candybrie

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[–] candybrie 0 points 3 days ago

Yeah but there are 0 third party/independents who didn't get elected as a Democrat/Republican.

[–] candybrie 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Implying he only makes executive orders about things he has a say in.

[–] candybrie 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

How many progressives do we have in the house? How many green party members (or any independent/third party member who wasn't initially elected as a Democrat/Republican)?

[–] candybrie 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If you're a third party in the general, the deck is stacked against you even stronger than a progressive in the primary.

[–] candybrie 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You could steal the green party but it's not going to get you anything. You'd have to do the exact same thing of building up the party from local, to state, to federal offices. And you don't get to drag along the people who are lifelong Democrats. You'd have to build up the green party and then take on both the Democrats and Republicans.

[–] candybrie 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think if she anchored it different, I might think like you. But "I don't have a million; not half a million either" doesn't imply to me it's close. Maybe like 100k. But saying that she said she's worth so much and quoting her saying "I'm not even worth X" as the proof is nonsense. Especially in response to someone with quotes from the article stating that it's like $125k.

[–] candybrie 3 points 1 week ago

You have to fund your own retirement. The social safety net is constantly threatening to be removed and it doesn't cover much to start with. And homes are stupid expensive. Especially in the places where AOC has to have places to live.

[–] candybrie 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think my point is more along the lines of "I don't even have half a million dollars" doesn't imply to me that they have half a million dollars.

[–] candybrie 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

How does "I'm not even worth half a million" mean "I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank" to people. I don't get it.

If you have a retirement account and a home, you're probably worth more than that anyway.

[–] candybrie 2 points 1 week ago

No? They tried to recruit from places that they wouldn't traditionally in order to get a more diverse hiring pool. So instead of just hiring the managers buddy, you set up a booth at the traditionally black college's career fair.

[–] candybrie 2 points 2 weeks ago

Would a younger kid have understood what was being talked about or would it have gone over their head like the dirty jokes in kids cartoons? If the latter, the filters did their job. Neopets was probably one of the rare instances where parents actually signed the permission slips for their under 13 year old kids to use the social aspects. I know my parents did and it was the only site they ever did that for.

[–] candybrie 7 points 2 weeks ago

Someone easily scammed

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