Continually amazed at how angry people get at the idea that everyone deserves food, water, shelter, safety, and the freedom to express themselves without bigotry or violence from others.
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Even in capitalist thinking, the worries about food, water, shelter, etc. are "solved" by proposing abundant job opportunities. In a convoluted way (through work) there is an assumption that, eventually, every body can get it.
I remember some libertarians going wild with the idea of feeding and educating children as a future investment instead of adopting them in a family or, gasp, the state taking care of them in an orphanage.
I really don't understand what it is that causes people to fall into this thinking.
It's bizarre to me. My experience has been the exact opposite in that no matter how people hamfist ideology to me it doesn't seem to stick and I end up at the correct conclusions anyways, if a bit delayed.
They just prioritize other things than people. If you're prioritizing for good health and well-being, community, connection and humanness, then you'll end up in the right place.
You'd think that this would be obvious, that everyone should get a basic right to live. And yet people are convinced that somehow other people getting that is inherently bad, and will happily give up their rights to this if other people are losing it.
It is amazing. Sometimes when I confront them I think I'm in one of Wittgenstein's weird thought experiments where you encounter people with a different form of life.
Watching the Overton Window careen right for the last few months has made me want to rip my fucking hair out.
People pick up the language of the right like a virus, it's been indescribably infuriating watching how easily they're manipulating the conversation around due process, etc.
Hierarchical power is the true religion of our country. (Although people argue over the exact number 5-20%) I always think about how few confederate soldiers had enslaved people.
John Steinbeck and Octavia Butler got us nailed down
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People get so mad about the idea of feeding children without demanding payment, it’s bizarre
It's bizarre to me. My experience has been the exact opposite in that no matter how people hamfist ideology to me it doesn't seem to stick and I end up at the correct conclusions anyways, if a bit delayed.
Hmm. The more I think about it the more it seems like abdication of critical thinking.
Just world plus deferment to authority plus peer mimicry mayhaps?
There's something fundamentally wrong but I can't put my finger on it exactly.
Either they are invested in the kyriarchy personally somehow or they just ARE predisposed to malignity or..
Material things are meaningless. Memories and love are forever.
People pick up the language of the right like a virus, it's been indescribably infuriating watching how easily they're manipulating the conversation around due process, etc.
"However-"
"X people-"
If you don't believe people should eat or drink clean drinking water, you are advocating death on them.
If you don't believe that everyone should have equal and equitable access to housing and safety, that's discriminatory.
They'll agree until you mention Palestine.
They'll agree until you mention people of color, or immigrants, or indigenous folk.
So many people like the aesthetics of justice without the practicum 😡
There is not a single person on this planet who I do not believe deserves a healthy diet, clean water, and a comfy bed indoors to sleep on. Period.
John Steinbeck and Octavia Butler got us nailed down