Libertarians by and large believe in the freedom of thy self. Freedom of thee.
How they get there can be very conservative and in this country usually is.
But it can also be very liberal.
Take my view of universal social coverage, including a base-level financing of all citizens.
When every starts even and equal and safe I have no problem implementing something where one can have a “got mine” moment. Because any ‘got mine’ isn’t a matter of survival.
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Yeah and none of those are aligned with politics beyond…
An environment that has sidelined the police forces in this country.
Something else o note is only one white person has been identified in these local cases. They aren’t organised trump supporters.
The right-wing boogeyman.
The recent Gold Coast theft on Chicago shows something. No gun violence because the thieves didn’t escalate it to gun violence.
The owner let the police handle it despite the staff being armed.
We, as a nation, aren’t at the tipping point yet and it can still be handled.
Once we reach the point where we have to fight back to survive…
I can only expect the media to turn real and actual crime and defensive from it into a racial issue.
It’s not like the wait for facts: as seen perfectly in calling an Arab shooter white. Only to change him to a raceless shooter when they were to make a correction.
Now admittedly #45 is the only one to have selectively tried to block press from his briefings
A single disruptive man known to cause chaos in such environments.
I’m not surprised. National media did everything it could to not cover this accurately.
What little coverage there is tends to leave off that there were two prior assaults against this poor girl.
This was my long standing concern in the methodology of self-identification.
It ignores the science.
I’ve never been against inclusion but I’ve written multiple times, here, elsewhere, and published editorial…
Such a drastic change in status of access needed safeguards. It was bound to be abused in the beginning and that concern was ignored.
And when abuses did happen: Virginia, California, Illinois, NY, Florida, … they were shoved under the rug.
Trans issues need to be discussed, elsewhere.
Here we have school boards, public government, around the country arresting people for speaking on the issue.
Our local high school flat out admitted it was going “to include CRT in all” aspects of lessons.
And then turned meetings into closed to the public events.
And I’m not going to discuss that issue here either. My thoughts are known to be mixed.
It is once again government cutting off access to the public discussion.
Which again brings me back to the very old phrase that happens to be a(n), accurate, Republican talking point today.
‘Rules for thee, not for me!’
Here I agree with you to some extent.
Personally I think prefer the quad cross for political representation.
Maybe there’s some subconscious thing to it for me I’m not fully aware of but it tends to make it easier to figure out where Americans actually are.
A person like me can easily be placed on a left right scale for any one issue. And nowhere on all issues.
On the five point scale libertarianism falls far north slightly east.
Communism falls far north and far east. Socialism far south and far west.
They are reaching the same end through completely opposite means.
If it means anything to you most European countries fall far south and slightly west.
Not really when you look at the methods of communism in practice.
In practice socialism is as far left as you can get.
Communism is the opposite. It’s where you wind up as capitalism is drawn in and drawn down to one person/group/organisation.
And save it Devil, life doesn’t depend on a textbook definition.
Regardless of what was defined in 1910,1890,1840,1746…:
A decides b-z
One entity decides equality for all.
The one with the money decides what everyone else gets and what they can do with it. In practice it a wat every attempt at communism leads to and that is the ultimate of far right economics.
I’m with you to a degree.
I till think flat social security and 10% above a certain threshold is more fair.
But I wouldn’t fuss over 20 or 25%.
I’d go with 50% on some much higher number.
But you keep uncoupling the plans I support. Free universal healthcare and free universal education and guaranteed social security payments. From the tax plan.
10% on $1mil + and 40-some on corporate would 100% fund that with money left to spend.
My ideal is not horsing. It’s a Lamborghini in every drive for someone who wants it.
Did he problems with income and tax is we are not like you are.
Take Illinois. You can buy an orange in Chicago for $1
Or a dozen in Most of the state for $0.99!
Take Missouri. An orange in at Louis for $1.
Or Jackson for 10ç
California? $1 in la or 10x$1.00 in bluff cove.
The system in the US is totally broken. All the systems are totally broken.
We need to start over from scratch with economics. Social services.
money had been completely abandoned and within the federation billionaires and millionaires did not exist?
