Tweet is from around February 2022; I’m not visiting that cesspool to find the exact date.

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30 points

This is something I just don’t get how so many folks don’t seem to get it. Social safety nets make just a better overall environment to live in. Most people work jobs interacting with other people and have all sorts of things outside of work interacting with people. Ideally they are clean, healthy, educated, and are happy in the sense they are not worried about their prospects for basic necessities like food and shelter.

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18 points

There is some percentage of people that simple can not think in any other way than zero sum games. Every transaction, interaction, etc needs to have winners and losers. They can’t see that some spending is good because it helps people which in turn helps them. It is a completely alien world view that I also don’t understand. They are the foot soldiers for fascism.

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5 points

I was gonna joke that they must not have friends then, but that’s actually a pretty common problem.

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