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Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 5 days agosuch as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources
You mean we shouldn’t have social welfare programs?
No public healthcare, no public housing, no public infrastructure, no public health services, no free public education, no universal basic income
How are any of these bad?
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Who said any of that? You’re making up stuff I didn’t say…
People that need help should absolutely get it in all those forms. I’m talking about like, not participating in the economy as much. Growing your own food, relying on yourself as much as possible. Like I said in other comments here, I think I’ve horseshoed around off the left and I’ve ended up in a hyper-local community driven economy mindset.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
When you mentioned conservative values of not relying on outside sources, that’s what I thought of due to the historical context of individualism that the video goes over. Didn’t mean to imply you were personally against those things.
I’m guessing you’re referencing reducing personal consumption? I’m supportive of that, the idea is rooted in anti-capitalist sentiment. Growing your own food is just a fun hobby, I don’t think that has any real political leaning. Food Cooperatives with local communities, such as a neighborhood garden, are left-leaning tho.
Conservatives have historically used the rhetoric of “relying on yourself, not others” to justify gutting social services and replacing them with private businesses as a way to accelerate profit seeking.
No, community driven is great. I want to do more myself
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 4 days ago
See how quick you were to go to the extreme and start strawmanning everything in your previous comment though? That’s the problem.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You mentioned conservative values multiple times, so I took that at face value