You could power the entire planet off the sheer force it takes for them to hold contradictory ideas in their heads.

  • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    what happens when you put a bunch of defenseless, marginalized people in a system where the population can safely ignore their plight?

    • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mean, you're entirely correct, there's very little functional difference between pushing marginalized people into some ignorable area and just outright massacring them. Conservatives will choose fascism as their solution every time, don't get me wrong. But that's the point: They can express some humanity in wanting poor people to improve while simultaneously enuring that this is impossible. They don't need to openly advocate for pogroms so long as the violence of poverty does that for them

      • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        to me, one of the most incomprehensible things people do is come up with these silly lies to tell themselves. maybe that's why they are happier and more succesful than i am

        • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          as a person who used to think that homeless people wanted to be homeless, it definitely is a general comfort to avoid ever considering that structural (and fixable) problems are the reason why we have issues in the first place.