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@pbfrank13 Socialist programs do not require force, if you're committed to democracy, and the program is voted in. If you're not committed to democracy, then you're already committed to force, so shouldn't complain about force.
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@Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo A mixed economy is a mix of capitalism (privately owned and operated) and socialism (publicly owned and operated). If you say there's zero socialism, until you reach a 100% socialized society, then there should be zero capitalism, unless you reach a 100% privatized society.
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Musk is a billionaire douchebag, who only claims about $50k in income a year, so he doesn't have to help pay for the infrastructure that helped make him rich, doesn't have to help pay for the military that protects shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad, doesn't have to help pay for the elderly's healthcare or social security, etc. And, because a VAT doesn't actually tax businesses, Musk would only gain from $3t in consumer spending, making billions extra a year.
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@davidbates3057 The Bible has God killing fetuses, infants, children, and youths, by the millions. The Bible has God ordering the killing of pregnant women, male infants, male children, and male youths. Plus, every God sanctioned miscarriage is a abortion.
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@fubarace1027 So a hundred years of the majority of southern voters voting for people who kept slavery, another hundred years of the majority of southern voters voting for segregationists and those who fought against desegregation, and Southern populations being much more racist just went away? Their Confederate flags on state flags, their Confederate monuments, and also multiple southern states still having a Confederate Memorial Day ... all dedicated to memorializing those who were willing to kill and die for the "right" (enshrined in the Confederate constitution) to own, torture, rape, and kill, other human beings ... isn't an indication they might still be a bit more racist?
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@fubarace1027 Talk about bullshit. Some racists in X doesn't equate to being just as racist as Y, if there has far more racists in Y. It's more and less. Trying to make out like there was the same percentage of racists in states where the majority of voters voted for abolitionists as states where the majority of voters voted for anti-abolitionists, is just moronic. The same goes for voting for anti-segregationists vs voting for segregationists ... which only ended about 50 years ago. There are still black Americans alive who lived under it, and still white Americans who voted for it. Trying to make it all sound like some ancient history is also bullshit. The southern strategy is also documented, by Republicans themselves. What "history" are you preserving? The statues were put up decades after the fact, by a group of racist Southern women. Either you're honoring those willing to kill and die for the "right" to enslave others, or you're honoring the work of a bunch of racist women, that were largely a sister group to the KKK. There's zero evidence that having no statues of Nazis led to Nazis being erased from history. There's zero evidence that ripping down a statue of Saddam erased him from history. It was simply the act of ripping down a monument to an asshole. If there so much less racism than 50 years ago, why do they still need stupid shit like this explained to them? In 2021, why the hell are there still Confederate Memorial Days, even called Confederate Heroes Day, in some Southern states? They're either more racist or more stupid.
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@mrb152 The wait time data is for people that go to the doctor. Many uninsured Americans just don't go to the doctor, until there's an emergency which hospitals are still required to help with. Here, in Ontario we had a problem with masses of Americans coming over, borrowing an old non photo health card, and getting free health care. Then we implemented photo health cards. Now, over a million Americans a year are going to places like India for cheap health care. Tens of millions uninsured, over a million traveling abroad, 500k + bankruptcies a year due to medical costs, highest costs in the world, not the highest life expectancy, not the lowest infant mortality rate, not the lowest maternal mortality rate, ... but, hey, you didn't have to wait as long ... just grand.
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Craft9841 We were laying waste to nature. We did hunt some species to extinction, or near extinction, without a care. You think conservationism started simply because we suddenly decided we like a nature walk?
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@leejc288 What do you call a movement that shoots up black churches, shoots up mosques, shoots up synagogues, drives into crowds of people, is behind a rise in hate crimes, and is behind a rise in terrorism? Then, what do you call a media outlet that defends those types of people, and promotes their ideas?
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So, if someone on Gal's team posted the tweet, then that someone on her team uses an iPhone, not necessarily her. And, if someone else is handling her Twitter account, then it wasn't necessarily her that blocked him. What a big story.
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@isaiahdryg5010 Lol, the economy has been on the same trajectory since about 2009. All he has done is increase the deficit with tax cuts for the rich, and shock the stock market a few times with tariffs.
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@fubarace1027 Rofl. You seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. How is the small group getting elected, to fight against black Americans trying to get rid of that stuff, because they don't buy your rewriting of history, that it's about separation not slavery. All those statues that are supposedly supposed to teach you the history of what they represent, and you still make up a new representation for them. You're evidence they're useless.
