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_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN t1_j29zf0j wrote

Reply to comment by HaikuBotStalksMe in Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post by Slavic_Dusa

Must be a great life to only have one political issue affect you personally. Wow. And they’re still working on it.

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HaikuBotStalksMe t1_j2a0v02 wrote

I guess so. I generally keep to myself and try to survive. A lot of the stuff they fight over doesn't apply to me at all. It's one of the benefits of always being poor and an outsider, I guess.

As an Afghan immigrant, you don't have to care about tax rates or what the Senate can do with the stock market, or whether we're making nuclear fuel vs coal, or whether guns are legal or not, or whatever hot topic we're mad at.

Like when BLM was a thing - even if BLM had won and white on black racism was illegal, well, that still wouldn't affect me because all the races can still be racist against me. And would be even if it was illegal.

The occupy wall street stuff is irrelevant to me because it's not like I'm going to have enough money to do big stocks.

And so on. The financial aid and Obama care were all that were relevant to me, and Obama care ended up not being free insurance, but instead the worst possible alternative: "you have to buy expensive insurance, or else". So unlike before where I could save money by just not buying insurance, I was strong armed into buying insurance (luckily I had a job so I was just my very weak $13/week insurance, but my parents had to buy like a $200/month insurance with like a $9000 deductible - i.e. a monthly fine since how the fuck do you meet a $9000 deductible on $20,000 a year? Don't forget that $2400 of that yearly wage is going toward the $200 monthly fee).

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CommentBro t1_j2a56dv wrote

Respectfully, a lot of those things still apply to you, you're just a step or two removed from them.

Tax rates matter to everyone not just in how much they pay individually, but how much the government has available to distribute (e.g. student loan forgiveness, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.)

Stock market matters because it's essentially what the entire economy was built from. Most financial systems are tied to stocks in one way or another so the health and trustworthiness of the market is key. This allows for the mortgage you will hopefully be able to get one day and the rates you are able to secure on auto loans, personal loans, and your student loans.

Nuclear vs coal may not impact you now but it will impact you later, as well as future generations.

The gun debate and how we treat gun ownership affects anyone and everyone, from school children, to adults at a club, to anyone going to a movie, etc.

It all matters and it especially matters to an immigrant like yourself. Please stay politically active and aware of what's going on because the only way to ensure you aren't getting any benefits is by staying out of politics.

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DryGumby t1_j2acxcb wrote

>Like when BLM was a thing - even if BLM had won and white on black racism was illegal, well, that still wouldn't affect me because all the races can still be racist against me. And would be even if it was illegal.

I think you missed what that was about. No one was trying to make white people being racist illegal. They wanted black people to stop being murdered by racist cops.

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HaikuBotStalksMe t1_j2adiwx wrote

Pretty sure that was just one facet of it. They mainly wanted anti-black racism to end. They talked a lot about systemic stuff.

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DryGumby t1_j2aemkm wrote

By making racism by white people against only black people illegal? That's not a facet of anything. The systemic racism is murderous cops being enabled by the system and facing no accountability for their actions. That's systemic stuff.

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