Steyer is a horrible VP for Bernie. Crusading against billionaires while having a billionaire as a running mate is a horrible idea.
āIām a billionaire, and Bernieās right.ā Seems horrible.
If this were even a little bit true, he wouldnāt still be a billionaire. Thereās so many āresultsā he could make happen with that money, but instead he feels an irrational need to hold on to the āpowerā he feels from it.
What do you know about Steyer and what he has been doing with his money?
To clarify: Accordjng to his interview, he has pledged to give the majority of his wealth away before he dies. He claims to have spent at least the last ten years toward spending his money to affect policy changes to address climate change. Do you have any reason to doubt this? If not, Iām not sure what merit your criticism has.
Heās using his money to try to gain power. Itās what doing right in front of us.
yea man, heās spent a tiny fraction of his money to address climate change while using the vast majority of it to get more money and more power. Heās a great guy. good stuff. letās all worship billionaires and the weird meaningless pledge theyāve all made to give most of their money away at some unspecified date in the future. before they die they promise because they got called out on the old pledges.
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Thatās not my point, he is not seeking power just for the sake of holding power, heās doing it to address climate change. You donāt see the difference, between that and say GOPete who is clearly just seeking power for the sake of it?
Thatās what they all say though. You are mindreading steyer and claiming his secret inner heart is golden. Micro is skeptical.
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You should listen to the podcast. You donāt really seem to know what you are talking about. If heās an enemy and what he has been doing over the past decade or so is not worthy of praise to you, I donāt know what to say other than you donāt seem to have a realistic view of how the world or people operate or even the scale of the problem, which is to say you donāt really have an opinion worth listening to.
If heās that vague about it? Yeah. What percent of his money has he spent doing what? If heās spent hundreds of millions of dollars on it, I would expect some highlights.
I mean, if weāre talking about comparing what heās done to what heās capable of doing to what Iāve done and what Iām capable of doing, then Iāve done way, way more to slow down climate change than he has. You just donāt understand what it means to have a billion dollars. Youād hate him just as much as I do if you did.
Itās totally believable Steyer spent ~4% of his net worth on ads to impeach Trump to address climate change and not to build himself up as a Presidential candidate.
Heās like also already too late. If he really wanted to do something about climate change, then itās something he needed to do decades ago. The stuff heās doing now is too little too late.
Did you listen to the interview?
You donāt even know a thing about him. You have no idea what heās done.
No. He doesnāt seem like a viable candidate so Iām not that interested.
I know he could spend 95% of his fortune fighting climate change and heād still make more than five grand a day from interest on whatās left over. Has he come even close to like actually doing anything? fuck no.
Supposedly heās worth $1.6B. Iād be impressed if heās spent $500 million doing something to try to slow warming.
Read the Political Activity section. It does not appear to include a full accounting of his activities.