White guy huh?
“Centrist” is, of course, a broad generalization of a rather varied political spectrum. It really adds clarity to be more specific and describe Schultz as a… self-centrist
Locked in syndrome is one of my favourite daydreams for fates of bastards like him. That and gibbets (Ian Duncan Smith, I’m looking at YOU…).
Yup. There are issues with FPTP, but “limits to 2 party system” isn’t one of them. Most parliamentary systems manage to support more than two parties, regardless of their voting method.
What’s interesting about the US is how deep the two parties run. Here, the biggest parties at the provincial level are not necessarily the same as those at the federal level. Even if they share a name, they’re not necessarily affiliated (for example, the BC Liberal Party has zero affiliation with the Liberal Party of Canada). That’s what breeds a multi-party system. But in the US, it’s Dem versus Republican, all the way from the top, down, and it’s the same mechanism whether state or federal. It’s a far deeper problem than simply fixing FPTP.
There’s probably no way to head off lazy journalism from describing a third-party candidate as centrist.
I haven’t seen anything from him that’s left of Marco Rubio, so far.
Medicare-for-all, debt-free college, guaranteed pre-K, minimum basic income
Jesus, that sounds horrible.
When I think of this douche-nozzle as president, I want to hurl. Every asshole with a big bank balance thinks they have permission to run the lives of the rest of us, because, what, divine right of kings? These guys are like fundies who think because Jesus loves them, they get to make the rules.
I can understand the thinking behind it: certain trolls like to post an inflammatory comment, then immediately edit it to say something innocuous. The purpose is to make the indignant responses seem unjustified. Of course, you can see the editing history, so it doesn’t work that well here anyways, but most trolls don’t care. Their accounts are basically disposable identities.
In other words, you have to earn the right to correct your typos. Not a high bar, but a bar nonetheless to slow down the hit-and-run trolls.
Editing to add (oh, the irony!): this is an issue that Twitter itself tried to avoid by making tweets uneditable, only deletable. And when a rich doofus like this Schultz guy writes something dumb like he did, it is a good thing that he can’t pretend he never wrote it.
edited a second time because I left autocorrect on, and “uneditable” became “uneducable”.
Thanks for that detailed explanation.
it truly does explain why the game,
NOW YOU SEE IT
now you don’t
was in full swing for me!
I think a person could avoid going nutty if they chose to use their immense wealth to improve the world for the people around them, instead of using it to improve their personal world to absurd levels, and feed their every whim.
Once they’ve calculated the amount they need to live out the remainder of their life in comfort* – even if they adjust for past inflation rates out to an age of 120, and bump it up a bit to account for future inflation** – they could set that amount aside to live off of and use the remainder of their fortune to fix the shit in the world around them. Without waiting for the government to force them to through a tax increase, or the people whose condition they’ve elevated themselves so high above to rise up and divest them of their wealth and noggin.***
Remaining grounded is a great way to keep from drifting away into madness. And hoarding everything helps nobody, not even the person hoarding. Deep down they know that and it twists them in knots.
But hey! If they would rather have their lives, and their height, cut short. By all means, steady as she goes.
*not the lap of luxury, because where does that rabbit hole end?
**And I would bet that number is a long way south of $1B
***Has the level of wealth inequality ever been higher than it is today? Is that really a sustainable situation? I’ve seen more guillotine graphics lately than ever before. Something is going to snap, especially if we are about to head into a bad recession/depression as predicted. “A wealthy businessman running the country put us here! All of the wealthy have to go!” But nah, dawg, it’s all cool. Order up another elephant. Play that fiddle while the world burns. You’re a winner, baby!
The sense I’ve gotten is that it’s not as much wealth that does this to a person but fame. I’ve heard a number of superstar celebrities, more introspective as they got older, describe a feeling they got that “I’m so big now I can save the world!” They describe this delusion as being promoted by their sycophants and hangers-on, but they also acknowledge that they got drunk on the Kool-Aid themselves.
Schultz sounds like one of these celebrities, one who never truly matured out of the delusion.
ETA: compare to this politically involved right-wing billionaire, who (whatever his many other faults) saw that Kool-Aid for the poison it is:
I read this. In Charlton Heston’s voice.
I would add that maybe rich white guys should not be our only source of hot takes on this entire topic.
So you support name calling then, when it sticks it to the libtards? Got it! Glad to see your consistent in your core values of sticking to us losers! /s
One of my favorite curses is “may you live longer than you want to.”
You might want to re-consider that assumption. Until just recently we had a white nationalist commenting regularly on this site for years under assorted names. As happens at any given time, we also have at least a couple of typically ill-informed Libertarians spouting their nonsense here now. And we currently have a victim-blaming proponent of discriminatory ethnostates trying to get a foothold as a regular commenter.
Okay, maybe the most right-wing regular commenter here who isn’t likely to be tossed out of the clubhouse.
