NYC primary 2025

Any of you watching this? I'm thrilled with the results so far. It should hold through the runoff section, but you never know. Ope, I'd say with Cuomo's concession before even counting the runoff, it'll hold.






You love to see it

 

lol, the freakouts begin. Also, you know you don't have to take Trump seriously because of "he looks TERRIBLE"

Does he think Cuomo won? Mamdani is objectively quite handsome

 

Well, I can’t comment on whether he’s “handsome” or not, but he’s definitely a far-Left whacko socialist and that would be reason enough for me not to vote for him.

 

You must not have seen him then

What do you object to in his platform?

 

Why do libs focus so much on a persons looks?

 

No no no, Trump brought it up before anyone else. He's the only reason we're talking about it at all

 

He WAS a Democrat, after all . . . .
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Mamdani has been quoted as saying, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires”.

My retort? . . . I don’t think we should have folks who refuse to work for a living.

There . . . We’re even!

 

I'm totally with him though. Growing number of us saying that your worth over a billion should be taxed 100% and maybe you get a little plaque that says "I won capitalism"

 

Ok…. I’ll take that road with you…. Man works his whole life and manages to turn himself into a billionaire. So now we tax him for working hard and being successful…… Go down the road a little further and the non working class sucks up all those funds. What’s next? Well, let’s tax the millionaires at 100%. Once again the non working class parties on another persons hard work. Those funds dry up. Who do we go after now??? I’ll tell you… Me and you. I been working twelve hour days for almost thirty years now. Why should I give what I sweat and bled for to someone who hasn’t?…. I’ll sum up socialism like this. You work hard in your college classes and come out with a 4.0 average….. A socialist would give that 4.0 to the guy that partied and skipped his classes. That’s fair isn’t it? No, it is absolutely absurd…. But where does the whole thing end? Who now is motivated to succeed? To create jobs? …. Wake up man.

 

Correct, MD... socialism sucks. Big time.

 

The problem is that no one works to earn a billion dollars. It's accomplished via exploitation and luck. Are you not a billionaire because you simply haven't worked hard enough? Would 13 hour days have done the trick? I doubt it.

 

Luck? You’ve doubtless heard the truism, luck is where preparedness meets opportunity. That deserves little more attention.

As for exploitation, well that’s more conjecture than anything else.

You overlook the fact that it’s not only the time put in, but the focused mental energy, the stress, the risk, the sacrifices made which contribute more meaningfully to such earnings.

I know this because I’ve consciously chosen not to seize numerous “opportunities” which would have made me substantially more money in my lifetime. In just about every one of those cases, having passed also delivered something else on the other side of the ledger . . . More time with family & friends, relaxation, a job I enjoyed more, peace of mind, etc.

To form such opinions about someone based only upon their financial worth is shallow. That goes in both directions. Unless you know that person intimately enough, you have no idea what’s on the other side of that ledger.

 

Born at the right place and right time is huge. You don't actually believe you could have been a billionaire if you made different choices, do you?

By exploitation, I mean willingness to squeeze value out of people, morality be damned. A frequent example is employers keeping workers right on the edge of full time hours. That way you get the most work out of them without having to pay benefits or help them grow. They burn out from this treatment, sure, but you just replace them with someone else in the same position.

 

What entitles you to think that someone else's accumulated wealth belongs to you or anyone else, whether it was accumulated in a single generation or many? Selfishness, that's what.

I know my limits, and I know I'm not cut out to be a billionaire because I know what it would take to pursue that goal. I've watched others do that, and am glad I've chosen my path. Still, to answer your question, I could have made a hundred times my lifetime earnings if that was my single-minded mission in life but it wasn't.

As if squeezing extra billions out of a billionaire is any less exploitative?

Socialism sucks . . . get real . . . then get over it.

 

can you agree it isn't possible for everyone? What you earn isn't any of my business, but I doubt 100 times your lifetime earnings gets you to even a single billion. Nothing to be ashamed of, you're in good company with 99.999% of humanity there.

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It literally is. Wealth is a zero sum game. Under capitalism the only reason money has value is because of inequality. If everyone has a billion dollars, it's meaningless. I'm not saying this inequality is inherently bad, but when you reach a point of abusurdity (arbitrarily, let's go with a billion), you're hoarding more wealth than you could spend in many lifetimes. Simultaneously, being a zero sum game, this deprives others of basic needs like food, housing, and healthcare.

It's not about the act of taking money from 50 people vs 50 million people, it's about working towards meeting everyone's basic needs as a society. Is that not a valuable thing to work towards?

 

That only works when everyone within that societal model has the same goal. That will never happen. It’s just simple human nature.

 

Given the amount of human suffering currently going on, how exactly can you say it's "working" now?

 

You socialists are staring at the ass end of the horse, and always have been.

The inequality you should be focused on is the mindset of the hoards of people who think it's okay to lounge on the threadbare sofa munching Cheetos, lean on the cracking unpainted porch rail sucking down a PBR, or post to Partisan Lines on the employer's clock when they could instead be producing, like those whose money they want more of.

They don't care who the money comes from . . . they just want more of it without working for it. The billionaire comes into the picture only because he is the easiest target to convince everyone else it's okay to take from.

Life ain't fair, and we all need to accept that. I've got no hair atop my head, and wish I did, but I'm not scalping someone else to make myself feel better.

 

The billionaires do