Yes. That’s my point. When you take away the need by supplying it up front you create a society of welcome willingness. As a whole the human has little interest in doing nothing. Claims of a lazy society are fud.
We see that with covid.
People want to be active. They want to DO!
"Remove money as the primary incentive”
As in… I don’t need money to live but that new PS or Xbox for the kids would be nice?
As in maybe I’ll go dig a ditch today. It’s nice out. ??
Base income motivates to do what one can, wants, to do.
Not basic, base.
When those who share a philosophy come together you have a group. And much as was pointed out that many communists are actually communist….
Whatever ‘they’ were at the beginning they now represent armed anarchists.
I caution you not to dismiss such situations simply because your nightly news doesn’t discuss it.
Criminal acts are not politics. This is civilian violence targeting civilians.
Smash and grabs are happening less than two miles from my residency.
Armed hijackings are happening on or primary through roads.
That the BLM and AntFia stickers and flags are often part of such cases… shows the problem is bigger than the headlines make out.
Be it the Republican / Democrat Party as a whole or any small group: there is a real criminal element in these.
Finding a false flag doesn’t negate the problem of others.
Good on you with the reference.
Ultimately the concern here is beyond speech and the first amendment.
Because this has a real world (not text) equivalent.
You talk of mute. Yet that is not practiced at White House briefings or political rallies. Or school board meetings.
You could mute. You place tape over one’s mouth. Mute.
But the general reaction to a contrary view is removal.
Yet I doubt we’re going to change anything on a larger stage here.
If democrats can remove republicans from political rallies where they discuss politics, why can a Republican not remove one single person.
Why can a man not confront the publicly elected school board paid by public funds, a branch of government, about his daughter who was raped under a school’s new policy.
Why does a board leader get to say “fuck you, get him out” but not a Republican politician?
For me it’s not the protection of 1A. It’s the application of it.
This ruling has now turned private communications that happen to be of government into public forum.
The equivalent here would be a private office meeting between a member of the government and a constituent requiring the entry of all of the public.
The use of non-official communication is itself a problem. But, turning private communication into public by default because it happens to include government communication is a major concern.
A major security concern. Addresses, birthdays, personal-private relations… all must be open to all of the public because they hey happen to be sandwiched between policy commentary?
Is a dangerous step to take.
I remind you gently that it is the west as a whole, including Europe, that engaged in that religious crusade.
lizard people
The reptilians? Not sure if interdimensional reptiles exist or not.
Not sure I really care either!
your oft-stated belief republicans are the lesser evil compared to democrats
Oh no! American politics is evil. “Left” or “right”.
Liberals and progressives don't have militias
I’m not sure what you would call ANTIFA and the New Black Panthers then.
illuminati
? Well, prior to 2016 there are few who would call me anything but a gun loving far left liberal… and I believe there’s definitely a cut from the same cloth ruling group.
In the past I would point at NATO and the UN but one in the US need only look at “Turncoat Liz” to see there’s definite crossover.
Part of what made Perot and Obama so popular is they weren’t “one of them”.
The actual socialists
I was at one point registered as DSPNY and ASPNC when living in those states.
I’ve also registered as LPIL and NLP-NV.
I’m serious when I say I’m no fan of either party.
I'll grant you, that one is as racist as racist gets.
NOI, NBP, BPR, DAN, there’s quite a few. Racist ideology cuts across all parties.
water towers
I’d be more concerned about those of the Watch Tower but yes. Nutz just the same!
Twitter does, however, have a Mute button
I wouldn’t know. If true things change a bit. Not much but a bit.
The problem I see is letting a nutter follow you by mandate only to have them show up and shoot you following an event.
Targeting politicians appears to be a theme of late. I worry the judge just put a bullseye on people.
Nothing less and nothing more.
My rational brain. How I would react to the situation.
If I give you one slice, one tenth of my pie, I’m sharing. 2 tenths I’m shootings.
3 tenths I’m feeding. 4 tenths I’m growling.
At half, …I’m angry! As hell.
It’s gone for personal generosity, to for the betterment, we o down right greed.
