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  • regul [any]
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    1 year ago

    I don't need or want any hand outs

    WHY THE FUCK NOT?! What's wrong with you?

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Because it's a sin.

      That's literally it. They equate it with sin. The sin of sloth. Not that they think in those terms (filthy Protestant heretics, the lot of them) but it's taboo because they think of it as stealing, because they don't see the whole picture, because it's been deliberately obscured from them their entire lives. If they were to understand just how much was being stolen from them every time they go to work, they'd know who to direct their anger at.

      • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Being poor, needing welfare etc. has been characterized as a moral failing, so people think this way.

        "Why would I need welfare? I am NOT lazy, I am a GOOD person."

    • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      it actually makes me kind of sad

      how do you become so dead that you reject the basic human urge to help other people, to let people help you?

      It'll only lead to a sad, lonely life.

      • JeffBozo [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        how do you become so dead that you reject the basic human urge to help other people, to let people help you?

        Individualism has made people think that it's part of human nature to not help eachother but rather only yourself. It's depressing how cynical my society has become.

    • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      every "rugged individualist" should be left to starve to death in the woods, just like they would have 20,000 years ago all on their own.

    • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Right? I've been on disability for a decade. I will take literally whatever anyone offers me. Like, someone tells me "hey, you ever need anything, let me know" to be nice or whatever; well, they're getting hit up, cuz I need shit.