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Nails Nathan@chadstanton.bsky.social |
The case for abolition, UBI, universal housing and healthcare has the power of moral force. Couching these positions in the idea they’re actually secretly popular muddles the argument and elides the very real work that needs to be done in convincing people.
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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Has anyone tested which Leftist ideas are popular? Tested with whom the ideas are popular?
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Trans Commie Scum
@transcommiescum.bsky.social
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Sorry, but UBI won't scale because it leads to greedflation. We need state capitalism. We have to end private property and the bourgeois state of we ever want to achieve abolition and any semblance of. That's the only way we're ever going to begin solving the problems capitalism creates.
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Andrea Torti
@andreatorti90.bsky.social
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I think a huge part of the struggle is to have more people *believe* these goals can be achieved. Many people don't oppose them, they don't even see them as real possibilities.
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The idea that the only blocker is a little group of Bad Guys in a smoky room somewhere and everything will be fine if they're gone is so appealing and so toxic. It means people assume all dissent must be coming from an evil plot.
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grg
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Yeah I think about this a lot
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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This is why I think “Sorry To Bother You” is an actually important cultural text in our current moment, (spoilers) the idea that enough people would be outraged enough to call for an end to labor exploitation through genetic engineering to force Congress to step in is fucking naive.
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RNtropy
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To clarify, are you talking about the "Most people actually *want* <leftist policy>" type of argument?
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