My family will come by for the holidays. We’ll take half your ham. Half your Turkey. Half your pie. Half of everything you cooked. Half of all your furniture, and we’ll bring a chainsaw. We’ll be leaving with half your house.
There’s a point where you go from properly helping and into something dark.
We all have different opinions on where we start to fight back.
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Once taxes are above 50% which so many American liberals call for, it’s not tax, it’s theft.
And you miss the whole aspect of guaranteed income wiping out bad employment practices. When nobody needs your job they won’t be willing to suffer for it.
Business must change or they go out of business.
It may be a Star Trek fantasy but there’s no reason to not try to get there.
When you don’t need a job people who want to make burgers will make burgers. People who want to drive trucks will drive trucks. People who want to move boxes will move boxes.
And yes; people who want responsibility to guide other people will work their way to that spot.
A society where nobody needs to work but most will do so willingly creates a safe, productive, and happy society.
Alright, let me cut off that route right there. I’m not debating textbook this or that. But the general terminology used world wide for governments. Eg Sweden socialist Cuba communist.
Clinton is barely left of Reagan.
She is? I’d consider her the same or slightly right of him.
Nobody who supports corporate tax breaks is remotely left.
You misspelled "tax".
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I won’t argue shooting the messenger. I know where you stand on taxation. Punish the recipient and not the board that gave it out.
That incentivizes making the business unprofitable due to paying enormous wages to the executives
…and, so what? Then the business fails.
Or… they change their system to maintain employment with people now no longer in need of the job.
One goal of a social minimum income is it makes employment an incentive for betterment. Of the self and the society.
You don’t keep a business running if you don’t have employees.
How will Amazon run a 120• warehouse when all the employees are working for $10 per hour at Burger King and getting free meals to boot?
On top of the federal deposits?
You spend a few dozen grand on HVAC and pay those people $15 to move boxes. Or you go out of business.
but the barrier to college education should be something everyone can pass
I agree. A we do that not with the failure of no child left behind that teaches test question answers.
We do that by bringing in teachers that want to teach. More teachers. More teaching.
Less restrictions on lesson plans. And quick, harsh, reactionary firing for bad seed teachers that go of the reservation one way or another.
Student loans need to be at a reasonable level
No. They need to be wiped out all together with permanent, and complete, free education from cradle to grave.
My support for universal income base makes me far more socialist than most democrats.
25,000 per year untouchable and untaxable. A $1250 deposit per month to every citizen.
No country on the globe practices communism.
Textbook… no.
But by term yes. A centralised control of equal distribution. The problem with that methodology is it ignore the me-first human nature hardwired into all living things.
Distribution of everything after the controllers skim off the top.
That’s the difference between communism and socialism though. At the human level anyway. Communism is a system that defies the natural tendencies where socialism simply puts everyone on the same line at the beginning.
It’s the difference between Clinton and her central control vs AOC or Sanders.
I don’t like the methods of the latter two but the difference in the three:
Clinton would be Venezuela or Cuba vs the others moving us towards Sweden.
I have great respect for the ability of Marx to see through to the core. Unfortunately he fails in biology. Goal one of life it to live. By any means necessary.
Everyone needs a citizen id.
And if everyone had one… great. Most of my thinking life, all since I was old enough to shave, i believed that a single federal issue free to get ID would be a great thing.
And yes. Guns are an issue. Because without a stable society they are a means to personal stability.
Do don’t solve that by banning firearms.
You do so by extending a hand when someone falls down. Help them dust off and hand them their gun back.
Or in more realistic terms but making sure everyone has food. Shelter. And no need for a smash and grab.
We can’t solve crime until the need for it is solved. Putting someone in jail for stealing bread and soup doesn’t help society.
And arresting then person who walks out of the riot with a cash register makes sense. But ignores the problem that allowed it to reach that point.
Neither side of our politics has any focus on the real problems.
We have Dems that want to steal from the haves to give to the have nots. And we have Reps that look at that and stop everything due to lack of trust.
The solution is to attack the system that creates limited haves and creates have nots.
Hitting JB with taxes is retaliation on an individual. It allows the cancer to continue to fester!
