Capitalist, colonialist exploitation depends on traumatized children. It all depends on traumatized children, & it always has.
The Epstein class fights us on "social" issues because the logical result of respecting all people would be a world where people become hard to exploit & even harder to convince to do someone else's violence.
Without suffering, the power structure collapses. The suffering is necessary to the economic system.
The statement "We are not free until we are ALL free" includes kids: the permanent oppressed underclass.
Look, I have done a lot of childcare in my life. I understand that children CANNOT be allowed to do whatever they please. I don't want feral, untended children, but I do want kids who feel a sense of ownership over their own bodies & lives.
So many cycles of violence start with neglect, abuse, manipulation, & control in childhood.
This is why the duped henchmen of the Epstein class lose their fucking shit over basic "therapy" stuff like boundaries.
They say conversations about mental & emotional health are "woo-woo" & "wishy-washy" & silly, but they are fucking TERRIFIED of that shit.
The Epstein Class knows that an attack on social structures of abuse threatens to topple the whole exploitation system, & that's why they've enlisted so many soldiers in this fight.
The whole concept of capitalism requires humans to be uncooperative with each other. Meanwhile, human civilization developed because we are really, really fucking good at collaborating.
The math isn't mathing.
If someone is "fiscally conservative", then ultimately they are saying we should all have to fight over resources, & in order to keep people fighting over resources, you have to keep prejudice, fear, & resentment alive, so... seems to me like being "fiscally conservative" means there is a need for people to abuse each other.
Healthy, happy people help each other, & that's what the Epstein Class can't tolerate. So they indoctrinate people to create the misery that their system demands.
@PetterOfCats @artemis It's so stupid how basically all the people who say this are already *set for life*, especially if they'd let the rest of us protect the systems that would take care of them in old age.
They could literally just *stop doing anything political or economic* and enjoy what they have.
@PetterOfCats @artemis i also hear the 90s and 00s version of "i dont actually know anything about politics or being alive or books or philosophy or the economy but i want to sound like i do in fact know some things"
you cant be socially liberal if you're fiscally conservative because fiscal conservativism is economic discrimination by race, sex, sexuality, etc, and it's the vehicle conservatives use to keep undesirables dying on the streets instead of building guillotines.