"You can't support abolition/universal healthcare/reparations/universal housing/etc without being able to answer every possible hypothetical question about its implementation" is, frankly, horseshit.

The Wright brothers didn't need to be able to design a 747 to build the first airplane.

You don't need to know everything about everything or be a subject matter expert in a policy to support it. Plus, true subject matter experts will tell you THEY ALSO DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING, even about policies they're experts in!
It's okay to say "this will be better than now, and once we see how it works in practice, we'll improve it again based on the data." It's okay to say that our first version doesn't have to be perfect, just the best we can do with the knowledge we have. And as we know more, we do more.

@theleftistlawyer not like the ppl supporting the status quo have answers to all the horrific problems those systems engender. They’re just inured to them.

Like, oh we should have for profit housing? But how will you solve the issue of homelessness? Oh you will just ignore it? Ok well if that’s the bar…

@theleftistlawyer can I ask which thing you're abolishing in that list? Not salient to your (valid) point, I'm just wondering.
@theleftistlawyer although if they *had* designed a boeing then we can only assume it would have turned out much worse
@theleftistlawyer There are countless studies that show why these policies work and yet, these kinds of benefits are always more frightening than fascism or means testing for example
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Yeah, that's the kind of shit people pull when they don't want to actually solve problems, but don't want to feel like they're the kind of people who don't want to solve problems.

@theleftistlawyer the greatest country in the world can't come up with the best universal healthcare.. not because we can't because we won't.

I always marvelled at the whole argument about death panels, hey legislators how about not allowing that as part of the law.. you know legislate.

As opposed to for profit insurance companies that are incentivized to be the worst version of death panels.

@theleftistlawyer The answer's easy. "use one of those bullshit trillions you're always crapping on about."

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@theleftistlawyer In the 60's we had most everything people want today because Congress & Eisenhower decided they could. No, medical care wasn't on the list, but Medical Care didn't cost a fortune. Even on minimum wage I could afford what I needed. But then that $1.25hr I made was enough to live on. . .

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White people had ...

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Sadly yes. I usually make reference but got caught up in the moon flight. 8*) In spite of the effort of a lot of folks. What pisses me off is that if we'd gone the way folks were pushing we wouldn't be fighting for the same now as then. The war was only part of what changes people wanted. . . . but that's how we got here now. The right had been pushing for control since FDR.

Peace

@theleftistlawyer what screech owl in a suit said that?

@Lizette603_23 @theleftistlawyer

"What screech owl in a suit said that?"

I just laughed violet-infused gin out my nose. Sooooooo worth it!