Sigma ζ (she/her)
So let me get this straight.
People are living in tent cities all over the United States, people cannot get clinical care for treatable illnesses, child hunger is rampant, union suppression is now quotidian, and some of our own country's politicians are openly sympathetic toward an authoritarian expansionist regime that tortures civilians and demolishes cities.
And the thing that you see people getting outraged over is that a few people want to get married to their dogs.
Does that cover it?
errante
≠
I like the idea of every population having its own nation.
This reduces conflicts.
≠
I think they should.
After the #Holodomor, the Ukraine-Russia relationship is as unrepairable as the Poland-Russia relationship.
errante
≠
Ukraine has been trying to differentiate itself from various occupiers for millennia, it seems. Russia invaded there.
The question in American inner cities then is whether they want to break away and manage their own affairs.
So far, they seem to want subsidies and less oversight.
I might analogize Ukraine more to Vietnam than anything else. They want independence, and will ally with any ideology that will help.
errante
Sigma ζ (she/her)
@amerika It is dangerous for Ukraine that they are standing up against Russian tyranny, but you often have to do something dangerous in order to break out of a cycle that is slowly killing you. Risk-avoidance is a slow death. At times, the only way out of the skillet is to leap into the fire and hope you survive to lick your wounds later.
≠
Well... I'm not disputing that riots cannot be fun.
They are dangerous however.
If the poor want to have activism, their demand should be "reduce our costs" not "give us free stuff which will get wrecked because it is free" IMHO.
≠
We can see this now with the Antifa/BLM riots: in response to a political grievance, they burn down the functional parts of their neighborhoods and then complain they live in food deserts.
Sigma ζ (she/her)
@amerika I actually believe that militancy tends to be a precursor to a group of people getting serious about improving the condition of their next generation. While such uprisings may seem counter-productive in the short-term, they ultimately raise morale, and they instill in parents a sense of iron determination that their offspring should grow up to be strong.
A few broken windows are a small price to pay.
Besides, playing tear gas tag with the cops is is the best fun I ever had.
≠
I agree with the idea that generally the best thing we can do for the poor is to improve their living conditions.
I think handouts work against this.
The shadow issue behind poverty is IQ.
If we sent everyone below 115 IQ points to a moon colony, for example, we would have near-zero poverty.
Sigma ζ (she/her)
Like I said, poor housing conditions for children can LEAD to them having executive dysfunction as adults, and there are cheap ways of amending such conditions.
Such executive dysfunction in their parents is the primary reason why their parents are not able to afford better housing, to begin with.
Furthermore, a lack of training in home economics passes down through generations. Furthermore, home economics courses haven't been upgraded in more than half a century.
≠
I do not think it is on the radar for normal people, but it is predictable fallout from Obergefell.
Isn't it funny how the more aid we hand out, the more people are homeless?
Sigma ζ (she/her)
Regarding poverty and how to deal with it, I think that "handouts" are not all created equal.
What the government actually should invest in is breaking up cycles of poverty that are clearly capable of being amended.
Exposure to noise can cause children cognitive issues, for example. Cheap nanotech-age sound-proofing could help them grow up to be more self-sufficient.
Also, putting more money into home economics classes, in poor areas, would go a lot farther than food stamps.
🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
errante
meso
errante
meso
≠
Interesting. Luckily there is a huge amount of overlap.
errante
🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
meso
meso
🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
cracky
meso
🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
０７６萌ＳＮＳ is a social network, courtesy of ０７６. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-beta0, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All ０７６萌ＳＮＳ content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.