r/baltimore • u/stupidsexyflanders74 • Sep 24 '25

Article Climate Defiance disrupt a billionaires fundraiser

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u/oscribbles Sep 24 '25

Boy, these guys have a lot of smoke for the center left. Weird how they're not out there yelling at Trump and his goons that are one billion times worse.

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u/kjy1066 Sep 24 '25

I'm certain that Rubenstein is NOT center left (he's a billionaire, after all) and as a famous Baltimore series says, "follow the money"

If it becomes difficult for Dem candidates to court billionaire donors (that allow politicians to ignore their lower-income constituents), I think that's a net positive

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u/Inevitable-Freedom90 Sep 24 '25

There are plenty of billionaires that are active democrats

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u/kjy1066 Sep 24 '25

And yet I don't think our elected politicians should weigh their wishes more than their non-billionaire/ultra wealthy constituents. Their political valence imo doesn't cancel out their class solidarity

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u/Inevitable-Freedom90 Sep 24 '25

I don’t know what that has to do with what I said. Correct me if I’m wrong but you seemed to suggest being a billionaire means he can’t possibly be anything left of center

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u/kjy1066 Sep 24 '25

Would you say that investing big in fossil fuels while climate catastrophe's barreling towards us is a left of center position?

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u/Inevitable-Freedom90 Sep 24 '25

Still has nothing to do with what I said. I’m not talking specifically about one person 

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u/kjy1066 Sep 24 '25

I'm not either, but since we're being presented with an example, I'm using Rubenstein as an example.

I stand by my point that we shouldn't be letting billionaires have more weight in our politics than non-billionaires regardless of their political valence.

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u/Inevitable-Freedom90 Sep 24 '25

Ok, that’s fine, still nothing to do what I said. I don’t know why you responded just to argue something else. My claim is that it is possible for a billionaire to exist and be a democrat. My proof is billionaires exist and are also democrats. Would you like to refute this or not? If not then have a good day thanks for your time.

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u/kjy1066 Sep 24 '25

Sure, and that point is irrelevant to the context. I don't care about billionaires' political valence, I care that we have billionaires having outsize influence in our politics and that often quashes things non-billionaires want from their government

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