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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago (25 children)

Hey, man, Luigi was fighting for you too; maybe with proper dental care, for example, you could finally have those boot polish stains removed from your teeth.

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -61 points 4 months ago (24 children)

You're not opposing any boots yourself, shoeshine. You're doing fuck all to help anyone.

Just like Luigi: impotent rage incapable of bringing about change.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (11 children)

You’re doing fuck all to help anyone.

No one said I was, you illiterate fuck. That's why I don't shit on people who are.

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -29 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I don’t dog on people who are.

Like who?

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

Oh shit, good one. Wow, you're so clever I almost forgot that you're insufferable. Come to think of it, I tagged you some months ago after reading a comment where you called Bill Gates the "best billionaire", so maybe your opinion of Luigi would've improved if he'd had extramarital affairs in the company of the 21st century's most notorious child sex trafficker.

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -22 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

I stand by it, but it's certainly a low bar.

At least he was being blackmailed for cheating on his wife with adult women unlike Jeff's clients.

Regardless even if Bill Gates had hypothetically murdered 100,000 people he would still be in the moral positive karma by millions.

Meanwhile Luigi did fuck all.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

Man, not like Jimmy Buffett or something? It had to be the man who used underhanded tactics – notable even compared to other massive corporations – to monopolize home computing and was buddy–buddy with a man he definitely knew trafficked and raped children while he cheated on his wife with multiple women? You clearly have poor taste in people either way, but hopefully in this specific case you just said "fuck it" and carelessly decided that, out of the ~3000 billionaires, your guy is the one who remarked that a permanent ban of Trump from Twitter "would be a shame" and who used his platform to spread disinformation that climate change doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity.

Even if the billionaire has to be alive, you're remarkably stupid by choosing him.

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -9 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

And supply food and medicine across Africa, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, as well as donating the vast majority of his wealth, yeah it's going to be Gates. You really cannot compare that to fuckin Buffet.

Billionaires shouldn't exist but the people who hate Gates the most are all rightwingers.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

as well as donating the vast majority of his wealth

Damn, I forgot that when I give away a portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars I stole through naked monopolization and exploitation, it makes me a super great guy – and the more money I steal, the betterer. How benevolent of Billy Billionaire; what a noble sacrifice. It's a good thing Jeffrey was around to give him those antibiotics for his STD; I'll bet he couldn't have afforded those healthcare prices after giving the shirt off his back to charity.

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -6 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

I mean, yeah, if you don't do that then you're just Elon Musk or Vladimir Putin which we pretty much all agree is a horrible person.

Kind of weird to see you arguing that you don't believe in the morale value of charity.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

Kind of weird to see you arguing that you don't believe in the morale value of charity.

Kind of weird that you're acting like stealing hundreds of billions through monopolization and exploitation and then giving some portion of it back is praiseworthy. Charity has moral value when you earned the money you have, not when you're giving part of your ill-gotten gains back; that's a partial offset, not a bonus.

Again, you could look at someone like Jimmy Buffett who just, you know, made his fortune being a pretty cool guy whose art people loved enough to pay for it, but you're still ride-or-die for your favorite child rapist-hobnobbing, cheating, ruthlessly corporatistic and monopolistic Trump-ass-kissing thief of hundreds of billions of dollars under the justification that he gave some of it to charity.

World's best centibillionaire? Quite possibly almost by default. Best billionaire? Impressively stupid take.

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -7 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

Nobody who bought windows copies or azure services benefited from Gates Foundation Charity. He didn't "exploit for it and give a portion back" he extorted the wealthiest population on earth and gave to the poorest.

BTW are you having fun trying to, how did you put it, dog on somebody for trying to help people?

Seems like you completely abandoned your argument about Weegee?

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Oh, and now you're trying to warp Gates' building of a multitrillion-dollar monopolistic megacorp and donating part of his personal profits to charity into something akin to Robin Hood. Yeah, dude, the ruthless capitalist centibillionaire personally deciding who lives and who dies is practically a folk hero. And hey, he's even out there donating money for syphilis research, which could help underprivileged associates of pedophile financiers who cheat on their wives.

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -7 points 4 months ago

You really have completely abandoned the Luigi discussion.

