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0 pointsGrustaf5y ago0 comments

It IS slightly different. In those cases it's much less direct, and the candidates at least tend to pretend that it's for some greater good. Here Biden literally said "vote for him and he'll put the cheque in the mail."

All pretence is gone. Talk about "naked (crony) capitalism".

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cthalupa5y ago· 2 in thread

I'd argue that removing the facade that anything else was going on is a positive outcome rather than a negative.

I'd also argue that promising stimulus payments when the country is facing an unprecedented global pandemic and all the knock on economic impacts is pretty reasonable, but I expect we disagree there as well.

GrustafOP5y ago

Do you think he's appealing to people's inner economist - "vote for me because helicopter money is good for the economy" or to their greed?

cthalupa5y ago

I think that a huge amount of people in this country were and still are suffering from the economic impact of this virus and the related lockdowns and that desiring financial aid from the government to help support them in their time of need is not a matter of greed.

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