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My two most radical leftist beliefs are actually both about personal autonomy: "open all borders" and "give people tons of government funds."
Pensioners recoil at being called benefits claimants but the truth is that there is not only nothing shameful in being a benefits claimant, but it in fact shows that even the very grubby neoliberal state has agreed that you have suffered enough to be entitled to compensation.
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The purpose of society is to give people the tools to flower like a fucking mallorn tree, and we are doing pretty badly on that atm
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sadly those are, in practical terms, diametrically opposed.
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Nah. Migrants grow economies, growing economies mean tax revenue, tax revenue means more money to spend. We just haven't tried doing this common sense thing in a little while now.
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by that logic the USA would be the most open to migrants...and yet here we are.
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sorry, I need those funds to pay for having cancer when I'm 80
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Free movement or armed hospice