The best gift I ever got was a T-shirt full of holes. The person gave it to me because I was cold. At the time everything they owned was the T-shirt and three ramen noodles. He went cold so I didn’t have to.
What’d Walz sacrifice for those candy bars and drinks? As a politician he’s chosen ideological slavery. If he wanted to make a real difference he’d have stayed a teacher and football coach.
Holy shit, a new “worst take I’ve ever read” for Lemmy!
In your (warped-as-fuck) worldview, we’re better off if the good people don’t become politicians, and we’re stuck with only the self-serving leeches?
He’s a politician that takes corporate money and lives a far better life than his constituents. He’s not good.
Yeah why didn’t he give those trick-or-treaters his house and go homeless? Fucking politicians man
This picture was taken in front of the governor’s residence in Minnesota. Where he lived, when he was the governor of Minnesota.
Kinda hard to give away something you don’t own.
One of the perks of being governor is you get a house for your term.
You too could get a house if you ran for office instead of yelling at people on the internet about it.
If he gave everything away, he wouldn’t have anything at all, therefore wouldn’t be in a position to lead. Wouldn’t you require resources to do these things? Or is it your point of view all leaders should be homeless and penniless?
What…? I think you need some more time to mature before you understand politics.
The Widow’s Mite, ancient wisdom, is a shit take? Awesome.
I think you need more time to develop the courage to effect your principles. But, I’m sure you’re too busy developing the systems of exploitation, “engineer”. You could defect. But, that takes courage. It likely doesn’t even register as a choice.
So in a democracy you’d vote for no one, as they’d all have chosen to be politicians by definition?
“Ancient Wisdom” applied stupidly can indeed lead to shit takes. In this case, you’re criticizing this politician because… he didn’t give halloween handouts proportional to his income? His halloween candy bars weren’t a sufficiently significant sacrifice? And then you’re knocking this commenter because their opinion that your take is shit means they are blinded by the “systems of exploitation” they create as an engineer and their lack courage to share your moral views about the virtue of dispensing halloween candy proportional to ones wealth? You’re like a charicature of a cringey philosophy major - and I was a philosophy major. Stop pontificating and think logically about your argument.
Look at Protestants in America “interpreting” their “ancient wisdom” in all sorts of wacky ways. The Baptists’ “ancient wisdom” tells them they’ll go to hell if they dance. The pentacostals’ “ancient wisdom” says that the Holy Spirit will possess you and make you speak gibberish if you believe hard enough. The “christian science” people’s ancient wisdom tells them to pray cancer away - and if they fail to, it’s because they aren’t righteous enough.
Just because you can loosely relate some “ancient wisdom” to a situation doesn’t mean that it’s applicable or that you’re correct.
My wisdom would tell me that this guy’s halloween handouts don’t really say anything about him other than either that he: just likes giving out halloween candy, sees it as a smart political move, or both.
You should have let him keep the shirt, dude. He had much less than you, so he deserved it more.
He’d built up much more of a tolerance to the cold conditions than I had. It wasn’t even a day before another prisoner found out what he’d done and gave him a long sleeve. And, once I was on my feet I bought the old man a couple sets of long johns. No one needs asked to take care of a man who’ll literally give you the shirt off his back.