This reminds me so much of MBTA discourse. Oh the mbta sucks but they raised fares to try to improve things! And it didn’t help, of course, because politicians have also gutted public spending on public transit!
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Privatizing these systems isn’t the answer either! The public should not be beholden to a corporation, transit should absolutely be a fully-funded public service just like the USPS
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I just want my tax dollars to go towards services that enrich people’s lives! Why is that seen as so damn radical by some people smdh
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Apparently politicians have taken the stance of “austerity until society no longer exists”.
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Pare away everything answerable to the electorate until only feudalism exists.
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It's a Very common tactic. used in everything from Economics to Climate Crisis Politics. The Working class is expected to Foot the Bill while the Government and Corporations are causing all the problems.
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Yeah buying stamps is nice and all but it's not gonna fix deliberate political sabotage on the scale they're facing.
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Much like how the onus to save our planet is thrust upon the public to make Individualistic practices to lower emissions and be more energy efficient Meanwhile our government is still subsidizing much of our energy with toxic death sludge (aka:fossil fuels)
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I hate that it's being framed as if we can change their minds anymore. To Red or Blue 99% of Politicians don't give a shit about Public Opinion and amy way to stop them kinda cause them to declare war on us.u
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