• Nougat
      80•17 hours ago

      JB Pritzker, Illinois governor. The fascists hate him.

      • @[email protected]English
        32•16 hours ago

        I don’t love the fact that he’s a billionaire. I do respect the fact that he seems to be a competent governor who actually tries to do right by the people of Illinois. He made a lot of smart moves during the early stages of the pandemic and he actually managed to balance the state budget; which for Illinois is not a small feat.

        I’m honestly surprised Pritzker hasn’t had a higher profile within the Democratic party.

        • @glimse
          10•14 hours ago

          As an Illinois native, I’m kind of glad he’s “unknown” - I selfishly want him to stay governor

          • @bitchkatEnglish
            8•13 hours ago

            I just watched a video of my governor, Tim Walz, going off on Trump’s gang. I can’t tell you how much I wish he was the VP.

            • @glimse
              5•12 hours ago

              Love that guy (and your state)!

              I do think he was the better pick as a running mate for Harris than Pritzker, though, as he’s much more of an everyman. I don’t think a billionaire would have been as popular even if he actually is a decent one (as far as billionaires go, I guess)

        • Nougat
          3•16 hours ago

          He was on the short list to run as VP with Harris, fwiw.

      • @PlantJam
        2•16 hours ago

        I seriously thought it was Oliver Platt. I didn’t know the actor’s name before looking it up just now.

  • @[email protected]English
    27•17 hours ago

    Thanks to capitalism and the modern internet, we’re able to see an edgelord tween-brained incel billionaire call another billionaire fat in response to the fat billionaire implying that the incel billionaire is a nazi, all from the comfort of my toilet!

    Maybe the Amish were right all along. Maybe we should reject these evils and form self-sufficient, small communities and subsist off of the land and the simple labors we can achieve with nothing more than simple tools. We can collaborate instead of distantly bickering. Algorithmically, modernity is rewarding the worst behaviors and attitudes, usually with money and/or attention. Only the worst of us is doing well under these systems, and these systems are only teaching us to be worse, so why are we working so hard to keep it? Are humans already too far gone? Are there too few decent folks left, or have the many already grown too indecent? Without changing course, where are we as a species in 100 years? Where were we 100 years ago? What the fuck are we doing that we allowed billionaires to exist in the first place, but beyond that we have also allowed a virtual town square to exist and be owned by one of them so we could witness him publicly insult a billionaire that he doesn’t like. And this is getting more eyeballs than people in your town out on the streets through no fault of their own, freezing to death overnight.

    If there were a god, he would’ve turned his back on us in shame a long time ago. No god worth worshiping would’ve allowed us to be so monstrous. If we were made in the image of some god, then that god must be some Eldritch horror that harms and consumes endlessly at all costs either ignorantly or through fabricated justification in order to feel pride and not guilt for these atrocities.

    But hey, at least I’ve got this nifty bidet toilet seat. So I guess it was all worth it in the end. /s

    • @MegaUltraChickenEnglish
      5•12 hours ago

      But hey, at least I’ve got this nifty bidet toilet seat. So I guess it was all worth it in the end.

      I was totally on board until you came for my bidet. I will let the world turn to ash before I start wiping like a peasant again.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      21•17 hours ago

      i get where you’re coming from, and i agree that modernity rewards the worst impulses. but i think this is a bit of a miss. right now, women, poc, lgbtq+ people, migrants, and other marginalized groups are living in fear under this presidency. governor pritzker—who has consistently supported these communities—is making it clear that he stands with them. that they are not alone while actual nazis gain power.

      yeah, the exchange is wrapped in dumb humor, and yeah, they’re both rich, but that doesn’t make it meaningless. visibility and solidarity matter, even when they come from unlikely or flawed sources.