Bappy enough that they only shopped there, causing all the small businesses in their areas to close.

It’s a mix of both. They’re disappearing people, yes, but parts of the operation are still running more closer to normal and just deporting people how they always have ish. Nonetheless horrifying

Again with the wild accusations. Like when you pretend I’m racist, you bought into kat’s online image and think she’s the only one who will do anything.

If you think using your campaign funds to give back to people is vote buying, you’re not thinking from the view of a community.

“Give back” is not what she’s doing though. She’s pretending things aren’t supplied, and buying them to give away. Things that are already given.

… I don’t have problems with comprehension., for the things at my level… that wasn’t what I was trying to say

She’s not pushing anything to the left. Again, not special for the district in question. Against the other front runners she’s about the same, possibly only more left on immigration.

She’s blatantly.vote buying, pretending she’ll have the power to do things she will not and buying things with campaign funds to just give out… That’s vote buying in my opinion. Over promising too far to be reasonable. Her lying about moving into the district is also just off the bat lying, also not ideal for a politician.

I’m closest to a high b1 level likely. I don’t fit into traditional levels very well in the n system as it focuses primarily on comprehension without no speaking input. And my knowledge acquisition is random. I would pass an n2, and would certainly fail n1. I consider it a 2nd language because I can communicate complex thoughts in it.

honestly it seems like you are kind of obsessed with her.

I’m annoyed with how people push her as a forefront of progressive politics when her politics are relatively normal. It’s extremely relevant to me because I live in il-9, which will obviously make me much more invested than a typical lemmy user.

Do you believe she would oppose bike lanes and walkability?

No, but I’d rather a candidate who consistently and strongly pushes rather than being passively supportive

but you haven’t been painting her as just someone with boilerplate politics

I’m pretty sure I stated her politics were neomal for the district multiple times in this convo.

I live in Switzerland, we have no Lobbying laws, that happens all the time here, but what gives you the idea Kat has been bought?

It’s not as much I think she’s bought as much as I think it demonstrates a lack of loyalty to the community typical to be people who end up corrupt. Basically, a risk factor.

I’m pretty sure all languages originating in Europe use the system.

English is my native language, but Japanese is my 2nd

… Islamic? Her last name is Islamic? You think I knew that?

And voting based on that is childish if you agree with the policies.

Childish to vote against someone who doesn’t care to actually research the community or live in it? No, that’s not childish. Not when there’s candidates with actively proven records like biss, who’ve shown to be strong on issues I care about like bike lanes and walk ability…

Instead of just dodging what policies you disagree

I made a clear answer to the question. Stop pretending I didn’t. Clearly they are hard for you to understand. I made it clear. Her issues are boilerplate, not special in the district. So it’s better to vote for a local who understands the other issues at play, not just immigration, especially when we have people on the ballot with proven records.

so you’ve been argueing with someone on a different continent

So? The only thing that matter for is if you don’t understand that politicians are meant to represent their districts, or if you don’t understand the history of how bad, bought politicians tend to love to live outside of the areas of their districts.

I love how now you pretend you’re fluent after claiming to not speak English. Nice. I don’t know the ranking, the languages I know do not use it.

… All of them? Like it’s actually funny. You see her most because she’s an influencer. Not because she’s the only one active. Probably helps that she’s not yet been elected so she doesn’t have any official duties to perform, unlike many of the other candidates, she has more free time.

https://evanstonnow.com/biss-to-ice-get-the-hell-out-of-evanston/

He’s also been out protesting, also got wacked by ice a bit… And you don’t see him on the news as much.

When we have candidates with such strong, proven records of improving cities, who also will protect them as kat would. Why would we go with an unproven influencer?

neighbours being disappeared by the state based on their race" isn’t the most important issue in their community.

I’m not, and never will be, a single issue voter, but my a major part of my point is that there is no difference between her immigration stance and the other candidates.

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/22/il-9-congressional-forum/

Read this to see some more.

Quite literally, the reason is stated. She doesn’t live in the area.

She’s not gonna throw you off a roof because of her last name by the way, just to be clear.

I am not a racist despite your rabid accusations

Clergy are a line almost nobody wants to cross since they’re passive and have sacrificed a lot to prove that

Yeah passively protecting pedophiles.

You did mention the citizenship status of the people you think she does this for, for some reason though)

“Immigrant” is not a citizenship status. Green card, visa, undocumented, citizen, are citizenship statuses.

I will prefer someone who’s also willing to endure violence and legal consequences to protect anyone in your community.

… Do you think she’s the only one who’s done this? Like honest to god? Because, to be clear, she is not. Off the top of my head biss as well, though I probably won’t be heading to him in the primary. You don’t understand the district, which is why you think she’s the only one like that

You will find the same list of issues on damn near every dem candidate in the district. Her policies are not special here. They’re not different. They’re the baseline norm

I do care. You’re pulling my lack of care just because I’m criticizing her for legit reasons . And no, of my listed complaints being from chicago was not the only one. You didn’t read the list, did you?

I don’t like her as a politician for 3 main reasons: performative giveaways, where she gives away what is already provided and pretends her being in charge will allow these things to be provided, which they already are. It shows she doesn’t really care about learning about her community, and instead just prefers to virtue signal.

She is running a campaign without living in the area, with majority of donations from outside the area. Influencer first politician second is a red flag, and especially considering she’s showed bo willingness to actually move into the area despite repeated claims she will shows she’s already lying, not a good sign.

And the third is that despite living in a leas leftist area with someone who deserves to be contested more/not already solidly leftish politics, she decided to run in the district she does not live in.

Going straight to higher office without attempting to gain practice or build up a “resume” in lower office is questionable as well, but less so than the rest.

there is no shortage of people as left as her running in the district to vote for, who do not have nearly as many red flags.

I love how you’re intentionally ignoring what I’m saying to pretend I’m racist. No, I’m not saying it’s good for ice to kidnap people . I’m saying we already care and she pretends we don’t .the community is not only, it includes them as well as others

Influencer politics clearly works on liberals too …

…racist. no, I’m saying that she’s trying to buy votes by doing giveaways of materials already supplied by school districts. She’s performative. She won’t even move to the area, instead staying in chicago.

I can have legitimate criticisms against someone who’s anti ice without being pro ice. The fact that you can’t understand that is shocking. She does not care about the community. The community is not just immigrants, it’s everyone interacting, going to school, etc. and she doesn’t care about all of that

Community as in the actual future of the community itself, not just the larger socioeconomic underlying issues. Immigrants are part of the community, but they are not the only part of the community. She focuses on charity saviorism, without regard to actual distribution of need, which is not something good for a politician to have.

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I don’t watch fox news. Her giveaways of backpacks and school supplies were fully supplied in Evanston already.

Literally no. She cares about immigrants. She doesn’t care about the community specifically, at all. And doesn’t even care enough to live there. We don’t need to go from someone who responds to the community to someone who doesn’t even care to check the communities needs before doing unnecessary giveaways

No, she doesn’t pay attention. She did free give aways for things already fully provided to those in need. That’s not paying attention, not doing research.