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How about food is a human right and should be free at point of purchase, lol.
Edit: lmao at the three American or Israeli downvoters. Eat shit, fuckers.
I do think that people should be able to line up to get soup/stew/oatmeal/etc. low-cost food as much as they want.
Kids shouldn't be distracted from their schoolwork and even having their brains and bodies develop poorly because they don't get fed at home.
Adults shouldn't be distracted at work and/or committing crime to feed their families.
yeah especially the food-at-schools issue is just so obvious. just provide free breakfast / lunch etc. doesn't even have to be complicated, even if the schools just provided a liter of milk a day, it would be something and better than nothing.
there's a whole lot of things that schools could provide even if they don't have a cafeteria / kitchen in the building. stuff like lunch boxes: bread with vegetables, cheese, jam, etc.
I can at least understand where people come from when they claim that adults who can work don't have a right to food. I don't necessarily have to agree with it, but I understand it.
But why doom their kids? An 8 year old shouldn't have their studies affected because they're hungry because their parents are poor. That's antithetical to the American Dream they tend to talk so much about.
Careful, they'll call you a tankie for this sentiment, lol.
Naw, people get called tankies for pretending the USSR/China/DPRK were perfect and did no wrong.
Your comment translated to the right would be "People will call you a nazi for saying you think we should have borders."
Nobody but the absolutely deranged stretches that far, but people who are that extreme do like to pretend that their entire half of the political spectrum is labeled equally extreme; strength in unity by inventing enemies, I guess.
How many bombs has China dropped in the last 50 years? There's a reason so many people prefer China over America.
I never said America was free of problems.
That's the issue with people like you; you see zero nuance and you refuse to participate in discussions in good faith. Any criticism of any (pseudo-)socialist group must be met with Whataboutism or other bad faith arguments.
Answer the question or fuck off, lol.
I'm happy to concede it's zero without looking it up; it makes no difference to either of our positions here.
It's just a Red Herring for you to mount a soapbox to tell me and anyone who hasn't blocked you yet how China Did Nothing Wrong and America Did Nothing Good.
That's why people evidently keep calling you a tankie, and that's how you and I differ so I never get called a tankie.
TL;DR: Not All Socialists Are Tankies, but All Tankies Think All Socialists Are Tankies.
Great, you passed the first test, lol.
lol tf u talkin about lol begone
Do you think you have some kind of power over this comment section? Begone? Eat my ass, lmao. American exceptionalism is so embarrassing lmao.
I'm just telling you to fuck off in a more polite way, Mr. Nonconfrontational.
You are just inventing straw men to attack at this point, after ignoring just about everything I said (save for the parts that helped you pivot to your propaganda pitch).
You've done a +1 in the bucket of "Should I just block lemmy.ml?" Like 90% of the socialists I talk to from there end up being tankies and it's exhausting, not to mention erodes my faith in socialism. As I said, nothing you've said here has been in good faith.
Why do you argue in bad faith? I have no idea. Maybe you're secretly anti-socialist and want to make socialists look dumb.
soo, just to chime in, i get your whole point, and i agree with you. i'm just gonna propose another explanation why the other user behaves like a tankie:
meanwhile, the sovjet union failed for complex geopolitical reasons that had basically nothing to do with military power. so the tankies are wrong, but they're wrong because they're deeply hurt themselves, not because they're inherently evil people.
Oh I don't think they're evil. I stated very clearly that I have no idea what's going on in their head.
All I know is the effect they have on others, which is negative on average, and as a result - harmful to the spread of goodness in humanity.
It's like the kid down the street who was beat up by some black kids and is forever racist because of it. I can intellectualize that he's deeply hurt by his experience, and I can try to talk him out of being racist, but I'm still going to dislike him and try to block him from affecting others with his poison.
Again I'll remind that "Nonconfrontational" person I blocked you, so there's no point in replying to me. Following me around the thread downvoting everything I say kinda highlights the issue with people like you.
Before you assert that I must not have blocked you or I wouldn't know it was you:
I saw the
1 more replyand Lemmy wouldn't let me read it, which I assumed means it's from someone I blocked.I want to say you're the third or so person I've ever blocked on Lemmy.
I double-checked by logging out, and confirmed it was you.
My advice would be to touch some grass.
Lmfao. Y'all are fucking sick.
Edit: The bizarre lengths people go to to censor their own world view, lmao.
The USSR defeated the literal Nazis lol. God forbid they get a bit of praise in their attempt at socialism. Meanwhile, permanent war from America across the globe.
That sucks, or is good. I'm not reading your drivel. Can't wait for your country to collapse, either way.
Death to America.
K, whatever.
Enjoy making socialism - and the world - worse. I'll continue to try to make it better.
Blocking you now.
Lmao, thank you for ridding me from you!
(citation needed)
also, yeah, bombs are one thing, and i see your argument there.
however, what moves people is largely the economic situation. people get dissatisfied with the US today because incomes are declining for the masses.
No response to the pew research article? Just downvotes? Interesting.
Hellooooo
lol
i think it would be better to give universal basic income (money) and people buy food with that. why is it better? because it ensures that while people can afford food, one person does not buy 20 bread when they only eat 2 "because it's free".
The problem with UBI is that the ones who decide the price of things still will have a control over things.
as i said in another comment, you lose anyways, the question is just whether you also win some.
I don't care how it happens.
It's 5 now, after you started going wild below. Not everyone who dislikes toxic people is an "American or Israeli."
well, they were not saying the "american or israeli" thing without reason. i remember a few years ago there was an UN vote whether food should be considered a human right ... and every country in the world voted in favor, except two ... america and israel.
(since america is a veto power, the proposal didn't pass)
Yeah that's one of many black marks on America's sanity, and as you remind us, particularly relevant in this way.
One of those classic "A shitty person has a point" moments (not you, them).
I will say that I'm pretty sure they had 0 downvotes until they started going Tankie Mode in the discussion I mentioned, so people seem to be downvotng based on that, not so much supporting the US or Israel.
Hell yeah. A sane man to an insane society must appear insane. Also I'm showing -3. I wonder why it's -5 for you? I don't block users or instances.
federation issues. you might not block instances but your instance does block some other instances.
Interesting, thanks for the info!
Does ml have instance blocks?
What kind of food? Only the cheapest supermarket type of food or gourmet restaurant too? What about food delivered from another continent? Should all of them be free? How would that be possible?
I don't care, lol. We throw out thousands of tons of food every day.
which btw is good. imagine the opposite: if we threw away no food, that means that we consume about 100% of our food. now, if any environmental disaster hits (think of hurricanes, wildfires, etc.) then the amount of food produced will take a bump by maybe 10% in that year, ok? so now we produce 90% of the food we need ... disaster.
a positive excess in production capability is the only thing to prevent shortages when risk inevitably happens.
but, what if instead of lowering the amount of food production to match what you said, we just outlaw throwing still good food out, and instead enforce a donation style regulation where leftover food that is still safe to eat must be donated or given, not wasted.
Like I used to watch the dunkin employee at the store I used to work at throw away dozens of perfectly fine doughnuts daily, or the bagels that wern't used. It's so wasteful for something that could have easily just been set outside as a "free for the taking" and then anything that wasn't taken can then be tossed the next morning.
No establishment does it because they know it would likely lower their customers, cause they would just wait for closing. but at least then its not wasting it all.
Lmfao. Literal capitalist brain at work. We have to let people starve so that people don't starve when we have an emergency, lmao.
Good job, little buddy!
Communism Killed 850 Zillion People
so did the manifest destiny.
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