You need to harden the base. When nobody needs to slave in 120• warehouses then the company has no choice but to upgrade and improve to bring in and retain workers.
You can do that by pulling taxation from the business, not the individual. Ad setting a reasonable high entry point where that kicks in.
A social base will quickly eliminate much of the problems in our country.
The US is an interesting issue on par with China and Russia.
90-some percent of the population lives under A or B.
Fully rural or fully urban.
The mass majority live in cities. The tiny rest live on most of the land in fully rural open areas.
The buffer/commuter “suburbs” are a tiny fraction of what’s left; the rest being empty land.
What works for a large tight area like a city rarely works in a ”town” of farms across 100 square miles.
Sometimes I feel it’s not even compromise we need but directed location based legislation.
Theres a rather large difference between —I earn 200,000 per year and spend 150,000 on business expenses for this year and next and walk away with 10,000 in savings come Dec 31.
Vs
I drive my $250,000 bmw to my office where I type letters and make phone calls and earn 250,000 per year with 25,000 in business loss and walk away with $225,000 in the bank.
I wasn’t replying to you. I was replying to a particular poster who despite being anonymous has an easily detectable cadence and is a known entity.
A liberal version of kobi just poking at anyone.
It wasn’t a “dog whistle”. It was a direct reply to ‘but Trump’.
I like you. Don’t fall into the trap of not taking context-of-post-placement into account.
Let me respond to your claim though.
I draw a line between official government service and using private service for government-related use.
Politicians on both sides are facing direct threats. Real world threats.
And a blank order of no-block can be very dangerous.
Both parties have small but militant extremes. Small groups of armed people bent of violence.
This ruling just gave them a safe-space of sorts to harass and ridicule and monitor and track with impunity.
Scroll up a bit and look at my initial comments on this. It’s not about speech, it’s about removing use of a feature that has know safety ramifications.
A quality OPT OUT law helps everyone!
Those that want to (for whatever reason they claim) opt out of tracking could do so. And then the marketing groups could work on bettering targeting tech for the millions of us who like it.
Serving quality adverts to the 100 million who will click through and potentially buy, is a better use of resources than blanketing 200mil freeloa… privacy concerned surfers with unrelated and unuseful garbage.
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I’m not sure that’s all that accurate.
Libertarians by and large believe in the freedom of thy self. Freedom of thee.
How they get there can be very conservative and in this country usually is.
But it can also be very liberal.
Take my view of universal social coverage, including a base-level financing of all citizens.
When every starts even and equal and safe I have no problem implementing something where one can have a “got mine” moment. Because any ‘got mine’ isn’t a matter of survival.
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Uh huh.
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An environment that has sidelined the police forces in this country.
Something else o note is only one white person has been identified in these local cases. They aren’t organised trump supporters.
The right-wing boogeyman.
The recent Gold Coast theft on Chicago shows something. No gun violence because the thieves didn’t escalate it to gun violence.
The owner let the police handle it despite the staff being armed.
We, as a nation, aren’t at the tipping point yet and it can still be handled.
Once we reach the point where we have to fight back to survive…
I can only expect the media to turn real and actual crime and defensive from it into a racial issue.
It’s not like the wait for facts: as seen perfectly in calling an Arab shooter white. Only to change him to a raceless shooter when they were to make a correction.
A single disruptive man known to cause chaos in such environments.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/26/virginia-teen-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault-that-sparked-volati le-school-board-meeting/
I’m not surprised. National media did everything it could to not cover this accurately.
What little coverage there is tends to leave off that there were two prior assaults against this poor girl.
This was my long standing concern in the methodology of self-identification.
It ignores the science.
I’ve never been against inclusion but I’ve written multiple times, here, elsewhere, and published editorial…
Such a drastic change in status of access needed safeguards. It was bound to be abused in the beginning and that concern was ignored.
And when abuses did happen: Virginia, California, Illinois, NY, Florida, … they were shoved under the rug.
Trans issues need to be discussed, elsewhere.
Here we have school boards, public government, around the country arresting people for speaking on the issue.
