Comment on NDIS participants can no longer access sex worker services through funding. Advocates say it's a 'deep betrayal'

• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That tax money is gone regardless. Denying people comfort won’t give it back to you.

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  • Cypher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Taxes can be lowered if the government isn’t wasting money.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      oh wow. Been a while since I’ve seen this level of naivete

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      • Cypher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The Albanese government has delivered a tax cut to all Australians, and stopped spending money on sex workers through the NDIS.

        You seem very uninformed.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m sorry that you have to pay 100% of your income in taxes just for some dude to get a blow job every other year so he doesn’t kill himself.

  That sucks fam.

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  • Cypher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s alright, the government agrees with me.

    No more blowjobs on NDIS dollars.

    Guess your strawman will be offing itself soon.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol, because that’s the arbiter of truth amirite?

      Now they’ll have more budget for their own escorts.

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      • Cypher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m sorry that you have to pay 100% of your income

        Hmmm looks like that’s an argument I never made, let’s check the definition of a straw man argument.

        A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent’s argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent

        Nothing about the straw man fallacy excludes hyperbole.

        Under examples we can see

        Exaggerating (sometimes grossly) an opponent’s argument, then attacking this exaggerated version.

        Oh you thought I was talking about the very real possibility of someone wanting to commit suicide due to disability…. Tsk tsk.

        As I said right from the outset, if there is no science to say that paying for hookers is a more effective use of money than other support methods then it shouldn’t be paid for by public funds.

        No evidence, no funds, Im a happy man.

        Do try to keep up.

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• goodthanks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For many people being disabled is a daily grind. Add poverty to that. They don’t get a holiday from it.

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