Probably a repost, don't care

I'm selfish. I want people educated, housed, and cared for so they don't rob me.

I don't want to dump sewage in the river, so I can drink the water when I visit down stream.

😋

I want people housed, educated, and queer so they populate niche game lobbies.
- I want people housed, educated, cared for, and trans specifically so they keep making great progress on all the open source software I use
- I'd like to help everyone homeless in my city so the LRT train stations aren't drug dens smelling of body fluids and excrement. I'd like to walk the river valley in the spring without finding thawing corpses.
If being educated and housed and cared for was enough to not rob me, my employer wouldn't be trying to steal money from my damn paycheck every month
You fucking commie
- Oh no, back to the shadow realm with me!
Don't drink river water without treating it regardless of human pollution.

right wing rhetorical brainwashing has made them internalize every single mindset that isn't "every man for himself" as communism. they don't even know what "communism" means, and they don't need to. their puppetmasters don't want them to know. all they need to know is that it's anti-america and it needs to be eradicated from the earth

These leftists are so anti-Christian for wanting to… checks notes… “love your neighbor as yourself.” Never heard such anti-Jesus teachings in my life.
- Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching—'turn the other cheek'—[and] to have someone come up after to say, 'Where did you get those liberal talking points?'" Moore said.
  "When the pastor would say, 'I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ' ... The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak," he added.
  https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706
Seems to me we're past that. The problem with the "fuck you, I've got mine" principle was the "I've got mine" bit, which requires holding something back from the ultra wealthy. If you can distill it down to a simple "fuck you", you've got yourself a much more low-maintenance philosophy. By turning human suffering into a desired commodity, you can appease your voter base without giving them anything of value.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

If you really want to piss people off, try adding "...and animals" to the list of things you care about.

Stfu you socialist pig. I'm a conservative, I believe in the teaching of Jesus and it says somewhere "Thou shall own liberals"

Jesus died to own the libs?
- Pretty sure somewhere in the old testament says that 😏

Do you have any idea how bad caring for people and the planet is for the economy? China will destroy us if we don't focus on profits!!

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It really is alarming how quickly some have shifted to the hard right. Even previous lefty friends have drifted. Sometimes I feel like I’m going insane.