No, we reappropriate the wealth from billionaires and use it to get everyone who needs one a decent wheelchair. And not for "equality," for MORALITY
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Replying to @TJFlamson @LizardOrman and
I'd like to believe that's how it would go, but...
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @LizardOrman and
I think you're raising the concern that socialism will get all eugenics-y with disabled people. I can only say that we're over here talking about Denmark-style social democracy, not the Khmer Rouge, and working together to help people is the ENTIRE point
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Replying to @TJFlamson @BootlegGirl and
Okay well let's be blunt here if you yourself who knows what "socialism" means keep saying "socialism" but then turn around and say to only realistically expect "Nordic-style social democracy" then somebody is being lied to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Is it a lie to say "I believe in socialism. I also believe the kind of fundamental economic change that will require is a multigenerational project, and for now we can have little a social democracy, as a treat"? Also, are YOU saying that socialism=khmer rouge?
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Replying to @TJFlamson @BootlegGirl and
Well, it kind of is a lie, actually, yes When someone says "I don't like the path I think you're going down", it's not actually an answer to say "But it will take us a long time to get there!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Okay, then I will also say that I'm not supporting taking us down the path to eugenics and forced sterilization. I don't suppose you know which kind of economic system innovated those practices
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Replying to @TJFlamson @BootlegGirl and
I'm saying that whether you frame it as "capitalist" or "socialist" plenty of people have reasons to be wary of any ideology or tendency that valorizes work above all else and emphasizes "a man is entitled to the sweat of his own brow"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TJFlamson and
Yeah I've pointed out before that Ayn Rand can be read as a very weird kind of t*nkie (while also acknowledging that something like her appeals to individualism and also trains undergird my own politics)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
You can read her as ansoc too if you apply her logic about force to natural starvation
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You can, but it would be obviously twisting her actual stance, which is clearly deeply rooted in a desire to watch the useless parasitic eaters suffer and die
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
The point really being that a deep and visceral hatred of "useless" people is extremely common throughout all societies and it can dress itself up in "left-wing" language as easily as "right-wing"
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