the pain i felt in the depths of my soul when i saw this omg

ok i live nowhere this school board and probably never will but i gotta say the name madison pease goes INCREDIBLY hard. more representatives with kickass names please

we can all lib out tonight. as a treat.

"at least we're not the other guy" isn't enough. if dems want to make consistent wins they need to do the unthinkable: campaign w/ the people they'd represent in mind instead of their pockets. mamdani succeeded because he did just that. hope we see more politicians follow his lead across the nation

oh i should also say, the same applies to big businesses. huge companies obviously prioritize operating where there's a huge profit to be made. taxes don't change the fact that more people = more money, so in the majority of cases these companies will ultimately just suck it up and pay the tax.

of course, some people would never want to live in a huge city regardless of its benefits, but these rich people have the means to live wherever they want. if a rich person would rather live in a low-tax rural area, they'd already be doing that lmao. a tax increase alone doesn't push them out.

if i didn't need to worry about my cost of living and had a ton of money to blow, of course i'd choose to live in Awesomeville. even the heaviest proposed taxes on the richest citizens in a city are generally not actually enough to make them give up easy access to the city's benefits.

if i were a raving transphobe i simply wouldn't go to the transgender coffee shop. i dunno what to tell you man.

unfortunately this is genuinely one of the insane right-wing talking points presented by our dearest deceased charlie kirk, who spent like five minutes on his podcast once complaining about black pilots. if only he were still here, he'd hop in the cockpit himself and save americans from wokeism