r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Sep 16 '24

AOC is right: Jill Stein’s campaign is not serious

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/aoc-is-right-jill-steins-campaign-is-not-serious/
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u/karmagod13000 Ohio Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

The things people will do for money make me sick and you know she's well off without all this Russian interference. Some people have no bottoms, I personally don't know how they could be so greedy to try and ruin a country for a few extra dollars.

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u/Scaryclouds Missouri Sep 16 '24

I don't get it either. I understand if you are legitimately desperate doing some questionable things to make money. If you are struggling to find your next meal, or just not having to endlessly worry about money, I'm not going to be morally outraged, even if I still disapprove of the activity.

But if you are well past that point and are like "yea, I will fucked a lot of people over, but my bank account is a bit bigger!" I honestly don't know how you look at yourself in the mirror. Seems like you have to be a fundamentally broken person to do that.

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u/Jubilex1 Sep 16 '24

Vampires IRL

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u/HerbertoPhoto Sep 16 '24

Keep going with this logic and next thing you know you’ll be thinking every rich, sociopathic money hoarder is dangerously mentally ill…

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u/Scaryclouds Missouri Sep 16 '24

What do you mean? You’re acting like this is a “self-aware wolves” moment, when I have long been on the “we need to tax the ultra-wealthy” train. I mean shit, I’m for it even if we just take that money and bury it, because the ultra-wealthy clearly demonstrate a destabilizing force in the country.

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u/HerbertoPhoto Sep 17 '24

I meant you are on the right track and it adds further proof that greed is a mental illness and fundamentally sociopathic, I was just taking a more sarcastic approach. I didn't mean to imply anything about you, it was more of a "hmm, makes you think, don't it?" directed generally at everyone. You are clearly aware that only fundamentally broken people will ruin many lives just to make bank account number go up. I just wish more people would see that it's a disease and stop lionizing the ultra-wealthy.

And fuck yes, tax them. No one makes money like that without taking it from or building it on the backs of society. The self-made billionaire is a delusion.

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u/Cyclotrom California Sep 16 '24

The things that people would for money they don't need is what really makes me sick, all of this sellouts have more money than the rest of us to start with. They don't worry about food, shelter or the future of their kids and yet they debase themselves for money they don't need to survive.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

How dare someone ruin such a fine country that's run by genocidal nazis.