The Whitewashing and Greenwashing of Gov. Tim Walz
For those of us who have had a front row seat to some of Walz’s machinations and political decision-making in Minnesota for the past several years, reconciling the current media narrative around Walz with what we’ve seen with our own eyes has been disorienting.
Tim Walz originally decided to run for office as a Democrat after being denied entry to a George W. Bush rally in 2004. He flipped a longtime red Congressional District in 2006, and then proceeded to be one of the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. Congress, ironically aligning himself with many of the Bush Administration policies. He had an ‘A’ rating from the NRA, voted for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, supported the big agriculture industry, and was obviously pro-military after serving in the Minnesota National Guard for 24 years.
This is bullshit, Walz used to be pro guns, but changed his mind because of the school shootings.
I imagine many people have done that.
I'm just worried that your baby thinks that people can't change. I used to be a piece of shit. USED TO.
Ozma, bruh. You really need to pick and choose to have an actual discussion. All you're doing is bringing minor gripes to a larger discussion. We have an existential crisis in this election, but there just isn't enough time in the day for any candidates to cover EVERY FUCKING THING conceivable to get whatever your vote looks like.
Shit is fucked up. People are trying to fix it. They're also trying to defeat a tyrant who aims to run rampage on the country as a whole. Baby steps.
wonder what tyrant will be propped up next so the Democrats will again have to be voted in to stop it
and what are the Democrats focusing on? just Trump/fascist tyrants?
You act like Trump has happened in every election cycle since the start of the country. Fuck off with your bad faith bullshit.
Tell us you haven't bothered to read anything without telling us. There's answers to those questions, if you'd bother to look. Like, at all.
Still vote Dem but stop pretending Harris and Walz are saints. You can still be informed about their records.
No one thinks they are saints. Give us a minute to celebrate having a non-geriatric candidate with a vp pick that isn't an incel, abuser, robot, or anti-lgbt closeted homosexual.
This. This all day. Like, read the fucking room.
It's like showing up to somebody's childhood birthday party and going, "Great party. It's a shame your parents are getting a divorce." We have all had to survive four years of Trump followed by a geriatric president people were lukewarm about and also more Trump.
I think it's okay to have some excitement, as a treat.
It's almost like people can grow and evolve in a nearly two decade span of time.
I grew up in a Conservative Christian household and was taught to be homophobic, not to trust anyone who wasn't a Christian because they could be "activated by the devil to work against me at any time", and grew up with parents who casually used racial, sexist, and other hateful slurs about people.
Now I'm a very strong LGBTQA+ advocate, actively volunteer for my local Democrat's office doing phone banking, and am extremely left leaning in all of my views.
I'm not saying that's what happened to Walz, but he seems like someone with a big heart who's trying to do the right thing. If he's lying about who he is, I'll be damned if I can tell. He'd have to be exceptionally good at it to seem as genuine as he is. I'm not saying he's a saint, though. He is human. He's going to have flaws.
What's your most far left view?
Probably UBI or my belief that anything over several million dollars in income should be taxed at or near 100%
Should landlords exist?
Landlords are fine. Corporations should be banned from owning single-family homes and be forced to stick with apartments. Apartments should have rent control.
Landlords should not exist. They need to stop leeching off the labor of others. Get a real job.
In your mind, though, who would own and operate apartments, townhouses, and single family homes that are for rent?
I'm open to an opposing argument and curious about what solution you'd propose.
@chronicledmonocle @return2ozma I think we need landlords, caretakers of property that is otherwise often changing hands. I think the failure of communism has demonstrated what happens when you eliminate too many social variables and remove the incentive to succeed at anything. Capitalism has its own critical failures too, of course.
Housing is a human right. Social housing for all.
Yeah I could see socialized rental housing. I think socialized rental with individual privatized ownership of things like Single Family/Townhouse Homes would work. Cheap housing for rentals while you save to buy a home.
Home ownership is an important part of building wealth in America, so unless there is a radical shift or we go significantly more socialist in many categories, it'll still be necessary for individuals to be able to buy a home.
Vienna's social housing: https://youtu.be/MxuACFQBwxs
Alternate headline:
‘return2ozma hates Biden, Harris and Walz so who do they like?’
Or, read the article.
I did.
I don't even have to look to see who posted such stupid shit when the headline reads like this...
Eh, dude posts damn near everything except pro-trump shit.
You can't really try to claim they're pushing a narrative when they post a lot of pro Harris/Walz articles because they also post a few that aren't positive.
To be clear tho. This article is straight garbage from the quoted part alone, I don't know why someone would de ide to post this specific article.
Their comments on posts show them to be VERY biased to one side of the political spectrum
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While true, it's kind of important that he was there as a teacher taking his class on a school trip, one student wasn't let in because the student had a shirt on for the Dem candidate, and Walz decided to run as a Dem because of that.
Other than that tho, I agree we shouldn't pretend their perfect and progressive.
They're "good enough" and they'll only stay that way with sustained pressure from the left because the right never stops applying pressure.
I don't feel like that's what this article is trying to do, and I'm not giving them the click to find out.
and this is why our "democracy" is in shambles
nobody bothers to read articles because they automatically assume it will paint their candidate in the wrong light even when there is a fact checking bot to let you if it is worth the read
When the summary includes such a gross misrepresentation of the facts, it's counter productive to reward them with page views to see if maybe some of the other stuff they said wasn't bullshit....
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Goddamn the "any critique of a democrat means you're a trump supporting russian bot" crowd really is out in force here. Majorly supporting Keystone XL, supporting the violent police response to the George Floys protests, and supporting the genocidal regime of Israel are all reprehensible things and it is a joke that they're trying to paint this man as a progressive.
They did the same thing during Hillary's 2016 run. They refused to listen to the left. Look how that turned out.
article does not show him in a good light when it comes to police reform and the environment and worker's right or anything progressive plus the bot gave the source a high credibility report of mostly factual
this is what people are protesting about the US arming Israel, police reform, and higher wages just to name a few
and it looks like Walz is actively against progress just like Harris disregarding the protesters at the convention
Their opponent is so much worse on pretty much all those topics.
Harris Walz campaign is aging like milk
No matter how much you say it, it doesn't make it reality.
Ewwweirdo.
PS: extra funny the punch they though they're adding using one of their cherished keywords (greenwash) straight from the regarded toybox of conservative bullshit