@karolineleavitt I’m confused, are we “winning” because we destroyed race communism and DEI in universities? Or is the prevalence of it so overwhelming that it’s ruining Gen Z still? Maybe start with 20-30 million deportations. I get that Jesse has to be a boomer bootlicker but… lmao
No ill will toward Karoline Leavitt. She’s sharp and was clearly handed a talking point.
That script likely came from the older generation, Baby Boomers who built their wealth in a very different America.
One where buying your first home and raising kids didn’t mean competing against 100million illegal aliens for wages, housing, and opportunity.
This is the real generational disconnect. The people directing the message simply don’t see the stacked deck younger Americans are facing today.
We can fix the future together, but only if we first acknowledge that the older generation, who were indeed hard workers, grew up in a different America with different rules.
Pretending it was the same just creates tone-deaf friction on issues like immigration and deportations. The nation’s young are starting to wake up!!
Reality first, then solutions. Mass deportation
@stone_skipping@HannahDCox I can appreciate that SOME rates can be 60%z luckily that is why we have words like “average” and “relatively”. I’m not sure if you’re sundowning or just trolling but if you follow the comments you can see how my argument is relevant to your original point.
@stone_skipping@HannahDCox Property taxes (for much longer than I have I might add) and now you wanna bitch about them now that they are less applicable or not as expedient to your lifestyle
@stone_skipping@HannahDCox Except it isn’t anywhere close to 60%. That’s why I knew you were arguing in bad faith immediately when you chose the upper ends of cited property tax payments and K-12 funding. I think the more relevant deflection is the fact that you utilize services that are funded by
@stone_skipping@HannahDCox Where’s the deflection? You want to get into an argument of semantics to distract from the fact that you benefitted from the very system you want to get rid of. You just want to pull the ladder up because you got your fill. Did your kids go to public school?
@stone_skipping@HannahDCox 40-60% is an insanely wide range. But by all means, opt out of the services that property taxes pay for despite the fact that you benefitted from someone else’s property taxes at one point too
@stone_skipping@HannahDCox Yeah that’s literally how it works. Someone paid those property taxes when the boomers were kids too. Not to mention a relatively small chunk of property taxes go towards K-12 education. Average ANNUAL property taxes are like $3k/ yr. Guess they should skip lunch?
@ashleyschendel So which is it? Do we need to have inflated home prices because they “earned it” or do we need to have no property taxes? Or do we need to take both away? Meanwhile the majority of spending on social services goes towards people 65+ through social security and Medicare
@MattMorseTV While this is good, I agree, they’re not really doing much to combat people who are already on H-1B visas from what I understand. Also, I’d argue that many of these jobs will be consumed by AI anyways. So, I’m not entirely sure this benefits the average white collar American
@RepMariaSalazar Wait so we should feel better if “only the criminals” are deported? Was that the 2024 platform? I could have sworn it was mass deportations
@UziCryptoo I think his argument is that statistically people spend more when they are using credit vs a checking account. Or for more undisciplined people, even cash.