The past 2 weeks really have just been the Democrats doubling down and saying the quiet part out loud.
The past 2 weeks really have just been the Democrats doubling down and saying the quiet part out loud.
Yes, it's a PCM meme, but still accurate as fuck.
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I’ve always wondered why conservatives harbor so much hate for immigrants and not the business owners taking advantage of vulnerable populations
That second part won’t go away, they’ll just make a different vulnerable group
We want them gone too, it's just harder to go after companies.
So going after the people being exploiters instead is constructive?
You can do both. But as I said, it's harder to go after them.
Because in a free market, “taking advantage of” someone else always involves them taking advantage of you too. It’s an exchange economy.
In a free market, being used means being paid.
If you really want to understand how conservatives think, you need to remember that we see our economy as a system of consensual trades between adults.
Being exploited is always paired with exploiting the one exploiting you. That’s why we talk in terms of “jobs”. Trade: a two-way thing.
That’s some pretty serious mental gymnastics going that completely disregards how employee/employer relationships work in the real world.
If you really want to understand how conservatives think, you need to remember that we see our economy as a system of consensual trades between adults.
It’s not really “consensual” if the alternative is homelessness, starvation, and criminalization is it?