

Yeah, Perfect Dark was awesome!
Yeah, Perfect Dark was awesome!
The ability to corrupt is inversely proportional to how active our citizens are in the political process.
Only like 10% of eligible voters vote in primary elections. That likely makes it far easier for money to buy enough name recognition via advertising to make a financially backed candidate a shoe in. But if you look at something like the NYC mayoral primary, a grassroots movement with support still beats moneyed interests.
That said, our country does a lot to discourage participation in our political process.
The point I’m trying to demonstrate is endorsements are meaningless, it’s policy decisions that matter. It’s not like you answered my questions about whether you want him out of office. You just type incessantly long responses to obfuscate from the fact that you have a binary state of he’s mayor or he isn’t. You can’t pick and choose to criticize and pretend that it’s not a tacit vote for the status quo. If you want him gone, then you want Cuomo. Period.
If you’re basing your entire voting decisions based on endorsements rather than platform you’re a moron and I don’t really care what you think about anything.
Let’s play a hypothetical.
You are a Nazi.
I say, Nazi’s are morons who should be exterminated.
You endorse me. I accept your endorsement.
Look, I make so much sense that even Nazi extremists agree they need to be exterminated! I am the common sense candidate that no one disagrees with! Here’s my anti Nazi legislation!
To get a meaningful amount of people to withhold their taxes from the Fed you’d probably need to get enough people working and acting together that you’d already have been able to elect progressive politicians to begin with.
Last time shit got real bad economically we had general strikes, the building of unions, trust and monopoly regulation, etc.
Ok, so that’s not happening. What do you think the consequences of that should be? Do you want him out of office? Or just for people to say hey, that’s bad! And then go about our business? Should we have withheld votes over that one thing or not?
Your questions? Oh I don’t care about the DSA thing at all. I’m more concerned with where his actual focus lies as a local mayor, not who endorsed him and the optics of endorsements. I don’t know enough about the DSA or any of the stuff that are bothering you so much to make it a wedge issue. I’m more curious as to what you hope to accomplish by your comments. One of the things the right does better than the left is maintaining party cohesion, so it always intrigues me when people self sabotage incremental moves in the right direction.
I’m arguing with you right now. If you endorsed me, I’d accept it. I’d take your money and use it for whatever I wanted. I’d take your endorsement to mean you agree with my views, regardless of what your words say. Or are you claiming some quid pro quo we should be worried about? Because that’s usually the actual concern when talking about big money donors in politics.
Good job not addressing my point.
AND WHAT? What would you like done and what consequences would you like to see?
One is glad to be of service.
You’re arguing macroscopic relativistic issues when voting is a quantum decision.
Are you arguing that you’d prefer Cuomo to have won? Cuz he’s the runner up.
I think the main issue you’re having in this thread is you are complaining but not really saying what you wanted to happen differently or offering any solutions. In the absence of such things, most people would assume you’d prefer Cuomo.
You live it my friend, no need to imagine!
If you live in a humid area, AC will become more and more valuable. Wet bulb temperature. At some point your sweat will no longer evaporate and you’ll die. Climate change cometh.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
No no, I think I understand what he’s saying. He’s saying everyone is terrible and we should just kill ourselves and stop trying.
The DSA ran for office? What? I’m asking which CANDIDATE has less red flags you goober.
Who has less red flags?
I wonder what the rate of bombing would be needed to keep up with modern excavation techniques. Though I imagine there are too many variables to say anything meaningful.
What if you bomb the entrances?
It’s still important because the Democrats are our opposition to the GOP, so we need to work on replacing establishment Dems with people with a soul and a spine or we’ll never get anywhere.
How many more poors did we mint?
Jean-Baptiste
Emmanuel
Zorg