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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 17:44:38 JST Aral Balkan

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   • RustyBertrand

   @RustyBertrand Alt text: "When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character.
   This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."

   - Sarah Kendzior

   • RustyBertrand (rustybertrand@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 17:44:39 JST RustyBertrand

     “Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”

     ― Herman Melville