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RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE!

OF NOT BEING ABLE TO

AFFORD HAPPINESS!

Israel is killing thousands of civilians in Lebanon. Israel wants the US to keep killing civilians and school children in Iran.

One of the most obnoxious examples of this is about once a month I see post/post cast clip/hear from someone irl that they think JK Rowling is an in denial trans man. They’ll take the quotes from her about how were she born in this generation, she would’ve been trans and that “the allure of escaping womanhood would have been too much to resist” and say she obviously a trans man.

But by believing this you haven’t discovered some secret of hers. Rowling quite literally wants you to believe she would’ve been trans to lend herself credence into the trans conversation. And you are agreeing with her and the TERFs that reason transmasculine people transition is because of internalized misogyny and peer pressure.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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That means that if the village says you shouldn't get pregnant when you don't have a man to provide for you and you get pregnant regardless, they can refuse to support you. They can reject and stigmatize your child.

When you make a decision—any decision—from what you wear and who you associate with to who you will be romantically involved with and what that will look like, to your education and career, family planning and whether you will leave your partner if they abuse you—the village has a say in all of it.

A proper social state, however, decides which services to provide, how much to fund them etc, there are still cultural biases there, but it won't tell you how to live your life. If all university programs are free, you can go study liberal arts instead of law, your parents can't stop you, and if the state provides a stipend, free housing and free meals while you study and also takes care of your basic needs afterwards, you have the ultimate freedom to do whatever the fuck you want to do with your life.

Want to have 8 children and a trad lifestyle in the countryside? Cool, they'll have healthcare, schooling, meals, competent teachers, after-school activities, public transit, public parks and activities—all for free. And none of that will be dependent on how many people around you like you and your kids personally and what they think of your lifestyle.

You want to be aggressively transgender and live in the city with your 8 person polycule and spend your days doing art and running a café that only does matcha? You can do that too. You'll get free housing for all of you and the business space provided for you, even if everyone in your neighborhood thinks you're weird.

The bureaucrats handing out the collective resources ideally shouldn't give a shit what you do with them.

When I applied for uni and chose a liberal arts degree instead of STEM, nobody told me "yeah no sorry we don't approve of that, you'll have to do something we think is useful or pay for it yourself". I got a free education plus a stipend, subsidized housing and food and everything else.

To clarify, this isn't an anti-community stance. Community is very important especially in a collectivist system like that.

I'm anti having your access to support & resources being dependent on your ability to be accepted into/by a community.

It's nice to have a cottagecore fantasy of a village-like community where everyone helps each other but in reality those can only function by excluding people who don't fit in and would cause problems/friction.

When you have a strong social safety net that's available to you, you can still join a commune if you want BUT, the important part is that you can also leave without ending up completely alone, homeless, with no ability to survive.

I was only able to get away from my abusive parents and the village that would've probably killed me because I got a monthly stipend and subsidized (affordable) student housing and meals from the government. Which means I didn't have to find a different community to accept me when I already had PTSD, was terrified of people and would've probably ended up in yet another abusive situation.