Political Memes

One of the biggest problems I have is if you make ANY headway, they go home, flick on fox news, and are immediately re-programmed. You can convince them that there's no ethical way to make hundreds of billions of dollars, and the next time you see them, they're asking you why you have a problem with a guy renting an entire city for his wedding.

Even the things they acknowledge might be good, the argument is always "BuT wHo'S gOiNg To PaY fOr It!??1"

Um, Bezos. Musk. Gates. Buffett. Not us. It's right there in the plan.

Even if they will never and could never become rich, just in case.

and keep getting more rich. It'll never end and they'll return on each other.

Also, mix in that social programs that helped them are different.

Think of the famous Craig T Nelson quote: "I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No."

Things that they personally benefited from when they needed them aren't socialist, they're not government that's too big. They're programs that are OK, but only as long as the people on those program genuinely need them like they personally did. What they don't realize is that most people on those programs do genuinely need them, and the rare people that are freeloading are hard to catch. It's almost always cheaper just to open the program to anybody who claims to need it than to try to investigate people who you suspect might be using the aid fraudulently.

So, someone like Craig T. Nelson are probably against housing laws because he personally hasn't been homeless or close to homeless. He's probably against worker's rights, even though he's almost certainly in the SAG union, and has benefited from their health insurance. He's reluctantly for the idea of food stamps because he used them himself. On the other hand, he's probably sure that most food stamp users are frauds and don't actually need them like he did.

Yeah.. always do what you accuse others of doing. boomer's shit mindset

I wish my union hall would talk about this. We have almost a billion in investments, 5500 active members, 1500 retired. Around 50 employers in the group, feels like we're getting jerked around by the biggest 3 of the companies. Sure would be interesting to open a truly worker/union owned coop to level out the playing field and demonstrate how much value we throw away into the company coffers.

Yep, they just want to be legally recognized as superior, even if it’s just in a wasteland destroyed by their own radical policies crafted to hurt everyone, but especially the people they hate the most.

Sociopathy

I think that even beyond this, they have a really skewed perspective on how big the problem is. A lot of outrage politics and outrage “news” revolves around playing up a problem as a YUGE PROBLEM, so people get worked up over something that’s a rounding error or something with significant benefits outweighing cost

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People are just going to have to suffer because USAID spent so much money in other countries, and it’s mostly corruption and doesn’t benefit anyone I know. We can’t afford it.

A trillion dollar increase in debt by tax cut that only affects the wealthy? Of course we need to do that. I pay taxes, and it doesn’t increase how much the government spends /s

The “that man wants to steal your cookie” cartoon made flesh.

Or they are racist/sexist/transphobic and actively desire to harm people around them.

Family that you like. If you're married and have children you should like them lol