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Liz Kendall says young people who won’t take up work will lose benefits (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

fasciats

You can chastise their ideas without insulting them. It makes you look like a crazy person. Do you want to change people's minds or simply shout at them?

And if you can't do that, well that's rather sad.

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for pointing out my spelling mistake like a pedant, I'm on mobile.

We tried coddling fascists and all it does is validate their garbage beleifs, we're past trying to convince horrible people that they are horrible and are now at the stage where we have to protect ourselves and make sure the people who got us here never forget how they shit their own pants just to make us all smell it

If someone voted for Trump make sure they know how fucking dumb they are, and if they still whine wanting to be friends after voting to hurt you then tell them they were even dumber for thinking that was a possibility after taking actions to hurt you

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Let me remind you how you responded to this:

Why should we all have to work just to survive

where do you think your food comes from? Who build the room you sleep in?

with that being said, our labour is severely abused by the owner class as we barely get enough out of it to pay the bills.

You told the poster "to go fuck themselves for being easy to control". How do you go from being in a discussion about the level of work society has to ask of it's citizens to telling the person you're responding to to go fuck themselves to now saying that because they don't agree with you they're a fascist? 🤣 I mean you have to laugh as the poster acknowledged that the level is skewed to the owning classes and you still attack them.

Take a step back and reassess your comments. 👍

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 0 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago) (1 children)

Only a fool would spend their entire life working to pay off their debt to society when it only takes a fraction, yes you are stupid for wanting to waste your life and make others do the same just so the rich can siphon our excess value produced.

I get that everyone takes resources, you are acting like a smug slave, a fool

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 42 minutes ago

Okie dokie buddy 👍