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[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 90 points 2 months ago

The fact that billionaires hate her tells me she's doing a good job.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You come at Lina Khan, you come at me mother fucker. She is to be protected at all costs.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

The only correct reply.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bonus from AOC:

"Let me make this clear," Ocasio-Cortez declared Wednesday, "since billionaires have been trying to play footsie with the ticket: Anyone goes near Lina Khan and there will be an out and out brawl. And that is a promise. She proves this admin fights for working people. It would be terrible leadership to remove her."

This is probably going to be the first big canary for Kamala tho. If she listens to the billionaire donors and replaces Khan, the next 4 years are going to suck.

She's like the one bright spot from Biden's admin, and it's distressing that Khan isn't being highlighted in Kamal's campaign.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Biden admin has done a lot of good during his term. It's disingenuous to say Kamala is the one bright spot. Student loan forgiveness is another big one.

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kamala isn’t the bright spot of the Biden Admin, Lina Khan is.

Yep. And you know you're on to something when both AOC and Sanders agree.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lina Khan is a fucking national treasure. Mark Cuban is a useless third-rate trash human who fell into some money from a dotcom bubble buyout over 20 years ago and has done nothing constructive for society with his life.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You can do good and be a shit head. Hitler liked puppies and helped animals.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And was very anti smoking! But Cuban isn't running 17-million people into ovens either.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Supported no-fault divorces and the importance of female pleasure!

(So they'd make more babies for the army)

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are we really comparing Mark Cuban to Hitler? C'mon now...

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know it's an extreme analogy but it gets my point across.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've heard that expression very recently for the first time. I think from watching Hal Sparks.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Helped people find jobs too.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Cuban is the best guy on Shark Tank. This is not a high bar, and isn't worthy of unqualified praise.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I’ll give him this one thing: his revamp of the Dallas Mavericks was well done at the time.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The billionaires should be mad at the head of the ftc.