I think his policies and choices over the decades have been short-sighted, selfish, eco-and-ego-centric, and incredibly harmful. A Hail Mary sacrifice at the end doesn't change the damage done by years of systemic willful ignorance, with pathetic golf claps at high level policies without ever living where the ideology needed to exist. ... maybe he was a nice man in person, but he was not a good man for governmental policies, and just because he had money he never should have been given the chance to push changes. Which goes for most of our 1%. At least you're living and experiencing the needs of people on the streets. It's not all about fighting aliens and trying to pull a Fisk at a national level with Registration.
[Matt had lived on a street level through that bullshit. He'd lived through so many 'mishaps' at Stark Industries. The problem wasn't just the man, it was The Man, the systemic corrupted system that gave far too much power to predominately rich white men with toys.] For the record, I don't like Stark Industries any better with Pepper Potts in charge. She can cry about the poor kids and throw money around all she wants that's really just pocket change to her, it doesn't change the inherent corruption at that level of disproportionate wealth. And again, I'm sure she's not some evil witch. She's just benefitting from a system that needs change at the starting level, not someone smiling at the camera as they write a check.
... I'm sorry. I just... I'm in the courtroom all the time with these people's lawyers. It's exhausting. It's not an attack on you, who at least are there on a street level fighting alongside people who need it. Or even Tony or Pepper. It's just a broken system that we can get drunk over one day if you really want to hear how some broke lawyer from Hell's Kitchen would start addressing it.
... anyway, back to tea. My mom does like chai! I wasn't lying. I can't help it if I'm my mother's son.
... I remember. Two golden retrievers bonding. He really liked you, Kate.
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[Matt had lived on a street level through that bullshit. He'd lived through so many 'mishaps' at Stark Industries. The problem wasn't just the man, it was The Man, the systemic corrupted system that gave far too much power to predominately rich white men with toys.] For the record, I don't like Stark Industries any better with Pepper Potts in charge. She can cry about the poor kids and throw money around all she wants that's really just pocket change to her, it doesn't change the inherent corruption at that level of disproportionate wealth. And again, I'm sure she's not some evil witch. She's just benefitting from a system that needs change at the starting level, not someone smiling at the camera as they write a check.
... I'm sorry. I just... I'm in the courtroom all the time with these people's lawyers. It's exhausting. It's not an attack on you, who at least are there on a street level fighting alongside people who need it. Or even Tony or Pepper. It's just a broken system that we can get drunk over one day if you really want to hear how some broke lawyer from Hell's Kitchen would start addressing it.
... anyway, back to tea. My mom does like chai! I wasn't lying. I can't help it if I'm my mother's son.
... I remember. Two golden retrievers bonding. He really liked you, Kate.