yup, for the same reason. lol DNC. lol California.
sigh
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What additional context do you think that adds?
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oh i forgot. Nothing for this crowd.
also
it’s Klob alone on stage:
https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1205578850392059904?s=20
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Acknowledging your white privilege is much easier to do when you are successful, make good money, have a college degree etc. It works because you still get to keep all the privilege but you also get the added benefit of being woke.
Poor white people only have looking down on minorities to look forward too.
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Poor white people aren’t privileged at all unless you compare them to similarly poor minorities. You want to experience being judged as ‘not worth of’ in America? Try having jacked up teeth, being fat, or not having a HS diploma.
Referral codes on campaign donations is ridiculous. Yes, I want to know who is doing that. No, the fact that you are AGAIN trying to paint this as the mean left going after small donors doesn’t change that.
Like what possible reason could the campaign have for wanting to know who referred someone to make a donation to them beyond rubbing that persons back later?
How is that not privilege?
I’m not trying to paint it as anything. Personally, I don’t see the problem, but I wasn’t sure if anyone else did. Now I know. Thank you for answering.
They haven’t gotten anything special AFAIK
i’m not gonna hate on the guy for using data science to optimize his campaign. what’s wrong with identifying the people who can handle more responsibility before giving it to them? should jobs just be distributed at random? based on the feel of middle management one day? i don’t get it either
If it’s just a Klob monologue I won’t feel too bad missing it. I got tickets for Star Wars Thursday night anyway
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This is a good move by Pete.
I was being serious when I asked what context you think that adds. The highlighted part is completely consistent with the quotes that people posted that you had a problem with.
Like, his attitude is the same as if he said “ok, public libraries, except you don’t have to contribute tax dollars towards them, and if you want to use it there’s a monthly fee”. Like, it is probably better/cheaper than what Barnes and Noble currently offers, but the universal/taxpayer funded/free at point of service aspect of public libraries is kind of the big selling point.
Why do you think they use these codes?
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but is your point “No corruption here, just offering management level jobs to people who prove their worth by having rich friends who donate under their referral link”? Because that’s literally the entire problem.
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Earlier…
Well, for my two friends in particular, it’s because they feel like they are a part of something big and important. I’m not kidding…both of them have never been politically active before, and they felt like they could use their large social networks to help something they believe in.
I’m not sure how to describe it, but if you think back to the first time you really found something to get behind, you wanted to do everything you could to help. That’s where they are with this campaign.
Because the entire context is more thoughtful? I know that you think it’s callous, but I don’t. An untested government plan scares a LOT of people, and a LOT of people actually like hearing that their leaders trust them to make their own choices.
Right but “I trust you to make the decision” was in the original quote.
Also I’m pretty sure Louis was asking why the CAMPAIGN uses the codes. Not your friends.
I think a lot of people would be more inclined to say ‘nbd’ if they trusted Mayor Pete more. Personally, I don’t think it’s corrupt that a lot of individuals donate higher amounts or pay larger amounts to go to fundraisers. I don’t think it’s automatically a problem if a lot of people from a certain industry donate. But, it shows you something about the kind of people Mayor Pete is attracting and what they expect from him.
This.
I’m glad you posted the full quote because it just emphasizes that we hadn’t taken him out of context and really underscores the entire issue with Pete’s line of reasoning.
“I trust you to figure out your own health care, especially when we create these options” is a really disingenuous way to frame the health care debate because it is borrowing from the Republican attack that somehow government-funded healthcare takes away choice (or, related, that creating “choice” is automatically a good thing–it is not, but that’s a separate conversation).
For one, people do not truly have “choice” in the current healthcare landscape. Your insurance options are limited to what your employer gives you. Your doctor options are limited to what your insurance option considers ‘in network’. “Choose” the wrong insurance and then something big goes wrong? “Choose” an out-of-network doctor in an emergency? That sucks, sorry, good luck with bankruptcy.
People will absolutely have choice in a universal healthcare system–they’ll be able to choose which doctors they go to, which is already more than most are able to do. What they won’t be able to choose, because they won’t have to, is which insurance company will lord over their healthcare decisions for the next month.
People are afraid of universal healthcare because people like Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg tell them that they should fear it because it eliminates their “choice.” People like Pete aren’t reacting to a problem–they’re causing it with their disingenuous Republican-lite attacks and bad faith pandering.
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