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[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I dunno, that one CEO surely didn't think Mangione's alleged rage was very impotent, and all the other CEOs that got scared didn't think so, either. Unfortunately the American people let Luigi down, though

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[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -16 points 4 months ago

Scared? UHC aren't acting scared, that's for sure, they're ramping up automation to deny more claims.

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[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I sorta hear where you're coming from but I think for most people, someone getting out there and shooting someone is a million times more ballsy and proactive than we'll ever be. Agreed that it was misguided/naive though. I think it's hard to know what will actually bring about the much needed change.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 point 4 months ago (8 children)

I'll take one more Bernie Sanders over a million idiots with guns.

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Bernie Sanders is well loved, but also extremely old, and doesn't seem to have passed the torch to the next generation of like minded politicians.

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Bernie Sanders is well loved, but also extremely old, and doesn’t seem to have passed the torch to the next generation of like minded politicians.

I mean what would you call AOC, and Mandami, there's no torch, Bernie is 1 of 100 senators. He's never tried to sell himself as some special perfect person. Isn't any time he endorses someone that passing the torch. He doesn't have to step down to have an air apparent. I'm sure if someone with good ideas went to run in vermont he'd probably step down for it. but right now the game is national, and he's playing it on a national level.

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 point 4 months ago

I mean what would you call AOC, and Mandami,

Young.

(Sorry. Had to.)

An 84 year old shouldn't be in that position no matter how they outwardly appear. He's doing a fine job but he could be doing a better job helping to build more "1 in 100"s to make a change.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Well he has endorsed a lot of people over the years, actually went on tour after the 2024 election ended to get people across the USA more involved in politics at every level and vowing to support then in the midterms.

I follow him on YouTube and he does A LOT of rallies. They seem pretty cool, they always have some local musicians play a few songs before he goes on.

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

Why is he still in his seat when he's well past retirement age? Why doesn't he have a successor? He's 84.

RBG was 87 when she died, and she held onto that position long enough to have a Republican appoint her replacement.

I like Bernie but I'm concerned why he hasn't passed the touch.

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

I think the key is he's in a local position. Point is no matter what, his "replacement" has to run and win. Point is, he helps good people win wherever they happen to be. For the most part senator isn't an entry level job. Right now I'd say it's fair to say Bernie is to my knowledge the best currently sitting senator, if I'm missing something blatant he's at minimum top 5.

Senate isn't exactly a position where you can pick an heir apparent, and for the most part people can only win with experience winning a mayorship, governor or house of representatives seat first. Fact is there's 99 senate seats with people not as good as him to replace, 465 house seats, 50 governors, tons of mayorships etc... that he can throw his weight at besides his own. Yes it would be great if there was a 40ish year old bright and scrappy contender for senate in vermont that bernies endorsement would make a shoe in... but to my knowledge there isn't.

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

I think the key is he’s in a local position

Sanders is a Senator. Are we defining Senators as local, now?

Senate isn’t exactly a position where you can pick an heir apparent

It's a tough pill to swallow that our favorite guy should have stepped down at least a cycle ago due to his age. If a dude from his party is elected next, it'll be really unfortunate.

Yes it would be great if there was a 40ish year old bright and scrappy contender for senate in vermont that bernies endorsement would make a shoe in… but to my knowledge there isn’t.

This is the problem. Why isn't there?

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Sanders is a Senator. Are we defining Senators as local, now?

Why wouldn't we, in a country with a population of about 230 million people, about half a million are qualified to actually run for office there, because you have to live in Vermont.

This is the problem. Why isn’t there?

Why aren't there 2 in every state is the real question. I'd say among the issues is, 1. again senator isn't entry level, So people who Bernie reached in his 2016 presidential bid, are still getting their feet in the door, pushing through the beurocracy and the pacs trying to keep them from getting elected to lower offices etc...

and yeah a lot of it is to be blamed on us the voters, that there's not enough of us showing up for the primaries. and just not enough people that want to do good, that are taking the swim into politics.

Really that's probably the key problem on the whole. Politics as a whole is a really tough career field to get into, and it's very analogous to starting a business. You need to spend a ton of money and survive with 100% of your time being devoted to trying to start, with only a possible chance of eventually making money IF you can somehow stay afloat for a year with no income. Which sadly is why it creates this world where 99% of people making it through politics are nepo babies and people who have already sold their loyalty to big money.