Conservatives would say this is communism and bad, which is why we should kill and eat conservatives.
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I don't want brain worms from eating unvaccinated Republicans.
In practical terms, you feed them to pigs and butcher the pigs. The pigs act as a filter.
What if I don't want to eat a cop ? 🤨
Not from prion disease.
Yeah prion diseases are fucking horrifying when you actually look into the details.
According to the article, this thing is entirely funded by private donations. Apart from the most reactionary right wing edgelords, I've yet to see any conservatives argue against charity. Most just don't want to be FORCED to pay for others via increased taxes, but they're happy to give when it's voluntary.
I've yet to see any conservatives argue against charity.
They absolutely argue against charity if said charity benefits those they don't like.
Yeah, that sounds shitty, but what the article doesn't mention, despite being literally in the first paragraph of the press release that was linked, is that the real problem wasn't the zoning law violation, but the fact that the police department had received multiple calls for various crimes being committed there, including theft, harassment, drug overdose, and sexual assault. It also mentions various fire code violations involving the electrical supply, people cooking in non-ventilated rooms, etc.
It appears that the use of zoning laws violation to put an end to it was just a convenient excuse, but the author "forgot" to mention that in order to paint the city government in a bad light.
Here's another one. There are cases of places banning charity all over the place. Hell, you can't give out bottles of water to people stuck in line outside in Georgia if they happen to be voting. They cut social programs and claim churches/charities will pick up the slack, and then attack said churches/charities.
My point is here that conservatives will simply attack anything they feel is in their way. They simply want control. They want homeless people to be homeless because "they deserve to be homeless". They have absolutely no problem attacking charitable efforts, even if it has no impact on them whatsoever. They want to maintain the social hierarchy they feel should be in place.
Hayek just hated homeless people?
Have you read any of his books or delved into that side seriously at all, or is this a hunch?
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You're "forced" to pay taxes for the stability it provides the entire community.
Here's a great study on what causes crime:
Overwhelmingly most crime and violence in a community is related to the ability it's people have to earn income, housing, and healthcare. The very things our taxes are supposed to provide a security net for.
The taxes "forced" on you, to a point, are necessary for the stability of our communities. And the reason that stability is fading in most American cities isn't becuase of illegals, it's because of conservatives lowering and diverting tax revenues away from the social programs necessary to minimize crime. (Because those programs are "socialism.") Also conservatives fighting to never raise the minimum wage for a generation of Americans. What are the conservative policies on housing again? Oh yeah, people now have to compete with corporations to get them, so prices will never lower.
People are generally happy to pay taxes towards social safety nets when they understand the basic economics of the security it provides. Especially when there is a scientifically proven increase in violence and crime that comes from the erosion of that security.
If you feel "forced" to provide basic economic security to other Americans for the benefit of your entire community, and it's safety - then you don't have to look far to find a conservative who is against charity. Just look in a mirror.
We’ve been saying this for many years. It seems we have fostered a society that isn’t really interested in victim reduction as it is in vengeance. Only have to look at some of the countries with low recidivism rates.
I've always found that logic weird on their part.
If I am planning to do it anyway, because I recognize it is the right thing to do, what difference does it make if there are laws in place to ensure the less ethical among us do it as well?
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Conservatives have no real value system beyond "what is good for me right now?". They like or dislike things for transient, emotional, reasons. They might be in favor of charity when it's doing something they personally benefit from, but that's about as far as their reasoning goes.
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I'm calling bs
Food should all be free.
We make more than twice the food we consume just to throw it away.
But starvation is profitable.
All artificial scarcity is profitable, that’s why access is limited and sold.
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