Our local high school flat out admitted it was going “to include CRT in all” aspects of lessons.
And then turned meetings into closed to the public events.
And I’m not going to discuss that
issue here either. My thoughts are known to be mixed.
It is once again government cutting off access to the public discussion.
Which again brings me back to the very old phrase that happens to be a(n), accurate, Republican talking point today.
‘Rules for thee, not for me!’
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Here I agree with you to some extent.
Personally I think prefer the quad cross for political representation.
Maybe there’s some subconscious thing to it for me I’m not fully aware of but it tends to make it easier to figure out where Americans actually are.
A person like me can easily be placed on a left right scale for any one issue. And nowhere on all issues.
On the five point scale libertarianism falls far north slightly east.
Communism falls far north and far east. Socialism far south and far west.
They are reaching the same end through completely opposite means.
If it means anything to you most European countries fall far south and slightly west.
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Not really when you look at the methods of communism in practice.
In practice socialism is as far left as you can get.
Communism is the opposite. It’s where you wind up as capitalism is drawn in and drawn down to one person/group/organisation.
And save it Devil, life doesn’t depend on a textbook definition.
Regardless of what was defined in 1910,1890,1840,1746…:
A decides b-z
One entity decides equality for all.
The one with the money decides what everyone else gets and what they can do with it. In practice it a wat every attempt at communism leads to and that is the ultimate of far right economics.
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I’m with you to a degree.
I till think flat social security and 10% above a certain threshold is more fair.
But I wouldn’t fuss over 20 or 25%.
I’d go with 50% on some much higher number.
But you keep uncoupling the plans I support. Free universal healthcare and free universal education and guaranteed social security payments. From the tax plan.
10% on $1mil + and 40-some on corporate would 100% fund that with money left to spend.
My ideal is not horsing. It’s a Lamborghini in every drive for someone who wants it.
Did he problems with income and tax is we are not like you are.
Take Illinois. You can buy an orange in Chicago for $1
Or a dozen in Most of the state for $0.99!
Take Missouri. An orange in at Louis for $1.
Or Jackson for 10ç
California? $1 in la or 10x$1.00 in bluff cove.
The system in the US is totally broken. All the systems are totally broken.
We need to start over from scratch with economics. Social services.
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Yes. That’s my point. When you take away the need by supplying it up front you create a society of welcome willingness. As a whole the human has little interest in doing nothing. Claims of a lazy society are fud.
We see that with covid.
People want to be active. They want to DO!
As in… I don’t need money to live but that new PS or Xbox for the kids would be nice?
As in maybe I’ll go dig a ditch today. It’s nice out. ??
Base income motivates to do what one can, wants, to do.
Not basic, base.
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When those who share a philosophy come together you have a group. And much as was pointed out that many communists are actually communist….
Whatever ‘they’ were at the beginning they now represent armed anarchists.
I caution you not to dismiss such situations simply because your nightly news doesn’t discuss it.
Criminal acts are not politics. This is civilian violence targeting civilians.
Smash and grabs are happening less than two miles from my residency.
Armed hijackings are happening on or primary through roads.
That the BLM and AntFia stickers and flags are often part of such cases… shows the problem is bigger than the headlines make out.
Be it the Republican / Democrat Party as a whole or any small group: there is a real criminal element in these.
Finding a false flag doesn’t negate the problem of others.
Good on you with the reference.
Ultimately the concern here is beyond speech and the first amendment.
Because this has a real world (not text) equivalent.
You talk of mute. Yet that is not practiced at White House briefings or political rallies. Or school board meetings.
You could mute. You place tape over one’s mouth. Mute.
But the general reaction to a contrary view is removal.
Yet I doubt we’re going to change anything on a larger stage here.
If democrats can remove republicans from political rallies where they discuss politics, why can a Republican not remove one single person.
Why can a man not confront the publicly elected school board paid by public funds, a branch of government, about his daughter who was raped under a school’s new policy.
Why does a board leader get to say “fuck you, get him out” but not a Republican politician?
For me it’s not the protection of 1A. It’s the application of it.
This ruling has now turned private communications that happen to be of government into public forum.
