the thing that strikes me about this latest wave of anti-trans hate and legislation in the U.S. is that it feels like it’s *kind of* about trans people but really about a fear fundamental to all conservatives that a day will one day come when they will no longer be able to completely control their children
american conservatism is a death cult. trump made this incredibly obvious but it’s been trending that way for a while. it is spiteful, bigoted, cruel, morally bankrupt, and all evidence in support of it has either been fabricated, forged, deceptively edited, or disproven. being conservative goes against a fundamental human desire to be kind to those around you and I think on some level conservatives know this, and thus, they know that the only reason children would subscribe to these values is if they are indoctrinated into them with cult-like single-mindedness
Conservatives have been pushing for homeschooling for decades, they’ve been raising concerns about teaching evolution in schools since the early 20th century, they’ve made wedge issues out of sex ed, history textbooks, and now gay and trans teachers. They want a world in which children are taught to be conservative from birth and any attempt to teach them anything else is a literal crime. They want this because they know, deep down inside, that most children would not agree with them unless they were literally brainwashed into it.
also worth pointing out that most child abuse (sexual or otherwise) takes place within a “traditional” family structure or a “traditional” religious institution and I have to wonder if people who want to abuse kids have a fundamental investment in preserving strict hierarchies in which adult men have unquestioned authority over children
Like I’m not saying *every* conservative is like this but perhpas their emphasis on “groomers” is a wee bit of projection
Anyway abolish the family trans rights are human rights institute fully automated luxury gay space communism now
This tweet sums it up pretty well:
This is another big reason why most conservatives bitch about higher education; a lot of younger people (myself included) undo their conservative upbringing brainwashing after being exposed to new ideas, meeting new and diverse people, and getting a higher-quality education when they attend college.
This is also, of course, why conservative lawmakers constantly seek to undermine public education and make it shittier so the kids who go through it are more ignorant. An educated and well-informed populace is the GOP’s worst nightmare.
“wouldn’t you rather earn something than have it just handed to you?”
Yeah when it comes to actual awards and fancy goods, but when it comes to basic needs, basic human decency, and accomodations, those things should always be handed to people. No one should have to “earn” those things.Value people as people, not base it on how much they produce.
yeah but that creates a severe dependency that could be exploited easily, and creates a slippery slope @musical-clarity
Actually studies show that people who live in places with universal income (who are given money with no strings attached just for being citizens) do far better work than those who don’t and are more enthusiastic to do work.
This is because they still want nice things and will work for those but the part of their energy that was devoted to worrying about if they have enough money to pay the rent and bills this month is now freed up to do other things.
Some people will always be lazy and take advantage of the system, but they are always a tiny percentage and it seems ridiculous to me to punish the majority and severly hamstring their abilities just because a handful of people will simply live of basic income rather than work.
It’s been tested a couple times. In Canada, in some European countries, and the results are always the same.
There are two groups of people who show a statistically significant (Greater than one half of one percent, or 1 in 200) increase in Not Working and living off the guaranteed income. Parents of Children under school age, and full time students.
Among ALL other groups, employment actually INCREASED. Why? Because guaranteed minimum income means that homeless people can get at least a basic low end apartment. It’s hard if not impossible to get an above board job without a permanent fixed address. Also more people were able to have and maintain a BANK ACCOUNT. It is often hard to get a decent job without an account that can accept Direct Deposit for paychecks.
Also, lost work time due to illness and injury decreased across the board. It turns out if people are getting a decent amount of money each month they can A> afford to eat better, and B> obtain decent medical attention both preventative and emergency. Crazy right?
So why hasn’t it caught on?
Because it doesn’t directly benefit the people in power, and it increases THEIR PERSONAL taxes, their CORPORATE TAXES, and thus decreases their PERSONAL INCOME.
So, because Jeff Bezos and Alan Greenspan might fall from making 100 billion dollars a year to making 99.8 billion dollars a year, it’s a hard NO and we can all fucking die..
The End.
tl;dr
TL;DR : people work better when they are living
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs applies to society as a whole,,, you need basic necessities and security in order to do your best
Capitalist bootlickers are always like “that might create a slippery slope of dependency where people could be exploited, so we should stay on our slippery slope of starvation and homelessness where people definitely are being exploited.”
I tried to have a conversation with someone this dense once, never again
To be fair, a lot of Leftism is based on this idea - that no one needs to work because the government just prints money and then you go to the shop and they just have stuff somehow.
That’s spread about on social media and it sounds like heaven, so people believe it, and don’t want to deal with the buzzkills who say “reality doesn’t work that way”.
Meanwhile, genuine communists are happy to use them as useful idiots, destabilizing democracy.
They know after the “great reset” the leftists will be forced to work or die, and don’t give a shit if most leftists die - they are utterly expendable.
Good lord this is a stupid take … Like I thought the argument that inflation isn’t real was stupid but no this is much dumber.
No serious leftist argues the government should simply print more money to solve all its problems. they argue that the ultra wealthy should actually contribute to society, and they have a lot of very good arguments, like that higher rates of inequality in an economy are tied to WORSE GDP.
I can’t understand right wingers who think the rich hording more money benefits the economy, fucking henry ford knew that if you pay workers more they can actually buy things.
>No serious leftist argues the government should simply print more money to solve all its problems. they argue that the ultra wealthy should actually contribute to society,
No, y'all say the government should take more money from the wealthy, even though the rich already pay more taxes than everyone else, which you never, ever acknowledge. In fact, y'all act like it’s the precise opposite. You’re doing it in this quote.
And we noticed how you snuck ’serious’ in there.
>like that higher rates of inequality in an economy are tied to WORSE GDP.
“Income inequality” springs from the same stupid leftist root that gives us people like OP. And also correlation isn’t causation.
>I can’t understand right wingers who think the rich hording more money benefits the economy, fucking henry ford knew that if you pay workers more they can actually buy things.
1. “hoarding”.
2.Investmentsaren’t hoarding.
Y'all can’t even tell the difference between net worth, liquid assets, andincome, so your average leftist ain’t much less stupid than this lady, or the people brett was talking about.
And I’ve SEEN leftists complain about the lack of money-printing, especially when it came to the government’s COVID handouts. People said the gov’t should just pay people to stay home. They didn’t care about where the money came from.
Okay since apprently we are going to jump to calling this a no true scotman, by serious I meant someone who has written books on the subject, ie not someone who has spat out a hot take on twitter. Like are you going to argue that to be intellectually honest someone needs to stand behind the positions of random people’s takes on twitter? No? Then shut up with this no true scotman bullshit.
So as I understand you are suggesting income inequality isn’t real or isn’t actually effective on the economy? What a wild take. Do you know what the Gini index is? Have you actually even studied economics before firing this hot take off? Because I have, and surprise I do know the difference between net worth, income, and liquid assets. I have a MASTERS in economics.
As for investments aren’t hoarding sure technically no, hoarding wouldn’t increase their wealth, but as much as the right loves to fetishize investment, its not something that actually justifies the super wealthy. If you use your money to make more money I’m going to count that as hoarding your money. If you have 100 million dollars and your primary use for your money is putting it towards projects with the idea of making more money? that’s hoarding.
