• Narauko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Huh, none of that has anything to do with communism. I basically agree with everything except the guns part (I believe that to be a fundamentally incorrect interpretation of the wording of the 2nd amendment), but in a “the government has no business or right to regulate those things” libertarian way.

    It’s also not woke because the principle of bodily and personal autonomy is old school “don’t tread on me” libertarianism, and thus “right wing”. I think I agree with Linus about the inability to define those terms, carry on.

    I may not be the target audience though as I also totally want socialized healthcare, free education extending into the collegiate level, and a UBI replacing all welfare programs, because those fall under the “General Welfare” set out by the Constitution and those things would cost less than what we have now for far better outcomes.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      “the government has no business or right to regulate those things”

      If you believe this, then you need also believe the government has no business regulating murder, rape, mass shootings, terrorism and domestic violence. Those two concepts cannot be extricated from one another. I get that right now in America is kind of the entire point of the 2nd amendment, but when you don’t have a constitution that’s fundamentally broken, this stuff doesn’t happen so readily. Plus none of those 2nd amendment types are actually doing diddly squat to stop it.

    • Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      The 2nd Amendment is a single sentence and the first four words, “a well regulated militia”, are the subject. This is grammar. Unless you think the authors were bad at grammar, there’s not much to misinterpret.

      • Narauko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, but you have to take the whole sentence to actually identify the grammar, not just the first 4 words. Beyond what has already been said about well regulated meaning ‘in good functional order’, that is a explanatory preposition to why the rights of the people to keep and bear arms is important. The Federalist papers back this up well enough as well.

        If I said “Because being hungry sucks, access to the fridge shall not be restricted”, this does not imply that one must be hungry to have access to the fridge. Maybe it would be better if it were so people couldn’t over eat or eat out of boredom, but you would need to change that sentence to make it mean you had to be hungry to access the fridge.

        There is also the fact that under federal law, everyone not serving in the standing military or the national guard (the organized militia) is legally classified as the unorganized militia, but I don’t think that even matters to the reading of the amendment.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      and a UBI replacing all welfare programs

      I’m actually against that. Not against an UBI per se, but against it replacing all welfare programs.

      The main issue here is that needs vary a lot, and depending on your specific needs, an UBI might not begin to cover them.

      One of my kids has Cystic Fibrosis, which leads to frequent hospital stays. One of the main medications (Kaftrio, that stuff is a miracle drug, it’s crazy how well it works) costs ~€350k per year.

      UBI would be a drop in the ocean in this regard.

      The same goes for a lot of other conditions. For example, a nursing home costs way more than any UBI would cover, but also if you have a disability that would require frequent assistance and/or a modified home or some special kind of transport, UBI would be just not enough.

      • Narauko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        I would think that having procedures, medications and other medical costs covered under universal healthcare and having a non-means tested or work gated UBI would be a hell of a lot better than the current Medicaid and SSI disability nightmares.

        I include both of these together because currently the overhead expenditures for managing and running both the collective welfare programs at all levels and our for-profit healthcare system run at the behest of and for the profits of health insurance burn a significant amount of both money and time.

        Needs may vary a lot, but having hoops to jump through to maintain eligibility for multiple welfare programs and under constant threat of being kicked off of any of them doesn’t seem to be the right answer to me.

      • darthmachina@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        But that’s where socialized healthcare comes in. None of what you brought up would have to be covered by any sort of UBI. Especially since if we had a national UBI we would probably already have socialized healthcare since the latter would be easier to get through than the former.

        • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 hours ago

          That’s the thing, though: many people advocating for UBL argue that it should replace ALL benefits (like the person I responded to) because, according to them, the UBL would cover all issues already. Generally speaking, people who argue like that are under 30 and haven’t had any serious contact with chronic conditions and don’t even consider the existence of anything worse than a broken leg.

          Special needs (not only disabilities but all sorts of special circumstances) are complex, and UBL is a simple solution for complex issues. And a system like UBL needs to work for everyone, not only for most people.

    • breecher@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Huh, none of that has anything to do with communism.

      “Communism” and “woke” are the same in this context, because both are pejoratives right wingers use for “everything I don’t like”.

    • Lena@gregtech.euOPEnglish
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      24 hours ago

      what

      Edit: ah, acid is the opposite of a base. He’s very acided :3

  • diptchip@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I disagree. Evolution would accelerate if everyone had a gun. Also, the kernel has grown out of control. OpenBSD for the win!

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It’s wild to me that someone like Linus has the time and mental capacity to compose these. It’s kind of nice to see that you can act like an unemployed Reddit mod no matter your other responsibilities. I too like to act that way occasionally.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      It’s wild to me that someone like Linus has the time and mental capacity to compose these

      he is a being made mostly of rage.

      also finnish.

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      When people are just the dumbest sometimes you need to unload. The weight of being a genuine person wanting to better this fucking disgrace of a world takes a toll.

      In those moments, they’re the personification of all the hate and ugly that your existence is against.

      Indulging all the time yeah get the neckbeard and fedora ready… sometimes though

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Thanks.

        I found morgthorak (as their post was deleted).

        (Offensive Language Warning) https://mk.gabe.rocks/@[email protected]

        I figured “Is Morg that bad? Maybe Linus is overreacting, or there’s missing context?” Ohhh boy. I can’t even quote their posts without violating Lemmy’s rules, but its openly white supremacist and crudely homophobic.

        But it is kinda… morbidly fascinating to peer into that sort of community. I haven’t heard some of those slurs since high school.

        • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Oh, a user from poa.st. Figures. A year or two ago I spent a while looking at Fediverse block lists and that site was one of those that got frequently blocked/defederated. Because of all of the Nazis, apparently.

          (Actually pretty weird that they even attempted to federate with Mastodon in the first place. Most of the Nazi shitholes just install Mastodon without federation, get blocked by the rest of the Fediverse just as a precaution, and then they run out of money and disappear quietly and the admins abscond with the donations and the users pretend nothing ever happened)