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if not for doublethink they wouldn't think at all (slrpnk.net)

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[-] MercurySunrise@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

People are really inconsistent in general. Most people don't seem to have a defined moral code even when they're religious. This is a really good example of the issue, though. I've seen this too and it's hella frustrating. I don't know if there's really a solution. Capitalism encourages this phenomena though, for sure.

[-] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

So I have been asking myself why I held some of my beliefs, and the answer is that I "learnt" them at a really young age, maybe 4-10 years old. It was an age where I basically knew "nothing" and I guess I filed it away for clarification later and that "later" never came. All of a sudden I'm much, much older and asking myself why I even believe this strange thing and the answer is "they got me when I was young". If I wasn't exposed to other thinkers who asked me to re-evaluate my ideas, I might never have questioned them.

[+] StaySquared@lemmy.world -28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hasn't this already been proven and why so many people dislike government handouts?

Oh and here's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTTX35LNJo

Yes your tears, your salty tears for my sodium intake.. downvote me as you would because reality is a hard to swallow pill.

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

People dislike government handouts to corporations, banks and the already-wealthy. Taxing Billionaires could pay the entire cost of Welfare four times over.

AKA, Billionaires are stealing 4x as much money as all of the 'Welfare queens' you try to demonize.

[-] StaySquared@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

I demonize welfare abusers who instead of using these programs to get themselves back on their feet, they rather pop more babies for bigger payouts at the expense of American tax payers. These are the kinds of people (regardless of race, don't come at me with racism) who will easily prove socialism or even UBI would fail, immediately.

If you don't like what the billionaires are doing, well.. close the loopholes. Even Trump called out Hilary on it, because he knows, she and her friends would never shoot themselves in the foot. Don't hate the player, hate the game - don't hate the billionaires, hate the financial policies/laws/regulations and the loopholes that the government implemented and wont change. :)

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

"Don't hate the player, hate the game" is impossible when "the player" is the one creating the rules of "the game". Don't be daft.

[-] StaySquared@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's... how the game is created and evolves. So those politicians who take advantage of these loopholes, along with many other wealthy citizens, call them out. And demand to close the specific loopholes.

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

C'mon now, I said to not be daft. Think this through for more than 5 seconds.

Call them out TO WHO? Themselves?

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To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

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