i hear you, though. Were it my choice i’d give universal healthcare and indeed guaranteed housing to everyone, including fascists.
Luke
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I dream of Macedonian kings and universal healthcare.
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Again, I am not engaging in collective punishment. I live in exactly such an area that Leonid is describing. I live amongst the people he is describing. I am merely saying that I cannot offer a moral defense of their preferences, which amount to no more and no less than a death drive.
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when we get back into power, we can give healthcare to everybody even if they’d vote against it, whether they like it or not. I’m fuckin tired of defending the noble savage rural working class, who would rather see their families suffer as long as some immigrant suffers more than have both prosper.
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the thing about the people mad at LB is that Leonid did not create this problem, or generate false scarcity, he’s merely saying we shouldn’t gut our hospitals to support the people who voted for their own deaths. This is perfectly defensible morally and logistically!
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radical in the context of liberalism is not radical by our standards lol. like there are plenty of procedurally radical liberals from that wing of the Democratic party, but i would not say they’re radical in a wider sense
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fair enough. i won’t contest that point. it does seem alarming. has she been at you that long?
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who exactly do you think radlibs are? Tons and tons of warrenite types get paid by the party.
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i think she’s not a creep at all. she is, however, a breathless radlib who is extremely invested in various particularist online controversies. as well as an anarkiddie of the highest order.
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Agreed. However, it is easier to achieve popular dominance of the normal governing institutions if there isn’t also this giant imperial tumor growing outward and into those institutions.
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what i’m hearing is that you want some fresh blood at the top, like Pete Buttigieg