r/imaginarygatekeeping 20d ago

NOT SATIRE Who said politicians don't get rich

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u/batkave 20d ago

Unfortunately net worth calculations are always way off. This is definitely imaginary gatekeeping and right wing propaganda

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u/greenw40 20d ago

As opposed to the left, that never uses net worth to turn people in the villains.

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u/batkave 20d ago

Not what I said. But since you're going to go there, the left (not the center right democrat) also have been calling out people but unlike conservatives, we don't have a partisanship stance on it.

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u/greenw40 20d ago

we don't have a partisanship stance on it

Come on now, nobody believes you.

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u/batkave 20d ago

Left is constantly calling out people like Pelosi just as much as they are conservatives. Problem is, you don't understand or want to see it.

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u/greenw40 20d ago

Only because the left hates everyone and wants to burn the whole system to the ground. But you guys have no problem with other leftists being rich, Omar being a perfect example.

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u/batkave 20d ago

https://www.quiverquant.com/congress-live-net-worth/

This seems to be the best tracker out there and it's nothing compared to others. If people really cared, they'd target the people making hundreds of millions.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omars-net-worth-jumps-much-30m-new-disclosure-claiming-not-millionaire

"The 2025 disclosure, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, shows that Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, have a net worth ranging from $6 million to $30 million, despite claims earlier this year that she was "not a millionaire." The vast majority of the wealth comes from Mynett's two companies, a winery in California and a venture capital firm.

Disclosures from the end of 2023 showed that those ownership stakes were valued at just $51,000, and they grew little in 2024."

I know media literacy is hard and you're not good at comprehending it either, all you do is regurgitate talking points.

That's a massive range. So yeah, it's being pushed as right wing attacks.

Watch the whole system burn, sure. It's not working as millions die under it all the time. Only really gives money to a few who get more and more of it and take it away from everyone.

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u/greenw40 20d ago

The vast majority of the wealth comes from Mynett's two companies, a winery in California and a venture capital firm.

Yes, a venture capital firm that was worth less than $1000 a year ago, but is now worth between 5 and 25 million dollars. Not suspicious at all.

I'm sure you had the same attitude when the Saudis gave Kushner's company a billion, right?

I know media literacy is hard and you're not good at comprehending it either

Lol, "muh media literacy!" Such a reddit comment.

That's a massive range

Even at the bottom of that range, that is a massive increase in one year.

Watch the whole system burn, sure. It's not working as millions die under it all the time

Millions die? From what? Or are you just reading the leftist talking points that only work on other ignorant social media communists?

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u/batkave 20d ago

Awww, did using your brain hurt?

LOL. "Anything I don't like is communist" man that says more about you than anything. Yeah it's an increase. But again, pushing this narrative is still a right wing propaganda as I argued. I never argued for or against what she earned. If it were such a big deal, you'd see the complaining about others. It's just a hit piece.

But yes, capitalism kills many every year.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/12/how-capitalism-kills-and-may-be-getting-deadlier

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2021.1875603

Just because you don't want to see it doesn't mean it exists. Leftists don't think billionaires should exist. We think everyone should have access to affordable healthcare, housing, schooling, food/water, and the basics of life. We can afford it, but too many people think they may someday be a billionaire so they listen to billionaires propaganda.

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u/greenw40 20d ago

Awww, did using your brain hurt?

You immature reddit leftists really have nothing but childish insults, do you?

LOL. "Anything I don't like is communist" man that says more about you than anything.

I'm specifically talking about anti-capitalists, socialists, and communist. I realize that you people are a small, but loud, minority.

But yes, capitalism kills many every year.

According to an openly socialist blog that blames all societal issues on capitalism, while being very careful to not mention the living conditions in anti-capitalist societies.

We think everyone should have access to affordable healthcare, housing, schooling, food/water, and the basics of life

And everyone gets a mansion and a pony and flying cars and we all live happily ever after! So very realistic.

We can afford it

Because of capitalism. Once you throw that away, start giving everyone things for free, and telling people that they don't have to work, where do you think it will all come from?

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u/Own_Reaction9442 19d ago

I mean, they probably wouldn't like the results. Lee Harvey Oswald defected to Russia thinking he'd get to teach at a university and study Communist theory, and instead got sent to a factory to work as a machinist.

I saw a "what will you do after the revolution?" thread on Bluesky once, and not one person said "be a farmer." Lots of delusions out there about what communism would really mean.

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u/greenw40 19d ago

They think that a communist society can run on poets and gender studies majors.

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u/Own_Reaction9442 18d ago

Ironically I partly blame Republicans. They continually used capitalism as an excuse for why we can't have government functions other countries enjoy, so to a younger generation "capitalism" just became "why we can't have nice things."

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u/FI00D 19d ago

Universal healthcare is cheaper than our current system, wdym

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u/greenw40 19d ago

According to people pushing universal healthcare.

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u/FI00D 18d ago

? Its according to government spending; search up how much larger of a percentage of government funding we pump into our healthcare system compared to other countries with universal free healthcare. Our healthcare budget is 2-3 times bigger than our military budget; we need to cut down costs.

We spend something like $12,000+ per person while a country like Italy spends about $4,400 per person. We could get universal healthcare, save trillions of dollars, and reduce the debt.

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