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[–] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I know it's a hot take and not that serious, but I can't help but read this as making excuses/validating inaction.

it smuggles in the implication that bothering to advocate for those 3 things (taxes, regulations, workers benefits) is a waste of time under broken capitalism. as in "why tinker with regulations if the system is inherently unjust?"

when in reality, arriving at a new economic system will almost certainly be a gradual process of normalizing pro-social policies and tax structures and regulations from within the current socioeconomic context we actually live in.

sure, Total Economic System Change is an admirable goal... but I'd be pleased to see even a smidge more taxes (on 1%), more regulation, more workers getting what they deserve in the meantime.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

PREACH!

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

homeless veterans

why veterans specifically? are people’s lives worth something only if they sign up to kill?

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It a rhetorical stratwgy pulls on heartstrings more and highlights the falsity of wealth = good person. People who are supposed to be held up by society as the moral upstanding ones making life threatening sacrifices in the name of the defense of the nation should be rewarded for doing so. Not that that understanding of it is the reality of it but there are enough normies that believe it becauae Republicans that preach it and then do the opposite.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 day ago

It also avoids the perception of it being their own fault for being too lazy / too incompetent / too disabled.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yep thats the idea even though being a veteran is the opposite of that.

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Personally I generally don't hate or blame the people that go into the meatgrinder that is the military as enlisted soldiers. I hate the systems that drive people to desperation where the idea of potentially being required to take someone else's life to gain some modicum of survival, to go from a system of unbearable poverty to a system of violence as identity and to be a pawn for the wealthy to sacrifice for natural resources under the guise of national defense and patriotism and then disposed of once you're no longer useful.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Except for the one the majority of military members aren't in poverty or driven primarily by monetary concerns, and even if they were its no excuse if I killed my elderly neighbor to steal all their stuff to pay my rent that explains but doesn't excuse my actions. Hell "leftists" aren't making the same excuses for those joining ICE despite ICE offering benefits and ICE not being as bad as the military.

[–] davad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Because it contradicts the narrative many people have that the homeless are "lazy" or "just need to get a job."

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

because they worship willing mercenaries for empire.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It can be both.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes all those things except workers asking for too much

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Hate the "veterans" modifier because no one should have no home but mercenaries for empire are far from special and in fact the least deserving.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It is. It's the way we work for ourselves rather than for each other that's the issue.