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Aella
@Aella_Girl
when i bring up libertarian issues and ppl are like 'aella u r stupid', it feels to me like im like 'hey i know you're really sick in bed but it looks like ur bedroom has toxic mold, maybe you should get out of bed' and they're like 'you don't want me to recover? you cruel idiot'
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Like, my recommends don't come out of isolation! This feels super important - I'm not like "Yes, let's take this thing you're doing to help and just stop that. For no reason. Because I'm an idiot"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My views here feel like they come from an attempt to fix much, much deeper problems; getting out of bed when you're sick might suck and make recovery slower, but *not being exposed to toxic mold* will make recovery faster, and if u cant see the mold it won't make sense to you.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And I'm not saying I'm definitely right; there's a lot of judgment calls to be made in where and how to fix deeper toxic mold problems, but I feel strongly principled in the method of the thing; if the problem is too deep to be obvious, then the solution will be counterintuitive.
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Neil Thanedar
@NeilThanedar
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@Aella_Girl
If one house has toxic mold, it's easy to leave. But if the whole town has it, you need to rally your neighbors and bleach everything. The bleach of government is transparency. We need online armies tracking every dollar our governments spend, every lobbyist connection, etc.
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Neil Thanedar
@NeilThanedar
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@Aella_Girl
One person can't fix it. But 1M+ can. And we have 1M+ groups everywhere online. We need to rally more of them to fight the system. I think we lie to ourselves when we say it's unfixable. The tools we use to be successful online can also win us elections.
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Jilcaesel
@Jilcaesel
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@Aella_Girl
I don't know where you're going with this simile, but you indeed have toxic mold in your mind. That's not surprising: the worship of private ownership often goes hand in hand with the protestant ideology you were fed in youth. You just need to decide to get rid of it.
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