Once you have the giant chequebook you might as well use it

God it’s actually so fucking funny. I can’t believe Americans were fooled into voting for this disgusting conman twice. How did you as a nation not learn your lesson the first time? How was there even a first time?

We would have been miles better off if Trump won

You’re off your rocker. It would have been the same shit then as now - that is to say, a setup for dictatorship. The reality is you’re arguing over very minor bullshit, when you probably won’t have free elections in 3 years because of Trump’s current actions.

I think this is the sort of assertion I would be careful making.

Trans people and drag queens, like all segments of the population, are not completely insusceptible to being pedophiles. Further, if there is a trans person or drag queen on the list, which is not impossible, they will be the one made an example of, even if 90% of the list is male billionaires.

I didn’t say anything about “turns”.

To become a high ranked member of the democratic party that is in consideration for the US Presidency, you have had to put in decades of political work and show loyalty to the party. You have had to work within the constraints of the party, even when you don’t 100% agree with them, and be considered as responsible by the public for bad decisions. Your career may have hit rocky patches because of choices the party made, despite them not being your personal beliefs.

To be Bernie Sanders was actually quite an easy political position, for the most part. He got to vote how he liked, did not have to sit under the party whip, and was only responsible for his own decisions. He did not have to do anything that was politically difficult, as he was never in power.

So my view on it is that there is just no reason why the democratic party should have gone along with him as their representative. If he wanted to have a chance at being the president, he needed to put in the political legwork, become a democrat, and have to go with the party whip sometimes, even if he didn’t personally believe in what he was voting for.

To have selected him would have meant that there was one less reason to be a democrat, as you could just be an opportunistic, populist independent.

Great, then mirror some of his policies. However were I a democratic politician, I simply would not reward a politician who has been outside the party structure for decades with endorsement for presidency. For me it would effectively be like skipping the queue.

As a non American I don’t see why the democratic party should have chosen a guy who deliberately chose to spend his entire career outside the democratic party.

No candidate has ever offered this. I am a structural engineer and have decided on this as a view of my own.

I don’t live in America, I don’t care about America. It would cost about 800b EUR to fund it in Denmark without considering economies of scale, industrialisation or existing stock. In my opinion, it is completely achievable.

I already pay the top rate of tax in Denmark. I am completely fine with it. My personal belief is cheap accessibility to work and living space is what generates prosperity.

To say “no one wants to pay for it” to me when my marginal rate is over 52% is ridiculous.

Idk. The kind where I believe that every adult over 18 should be given 80m2 by the government. Apartment, office space, storage space, workshop, lab, whatever.

I believe that you shouldn’t need to worry about a place to live at the bare minimum, and I believe that not having space for people to use and experiment with is one of the main hindrances of economic development (development, not “growth”)