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Lucky Luciano
(11,810 posts)He thinks trump is incompetent, stupid, corrupt, and terrible.
He thinks Democrats are also terrible. They talk about helping the workers and do nothing but ensure that the military industrial complex is enriched…sure they’ll throw a few bones here and there, but at the end of the day, the war machine gets the grease. His number one priority, by far, is removing the US from all wars. Period. Ukraine, Israel…forget it. He’s never talking about Russia…but he sure does mention what a good day it was for Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin when Ukraine or Israel gets our weapons.
Not impressed with Newsome going to a dinner party at the French Laundry after ordering everyone to stay home during COVID’s peak. He views Democrats through the lense of such elites lecturing the masses about what they should do while not doing those things themselves….see Al Gore’s carbon footprint…or rich people flying their private planes to some high end resort town to discuss climate change. This breeds his cynicism.
He is most definitely pro choice, but the loss of that right was met with more of an “oh well” than a call to arms… in other words, not a top priority, but a nice to have.
He is definitely pro worker, pro universal health care….was a full on Bernie guy until he had to be a Stein guy.
They’re still out there.
No apologies for the Supreme Court either. It’s all kabuki theater to him anyway. He does take some of George Carlin’s political views quite literally about trusting nothing and nobody in the government.
Big Assange fan…big Greenwald fan…big Taibbi fan, big Snowden fan. He will note how many here were fans when they were going after the right, but got mad when they criticized our side.
He criticizes the left more than the right. I like to think it’s because the right is so far gone, it’s not worth it. He’s very opposed to rigid orthodoxy, whether left or right (Carlin discussed this). So purity pledges about DEI at universities, for example, which is sort of a thing, are very bad…he’s not wrong about such political purity pledges. There have been some professors losing their jobs or being ostracized for not publicly committing to key mantras.
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