• schema@lemmy.world
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      I agree with most of his general sentiments, but I don’t really like him. He always comes off as a tad arrogant to me.

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        He’s your average justice-minded libertarian small business owner. Misses the mark sometimes and maybe not always in the fight for exactly the right reasons, inflated sense of manic self-righteousness that probably corrodes his personal life, but a world built by people like him would still probably be a lot nicer than what we have now.

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        I like what he does and that he can rally people to a cause, but he consistently misses the mark.

        In order to escape the corrupt bureaucracy of New York, he moved to… Texas.

        I think he’s a ‘path of least resistance’ kind of guy, not ideologically driven but rather “I don’t wanna deal with it” driven. He has deemed that it is easier to move to Texas because the corruption there affects him less directly and more abstractly, and he chooses to front Right to Repair because it is easier to lobby and rally people than it is to work in his industry without his political influence.

        He has a front row seat to the horrors of capitalism and, without missing a beat, says “I’m not a socialist, I’m a capitalist” because it’s easier to be a shitlib than it is to believe in something bigger.

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          That’s just like Lemmy, ignoring years of hard work in pursuit of positive change because someone doesn’t pass the right ideological purity test.

          How many millions of people have you reached about the importance of consumer rights?

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            You bitch at me for being an ideological puritan and then ask me if I’m pure enough by your standards. Did you miss the part where I said I like what he does?

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              Yes, I absolutely did miss that part somehow. I still think you’re being too hard on the guy, but the tone of my comment was out of line given that context. I apologize.

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            How many millions of people have you reached about the importance of consumer rights?

            Only my friends, but I don’t then move to CorpoLand, USA because muh free dumbs.

            It’s basically saying he was the freedom for ye, not for thee. Texas is where you go when you want to have companies do what they want, as any restrictions on their actions hurts their bottom dollar.