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[-] [email protected] 98 points 6 days ago

I don't want to pay for other peoples' healthcare so I'd rather pay a lot more for an oppressive police force that also takes away my civil rights.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 6 days ago

While still paying for other people's healthcare because that's how insurance works.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago

Not to mention the societal costs that inevitably come from people being sick

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

The real "fiscal conservatives" are the "bleeding-heart liberals."

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

Turns out, productivity soars when you have a well rested, well compensated, well treated, healthy, and housed people who don't have constant stessors of literally every aspect of their lives nearly crumbling beneath them...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is incompatible with growing wealth disparity. And the rich will always try to get richer.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

But then how are you supposed to subjugate them???

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Yeah but then how would the rich and powerful feel good about themselves?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Okay but if there's infrastructure then the idea of structural forces wont seem so alien to people, and they will be harder to oppress.

So maybe the crazy idea you just pulled out of your ass isnt quite so clever in the real world, hm?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No, its the anarchists; libs still means test everything.

Edit: we're also for slashing government spending!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Hell yeah! high five

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