Bill McDaniel
Old millennial, blerd, nothing special, just someone who believes actual provable decency, honor, and selflessness is the minimum for leadership. Oh, and I can & will absolutely ruin you with just words. If you try to bring the smoke be ready for the fire.
- Yeah, sounds right to me. Justified, honorable, admirable, all kinds of things. After reading more and more of the Epstein files I do not trust the ones in charge right now (I never did trust Republicans to be fair). Do literally whatever it takes to not let those masked pedo-goons take you away.
- I'd say it's a safe bet to assume that every single billionaire is a criminal in some heinous way, simply because they have the money to indulge every dark whim that 99.999999% of people would never have the free time for. Work, kids, stress, etc. Things the rich will pay someone else to deal with.
- I'm sure there's some good ones out there, because math and probabilities, but until shown otherwise the safe bet is that a billionaire is a scourge and parasite upon society. Absolute leeches and vermin that we would all be better off without. They should all be subject to percentage based fines.
- Every crime they commit should cost them a percentage of their wealth. Speeding ticket? 5% Assault? 33%-100% depending on scale. Theft? 75-100% depending on scale. Anything worse than theft should result in losing 90-100% of their total wealth every single time, including holdings & investments.
- Some might imagine that the ability to vote will be interfered with, and that's likely not the precise case. The voting itself happens across an entire day, and they don't have the manpower to interfere all day in every voting precinct. Instead, what's at risk is what's happened in Georgia.
- Intercepting completed Ballots after voting is the thing they'll plan for. If they're going to try anything that has any chance of affecting the outcome, it will be trying to interfere with everything that happens after the voting is done. States need to organize to defend the entire process.
- Seriously, Trump audibly shitting his pants during a press conference and RFK jr. doing the "Seriously, Again!?" face is worth at least one viewing. Best I can tell it wasn't AI slop on that Forbes clip. Everyone behind him reacts to it, and then they abruptly escort all the press out of the room.
- I kinda wonder what it's like in the brains of maga right now. Needing to face the fact that they were sorta right about all the things that are in the Epstein files, but... Because they're so effing stupid and bigoted, they got conned into voting for, and giving power to the ones actually guilty.
- Realpolitik. A little bit of digging into this concept can help explain a bit about how some politicians and leaders operate. Not endorsing it, but I'm not dismissing it. It can help explain how someone can seem to "not care" about a moral issue that seems like it should be #1 in importance. 1/#
- 2/# If you hold a moral position that you wish to achieve, the storybook version says to hold on to that no matter what, and eventually the world will reward your position. But, the story also says it can only come to pass if you stay morally pure & uncompromising. The goal & path must stay pure.
- 3/# Realpolitik is the cold hard logic of reality that your goal is only as achievable as the power you hold will allow. If you have a moral goal, you first must have the power to make it happen. But in order to gain the power you may need to set aside the moral goal that you need power to enact.
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View full thread5/# Thus, the political side of this is seeming as if you don't have the desire to enact a moral goal. Because you seek power, and communicating your moral goals will potentially become an obstacle to gaining the power to enact them. This leads to "bad messaging", "that will alienate voters", etc.
