This is the kind of short term thinking that created this mess. Refusal to look at the big picture because it won’t affect you directly is how your grandchildren end up in a mass grave. Wise men plant trees whose fruit they will never eat. Fools fiddle while Rome burns. I’d say you should be ashamed, but I don’t know that your still capable of such a thing. Far too many in such a position aren’t.
He’s mad that you don’t think the Dems are as bad or worse than the Republicans. Lemmy is full of these idiots that can’t understand harm reduction or voting pragmatically. They deserve the republicans they’re empowering.
I’m mad that you think merely supporting democrats is sufficient. Sure, circling the drain slowly buys time, but if you aren’t using that time for something productive, what are you actually gaining? You’re one of a handful of people with the resources to actually make a difference, and you’re wasting them? At the very least stop trying to discourage people from seeing the systemic problems and start pointing them at organizations that will do what you apparently are too busy with your yacht to support.
“if you aren’t using that time for something productive, what are you actually gaining? You’re one of a handful of people with the resources to actually make a difference, and you’re wasting them?”
I don’t think owning a yacht and being productive are inherently connected. Please explain your reasoning.
Do you think there are no yacht owners that fight against fascism? If there are any, I would think they’d be powerful allies to coordinate with, rather than attack, given their resources and influence.
Does infighting with and demotivating your own voting bloc sound productive to you?
I think if he’s the kind of person who can sleep at night while his country eats itself around him and then boast about surviving on a yacht, I don’t care who your enemies are, we are not on the same side, and we never will be. I don’t want my family to die alone in a bunker, I want my family surrounded by a community they can love and trust, and who loves and trusts them, because that is the only way they will ever have any kind of measure of real safety. I think every petty idiot with feudal aspirations is a threat to that so yes, I do think it’s productive to make it very clear his kind isn’t welcome on my side of the floor. We may be forced by circumstance to vote for the same candidate pool, but do not believe for one second we were ever allies. I do believe that in a world where your fellow Americans are literally dying around you of entirely preventable causes, if all you can think of to use your resources for is to buy an oversized bathtub toy, then you aren’t the kind of person who should be deciding what use to put that money to. Gods only knows they didn’t earn it. If anyone ever tells me they got rich through hard work, my first question is “whose?” These twits waking up on third base and thinking they hit a home run, calling themselves “self-made” because of the 15% of their success attributable to the hard work of making good on opportunity 99% of the country will never get, do not “deserve” their decadence. They didn’t earn that. No, I don’t think we should be worried about “Capital Flight”, let them leave. There are other ways to get the job done, and if they care so little about their neighbours, we’ll all be better off without them.
This is the kind of short term thinking that created this mess. Refusal to look at the big picture because it won’t affect you directly is how your grandchildren end up in a mass grave. Wise men plant trees whose fruit they will never eat. Fools fiddle while Rome burns. I’d say you should be ashamed, but I don’t know that your still capable of such a thing. Far too many in such a position aren’t.
So are you mad that I support the democrats instead of the republicans?
Or are you just mad that I recognized what the world is and made sure that I and my people would be fine?
He’s mad that you don’t think the Dems are as bad or worse than the Republicans. Lemmy is full of these idiots that can’t understand harm reduction or voting pragmatically. They deserve the republicans they’re empowering.
I’m mad that you think merely supporting democrats is sufficient. Sure, circling the drain slowly buys time, but if you aren’t using that time for something productive, what are you actually gaining? You’re one of a handful of people with the resources to actually make a difference, and you’re wasting them? At the very least stop trying to discourage people from seeing the systemic problems and start pointing them at organizations that will do what you apparently are too busy with your yacht to support.
Oh, you’re one of those people that thinks once you vote you’re no longer capable of doing anything else.
What part of my comment is suggesting that? I’m literally saying that’s exactly what people shouldn’t be doing.
“if you aren’t using that time for something productive, what are you actually gaining? You’re one of a handful of people with the resources to actually make a difference, and you’re wasting them?”
Probably that part.
Does that sound like someone doing anything productive to you?
I don’t think owning a yacht and being productive are inherently connected. Please explain your reasoning.
Do you think there are no yacht owners that fight against fascism? If there are any, I would think they’d be powerful allies to coordinate with, rather than attack, given their resources and influence.
Does infighting with and demotivating your own voting bloc sound productive to you?
I think if he’s the kind of person who can sleep at night while his country eats itself around him and then boast about surviving on a yacht, I don’t care who your enemies are, we are not on the same side, and we never will be. I don’t want my family to die alone in a bunker, I want my family surrounded by a community they can love and trust, and who loves and trusts them, because that is the only way they will ever have any kind of measure of real safety. I think every petty idiot with feudal aspirations is a threat to that so yes, I do think it’s productive to make it very clear his kind isn’t welcome on my side of the floor. We may be forced by circumstance to vote for the same candidate pool, but do not believe for one second we were ever allies. I do believe that in a world where your fellow Americans are literally dying around you of entirely preventable causes, if all you can think of to use your resources for is to buy an oversized bathtub toy, then you aren’t the kind of person who should be deciding what use to put that money to. Gods only knows they didn’t earn it. If anyone ever tells me they got rich through hard work, my first question is “whose?” These twits waking up on third base and thinking they hit a home run, calling themselves “self-made” because of the 15% of their success attributable to the hard work of making good on opportunity 99% of the country will never get, do not “deserve” their decadence. They didn’t earn that. No, I don’t think we should be worried about “Capital Flight”, let them leave. There are other ways to get the job done, and if they care so little about their neighbours, we’ll all be better off without them.