• @ABCDE
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    722 days ago

    “In 2008, Crawford endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.[63] Despite reports, Crawford denied endorsing Mitt Romney for the 2012 election.[64]”

    Even if she had, Romney is not a bad person. He voted to impeach Trump, did not vote for Trump either time, wants gun control, etc.

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      1321 days ago

      Romney is not a bad person

      (x) Doubt

      As an action figure enthusiast, I’m not a big fan of vulture capital destroying both KayBee and Toys R Us.

      In his 2009 book The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy, Josh Kosman described Bain Capital as “notorious for its failure to plough profits back into its businesses,” being the first large private-equity firm to derive a large fraction of its revenues from corporate dividends and other distributions. The revenue potential of this strategy, which may “starve” a company of capital,[202] was increased by a 1970s court ruling that allowed companies to consider the entire fair market value of the company, instead of only their “hard assets”, in determining how much money was available to pay dividends.[203] In at least some instances, companies acquired by Bain borrowed money in order to increase their dividend payments, ultimately leading to the collapse of what had been financially stable businesses.[62]

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        -321 days ago

        Why does this make him a bad person?

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            321 days ago

            Which politicians are going to get rid of capitalism?

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              321 days ago

              Maybe there’s some middle ground between “abolish capitalism” and “you know what’s good idea to make money? Buying a company, making it take out loans to pay us more money until it can’t function anymore, and then selling off the scraps. And we do it again and again and again. Who cares about destroying lives? My line go up, fuck you lol”

              Or maybe that’s just me.

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                020 days ago

                A question to my question, interesting.

                I don’t think as many as we would like to believe are bad people.

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      921 days ago

      Romney is a bad person. But he’s just regular Republican bad, not fascist leader of a death cult bad.

      • @ABCDE
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        321 days ago

        No, I said because he voted against him, and for things like gun control.