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timberwraith (@timberwraith@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
"They have you fighting a culture war in order to stop you from fighting a class war." Those with power are exploiting bigotry and a widespread embrace of (violent) social hierarchy that is already present in the masses in order to protect a violent class hierarchy which favors their own interests. The hatred and violence that you, the average person, thinks is justifiable against your favorite hated minority also makes your own oppression and suffering possible.
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interesting that after a decade or so of mainstream consensus that anonymity is bad and antisocial and everyone should use real names on platforms that rewarded both outrageousness and outrage, we hit a point in about 2014(??) at which people started just continuously saying previously unspeakable things under their official headshots

—@kissane

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I’m gonna come out and say it again — if you feel the need to refuse standard of care medical treatment for religious or moral reasons, you don’t belong in medicine. Just fuck off and find a career where vulnerable people relying on you don’t suffer because of your selfishness. I treat nazis. I treat pedophiles. I treat people of all stripes. I’ve treated drunk drivers after I took the radio call to pronounce time of death for their victims.

We. Don’t. Refuse. Care.

—@mcnado

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Social Security is not insurance. It’s not a savings account you paid into and now can withdraw from. Social Security doesn’t work like that. The Republicans would desperately like you to believe it does because then you won’t realize that Social Security is socialism for old people. They want you to believe that you have to have worked hard to “deserve” Social Security, or that you might be able to get more money from it if you invested instead of giving your money to the government.

Social Security distributes money to people who are eligible for it. They could easily make us all eligible for it. That’s what they don’t want you to know. It’s funded by the government, not by people paying into it. It’s not going to “run out” unless the government cuts funding for it. It’s a line item in the budget. That line item could be increased easily by increasing revenue through higher taxes on the rich, or through cutting spending for the military. Social Security is a basic income, which could be made universal if there was the political will to do so.

Thus endeth the sermon.

—@intransitivelie