NO POLITICS!!! 😡😡

    • maam@feddit.uk
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      21 天前

      I’m happy to pay for the supportive housing, prescriptions and dental for individuals experiencing homelessness.

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        Damn I’m not experiencing homelessness but I sure as hell can’t afford dental or medical care. Mostly because I’m paying for a place to live. I haven’t had my teeth even looked at in 22 years. We need programs for the struggling working class too. I feed the homeless and often they’re telling me about their doctor visits and I’m thinking how priveleged they are.

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    21 天前

    Or feeding the homeless and housing the hungry.

    What I DON’T want my tax money going to is rich people and corporations why don’t fucking need it.

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    21 天前

    I don’t mind if my taxes go to funding people who want to doss around making weird art, impractical furniture and/or shit music all day

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      21 天前

      We should have a well thought out and agreed upon list of priorities and everyone eats and sleeps inside should be the first things. The money should all go there first

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    Hell, I don’t mind if my taxes destroy the housing market entirely. A housing market should not even exist until everyone has a house.

  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 天前

    There’s a bit of a capitalist propaganda over here (even if unintentional). The underpriviledge class in many ways exists because of wealth inequality. And statement like this normalizes putting the burden of the underpriviledge class back on to the working class (this underpriviledged class is often also part of the working class). This will further create wealth inequality.

    So yes, we should support underpriviledged class but we should also understand the bigger picture and demand that these supports should come from the owning class either through wealth tax or by increasing the minimum wage etc.

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      21 天前

      One problem at a time. First we stop the working class and the underprivileged classes from fighting with each other. Then we all team up against the oligarchy.

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      Right. And it might cost us the ability to build three or so supersonic foreigner killing rockets. Gotta prioritize ability to create pain and suffering over basic human decency. (Hopefully this is obviously sarcasm.)

  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m super concerned they’ll be used to kill kids for being brown or murder me for being queer or fund cops who will hold the train doors open at every single station harassing passengers to the point there’s a disclaimer on arrival times now.

    If I thought they might get used to feed and house and educate and doctor people, even if it wasn’t super efficient; I might even pay them. Hell I’d probably pay extra. Try to work for the government or something. If that’s what the government did.

    Anyway I’m still an illegalist.