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"down with capitalist solutions! they are capitalist and therefore bad"
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"no i don't know anything about how to do it publicly, let's keep focusing on the negative aspects of the system we are all stuck in"
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I would disagree & say there's a lot of focus on non-capitalist solutions, w/ diff schools of thought & experimentation. 10s (100s?) of millions are suffering right now, & they see that large cos & wealthy individuals have significant political power which has turned destructive
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Replying to @DanielleFong
For ex, community food forests to build food autonomy & minimize emissions & hunger, which started popping up ~1997. I think Seattle has a big one! Also, M4A is another big idea, & v popular when you consider how many people lack access to care, or avoid care bc of the cost, 1/
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Replying to @xgoogoogoox @DanielleFong
in the "richest country on earth". Also, there's tons of houses sitting empty for years, generating no profit, but we're not allocating them to houseless individuals & families in need. Instead we (sometimes, & grudgingly) allocate to them benefits from a very broken system 2/
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Replying to @xgoogoogoox @DanielleFong
that we're constantly dismantling, & use the police state to harass them. It's not cost-efficient, & it's MUCH harder to get on your feet when you lack stable housing. Meanwhile, PE has spent the past decade buying up housing stock, which runs up the housing market, reduces 3/
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Replying to @xgoogoogoox @DanielleFong
families' abilities to own homes, & runs up rent. Some have begun demanding this housing, or taking initiative to fix it up themselves & make it livable; others are asking for self-governed tiny-housing villages; this was also being provided in Seattle, then abruptly stopped. 4/
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Replying to @xgoogoogoox @DanielleFong
I could go on! But a lot of legislation is specifically geared to be pro-corporate at the expense of individuals (see: Citizens United & US lobbying, which strikes me as legalized corruption), & is even written by corporations as templates & applied state-by-state (see: ALEC). /x
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Replying to @xgoogoogoox @DanielleFong
Also, providing genuine economic assistance to the millions out of work instead of propping up the stock market & bailouts for the presidents’ friends, so we can stay home & get this pandemic under control. I haven’t heard of a cataclysmic explosion of those needing food bank /6
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