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@bluesrockfan36 You're a moron, because I've already included links, verifying I know exactly how a VAT works, verifying you're spouting pure bullshit by claiming it's a tax on businesses. You obviously didn't bother to inform yourself, are clearly pretending you know how a VAT works, but are actually clueless. You're like a Trump cultist, with your alternative "facts" and math.
Fact: Yang acknowledges there are people currently getting $1000+ in assistance that he doesn't have stacking, and that they'll have to choose.
Math: If you gain zero economic benefit from the UBI, but now have to pay 10% more for many things, you're worse off.
Fact: Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2+% and Bezos' share of Amazon is 10+%.
Math: If you hand consumers $3t, and don't have Amazon pay in, they will make $60b. That would make Bezos $6b. That large shareholder would make a ton more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT.
Averages don't address that people who are getting full benefits might be getting them because they need the most help, and those are the people you're willing to make worse off, while you make giant corporations and the super rich even richer.
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@Christopher Bradley As for Twitter allies. What does Dore do, besides social media? AOC backed Bernie (M4A), on the ground campaigning, when Dore was peddling Tulsi (public option) from his garage. AOC started a PAC, used that PAC, and her Twitter platform, to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and ended up helping to remove a few more corporate Dems and add a few more M4A advocates to congress. While Dore was slandering her for no longer supporting M4A, she was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress. Jimmy Dore, the one true champion of healthcare, on the other hand, abandoned Nina Turner on air ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress.
Jimmy basically does jack shit, except bitch on social media, and he promotes actions that benefit corporate Dems and Republicans more than anyone else.
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@gudmundursturluson7683 Rofl! The tea party was backed by the Koch brothers, and other far right donors that were pressuring all the Republicans in congress. There were constantly growing numbers of them. Republicans don't actually need to be pushed that hard to move further right. As you can see, the majority are plenty happy to support all out fascism. Plus, the only way a minority within a party can have any power over the majority, is if that majority is unwilling to work with the other party. If the non tea party Republicans had simply worked with enough Democrats, they could have passed whatever they wanted, and totally ignored the tea partiers.
There are zero big donors pushing other Democrats to jump onboard with progressives. New congressional Dems aren't joining the progressive caucus weekly. Corporate Dems have no natural tendency to move left. Plus, the Manchin types are clearly willing to work with Republicans. Expecting similar results to the tea party would be completely moronic. They aren't, at all, samesies.
Justice Dems have increased the progressive vote count. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. AOC helped add a few more, as well. She was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, trying to add another. Dore slanders those progressives, who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. And, he publicly abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress.
Other countries don't have the same political system, or similar party divisions. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. Even if you magically got a significant percentage of progressives to vote third party, then Republicans would rule for decades to come, due to vote splitting.
"Vote blue" works both ways. The vast majority of those who vote against progressives in the primaries tend to vote for them in the general. Any hope of Bernie becoming president would have relied on "vote blue" working for him. Progressives running as Dems has proven to be the far more effective way to win a seat than going third party has. Plus, you're not guaranteed a third party will only produce perfectly perfect puritan progressives. Green produced Kyrsten Sinema.
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@seabass155 CDC: "During March 2020–January 2021, the period that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk for myocarditis was 0.146% among patients diagnosed with COVID-19 during an inpatient or hospital-based outpatient encounter and 0.009% among patients who were not diagnosed with COVID-19."
0.146% = 146 per 100000 (COVID)
0.009% = 9 per 100000 (No COVID)
My bad, the age table ...
16-24: 0.098% = 98 per 100000 (C)
16-24: 0.013% = 13 per 100000 (~C)
^But, those would be higher for boys/men.
CTV reporting on Ontario announcement: "The risk of myocarditis in Ontario following the second dose of Moderna in men in the 18 to 24 age group was one in 5,000, the government said. The number is much lower for women.
That number is approximately one in 28,000 for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine."
1 per 5000 = 20 per 100000 (M)
1 per 28000 = 3.6 per 100000 (P)
So, Pfizer is 3.6x lower than the no covid rate, and 27x lower than the COVID rate.
Moderna is 1.5x the no covid rate, but 4.9x lower than the COVID rate.
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@Warrenmitchum The rest of the world heard the same things from WHO. The rest of the world heard the same things from China. Fauci is a Reagan appointee, and a Bush medal of freedom honory. He's also not the head of the pandemic response team. The head of that team is ... oh wait, Trump disbanded that team. Changing your stance, as more information becomes available, isn't necessarily a bad thing, and sticking to your empty guns, isn't necessarily a good thing.
Cuomo is also an idiot. I've personally been saying he's as incompetent as Dumpty, all along. Trash him all you want. Whatabout all day long, if you like.
Vietnam shares one of the longest borders with China. They are constantly flooded with Chinese tourism and trade. And yet, they have one of the lowest covid case and fatality rates in the world. The US response was complete incompetence. A response like Vietnam's would have meant under 1k deaths. Even a mediocre response, like Canada's, would have meant hundreds of thousands of fewer deaths. The US response was a total shit show.
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@Bet Your lunch Aaron and Jimmy have blathered on, and on, about 2 dissenting opinions on a single, no fault finding, investigation. 2 dissenting opinions don't debunk that single investigation, let alone the numerous others, that had zero dissenting opinions, or the numerous follow up fault finding investigations that had zero dissenting opinions. That no fault finding investigation, they keep blathering about, didn't even begin until after, the US, and others, had bombed Syria (2018, not 2013), and the final report wasn't out until almost a year later. The report had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. It's a big nothingburger.
There was a chemical weapons attack, just the month before. It had a no fault investigation, with zero dissenting opinions. It had a fault finding follow up investigation, that faulted Syria, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2013. 2 dissenting opinions on a single no fault investigation, doesn't erase all of those.
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