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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

I just don't think this angle works. It relies on the listener correctly reasoning out how society works

"Raising the minimum wage would cause inflation". Is this true? No, it's been tested and studied. Most people believe this anyways

"Who's going to pay for healthcare?" We pay for healthcare already! Single payer healthcare would save nearly everyone a lot of money... But we're stuck at this hurdle. Even though we can pull billions out of midair for the military, and apparently fucking Argentina

There's all these myths that sound reasonable on the surface and get repeated constantly, and you can't reason people out of them. They can only do it themselves

I think when people start talking about their taxes going up for healthcare, we should shame them. We should treat them like they said we should kill poor people so we can slightly lower the cost of pet food

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