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@fubarace1027 Rofl. You definitely have severe reading comprehension problems. I replied to exactly what you said about Confederate "stuff". Turning statues (stuff) into memorials for treason instead of a fight for slavery, is exactly rewriting history, dimwit ... history you claim statues are supposed to preserve. Turning it all into states rights nonsense, is bullshit history. Rofl, are you pretending you're Spock, or something? If you, or anybody else, doesn't actually care about keeping that Confederate "stuff", then there shouldn't be an issue with ditching it all. Or, are your feelz, or someone else's, getting in the way of that happening?
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Scandinavian countries feel prepared for, and even welcome, automation. Why not prepare by going with the candidate whose platform is the most Scandinavian like, rather than Yang? https://www.boyden.com/media/automation-and-jobs-the-swedish-perspective-3770222/index.html
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Ummm, most modern countries have mixed economies. A mix of capitalism and socialism is working almost everywhere. We went through periods of little socialism, where only the rich were educated and got the best health care, while the poor were mostly uneducated, except for a very few that charity schools could handle, and they only had access to charity hospitals where you were more likely to die, or get sicker. The Western frontiers were basically ancap environments, before the law and government moved in. Private landowners hired private armies and settled disputes privately. It quickly devolved into feudalism. Cattle barons were a problem right into the 20th century, until the law and government moved in and stopped them. Feudalism may have worked for some time, but it ultimately failed. People got sick of private land owners, with monopolies, running their lives. Marx pointed at tribal socialism as the roots of socialism. Tribes didn't haggle over trading part of a deer for the use of a fire. That's just nonsense. People just had different roles, and they shared pretty much everything. That worked for tens of thousands of years, before people started settling and claiming property. Socialism/anarchism was also working in Spain. Their system didn't fail, it was conquered by fascists. People point at Venezuela, but they nationalized a single resource. That's not outright socialism. That's a mixed economy, like almost every other. Their problem was being too dependent on a single resource and then the price of oil dropping. Even Saudi had losses. They just had more savings and had already started diversifying their economy. Also, very authoritarian versions of anything are bad. Sure, authoritarian chrony communism sucks. So does authoritarian chrony capitalism (fascism). Authoritarian capitalism has failed its citizens. Anarcho-capitalism has failed, by devolving into feudalism. Randian Libertarian capitalism has failed, because the rich just aren't charitable enough. Authoritarian communism has failed its citizens. Mixed economies, democratic socialism, anarcho-socialism, are still up for debate, and the only positions that aren't proven failures.
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It's not really that complicated. You've got thousands going to Canada or Mexico for cheaper drugs, tens of thousands dying due to lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt, and over a million going to developing or undeveloped countries for care they can afford. You've got the highest costs. And, what do you get? Lower life experiences, higher maternal mortality rates, and higher infant mortality rates ... plus, you've got your own wait time issues. The US system sucks ass. What many Americans don't seem to know is that our provinces each do things differently. So, just do things more like Ontario. https://www.saskatchewan.ca/~/media/images/news%20release%20images/2017/wait%20time%20chart.png?la=en&hash=605B603C05BCE810C2B90A3A5C2E3DA01C5CD551
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Are you 10?
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@EWrayB I saw it. It's for 10 year olds. They should call it Big II: Shazam.
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@EWrayB Oh my! So is Dr Dolittle. The "adult" kids in Shazam are more childish than the actual kids. Shazam is supposed to have the wisdom of Solomon, not the goofiness of Goofy.
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@EWrayB I didn't avoid. I said so is Dr Dolittle. Non of my kids would watch something as goofy as Dr Dolittle by the time they hit 13. Its rating doesn't change the fact most 13 year olds would probably think it's too childish. 13 year olds are trying to get you to let them watch Saw or GoT, or something, and are assassinating half of Rome.
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Ummm, you don't have to ask for privileges to get privileges. By being white, you have the privilege of not facing as much, if any, of the racism you're acknowledging exists. Not really a hard concept. Non-white, non-Christian, non-hetero, people should also enjoy the privilege of not being discriminated against. Sure, there is also class privilege, but that's a somewhat different angle. Because there is only so much pie, which the super rich are hoarding, they should have some privilege (wealth) taken away and used to give the poor some of those privileges (decent health care, decent education, affordable housing, etc.). It's really just a consumption tax, since they benefit the most from the society those taxes help create.