The equivalent here would be a private office meeting between a member of the government and a constituent requiring the entry of all of the public.
The use of non-official communication is itself a problem. But, turning private communication into public by default because it happens to include government communication is a major concern.
A major security concern. Addresses, birthdays, personal-private relations… all must be open to all of the public because they hey happen to be sandwiched between policy commentary?
Is a dangerous step to take.
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I remind you gently that it is the west as a whole, including Europe, that engaged in that religious crusade.
The reptilians? Not sure if interdimensional reptiles exist or not.
Not sure I really care either!
Oh no! American politics is evil. “Left” or “right”.
I’m not sure what you would call ANTIFA and the New Black Panthers then.
? Well, prior to 2016 there are few who would call me anything but a gun loving far left liberal… and I believe there’s definitely a cut from the same cloth ruling group.
In the past I would point at NATO and the UN but one in the US need only look at “Turncoat Liz” to see there’s definite crossover.
Part of what made Perot and Obama so popular is they weren’t “one of them”.
I was at one point registered as DSPNY and ASPNC when living in those states.
I’ve also registered as LPIL and NLP-NV.
I’m serious when I say I’m no fan of either party.
I’d be more concerned about those of the Watch Tower but yes. Nutz just the same!
I wouldn’t know. If true things change a bit. Not much but a bit.
The problem I see is letting a nutter follow you by mandate only to have them show up and shoot you following an event.
Targeting politicians appears to be a theme of late. I worry the judge just put a bullseye on people.
Nothing less and nothing more.
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Why? Because that what it is.
Whilest people are looking at numbers I’ll remind them there is more to it.
You may not like the comparison but it is accurate in a certain view.
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Citation? For what?
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My rational brain. How I would react to the situation.
If I give you one slice, one tenth of my pie, I’m sharing. 2 tenths I’m shootings.
3 tenths I’m feeding. 4 tenths I’m growling.
At half, …I’m angry! As hell.
It’s gone for personal generosity, to for the betterment, we o down right greed.
My family will come by for the holidays. We’ll take half your ham. Half your Turkey. Half your pie. Half of everything you cooked. Half of all your furniture, and we’ll bring a chainsaw. We’ll be leaving with half your house.
There’s a point where you go from properly helping and into something dark.
We all have different opinions on where we start to fight back.
There’s that point when it becomes spite.
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Once taxes are above 50% which so many American liberals call for, it’s not tax, it’s theft.
And you miss the whole aspect of guaranteed income wiping out bad employment practices. When nobody needs your job they won’t be willing to suffer for it.
Business must change or they go out of business.
It may be a Star Trek fantasy but there’s no reason to not try to get there.
When you don’t need a job people who want to make burgers will make burgers. People who want to drive trucks will drive trucks. People who want to move boxes will move boxes.
And yes; people who want responsibility to guide other people will work their way to that spot.
A society where nobody needs to work but most will do so willingly creates a safe, productive, and happy society.
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Alright, let me cut off that route right there. I’m not debating textbook this or that. But the general terminology used world wide for governments. Eg Sweden socialist Cuba communist.
She is? I’d consider her the same or slightly right of him.
Nobody who supports corporate tax breaks is remotely left.
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I won’t argue shooting the messenger. I know where you stand on taxation. Punish the recipient and not the board that gave it out.
…and, so what? Then the business fails.
Or… they change their system to maintain employment with people now no longer in need of the job.
One goal of a social minimum income is it makes employment an incentive for betterment. Of the self and the society.
You don’t keep a business running if you don’t have employees.
How will Amazon run a 120• warehouse when all the employees are working for $10 per hour at Burger King and getting free meals to boot?
On top of the federal deposits?
You spend a few dozen grand on HVAC and pay those people $15 to move boxes. Or you go out of business.
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I agree. A we do that not with the failure of no child left behind that teaches test question answers.
We do that by bringing in teachers that want to teach. More teachers. More teaching.
Less restrictions on lesson plans. And quick, harsh, reactionary firing for bad seed teachers that go of the reservation one way or another.
