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@CBSNews why are you uncritically promoting this lie? The leave is not “paid.” It’s PUNISHED. If you take it, your Social Security is confiscated. How many other countries do that? ZERO. Tweet that instead.
Any putative “news” org that gets sucked into an obvious fraud like this no longer deserves to be called news. Cronkite is spinning in his grave.
Here’s your hed, @CBSNews “GOP promotes ‘family leave’ that confiscates earned Social Security. A punishment in disguise for caregivers?”
At the bare minimum, @CBSNews, the “paid” should have been in quotes. Your tweet lies.
Ppl don’t take family leave for thrills. They take it bc they’re barely scraping by, a loved one requires extended care, and our broken health care system offers no option. @GOP pounces on this as a sly opportunity to loot caregivers’ Social Security, and give it to billionaires.
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The converse of the fallacy described below is when we progressives (sometimes) sound as though we are criticizing the concept of meritocracy itself, rather than the false projection of “meritocracy” onto a caste system of white male entitlement.
Caste systems co-existed with the rise of constitutional democratic self-governance - and that rise was not so long ago in proportion to the rest of despotic history.

But caste systems inherently undermine democracy.
Every time a democratic government has fallen, or nearly so, its failure to dismantle caste systems of race, gender and religion has been a foundational factor.
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Tom and his opponents on the socialism point are both right, for different reasons. Let me see if I can spin this train of thought understandably. First, axiomatically, Tom’s right that socialism means “the state owns the means of production.” BUT .....
His opponents are also right that for at least a century, proponents of authoritarianism have attempted to define “anything that tends to empower or equalize the ordinary person with the wealthy person” as “socialism.” That rhetoric was central to 20th cen fascism’s rise.
In that way, “socialism” is like “the cosmopolitan global Jew” - it’s important to recognize the concept’s propaganda and control functions, while still (as Tom does) rejecting the false factual premise that everything powerful white men fear arises from “socialism” or “Jews.”
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In the first book of the Bible that Christian fundamentalists claim is inerrant, there’s a story of God blaming women for all men’s problems, cursing them to suffer pain forever.

Ppl who follow this as “inerrant” are mortal danger to all women.
The Christian take on God might as well have commanded: “Men, if there’s a problem in your marriage, go forth and buy an assault weapon, and gun down your whole family.”

Yes. It also says “thou shalt not kill.” But you know what that means. Don’t kill PEOPLE. Which means “men.”
An origin story blaming women for all of men’s problems, esp their “sins,” is an origin story that is poisonous and murderous to the entire female sex. Couple that with teachings about the man being like a deity to his wife and children, with godlike authority to command them.
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