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      17 hours ago

      You are aware that Americans. Not our government are some of the most charitable bunch of people on earth. We’re not all so bad. Just enough voters were misguided.

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        16 hours ago

        ‘Some of the most charitable people on earth’ (citation needed) are massive genocidal adult children. They overwhelmingly supported invading Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, Palestine. They even venerate people who participate in those actions as soldiers, i.e. in the most direct way possible.

        These people are not ‘misguided’. They are bloodthirsty monsters who deny their crimes.

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              8 hours ago

              I have family in the .00001%. They are the most caring and generous person I know. He told me to never Trust a Trump since he did business in NYC for decades. He never pays taxes because he donates all he can afford. He rents homes at a loss for families. That need the help. He turns dilapidated schools into affordable elderly apartments. He was an All American and proved to me that Rich folks can be good. Just that it’s a rarity.

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                8 hours ago

                Also, ask that friend of yours if he thinks that Pissrael should exist or not.
                Chances are, they are in favour of Pissrael’s continued existence, which means support for the genocide efforts past, present, and future, no return of homes and land from Pissraeli settler-colonists to the Palestinian families that they were stolen from, and no justice in this regard in general.

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                  7 hours ago

                  He actually introduced me to Arabic university professors and administrators from a young age. He never blindly supported Israel. I was well informed from a young age about the realities there. All because he brought many minds together for family events.

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                They are the most caring and generous person I know

                So, they are nice to you and their friends, so that means it’s okay for them to get rich off of heinous exploitation of most of the world and colonialism. Got it.
                So very ‘charitable’. /s

                He never pays taxes because he donates all he can afford

                So, he uses the system set up for them to pay less in taxes than the people they exploit. And to use that system, they just pay to charities that are useless for anything other than their own PR and what is effectively legalised tax fraud.

                He rents homes at a loss for families

                Even if we are to believe this and that he is not immiserating his tenants, he still doesn’t live at a loss in general, meaning that he is making the rest of society poorer.
                And that’s even ignoring his relations to labour and to the means of production.

                He turns dilapidated schools into affordable elderly apartments

                So, he is destroying schools and children’s access to education so that some wealthy rich people could get yet more housing for themselves?

                You have not investigated these matters much.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Nope. They are kind to strangers and showed how to be a good person. Always supportive of social programs. Always willing to help anyone in need. You didn’t need to be family or a friend. They. Would help. No questions asked. He employed thousands of people in my dying coal region in storage warehousing. Might not have paid super well but for the region. He guaranteed people an income. He would give homes to the churches of multiple denominations. My favorite lake house he had became a nuns home. I miss that place but it goes to goodness now. No the cities closed the schools because they out grew them. They sit for decades. And he goes in and turns them into nursing facilities and day care facilities for communities. It was fun demoing the one school. I used to lunch old teacher desks out the third floor windows into dumpsters. We turned a dilapidated century old school into a community center again. It was closed for like 20 years. And was no longer viable for school use. He invests in these old dying communities.

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                    Nope. They are kind to strangers and showed how to be a good person

                    Okay, stop. You keep pretending as if being nice in personal interactions somehow overrides stuff like being a capitalist and living off of exploitation of billions.

                    Always supportive of social programs

                    Like destroying schools.

                    Social programs under capitalism are a bandaid. Actual implementations of stuff like guaranteed housing require extremely rich people like him to not exist.

                    They. Would help.

                    Okay, how many homes have they given to the homeless for free and with no strings attached?

                    He employed thousands of people in my dying coal region in storage warehousing

                    And?

                    Might not have paid super well but for the region

                    So, he is extremely rich, and decides to underpay those people by utilising their desperation. And you say that this person is your friend.

                    He would give homes to the churches of multiple denominations

                    That’s bad. I hope you understand why giving homes to organisations that have a history of supporting and participating in colonialism, slavery, genocide, general infliction of harm to people, especially LGBT people, women, and non-white people because the fiction they believe in supposedly dictates so is bad.
                    Going to note that he did not give those homes to the people who actually needed that.

                    No the cities closed the schools because they out grew them

                    ‘Outgrew’ them how? Did children stop being born there?

                    Going to also note that you are yet to address how it is okay for him to live off of colonial and capitalist exploitation of billions.