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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Words matter.

Always use simple direct language.

  • Help the poor
  • Healthcare for everyone
  • Good treatment at work.

Don't use complex words.

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[-] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Welfare isn't assistance to the poor. Welfare in the US is those efforts specifically designed to denigrate and humiliate the poor.

Means testing increases costs and decreases effectiveness and should not be included in these programs. But it always is.

We need to start thinking of ourselves as "shareholders". We invest our individual political authority in out government, who uses that authority to provide essential services to business and individual customer, while charging for those services via taxation. Without the political authority of the citizenry, they would have no ability to provide those services.

We are each individually owed a return on our investment, separate and apart from any of the services we receive from the government. UBI should be thought of as a citizenship dividend, owed to the "shareholders" of government. It is not "charity".

[-] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

I'm a little bit concerned about the colors of each line on this graph.

I would hope this kind of study would be apolitical attempt to discover where we have agreement as opposed to disagreement. And if vernacular is the core difference let's not use color choices that could be interpreted as means something else.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago

As someone that works with the general public.

People are fucking dumb. Like not I'm not even kidding, there's a skill gap to even get to a site like this...and not everyone has the ability to do it...I'm not even kidding. People are just stupid.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

Anyone can be poor, but only they are on welfare.

Publishers note: They usually refers to African Americans, but can be used for any suspicious minorities.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Just want to point out that this negative association is based on racist dog whistles like the, "welfare queen," which were propagated by right-wingers to convince low-income whites to hate the programs designed to help them.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Reagan's smear campaign on welfare is still paying dividends

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