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[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

My comment or the political party?

Andrew Yang is a billionaire which does suck, but if a billionaire is able to help us get RCV I'll take it, but that's just my 2 cents.

As for me I'd love if my comments were being funded by dark astroturfing money. I got credit card debt that I need to pay. Sadly I still need to go to work.

Edit:

Andrew Yang isn't the one guy funding the party- just like any party they are pulling from many sources, I just assumed the comment was trying to get at the fact a billionaire is setting this up. I had a knee jerk reaction to that because I see purity tests as an unproductive way to judge a movement. There should be boundaries sure, but there should also be a degree of pragmatism in how to get things done.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm just worried about another No Labels situation.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

No Labels is another one of these centrist parties with the exact same slogan. Serious, their slogan was "Not Left. Not Right. Forward." This "Forward Party" is practically a carbon copy.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

As near as I can tell, he has a lot of money but he's several orders of magnitude away from billionaire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang#Net_worth