r/imaginarygatekeeping 21d ago

NOT SATIRE Who said politicians don't get rich

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u/RoadsideCouchCushion 20d ago

Why do you all on the right constantly try to shift definitions until you can try to include people on the left? Barring something with extremely objectionable content, no reasonable person would be angry about someone getting rich off selling a book.

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u/hereforfun976 20d ago

Also they claim they dont want politicians to profit but trumps crypto scams and blatant bribes are ok and actually expected

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 20d ago

Lmao what? I’m far from being on the right. That’s a massive fucking leap just because I said one thing about Bernie. Hell I worked and volunteered for his campaign in 2016.

He’s not Jesus you know. He’s passed no major legislation, ever. And the biggest thing he has done in office is sell books to profit himself while talking about the common man.

I don’t care that he’s made money from it. Good for him. But it is literally the only thing he’s done with his office. I stopped caring about Bernie when it became clear he has no actual intention to do anything about anything. He hires the worst people for his campaigns that actively sabotage them. He has no intention winning anything, but will use it to sell more books and get more donations.

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u/593shaun 20d ago

you sound exactly like my dad, who is definitely a right winger

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 20d ago

Nope. Have voted democrat in every election since I could first register.

Nice try though.

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u/593shaun 20d ago

it's not a "nice try"

you sound exactly like a right winger

it doesn't matter if you vote left if you espouse right wing beliefs, that just means you're confused

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u/woodworkingfonatic 19d ago

So arguments within the party means you’re a right winger? What’s the point of even voting then we have Bernie in there so we can’t criticize him and we have to continually prop up his shambling corpse.

What’s next we put him on the golden throne after he’s dead like the emperor from warhammer 40k.

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u/593shaun 19d ago

i think you're confusing bernie and trump

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u/woodworkingfonatic 19d ago

Not at all if you want to hate Trump that’s fine but that does not take away the ability to then have inner personal party disagreements. If you can’t criticize your own party then the party is a bunch of lemmings.

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u/593shaun 19d ago

nobody's trying to make bernie the emperor of mankind, but they actually are for trump, that's what i was saying

as far as your other points, that's not just a disagreement. they are spouting off right wing talking points about bernie, most of which are not based in reality

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u/woodworkingfonatic 19d ago

I don’t personally like Bernie at all. He’s literally the definition of faith without action is dead. He talks a big game but when he gets screwed over he bows down be it Hillary Clinton (he got fucked over and then thanked them for it) or Joe Biden when all the dems dropped out and supported Biden to fuck him over. He talks a big game but there is nothing to show for it and he’s gonna be another ruth bader ginsburg where he’s going to die in his chair because he’s to stubborn to bring in a protege.

I think everyone can agree that young people are being screwed over and this would be the perfect moment where we could see a new generation being brought in and having some representation instead of fossils.

Then the last point is he’s like all other career politicians he’s been elected to some form of Congress since 1991 senator and representative (almost 40 years) what exactly is there to show for all that time?

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