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[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month 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

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

I'm just worried about another No Labels situation.

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

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.