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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.
PREACH!
It can be both.
Yes all those things except workers asking for too much
True.
homeless veterans
why veterans specifically? are people’s lives worth something only if they sign up to kill?
Because it contradicts the narrative many people have that the homeless are “lazy” or “just need to get a job.”
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.
It also avoids the perception of it being their own fault for being too lazy / too incompetent / too disabled.
yep thats the idea even though being a veteran is the opposite of that.
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.
because they worship willing mercenaries for empire.
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.
It is. It’s the way we work for ourselves rather than for each other that’s the issue.
