they were buddies rule

Sometimes, the best thing they can do is to not say anything. Walz could have said nothing, and pretty well nobody would have been upset about it.

Funny how the politicians and the media react with horror, but the entire rest of the Internet has an entirely different reaction. I wonder why.

During the campaign I've seen Walz described as down-to-earth, approachable and attractive to the working class voter base.

Fucking yikes.

Loss? What loss, Tim? Besides the families that have been torn apart and sickened over the years by this man and his board of ghouls? I see none.

Whether or not this is accurate about Tim Walz, it is accurate to say politicians, elected and appointed officials regard the ownership class as peers and vice versa.

This is also true regarding the upper management of news agencies, which figures in liberal or left-wing news sources that won't go far enough left to jeopardize a status quo in which the agency and its owners thrive. And yet, they will underestimate the right wing and its willingness to let the leopards eat their faces once they are in power. The recent nods to the Trump transition by WaPo and the Los Angeles Times will not save either agency from Trump's wrath against press once he is in power.

The Democratic Party is far right, just slightly more left-wing than the Republican party, and they are still beholden to the ownership class when it comes to campaign contributions, which is how we don't have four-day work weeks, universal healthcare, social safety nets or any of the features that most developed nations enjoy, because it's plutocrats that decide what our elected officials are allowed to do, not the public.

It's also why communist and socialist are bad words, even though that means the only thing else you can be is a monarchist which is about as anti-American as one can get (at least if you believe the preamble to the Constitution of the United States). We've literally been indoctrinated against public-serving government.

But then it's time to ask, what is the point of recognizing or serving the state at all if it isn't to serve the public?

Read the room, Tim.

remember when everyone thought this guy was gonna secretly turn bernie-bro the Kamala campaign into being good

Deny, Defend, Depose

Bourgeois parties support bourgeois fat cats? Nihil novi. A proletarian mass party must be built urgently. Revolutionary Communists of America do a lot of laudable effort in that direction.

the billionaire surveillance guy wants us all to start wearing glasses that record everything.

that is to protect the billionaire surveillance guy not to protect the rest of us just like cops wearing body cams is not to protect non-cops. they would even build in a way to remotely disable the bodycams if they could.

surprise surprise.

that said seeing United Health's stock drop more than 25% since open this morning does feel like xmas. I'm all in on them losing money and status and access to protection. but without them having to live in the fear that the rest of us have for decades is a bit of a .... i don't have a word for that.

I made a large collection of screenshots from Facebook of people who had their claims denied by United Healthcare today.

https://imgur.com/a/yczbSDa

As it was said on Some More News. The democrats should harness the hatred towards the rich elites instead of playing into Trump's anti-immigrant game.

So close to being a empathetic human while not being a corporate shill.

Democrats never saw a billionaire or war they didn't love.

Politicians are almost all sociopaths, not even trying to be funny. Sometimes they do things you like and sometimes they dont, but that never has anything to do with the interests and priorities of citizens. They are just people whose job is acting their entire life according to some doctrine, they dont have real personalities.

Maybe it's because the guy is a relevant public figure, and if he were to say something along the lines of "the bastard deserved it" he'd face a ton of consequences for it? This is so much easier to do in an online space where you are anonymous, especially in an admittedly echochambery place like lemmy.

I do recall the Trump's first assassination attempt, and some celebrities (can't recall the names right now) did come out and say something along the lines of "shame the guy missed" which made the media start hounding and targeting them, with their colleagues being forced to disavow or kick them from their projects entirely.

It would be cool if Tim Walz or any influential figure went "rip bozo" regardless though

Dunno. Thoughts and prayers is seen as some as politicaleze for bless your heart.

I think Governor Walz is successfully threading the needle here.

Any political that is praising that jackass getting what his due will get my loyalty, that's for sure.

You and he were... buddies, weren't you?

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/romeo-kokriatski-respectability-politics-or-you-gotta-be-nice-to-monsters

Gosh it's almost as if murder is a bad way to win hearts and minds outside of edgelord social media bubbles.

Tim Walz isn't a very progressive politician to use as an example, he was the moderate that the DNC threw on to balance out Kamala's campaign promises to tax the rich and legalize weed.

Tim Walz's former congress chair was a deep red district before he won there. He's a zionist.

Genuinely confused by the responses here. Like what do you want him to say? Because no politician is going to come out and say "Yay Assassinations".

Jesus Christ no wonder American is is the dam shape it's in because of bullshit like this. The political IQ of a four year old