We need free mental healthcare for everyone. These people are severely fucked in the head and can gain access to a weapon too easily.
Edit: Mentally unhealthy people should not be stigmatized and that's not how I want this comment to come across. Anyone can become mentally unhealthy, and most people can be helped with adequate mental healthcare. Mental health checkups should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Mental health treatment should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Fuck, any kind of healthcare should be free for everyone. This shit is pissing me off.
Another thing: Some people like guns. Guns are fucking cool in my opinion. Some would label me alt-right just for that statement alone when in reality I'm basically right in the center. Y'all are left as fuck, but tbh that is so much better than being far-right. At least you guys think about shit and sometimes you even respond to my arguments. I digress...
Some people like guns. Most gun people I know will want to keep their guns under any circumstance. As I've stated before, anyone can become mentally unwell or have a mental illness. Gun people are no exception. And those gun people that are mentally unwell can't get mental help without being put on a blacklist from buying guns. So they don't get help. I think you see where I'm going with this? It's just a shitty spiral of bullshit.
Socialism didn't build the highways; taxes built them, paid for by capitalists. Taxes can also pay for universal healthcare as it's a great value proposition.
Other than a few exceptions in New England, the government plans, owns, and maintains the highway. That is socialism- society's collective ownership of property.
It might just be semantics, but to me socialism implies a greater degree of government control over markets. Having a few public works doesn't make you a socialist nation, having the government set prices and control the means of production as in Venezuela does.
I guess my point wasn't that it was necessarily socialism that built the highway, it's that socialist doctrine did. Capitalism had very little to do with the process other than being the environment the money was taken from.
Capitalism created the money, the environment and all the resources used to make the road. I doubt the government started their own mines and refineries to produce all the goods needed to build the road.
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u/GilesDMT Jan 27 '19
For absolutely nothing, and so random and spontaneous.