The former hedge fund titan is waging one of the most expensive gubernatorial campaigns in US history — on a platform the business community hates.
I have hope that he’s a true class traitor, but this type of bait and switch has happened before. I won’t hold my breath, but he seems promising
Similar vibe. I’m not fully convinced that any billionaire is truly looking out for working class interests, but Steyer at least has a historical track record that we can point to and use as a benchmark for what to expect. There are no good billionaires, but in a world where more and more billionaires are running for office themselves or backing non-billionaire candidates all the time, he’s probably the least bad of them.
If he’s serious he would be better served giving lots of money to someone running on this platform who isn’t a billionaire. But I know he isn’t serious because there are no moral billionaires. There’s a very small chance this is self preservation but then you know he won’t go as far as is needed, just as far as he has to to pacify people.
Because he wants to keep his head.
The other billionaires should take note.
Funny how they’re quietly funding the other prominent Democrat
Please bullshit lie to get Californian to vote for him and make him governor. Anyone who votes for him to save them is fucking moron. No such thing as a good billionaire. And if he wins I will be here to say “I told you so”
The donations are all listed in cal-access and the endorsements are all public.
Yall morons it’s fucking shame. Yall going vote for billionaire governor. Sad, guess nobody going learn. Well you will the hard way I guess.
Oh please… if the USA showed the world anything during this past 16 months is that you will not take arms, or even raise your collective heads, against fascism.
Luigi was a wonderful outlier… probably because he is second generation immigrant
So Minneapolis didn’t show out in force to resist the invasion of ICE?
After 2 locals were murdered in the streets in plain daylight… yes, a bit… then back to sleep while the Fascist gov that send them ICE is still up and running, ICE still up and running, literally nothing has changed except Minneapolis can now say the most American thing “fuck you, got mine”
They are not showing up to fight billionaires. Happy to be proven wrong though
Your ignorance is showing.
See, I live in Minneapolis. I was a rapid responder. I attended Renee’s vigil. I’m a member of multiple groups and participated in the direct democracy which planned the Jan 23rd and May 1st strikes. I’m one of the anarchist “terrorists” Trump wants to crack down on.
Rapid response groups were forming in November as ICE presence was ramping up pre Metro Surge. By the time I was a rapid responder, my hyperlocal neighborhood chat had over 3000 people in it, and that was weeks before Renee’s murder. Renee was a rapid responder, murdered in cold blood for resisting fascists. Alex was an average citizen, simply trying to help a neighbor and deescalate the situation. We prevented abductions. We scared the pants off of the Trump administration, which is why they drew down. We’re still resisting to this day until ICE is abolished. During the crisis, people travelled to Minneapolis to learn how we were resisting. Now that we’re no longer in crisis mode, people are traveling to every major city in the country to teach people how we did it.
Edit: as for fighting billionaires, our movement officially adopted the slogan “No ICE, No War, No Billionaires”. Our general strike in January was so effective that basically every major corporation in Minnesota signed a letter to the president to draw down.
I am desperately wanting to believe you … but how can I address my “ignorance” when there is no evidence of anything you are saying?
I get that mainstream media is ignoring this type of movement but there has to be a bit more than “trust me bro”
Most of this stuff is not getting the attention of mainstream news. The only reason I know about a lot of this stuff is because I saw it myself. Here’s a couple links anyway:
They were showing up in large numbers before people were murdered for it. The murders just got your attention.
Ok, are they out there now?
Yes, but ICE changed tactics so it’s all less visible.
Same thing locally where I am. Signal chats are active, but we mostly respond to local cops doing something dumb and being mistaken for ICE
Several places have very active protests in support of the concentration camp hunger strikes too
Pot, meet kettle.
One thing people don’t realize about actually fighting back in a class war…
Is that even the tiniest amount of pressure makes some of the oligarchs start to compromise. If it looks like the two most plausible options for a billionaire is being a millionaire 500 times over, or a mob killing them, suddenly having 500 million dollars sounds like a lot.
If they think the two options are having a billion or 500 million, anyone that would be happy with 500 million would already have only 500 million
Everyday they can just give away enough money to not be the focus, but they won’t unless something worse could plausibly happen to them personally if they didn’t.
Fuck em, make them feel the same day to day dread and fear everyone else has to deal with in the society they created
You see United Health? They need to learn the hard way.
More like equal class distrubution then class traitor
He’s betraying the billionaire class, that kinda makes him a class traitor, as he is a billionaire
He isn’t betraying anyone. This is moron sheep voting for the wolf.
This is different though. He promised he wouldn’t eat me.
