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  • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    my gf is watching the news and it's her concession speech and she is falling for it. tell me bad shit about this neoliberal ghoul so i can counteract this haystack news propaganda

    • BatCountryMusicFan [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      God where to start. She fought with the teachers union over putting a nurse in every school, sabotaged more than a few progressive measures meant to help inmates get better jobs and put homeless people in public housing, turned the loop into a playground for rich tourists, tried to pass a civil asset seizure bill that scared even other conservative city councilors, boosted the cop budget by $200 million, raised city bridges on protestors in 2020, helped institute a punitive youth curfew, was just generally a dick to everyone, etc., etc.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Jesus when even the chud politicians are scared of a neolib ghoul doing chud shit is when you know you got someone bad

      • bubbalu [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I moved back to the city for a while and it was crazy how there was a cop car on EVERY intersection in the loop. Made me feel like I was in a YA dystopian novel.

    • BatCountryMusicFan [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I'm optimistic. Vallas has a lot of money behind him and a good ground game, but he's also an obvious right wing piece of shit that even rich lakeside liberals don't like. He's wearing like three albatrosses already.

      • pinglun [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I don't think right-wingers have a chance in US municipal politics. Is there any major city with a GOP mayor? I can't think of one.

    • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I think they're decent. If Chicagoans understand that Vallas is a conservative they'll vote for Brandon.