Tim Walz Is Too Good at This
www.theatlantic.com
Let me remind everyone that Walz is, in fact, a politician.
  • @PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
    19•2 hours ago

    And JD Vance isn’t really from Appalachia, but Tim Walz doesn’t hang out with Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, and Curtis Yarvin, or degrade women who don’t have kids, and isn’t creepy as fuck, so what’s your point?

    Nothing in the article is negative except for a quote from a conservative saying he’s “full of shit”. Got ‘em?

  • @paf0@lemmy.world
    75•4 hours ago

    I don’t think anyone doubted this. Harris/Walz is a pro-politician anti-fascist ticket. I think we’re just looking for a sense of normalcy.

    • @kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
      38•4 hours ago

      Right, it is only in juxtaposition of the Trump Vance ticket that theirs seems so… idk, righteous? Wholesome? But were this 20 years ago, they’d be pretty normal. It’s only with the looming threat of another Trump presidency on the backdrop of what he and the GOP have wrought on modern politics that what should just be normal is so hopeful. But I’d love me some fucking normal right now so I’m gonna go ahead and still be excited about that if you all don’t mind?

  • BoofStrokeEnglish
    36•4 hours ago

    Nothing wrong with being a politician when you’ve positively contributed in other capacities earlier in life. Career politicians from the start are the problem.

      • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•38 minutes ago

        There are always exceptions. Unlike most politicians who start their career by networking in college to accumulate potential donors later, Sanders was on the frontline of the civil rights fight.

        • snooggumsEnglish
          1•20 minutes ago

          There are plenty of shitty politicians who started later in life. I would be surprised if the majority of politicians were always career politicians.

          Trump for example.

          The problem is that few upstanding people enter into national politics in the US, and the system tends to hinder their attempts to be good people.

    • @athairmor@lemmy.world
      4•52 minutes ago

      The Atlantic falls into the “both sides” trap and every so often throws out one of these af if they need to prove they aren’t biased. It’s Overton window shifting dumb.