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My right to exist becoming a political issue definitely played a part
My family didn’t want to “spoil” (financially support) me, because what if all those rags to riches tales are all true? Then in college it bit me in the ass really hard, because some fuckwit in Hungary decided that to combat unemployment of young adults, mandatory internship time will be required for all college degrees, except the system is horribly abused, and without the necessary connections you’ll be paying 1-2 months worth of salary, so you can work for half a year for free, which is good because after that you might be able to work for barely above minimum wage, which isn’t even enough for a rent in Budapest, so I need even more connections to share a room with someone else.
Then I found a channel on YouTube called “Libertarian Socialist Rants”.
When I realized that I had always been terrified of medical bills, and debt in general. Even when I had a good job in a well-paying industry and good healthcare coverage, I was still scared of going to the doctor.
What country would do this?
Clearly not a good one, that’s for sure
As an American, I’m betting on the US. The likely argument is that the person using their neighbor’s hose still owes money to the utility company and allowing them to use water for free is allowing them to avoid consequences of non payment.
Ridiculous, but the logic seems like something I’ve seen many times in the US.
I’ve seen it in Poland in certain places too. Some residents of a multifamily block of flats have their heating turned off at all times, but the block owners still demand money of them because “they got passive heating from their neighbours heating”
ffs as if this wasn’t a service you buy but a privilage to use it
I mean that makes sense at least, because otherwise the adjacent neighbours will be having to pay more as they’re still heating their apparent. You do have to make some sacrifices when living in a block, that’s one of them.
you have to make some sacrifices when living in a block, like paying for extra heating if others have it turned off :)
Access to water should be a human right. But how would Nestlé make money if it were? Think about the shareholders!
Nah, the attitude expressed here makes the water utility less money, and hence makes no sense in the US.
A real shit hole…
Republicans denying basic facts in the oughts. Watching the Democrats burn Sanders. Seeing Trump turn the country into a nightmare. Vaush explaining what a cooperative is. Each event pushed me a little further.
Who is Vaush and how did they explain a cooperative?
gestures broadly at everything
yeah p much
Being right smack in the middle of the Investment Banking Industry in the 2008 Crash and after that and seeing how those who did the worst shit got rewarded and everybody else got to be squeezed to pay the bill.
Before that I actually believed the “merit” bollock from Neoliberalism.
(It’s more than that, but that certainly brough me back as a thinking adult to my younger leftie roots).
Initially? The DMCA.
Ah, yes the DMCA where a accusation is enough to get you banned but there is no penalty for making the accusation.
I used to upload stuff to youtube, mainly for friends to watch, and I got false copyright claims on every single one of them. I concluded that YT does not want me to share videos with my friends, so I stopped.
Not to mention the part where companies can just make reverse engineering and interoperability illegal by putting in one little encryption layer.
Who the fuck gave the cops the authority to shut people’s utilities off? I can maybe understand if they meant to say the cops supervised the utility worker.
There are so many things but I really need to say: Republicans
As I started paying attention to politics, I started noticing patterns. And they’ve been getting more extreme over the years. It’s easy to say conservative positions sound good, and it’s easy to say all politicians are cynical self-centered liars with no intentions except amassing power and wealth. But if you’re paying any attention at all, you see Republicans far worse, far more blatant lies, far more corrupt and it isn’t even close.
Then I come online and see Republicans trying to justify absolute shitty behavior, hold themselves above the law, govern by obstruction. They used to say they had goals, a foundation, beliefs but I’d like to see them act constructively for their constituents with those beliefs. Please. Meanwhile people start trumpeting a case of Democrat malfeasance and other Democrats are at the front of the line to see justice done. Sometimes it can be difficult to maintain cynicism.
But then we come down to my vested interests. In a strong believer in education, science, technology, investing for the future. One party has not just given up, but actively obstruct across the board
Hell, Arizona Republicans just passed a law in the senate to ban any attempt to mitigate climate change or increase city walkability. But both sides, vote third party! /s
Land of the fee and the home of the grave
The educational system. Then seeing how the judicial system works and how it’s no different from how “justice” and punishment is meted out in the educational system to further the lies of “merit”, “hard work” and “intelligence”.
The fuck? Is water free in that town?
Confused on how letting someone else use your water can be illegal.
I’d assume the excuse is “multiple households using one tap would strain it” or something??
I’d guess they’re saying that the person using water from the hose is avoiding the consequences of non payment while they still owe money.
The consequence is the water is shut off. There is no avoiding that.
The neighbour is PAYING for every drop of water that comes out of the hose. Who uses that water isn’t up to anyone except the neighbour since he owns the water he paid for.
Any other interpretation of property rights is due to people trying to punish the poor for their poverty.
I don’t disagree with you at all. I’m just pointing out the logic of the people who made the laws and those enforcing them.
Yes I know but if the police are doing it there’s gotta be a law and that law presumably had some discussion.
If the tap can handle the functionality it was made for it would be a disservice not to use it
Those making the money off of our basic needs also own the politicians “working for the people” (via “lobbying”, aka bribery), so they essentially make the rules for themselves, and they don’t like “competition”, simple.
I got the same response when I was helping a neighbor who needed electric repairs and had to shut off all of his power for a week. A cop saw an extension cord running between our very close homes and at least he warned us to disconnect immediately and if they saw it again they’d shut off our power.
Why would they shut off your power? You’d be paying for the extra power being delivered to you, right? Why would they care what you did with it?
And regardless, that’s a far cry from it being illegal.
Hide the cable
there’s the Florida man who’s been repeatedly arrested for feeding the homeless …
Oh man I work with a food pantry that serves a weekly free meal and we’ve been trying to get a commercial fire suppression system for many months now. The county and township have been making it as difficult and slow as possible. And really expensive.
They put people from food not bombs on trial in Houston not long ago. The jury came back with a non guilty verdict because the law is fucking stupid and feeding hungry people is always good.
Jury nullification for the win.
There was a similar case where they couldn’t even get to a trial because almost every single potential juror disqualified themselves immediately when they heard what the charges were by stating they would not uphold that law (the court only want people on the jury who will plausible apply the law “neutrally”)
“I am pro every law. Please put me on this jury so I can do my duty. No, I have never heard of jury nullification. Fuck the homeless, am I right your honor?” - me desperately trying to get on this jury
How dare your family ease the boot off a neighbour’s neck?!
