expect you to be the bigger person.
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"Want" is the key verb here.
@zer0billionaires could? should or must should be the words here. They make a killing out of the general public. They exist to serve people.
Its their goddamn duty
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@zer0billionaires also, that when we elect officials who want to help us, they will.
We should elect more of them
@ShadSterling @zer0billionaires Good luck with that.
If we actually lived in a democracy, people like Mamdani would be the rule, it wouldn't even be news.
Instead they are the exception and what is the default expectation is that politicians are greedy liars.
To me this is one of the strongest indictments of our political (and economic) system.
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"Want" is the key verb here.
@zer0billionaires finding people who are willing to run for office who genuinely want to help their constituents once they are in office is difficult- once elected that’s when the rich swarm and try to contaminate them.
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@oregon_slim Pragmatists will compromise. Arseholes will always expect you to be the bigger person.
@zer0billionaires pragmatism is winning
if the zillionaires lose out in the process?
that'd be the point
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"Want" is the key verb here.
I think that the prerequisite was they got the majority of the votes?
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"Want" is the key verb here.
@zer0billionaires so the reason he is not helping trans people is because he doesnt want to. Noted.
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