Universal Basic Income for everyone AND in addition Disabled people also get extra disability pay. UBI is not a replacement for disability aid and people who suggest it deserve to be vaporized into atoms by my brain.
This is also why I think the idea of the Basic Needs Guarantee and Universal Basic Income shouldn’t be mutually exclusive IMO…
Disabled people have extra expenses, so they need the extra money. It’s expensive having even one, managed, disability or chronic illness.
Yeah, Andrew Yang’s fake UBI was bullshit. Not only because disabled people have extra needs, but because funding UBI by cutting services to the poor and disabled means poor and disabled people would get the least benefit from UBI.
If I have to give up my $600 SSI and $200 food stamps to get $1,000 UBI, that means I’m only getting an extra $200 a month. But Elon Musk would get the full amount without having to sacrifice anything?
A “universal” program funded by cutting programs for poor and disabled people isn’t actually universal.
In order to have good politics, I think you should want to be an anarchist. Like, yeah, we probably need a state, or something functionally much like a state, to make sure antibiotics get manufactured and the roads get paved and people have enough to eat. But you should be in perpetual unease over that fact. When institutions of power begin to overstep their bounds, you should not hesitate to make it their problem. You have to think the Man is fucking bullshit, man.
Like, I think power will probably always exist. If it isn’t explicit it’ll be implicit. But that doesn’t mean you have to accept it, endorse it, support it. You should be putting systems of power through the wringer at every turn. Because power will be better behaved in a society where everyone is a bit of an anarchist on the inside, where we know it’s all fucking bullshit.
So many people marry people they don’t like hanging out with.
When they say to marry your best friend they’re talking about that you need to like hanging out with them. You should probably like just hanging out with the person you’ve committed your life to. Because that’s what you’ll be doing most of the time.
In most romantic relationships the sex and longingly staring into each others eyes part is a relatively small portion of it. Most of your time is gonna be reading the newspaper in silence or cooking dinner or trying and failing to do a book club with your friends.
There is a weird pattern of people demanding explanations, and then when you write one for them, they respond with “I’m NoT rEaDiNg aLL ThAt!” as if that’s some kind of gotcha?
I don’t get it. what.
Like. You asked for an explanation.
I’ve had situations where people have sent me very long unsolicited transphobic rants and no, I don’t read those. But I also didn’t fucking ask in the first place.
