Screw you lol. When I was a kid, having my hair cut and made fun of were terrible memories. I treasured it, still do. And now that no pos makes me cut it, I grow it out and get compliments for it. I’m glad I don’t have you as a parent.
If you think local governments or state governments are equivalent to the national one, you need a refresher.
You ever heard the saying “don’t blame children for the crimes of their parents” or something like that?
The government is not one entity.
She’s not to my left… Lmfao. I’m about equal to her stated viewpoints. Albeit more radical on environmental.
. Or feeding the poor.
Oh wow, I don’t like buying votes. Jeez, who would’ve thought?
You obviously have the time. Look at your involvement in this thread.
I’m on vacation fight now, man. Flat out, I cannot run for the position. 25 years of age is the minimum requirement.
All of your complaints are covered in her many many materials
No. My primary complaint about her being out of district is covered by no serious answer.
What you believe you have is implicit evidence of corruption. Not explicit. And you just. Don’t. Have it.
I feel like you’re failing to understand that my annoyance at her not living in district is not the same issue, though it is a contributing factor, in why I think she’s likely corrupt.
I do think it’s fine for someone to represent anyone from any area - as long as they can convince the people from that area to vote for them
A complete difference in foundational thought of what makes someone a good fit for an area will go no where in discussion.
if you didn’t bob and weave through so many layers of random accusations and bullshit to get here
My point on her being out of district was from the start.
No, I’m not terribly hung up on the location thing. I think they should absolutely be local, and she’s pretty goddamn close
She only just moved into the state less than a year ago…
Not caring about the location is for a different political system. In ours, location is important.
I think it’s entirely valid to run in a district when you clearly align with the values of that district.
What indicates that to you? You don’t live here, do you know the values of the area?
But you don’t, do you? You’re just asking questions.
I have provided explicit evidence in the form of largely out of state donations and not being in district as to show why she should not be elected in the district. As well as vote buying through using campaign funds in charity.
you don’t fucking have it.*
No, you just think it’s fine for someone who has not even lived in an area to represent them. That’s just a recipe for pure corruption. It means they won’t actually understand the values or wants of the areas. You are simply pretending it is fine because it suits your views best
Genuinely, what? Xenophobia? Clear tell that you did not even slightly look at my post history and are making shit up. Either that, or you think my anti china stance on the basis of their authoritarianism is xenophobia…
It’s relevant when my current representative is not. She’s valued under a million dollars. You’re bringing in other reps corruption — when jan was, while too old, she was not some corrupt ass mfer.
That’s exactly how whataboutism works.
You’re completely ignoring that she still doesn’t live in district —instead of trying to contest a republican, or someone actually determinatal, she selected a safe seat to run, in a place she does not live, and never has. that alone is a major issue.
You are the type to see gangs providing people food and disaster relief and think “yeah, it’s purely good! We shouldn’t question it!”
That’s BAD? Campaign financing is almost exclusively used for shit like billboards, TV ads, and wealthy silver spoon galas and you think it’s bad that she’s using hers for charity? What the fucking bad faith, Batman.
Yes. It’s buying votes. Giving people food sith the clear implication of asking them to vote for her.
Ohhh, you still give a shit about Reddit. Okay, now I understand the type of conversation this is. L, O, fucking, L.
So her astroturfing is irrelevant just because it’s on reddit. Ah, you’re that sort of person. I don’t even have reddit downloaded anymore; you’re making a bold assumption on that front.
Almost all congresmen have extremely blatantly obvious corruption and political bribery, and you’re just pulling absolute bad faith bullshit from thin air about how giving crowd-funded money to charity is a bad thing.
This is pure what aboutism. Seriously? You’re seriously pulling what aboutism?
The fact is she has a large social media presence that explains her funding, her campaign strategy, and her so-called “astroturfing”.
Yeah surely swarms of people saying only good things about her and drawing 5x more engagement on city specific subreddits than other posts is just people loving her.
I did not instantly make up bullshit about her husband. And additionally, “past jobs” are not important, past political experience is important.
I’ve never heard of it, but a quick glance shows it was around before I got involved.
Also, it seems to be completely irrelevant. There is no front runner at this time, the race hasn’t even started yet and there is no incumbent.
I’m simply mad that an out of district candidate is trying to plant themselves into my district without so much as pretending to be in the district beforehand. She isn’t trying to really connect with the community, she’s just leveraging her influencer vibes to gather support with no proven record.
Influencers becoming politicians is rarely something that works out.
If she had made an effort to move here, put in routes and actually get involved with the community instead of just saying shit online, my opinion on her would be different.
Hmm yes me buying my fast fashion clothes made by abused workers real quick before the tariffs make it hard
- Since when does temporary unemployment imply corruption?
It makes me question where she’s funding her lifestyle.
- Her campaign seems almost entirely social media and local charity work.
That’s bad. Real world efforts are necessary. Giving campaign funds to charity is sketchy at best when you’re showing it off to pretend you’re morally superior
She’s campaigning in a district where she will replace an 80 year old retiring progressive
Irrelevant as the 80 year is retiring anyways.
She has 200,000 followers which seems to have grown over time with several prominent videos.
So? Genuinely hilarious how irrelevant this point is.
- Not here to reduce a woman to her husband, just pointing out a cool fact and rock-solid evidence that she’s probably legit - she’s MARRIED TO THE CEO OF THE COMPANY THAT OWNS THE ONION?! The source of the Pultizer-worthy headline, " ’ No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"?
I had not heard this. However, it will not change my viewpoint that she’s as this post demonstrates running an extremely questionable and too early campaign, as well as being an out of district plant by not even trying to have lived a real period of time in the district she’s planning to run in.
She lives in Chicago, is campaigning in Chicago
The vast majority of the district is out of Chicago. Also, she’s not campaigning in Chicago. She’s campaigning online.
By the way, anyone in the back: did you watch the goal posts move? Did you watch us move right along, without defending the first claims?
Any one of the points is enough to make her not worth voting for. Her being out of district alone is ridiculous. If she genuinely cared, she should be running for a district she actually lived in. You are blatantly ignoring how much an issue an out of district congressperson is. Pretending it doesn’t matter just because you like the vibes of the candidate. And it really is just that and nothing more, just vibes. She has zero lower experience in politics, no record, no evidence of capability.
Especially when she’s consistently astroturfing reddits, it makes me question where her actual in district relations are. If she even has any.
It would take literal decades of enshitification to be as bad as Comcast 🙏
She’s not running against the incumbent, no. Jan is retiring after this cycle. She’ll be running against a fresh slate
The incumbent is retiring. There will be no incumbent.
who come from outside her district.
She’s from outside her own district. That’s the primary thing that shows her blatantly questionable goals. She lives in a challengeable district with a dem who should be taken out. And she chose to campaign in an entirely different one.
Yes, she’s very likely corrupt. She’s unemployed, runs a sketchy campaign with astroturfing and refuses to address in any AMAs why she’s moving to our district later and why she’s going straight for the highest seat in a district that isn’t hers.
I’m not a filthy fucking centrist. Maybe by lemmy standards, but I’m left of 90% of Americans
Not skirting. Flagrantly breaking. Soft language is bad