And we can get all these things by eliminating billionaires (And a trillionaire) from the population
Very hard to talk about “lessening crime” when you breeze by wage theft, land theft, and war crimes.
Like, I want to believe OP’s message, but I don’t think the problem ICE Agents are having right now is poverty wages. I don’t think the local PD out roughing up the homeless are lacking for health care or homes or strong unions. The suffocating waves of pipelines and highways and data centers that force people out of their homes aren’t being built because their investors lacked the amenities of a first class upbringing.
We have to clarify what kind of crimes we’re preventing. Nothing in OP’s list puts Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg off their bullshit.
You’re not directly wrong, but the theoretical, philosophical, answer is that the social will that allows ICE to operate, or cops to thug about, is that people feel that there is dangerous lawlessness out there, and the only way to solve it is strong force. And sometimes a few eggs need to get cracked, but it’s okay because they deserved it.
So none of the things listed here prevent ICE, but ICE is powered by fear of “the criminals”, and if we solve the “criminal problem” with real solutions, suddenly it gets a lot harder to motive a brute squad when everyone is fine actually. And I don’t mean “the officers are fine” or “the would-be victims are fine”, I mean the random citizens sitting at home, already feeling secured without the police force in military gear.
And I mean maybe at least some of the shitty dudes are there due to broken homes fractured by substance abuse or financial stresses, or are themselves victims of fetal alcohol syndrome or something, which could possibly be lessened with tighter social circles and safety nets.
As you your other point, unions specifically address wage theft and would impact Bezos for sure. At least assuming “theoretically ideal” unions.
people feel that there is dangerous lawlessness out there, and the only way to solve it is strong force
They believe this regardless of the actual crime rate. They believe it regardless of the number of cops on the streets. They believe it because they are trained to believe the mere presence of any number of minorities, young people, or migrants constitutes a threat to their safety.
Feels before Facts & Logic, combined with an increasingly hysterical right wing press produce a Phantom Menace that can be used to advance fascist policies.
ICE is powered by fear of “the criminals”, and if we solve the “criminal problem” with real solutions, suddenly it gets a lot harder to motive a brute squad when everyone is fine actually
I wish that were true.
But you can just cook up an endless series of AI scare videos to convince Memaw and Pep Pep that there’s a murderous riot of illegal transgender Muslim communists just down the road.
And we can get all these things by eliminating billionaires
We can’t. Those things have to be organised and we could organise them right now.
The problem are not the billionaires but the lack of organisation of the people.
Both can be true no? Also, nicely put into art:
Credit: https://boutique.lokipropagand.art/en/product/strong-communities/
Reagan skyrocketed the homeless population of California when he cut the budget for mental health facilities. That gave him the excuse to arrest the dangerous mental patients roaming the streets. Of course, the State needed to pay private contractors for new prisons.
Worked so well he did it again when he became President.
A mass murdering, war criminal, nepo baby.
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Foreigners are people, don’t spread hate.
And what the fuck is about the race? You favor some race?You’re a dickhead
Don’t breed
Wait… Is that a legit poster?
Yup. It and others are being put up at a London bus stop
More than free college: education. Everyone has a piece of the puzzle. By sharing your knowledge and wisdom skillfully, you help eliminate poverty and crime. Certainly, the system should be fixed, but we all need to help the lowest among us the ways we can. We cannot offload responsibility to this agency, this person, this state. The individual is the source of will in reality, and thus where good will is born.
Sixty years ago you could graduate from high school, get a job, buy a car, get married, buy a house, buy a boat and raise kids all on one salary. People had a future to look forward to then.
Then get drafted, go to Vietnam, maybe come home but bring irreversible trauma with you.
Hmmm maybe we could try to bring back the good thing without bringing back the bad thing. It would be nice if it were possible.
Keeping people focused on culture wars to prevent class war.
Considering how much the far-right culture-war propaganda machine dominates social media and mainstream television, I’m terrified that it works too well, and enough of the lumpenproletariat will suffer misery blindly so long as alleged enemies are made to suffer more.
I hope we’re better than that, or can crack the code (or young people who grow up with it are more immune – that is the case with general advertising). Otherwise it speaks to a horrible future for humanity.
I hope so, too. It’s not just the far right, though. It’s the far rich.
The far-rich tends to be far-right. The ones that are smarter or have a conscience want to improve the lives of the working-class to fulfill the social contract so they don’t revolt, but they still are only interested in a system in which their wealth and power are preserved.
Culture is a big part of it. The above post statement only works in a relatively culturally cohesive society (take denmark) but not in sweden (same equality and socialism kpis as denmark but with significantly less integrated subcultures). Yet, there is significantly more violence and crime in sweden. So yes, you can make an economical model all you want to solve crime and violence, you’re just missing one big part of the equation which is culture.
These people have their own culture. They dine *together, drink together, dance together, plan wars and economies together, despite what complicit media tell you. That’s what the skull and bones, Bilderberg, Golden Dawn, 33° conspiracies are. Yes I said conspiracies, not conspiracy theories.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
Capitalism depends on an “every man for himself” savage mentality to thrive. The capitalist’s (i.e. the people with capital - the Epstein class/Oligarchs/Aristocracy) reap the benefits.
So poverty and crime are a needed part of the system.
Batman was never a hero
Yeah, the suspension of disbelief has broken for me too. No billionaire can be a superhero
How does it work for you?
If you think Batman is real, you have to accept that Joker and Scarecrow are too.
Both wanted to kill and / or drive everyone in the city crazy. Neither was homeless or destitute, so neither needed a more just system.
Just explain the logic, okay?
Saying he is not a hero does not mean the joker is the good guy.
You still haven’t explained how it works.
Batman risks his life to save the city. If he’d spent his time building schools and hospitals he wouldn’t have had the training to stop the Joker et al.
How does him risking his life to save the city not make him a hero.
He saw that there were people building schools, but he was the only one smart enough to build a Batcave and buy all the toys.
You seem pretty sure of your position, so defend it.
The criminals are the government
Thanks
Precisely what the advocates of universal basic income had been saying.
My plan is to look in a bunch of ladies
Omg why
You know what? Let’s make them fight even harder!
