I saw a brief clip of a Mamdani interview yesterday on BlueSky, where he's asked if he likes capitalism. His answer - 'no' - shouldn't be a radical statement, in this world that is being so obviously and rapidly bled dry by it.

But it WAS a radical statement, because politicians never fucking say it.

We should say it. All the time. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, Mastodon, but fuck it - I like the song.

Capitalism is poison.

https://bsky.app/profile/luckytran.com/post/3lskr5bdytc26

Do I want disabled people to receive material support to help them work?

No. I want disabled people to receive material support to help them *live*. That is what I want for all of us.

For our society (which has so much - SO MUCH!) to use that abundance to materially improve our days. Not just patch up the parts of us that are broken then feed us back into the 'eternal growth' machine, but help us experience and enjoy life, build community, family, joy.

BE HUMAN.

Rant incoming. One of the things that I think is most despicable about the toxic marriage of austerity and rampant capitalism is just how utterly and completely it has shaped the conversation towards what people can *produce*. People as economic units, like worker bees. We diligently gather stuff for ubercunts at the top to hoard like dragons, or set fire to in the futile hope of one day getting into space, or spend on pursuing fucking immortality (give me strength).

The cost of this is life.