No. They need to be wiped out all together with permanent, and complete, free education from cradle to grave.
My support for universal income base makes me far more socialist than most democrats.
25,000 per year untouchable and untaxable. A $1250 deposit per month to every citizen.
Textbook… no.
But by term yes. A centralised control of equal distribution. The problem with that methodology is it ignore the me-first human nature hardwired into all living things.
Distribution of everything after the controllers skim off the top.
That’s the difference between communism and socialism though. At the human level anyway. Communism is a system that defies the natural tendencies where socialism simply puts everyone on the same line at the beginning.
It’s the difference between Clinton and her central control vs AOC or Sanders.
I don’t like the methods of the latter two but the difference in the three:
Clinton would be Venezuela or Cuba vs the others moving us towards Sweden.
I have great respect for the ability of Marx to see through to the core. Unfortunately he fails in biology. Goal one of life it to live. By any means necessary.
And if everyone had one… great. Most of my thinking life, all since I was old enough to shave, i believed that a single federal issue free to get ID would be a great thing.
And yes. Guns are an issue. Because without a stable society they are a means to personal stability.
Do don’t solve that by banning firearms.
You do so by extending a hand when someone falls down. Help them dust off and hand them their gun back.
Or in more realistic terms but making sure everyone has food. Shelter. And no need for a smash and grab.
We can’t solve crime until the need for it is solved. Putting someone in jail for stealing bread and soup doesn’t help society.
And arresting then person who walks out of the riot with a cash register makes sense. But ignores the problem that allowed it to reach that point.
Neither side of our politics has any focus on the real problems.
We have Dems that want to steal from the haves to give to the have nots. And we have Reps that look at that and stop everything due to lack of trust.
The solution is to attack the system that creates limited haves and creates have nots.
Hitting JB with taxes is retaliation on an individual. It allows the cancer to continue to fester!
You need to harden the base. When nobody needs to slave in 120• warehouses then the company has no choice but to upgrade and improve to bring in and retain workers.
You can do that by pulling taxation from the business, not the individual. Ad setting a reasonable high entry point where that kicks in.
A social base will quickly eliminate much of the problems in our country.
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The US is an interesting issue on par with China and Russia.
90-some percent of the population lives under A or B.
Fully rural or fully urban.
The mass majority live in cities. The tiny rest live on most of the land in fully rural open areas.
The buffer/commuter “suburbs” are a tiny fraction of what’s left; the rest being empty land.
What works for a large tight area like a city rarely works in a ”town” of farms across 100 square miles.
Sometimes I feel it’s not even compromise we need but directed location based legislation.
Theres a rather large difference between —I earn 200,000 per year and spend 150,000 on business expenses for this year and next and walk away with 10,000 in savings come Dec 31.
Vs
I drive my $250,000 bmw to my office where I type letters and make phone calls and earn 250,000 per year with 25,000 in business loss and walk away with $225,000 in the bank.
It’s a very real difference.
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I wasn’t replying to you. I was replying to a particular poster who despite being anonymous has an easily detectable cadence and is a known entity.
A liberal version of kobi just poking at anyone.
It wasn’t a “dog whistle”. It was a direct reply to ‘but Trump’.
I like you. Don’t fall into the trap of not taking context-of-post-placement into account.
Let me respond to your claim though.
I draw a line between official government service and using private service for government-related use.
Politicians on both sides are facing direct threats. Real world threats.
And a blank order of no-block can be very dangerous.
Both parties have small but militant extremes. Small groups of armed people bent of violence.
This ruling just gave them a safe-space of sorts to harass and ridicule and monitor and track with impunity.
Scroll up a bit and look at my initial comments on this. It’s not about speech, it’s about removing use of a feature that has know safety ramifications.
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A quality law benefits all!
A quality OPT OUT law helps everyone!
Those that want to (for whatever reason they claim) opt out of tracking could do so. And then the marketing groups could work on bettering targeting tech for the millions of us who like it.
Serving quality adverts to the 100 million who will click through and potentially buy, is a better use of resources than blanketing 200mil freeloa… privacy concerned surfers with unrelated and unuseful garbage.
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