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But, Yang's VAT/UBI scheme won't have corporations paying into their communities. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. It's a sales tax collected in stages with all the business stages getting paid back their input VAT. A VAT won't have corporations "paying their fair share" in taxes. A VAT won't have corporations paying you for your data. A VAT won't have corporations paying you to show you ads. A VAT won't have corporations paying you for every automated truck mile. A VAT will do the opposite ... make consumers pay a tax on their own data, pay a tax to be shown ads, and pay a tax on the automation taking their jobs. A corporation like Amazon won't pay into the dividend and only get the benefit of the dividend being spent. Amazon would make an extra $60b a year from $3t in increased consumer spending. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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@PillCozbee Whatever pill Cosby gave you left permanent damage.
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Craft9841 With no altruism getting involved, we would have completely laid waste to nature, by now.
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Craft9841 Nothing you said contradicts what I said.
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@A There's no equality with zero involvement in economics. There is no freedom with zero involvement in economics. You're making zero sense. Winstanley argued for redistribution of property, not favouring the rich over the poor, and set up a community where everyone owned the property equally, and all got equal rewards. That's the equality he argued for. They were free from rich masters and free to believe what they want. That's the freedom he argued for. Whatever their background, or beliefs, they worked together. That's the brotherhood aspect. You're trying to equate socialism to simply the brotherhood aspect. That's wrong.
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You left out Proud Boy lap dog, whose right wing rag even complained about Twitter bias against the American Nazi Party, and other white supremacists and groups.
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@sabbracadabra So they are anti-unionists, anti-socialists, anti-communists, who are backed by business leaders, religious leaders, and big landowners? Are you sure about that? You're the one who can't seem to use Google. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism
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Keanu's a nice guy, but he's quiet and it's like pulling teeth in interviews. Couldn't see him doing an hour or more podcast. @yatoyoboku He's an agnostic.
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Force =\= fascism. That's nonsense. That would make most of history "fascist". Fascism: ultra-nationalistic, ultra-militaristic, authoritarian, anti-union, anti-socialism, anti-communism, backed by big business, backed by large landowners, backed by religious leaders, leaders in privatization, ... Andy Ngo ... Proud Boy lap dog ... centre-right? lol
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Ngo's Quillette defends these people as "victims" of Twitter bias ... Richard Spencer David Duke George Zimmerman Alex Jones Info Wars Tommy Robinson American Nazi Party League of the South Proud Boys ... But, well done on doing zero research Joe, and letting him present himself as a poor centrist, rather than a far right Proud Boy lap dog.
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@isaiahdryg5010 Rofl! This North Korea? Trump is letting Kim Jong Un do almost anything he wants https://www.vox.com/2019/7/26/8931670/trump-north-korea-misisle-submarine-pompeo North Korea just revealed one of its most potentially dangerous weapons yet https://www.vox.com/2019/7/23/20707177/north-korea-submarine-nuclear-weapon-trump North Korea says launch was a 'warning' to South Korea https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/north-korea-statement-missile-launch-intl/index.html
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@isaiahdryg5010 Nope. Trickle down is a proven failure. You're spouting bullshit. Oh, I see, fabricated nuclear sub and fabricated missile launches. Got it. Dumbass.
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@bgfarm857 Lol, you seem to forget that Obama's last budget ran through most of 2017. Trump hasn't even had 2 full years of budgets, yet. The stock market has basically flatlined since Trump's first budget and trade wars started. Only a small, less than 1%, reduction in the unemployment rate, for anyone, has come under Trump's budget. His main economic accomplishments have been increasing the deficit with tax cuts for corporations and the rich ... cuts which were used to buyback stocks that still only managed to keep the stock market level ... because Trump repeatedly shocked the stock market down with tariffs, or tariff threats. China isn't just waiting around. They're setting up shop, and trade deals, with Russia and Brazil. The longer Trump's stupid trade war drags out, the less chance farmers will ever get that business back. He has kicked poor people off welfare, and put farmers on welfare.
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@bgfarm857 Also, nobody is denying science about sex. They're saying sex and gender are different. For the same reason a religious person might call a formless, penisless, being "he" or "father", we think it's okay to use gender pronouns however one wishes.
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