JD Vance wrote an entire memoir about how poverty destroyed his family and then joined the party whose entire platform is making poverty worse.

[stragu@mastodon.indie.host]

@Daojoan I keep misreading JD Vance" as "Vance Joy" and its always a short moment of deep disappointment in an unsuspecting Australian musician.

[kennethbousquet@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Either he has no choice but to adhere to the party or he doesn't stand behind his values.
Personally, I had quite a hard time at some point in my life and my life experience tends to orient myself towards people, organisations that share same life values as mine.

[roland@devdilettante.com]

@Daojoan he's brainwashed by the dominant hegemony, it happens a lot to immigrants and formerly poor people once they get some money is my probably wrong theory

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@Daojoan something something temporarily embarrassed millionaires

[alderson@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Daojoan I believe that his book was reclassified as speculative fiction and moved out of the memoir section.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@Daojoan This is why I sometimes hate him more than Trump. That fucker knows better.

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan the magic of peter thiel...

[ryanparsley@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@Daojoan I would never trust his memoir. Never.

[level98@mastodon.social]

@stragu @Daojoan I keep misreading / thinking of it as "Valance" and picturing frilly drapery.