We Can Do This!

Way too many people are absolutely appalled when I say I don’t care if some of my taxes go to keeping lazy people alive, inside, fed, and warm. I don’t care if someone is not working because they’re disabled, being educated, looking for a job, or just lazy, no one should live without basic human dignity.

Minor nitpick: if it's snowing outside (and you can do so), then wear a fucking sweater inside! Heating a whole room by a few degrees when you could just not run around with a T-shirt is just so wasteful.

If you can't wear one, because you're disabled, then ignore my rant, please.

If everyone has a home how can I look down on the homeless and drug addicted while I drink cheap bourbon?

Everyone is talking about the politics, but there's that symbol in the bottom right that drew my attention. Is it some encoded data?

If only we could codify these 'rights' into some kind of a 'bill'...

UBI, single payer, and free college for all. Yes we can, and absolutely should!

Heck, if we could have all that for free, what's the point of working?

civlized countries are starting to realize it's cheaper to help people than keep them in poverty

You are promising a lot from an institution that is corrupt to its core and has a vested interest in denying you these things in order to extract the most out of you and hoping you die before society has to support you

No! We can't do this! That's communism!

So what if now hear me out we do none of that, and do number go up instead - you know - for the shareholders?

What does owning adequate clothing even mean?

Here in California, I can go to a local shelter right now and get all of these things. Except adequate clothing because I don't know what that even means.

The fact that this is political is maddening.

We COULD do this, if every lobbyist were disposed of and we similarly handled the billionaires. Otherwise there’s no hope here.

but to fully achieve this goal we must overcome the Capitalism

Cooling? Is this some US thing?

Nothing will ever happen with our bullshit of "peaceful protesting" and this bullshit "voting" system. It'll never fucking work. We need a revolution. We need to hang some politicians and billionaires in the streets for shit to get done and for us to be freed from the slavery of capitalism.

lol, you'll never get this in capitalism. and for that matter you won't get it in socialism either.

"From each according to ability, to each according to need." No useless eaters! You won't be allowed to do nothing and get everything (unless you're like SERIOUSLY disabled not Tumblr/Mastodon disabled) and if you can't figure out what you should do, don't worry, the community will provide you with a job because having a job is a right under socialism.

But what about the shareholders??!1!!?

Getting the government to do literally anything that's not evil takes a level of effort organization and resources that dwarf the effort to just do it your fucking self, and for all that you get some half passed means tested bullshit.

Direct action, fancy political theory for "just do some shit" is the only thing that has ever worked.

You want clean water? Secure water resources from corporate interests, ask the local water treatment technicians what they need, set out a rain barrel, figure out a desalination strategy, figure out where There's waste or pollution in the system and see if you can crack down on it.

You want hones with heating cooling and electricity? Grab a wrench. Maybe break into some empty units abd get people housed. Whatever.

You want free healthcare? Talk to the union reps at your local hospitals, get your local med school to hold more classes.

Clothing! So this ones climate dependent, but tl;Dr: grow some shit, sew some shit. Or pester people who already do.

Transportation and internet? Work out the best control system abd standards with some rail nerds, then start tearing up pavement.

Education? Find some people who know shit. Have them be at the park at specific times. Make it known. Maybe bring chairs.

What is the incentive to work if all these things are provided? Btw I want these things so I can quit my job and just wander around