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pack@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
It is bad. But its sooooo on fucking brand. If there isn’t some “respected body” to suggest what you did is bad, then you did nothing wrong. He doesn’t hate climate science past it stops him from doing what he wants. But if you can frame it in a way that motivates people against him (less fisheries means less sport fishing, less wild areas means less hunting, no snap benefits means more crime) you nip away at his base, and he doesnt have a ton of support. its marginal vs the voting public, even in midterms.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Whoa whoa whoa. “No SNAP == more crime”? 🤬 That’s some self-hate prop BS, but I can understand how it feels factual. 😢
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
On the contrary. The vast majority of crime is the result of poverty and social desperation.
“Criminals” aren’t a separate breed of contemptible human. They’re mostly regular people doing what they feel they have to in order to make it through the day/week/month/year/life.
It stands to reason that crimes of desperation such as shoplifting groceries, petty enrichment crimes, and drug use will happen more often when people lose their lifelines to barely being able to feed themselves and their families.
That’s not a “poor people are criminal scum” thing.
It’s a “the vast majority of crime is a result of poverty and other social issues putting regular people into difficult situations where they’re more likely to have to/think they have to break the law to get by” thing.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
True, and when politicians say they are “tough on crime” and other shit that suggests some people are just “bad criminals”, all they’re really doing is spouting racist dog whistles.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You should be ashamed to use that name
Bill & Ted understood empathy and that things aren’t black & white