Nobody should be allowed to own land. You can build a building and that building is yours because you built it but you can't make land and the only reason you own it is because someone in the past used violence to take it.
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I'm ok with paying taxes for universal healthcare and infrastructure. Welfare for anyone who isn't mentally/phisically disabled (on various levels) can go to hell. No unemployment benefits, no state-funded child support.
Universal healthcare would go a long way to improve all of the latter, however to play cause and effect; If you remove unemployment and child-support, you've inevitably now increased the homeless population and driven others to crime. How you do now deal with that?
I LOVE banana flavored stuff. When I say this, people will often say "even banana flavored Laffy Taffy?". Yes, that's the best flavor and it's not even close.
the world is overpopulated and everyone who wants to have children should require a license to do so (and it should cost a lot - like, a mid-tier job's annual salary).
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If you live in a city and have no backyard or similar, you should not be allowed to own a dog.
Meritocracy in the US is almost entirely a myth, outside of a few sports.
Free will as it's popularly understood doesn't actually exist.
Most shoes are bad for us and cause injuries over the course of our lives .
The free will myth is especially damaging, as it steers people away from pragmatic solutions and towards blame and punitive policies.
Free will is wholly incompatible with our modern understanding of physics but nobody will listen because they simply donβt like it.
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We should build an A.I. overlord so that it replaces our current leadership like politicians and the entire market bussines specially the top, so that it can exploit resources in a reneuable way that is already possible right now but you know... lobying and fucking oil companies, and redistribute them to the population in a just way incluiding but not limited to food (nice food not rations), housing, medical services, psichological support (but the real one not the human resources bullshit), entertainment and internet access, and eventually be able to make custom orders like custom furniture, video game capable aparatus, modifing your house, travel and even swimmimg pools and ice cream. Besides i think our survival hinges on us making something about our leadership since there is at least one major problem that we need fixed that our current leadership is not gonna solve i.e. golbal warming, since they rather sell their souls and their people to the oil companies, and replacing them (even with a coup) is just gonna put more corruptible people that are gonna get bought out by some other straigth up cartoonishly evil entity, or they themselves turning into it or being overtrown by it, and destroying the entity would require a massive effort and thats not happening without mass destruction and even if it is destroyed another one will rise up from the chaos caused by the anti corporate war. So the sollution would be a singularity level A.I.
The average American does not give a single shit about protecting minority or women's rights, from my lived experience. Not unless it affects them directly.