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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

The all-American working man demeanor of Tim Walz—Kamala Harris’s new running mate—looks like it’s not just an act.

Financial disclosures show Tim Walz barely has any assets to his name. No stocks, bonds, or even property to call his own. Together with his wife, Gwen, his net worth is $330,000, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal citing financial disclosures from 2019, the year after he became Minnesota governor.

With that kind of meager nest egg, he would be more or less in line with the median figure for Americans his age (he’s 60), and even poorer than the average. One in 15 Americans is a millionaire, a recent UBS wealth report discovered.

Meanwhile, the gross annual income of Walz and his wife, Gwen, amounted to $166,719 before tax in 2022, according to their joint return filed that same year. Walz is even entitled to earn more than the $127,629 salary he receives as state governor, but he has elected not to receive the roughly $22,000 difference.

“Walz represents the stable middle class,” tax lawyer Megan Gorman, who authored a book on the personal finances of U.S. presidents, told the paper.

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[-] jprice@kbin.run 109 points 3 months ago

It’s almost as if the wholesome, good Christians became progressive labor supporters while the degenerate pseudo-Christians became asmondgold, otk and people like mr. beast, and the fucked up christians became maga nazi fascists.

[-] triptrapper@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

As a recovering Catholic, my experience has been that Lutherans tend to be humble, charitable, and... not weird. Lutheranism puts a heavy emphasis on showing grace to yourself and people around you. I guess without the obsession with sex and shame, you can be a Christian and turn out pretty normal.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

There are several sects of Lutheran. Missouri Synod is fucking nuts. My friend grew up in some other sect that found Missouri Synod too liberal.

[-] punkaccountant@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Ex-catholic here who unknowingly moved deep into WELS Lutheran territory (if u haven’t heard of that one…well, I’m jealous ;)). Sadly, they ain’t all like that. And unlike Catholicism…there’s like a million different Lutheran synods…with rules and culture that vary WIDELY.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 15 points 3 months ago

Wow, you are 100% dead-on right. Be prepared for downvotes though, because you claimed the existence of good religious people here!

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I've met a surprising number of "good religious people", but it's not surprising most people think they don't exist. I think this phenomenon transcends religion though

In the case of good Christians, the one unifying quality all of them have is they aren't loud, and they aren't pushy about it. They live their lives with a set of fundamental values and are always willing to go out of their way to help a neighbor. If it weren't for the symbology in their homes you might never know.

I think it's the same with anything else. If you've never met a trans person who doesn't make enforcing pronouns their entire identity, it's easy to have your perspective skewed towards the obnoxious loud ones you see online. If you don't personally know a cop or a black person, sensationalist stereotypes might be your internal idea of normal about them too. Etc...

Linux users though... we're all pushy weirdos. Not a normal good one among us :)

Actually now that it's been mentioned, have you ever tried Linux on the desktop? It's really good these days. I do not use arch btw, I'm a Debian user myself.

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The word for this is fundamentalism. When people believe it's their way or the highway and all others must conform.

However, in the case of trans folk, I think it's a bit different. They're not forcing pronouns on others, just asking that they be shown basic human respect. If you were a straight man, I'm sure you'd get pretty annoyed if someone insisted on calling you a woman nonstop. Sometimes, people need to be louder when they're facing an existential crisis as they are in the USA among other places.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

This feels like a "yes, but actually...". That is kinda missing the point.

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Not seeing many downvotes. I think people understand nuance more than you expected. :)

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

I'm loving being wrong!

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 3 months ago

its in to love carter now so not so sure on that.

[-] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Don't forget the good Christians who deleted reddit for lemmy!

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 8 points 3 months ago

I don't follow YouTube shit but what happened with Mr Beast why is he so hated now?

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 8 points 3 months ago

A bunch of allegedly this and that that has not been proven. Allegedly putting people in dangerous situations and then refusing to provide medical support. Having someone on the channel that is an alleged sex offender (charges are being dropped on that one), among other things. Looks really bad, but I would advise coming to your own conclusions as information comes out.

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Legal Eagle just did a video about the whole thing as well. I'm inclined to believe his views on the whole mess.

https://youtu.be/W4CePWWN1Xs

[-] SpicyAnt@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mr Beast went through four controversies in a short amount of time:

Content warning: Sexualization of minors(1) Ava Kris Tyson (former Mr. Beast member) was shown to be a fan of an artist called Shadman that is known for drawing cartoon porn including "Loli" (drawings of sexualized children), and who drew the 8-year old daughter of a Youtuber. Ava bought some of Shadman's art (a non-pornographic piece is seen on a Mr. Beast video), and also made some loli-related comments in the past. It is not clear whether Mr. Beast was aware of this and whether he was also a fan of this content.

(2) There was evidence of the group running a discord with minors in which sexual topics were discussed. Ava was accused of "grooming". Discord chats were leaked and they confirmed the claims about Ava making a lot sexual jokes with a group of minors, but whether this is "grooming" is up for debate, as some consider adults being "edgy" with children not to meet the threshold for "grooming".

In response to both of these, Mr. Beast cut Ava out of Mr. Beast.

(3) There is a "Beast Games" show being produced by Mr. Beast for Amazon Prime. It turns out that putting 2,000 people to compete for 5 million dollars in Las Vegas was a recipe for organizational disaster. People had issues getting their medicines and underwear. People were fed low-calorie meals like a small amount of cold oatmeal and an egg spread at irregular intervals. Some people had seizures and the local hospital reported several injured visitors from the games. It was reported that the team invited people of all ages and then made them compete in physical games for which young men had a very significant advantage over the old players that were also cast. You can see an article about this here, and in the comments you can see many players sharing their bad experiences: https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/mrbeast-shoots-beast-games-in-las-vegas/

(4) A person who has an employee for a short amount of time released a video in which he claimed a lot of Mr. Beast videos are faked/rigged. He also mentions multiple examples in which Mr. Beast broke lottery laws.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Socialistic polices get a bad rap because of the cold war-era communist=atheist association. Theoretically, you can reframe vast social safety nets by the government as citizens (read: also Christians) coordinating charity to be distributed more effectively. This is a bottom-up approach that has the common person's buy-in. The reasonable criticism of the same policies lies in the top-down, legislation by fiat enactment of policy. No different than, let's say, Netflix arbitrarily raising their prices without your input.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To be fair the reason most eastern european socialist movements were militantly atheist is that they had to deal with the Russian Orthodox church as it functioned in the late Russian Empire (a willing tool completely subservient to the czar that helped him oppress the people and opposed literally any form of progress). It was real bad

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Patriarch Kirill has entered the chat.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean yeah it's incidentally also how it functions in the modern Russian federation (quelle surprise). But that's not relevant to 20th century US anticommunist propaganda

[-] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I’m definitely out of the loop, but what’s the deal with asmongold and otk? I thought they were just generic twitch streamers

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Watch asmongold's recent video in trumps "Emergency" press conference. He sucks Trumps dick so hard, commending his mental clarity, while Trump is just incoherently ranting on the stage.

Asmongold is a right-wing shill through and through. Big incel energy

[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Asmongold has never advocated for anything Christian and his takes are usual very center-left leaning. You mentioning him is kind of out of left field.

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