Do you always buy something less nice than you need and then donate the leftover?

Then what are you saying?

I asked what laws Bernie has authored that have been passed. You provided a list mostly of laws Bernie has slapped his name on as cospsonsor, seemingly not understanding that it is very easy to put your name on as sponsor, and doing so doesn’t necessarily require any more effort than replying “yes” to an email. …

Right! I didn’t say “all jobs are equal” because I don’t believe that. I said I don’t think it’s very socialist to be insisting that only certain types of work are “real” and so are more valuable and the people doing them deserve more, is not very socialist. Socialism is about breaking down class division and the…

Why should I care about policing which jobs are more valuable than other jobs? That’s not why I’m here.

You don’t need to be a socialist to be able to point out hypocrisy. I can say his job benefits no-one therefor is less valuable than the doctors trying to save COVID patients lives, and magically he’s buying nicer houses than they are in LA. He could have literally helped to build houses for the homeless, and that…

Him buying that house isn’t going to have any impact whatsoever on homelessness in L.A.  So, no, I’m not sure I see the issue.

Personally it is when you’re someone who says shit about how “patriotic” it is to give back. He constantly “dunks” on the right for not wanting to give back and now it turns out he isn’t exactly giving back what he says he should either.

The point is this is a guy who has repeatedly posted about how people should pay more back to society, last November saying “think it’s insane that rich people complain about taxes. i hope my opinion doesn’t change. i am very fortunate and don’t mind paying more. people who complain about it are scumbags” and I find…

As I said in my previous reply here I’m judging him by his own standard more than anything else.

I’m not talking about Bernie’s primary residence in Burlington, or is residence in D.C., but is third house, a vacation residence.

Bernie: Passes actual laws.

It is if that’s how you earn money to live.  

You could have just said that.

“Extreme” is subjective, and you certainly shouldn’t let me off the hook for what sure seems to be my own hypocrisy, at least going by your own criteria, on the basis that a richer person than me has relatively nicer things. I have a much larger house than I need to live comfortably (probably by 2x or 3x); I spend…

If someone making the median wage wanted that house, it would take them every penny they make and a 0% mortgage for 75 years. In order to start towards making it reasonable, given the general advice to spend 50% of income on housing, they would have to make twice as much to pay that fantasy mortgage. Realistically,…

Probably a lot of people who buy houses in L.A. don’t need to live in L.A. I don’t need to live where I live either (and where there is also an affordable housing crunch). When I bought my house, I didn’t look to see what the affordable housing situation was, or do any of the other things you think should have been…

It strikes me as odd to argue, in criticizing someone for being insufficiently socialist, to argue that they deserve less because they do a job that is less valuable/important/“real” than another job.  But maybe I just need to re-read my Marx and Chomsky.

As I said elsewhere, I don’t think it’s very socialist/leftist/egalitarian to start ranking the relative value of different people’s jobs and then say people who do one job deserve something more than other people with a supposedly less valuable job.  This all sounds like you just don’t like influencers or whatever,…

Actually it’d probably just had the exact same effect because it’s still buying a house in LA and a person who could afford this house is now going to try and buy a different house and so on and still just pushes the prices up overall (which is why housing “markets” overheat anyhow).