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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

The problem are not the facts, but the limits of imagination. For many, many people UBI is just too different from what they know and no amount of factual evidence will ever change their opinion. So what we do is bring reality closer to UBI and bridge that gap. Start off with, say, universal food security. Everyone gets a food card that they can buy a certain money amount of food with. No strings. Even the billionaires. And that will work and have massive positive effects across our society, and maybe then they will accept the idea, because it is not such a large leap anymore. But if that isn't enough, we do something else. Medicine, housing, childcare assistance, clothing, transportation, depending on where you live there are a dozen things that could be done at any time. Choose one, take that step, and repeat until the gap is small enough for us to make the jump. I mean it would be great if we can skip all the middle steps and jump straight to a good society, but the larger the jump the harder the jump and we as a political block might simply be unable to bring change that large that fast because we lack the political power. We may never have the political power to make it happen all at once, and these strategies are not mutually exclusive. Constantly take steps but always be ready to take the leap.

"Constantly take steps but always be ready to take the leap."

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randomly remembered that sometime around 2008 I went to buy some New Clothes and came back from the store and ranted to my friend group about how men’s clothes are all so boring, and you look at the women’s section and it’s got so much variety and more interesting designs. 

All those guys (except one) were like “uh, whatever I guess”. In retrospect, I should have realized Gender Things earlier. 

I’ve been clothes shopping the past couple weekends putting together an outfit for a thing and oh my god men’s clothing sucks and I wish we had the options women have. Not necessarily the same options but just as many. 

I'm going to go to Galaxy's Edge in a couple weeks for the first time and I'm putting together a Batuu Bounding outfit and reading up on the vocabulary/turns of phrase cast members use and the whole time thinking to myself This is great. I’m going to get a good grade in Star Wars, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

What I was able to put together for just under $80 (vests are EXPENSIVE, btw)

“In 1971, virtuoso cartoonist Jack Kirby took note of the growing power of fundamentalist religion in the U.S., and satirized it in an issue of ‘Forever People.’ Kirby was one of the 1st to notice elements of fascism in the mega-media religion which emerged in the late 1960’s.”

I kept coming back to this segment during [THE PREVIOUS U.S. ADMINISTRATION] and could not get over the "show your allegiance to our movement with this headwear" aspect