04-03-2020 10:24 PM
#151
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04-04-2020 10:12 AM
#152
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Yeah. I knew you were cooler than all that, wuf. | |
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04-04-2020 01:43 PM
#153
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It's all good. This virus got everybody. |
04-06-2020 09:10 PM
#154
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I would like a real nice UBI program because you can bet your sweet ass I know how to move to a cheap part of the country and budget like a gangster. |
04-06-2020 09:54 PM
#155
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The press is so bad that it's probably a smart decision to always reassess any belief one has that the press also has. |
04-07-2020 11:22 AM
#156
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Me, too, but not because I want to live like a pauper off the dole of the state. | |
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04-07-2020 11:56 AM
#157
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At least here we have fairly decent unemployment benefits, but if you have really any income, even part-time or sporadic work, you lose all benefits. That means if you can't get a proper job you're trained for and would actually want to do, it's better to just stay home than try to get some extra income. | |
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04-07-2020 12:22 PM
#158
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04-07-2020 12:26 PM
#159
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04-07-2020 12:33 PM
#160
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I've thought long and hard on this, and I can't yet find how automation causes any need for UBI. |
04-07-2020 12:40 PM
#161
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04-07-2020 12:45 PM
#162
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UBI wouldn't eliminate all other welfare programs. Only the biggest and most distrusted ones. | |
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04-07-2020 12:46 PM
#163
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04-07-2020 12:49 PM
#164
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You make some good points. | |
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04-07-2020 01:45 PM
#165
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My two areas of interest on UBI: |
04-10-2020 06:47 PM
#166
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There are two types of labor, physical and cognitive. We've seen automation mainly in physical labor, but cognitive human labor has been losing out to automation as well. For example, truckers and radiologist. | |
04-10-2020 11:28 PM
#167
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You're right. That's the big question. |
04-17-2020 11:27 PM
#168
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I want to see a law passed that if any person is put out of work by government decree, that person will receive 200% his documented annual income by that government. |
04-17-2020 11:58 PM
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The way they do it around here is: the government covers 90% of the wage for the duration of the lockdown for companies to keep their employees. They're technically expected to do 10% of the work - whatever that means, but it's worth it just for not having to re-hire when this is over. | |
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04-21-2020 08:22 PM
#170
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It must be tough being a political leader these days. They get the best information of anybody in the world, yet the people cannot trust them because they don't bear the direct cost of the decisions they make. |
04-24-2020 11:05 PM
#171
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I don't know what it will take to have a country united against the Chinese Communist Party. |
04-27-2020 09:16 PM
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The most pro-government argument I ever made is the same one I make today: when there is one goal, having an absolute authority who can command and direct at will works. This implies that if you're in a system with other (competing) governments, perhaps the best way to counter those governments is with government. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 04-27-2020 at 09:39 PM. | |
04-28-2020 06:17 AM
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It's interesting that USA folk seem to think China is the enemy. They are an economic rival, that doesn't make them the enemy. Not unless, that is, your only ambition is to remain the #1 economy in the world at all costs. | |
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04-28-2020 06:23 AM
#174
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Interesting that the Trumpers seem so keen to identify China as a huge #1 threat while at the same time their dear leader has been busy alienating most of their own key allies. | |
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04-28-2020 01:08 PM
#175
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Forceful organ harvesting from tortured victims |
04-28-2020 01:28 PM
#176
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Yeah the Chinese govt are cunts. But so are the Saudis, and they're our buddies. Geopolitics and morality are mutually exclusive. | |
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04-28-2020 01:30 PM
#177
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Chinese communism is not a threat to my way of life. That's frankly ridiculous. It's not going to take hold here, our people are too self entitled and will resist communism. It's none of my business what economic models other nations use. | |
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04-28-2020 01:37 PM
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04-28-2020 02:45 PM
#179
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So what? | |
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04-28-2020 03:03 PM
#180
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04-28-2020 03:03 PM
#181
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The China ruling power holocausts its people and is responsible for our current global pandemic. |
04-28-2020 03:17 PM
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They certainly didn't help, but it's not like there wasn't plenty of time to prepare for every country outside CHI. Much of SE asia seems to have escaped the worst of it, as have some European countries like GRE and ICE. So, unless you blame China for the USA being slow to move, seems you have to bear some of the responsibility yourself. | |
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04-28-2020 05:11 PM
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04-28-2020 06:14 PM
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04-28-2020 06:17 PM
#185
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04-28-2020 06:33 PM
#186
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04-28-2020 06:42 PM
#187
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04-28-2020 07:03 PM
#188
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Ok. I thought you meant it was deliberate. | |
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04-28-2020 07:49 PM
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That is true. |
04-28-2020 08:15 PM
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It sucks for the Chinese people that they don't have the same liberties we do, but their lack of liberty isn't affecting my way of life. I still enjoy these liberties, even in times of lockdown. I appreciate China has influence in my life, but it's got nothing to do with how shitty their govt or economic system is. If anything, their influence has increased as a result of them becoming somewhat more economically liberal. | |
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04-28-2020 08:17 PM
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04-28-2020 08:21 PM
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Don't get me wrong, if I could pick a government that I could eliminate with a snap of the finger, it'd probably be them. But only if it could happen without bloodshed, in some magical fantasy land with unicorns. It doesn't work like that though, we can't remove them without it causing a full scale world war. To consider them an enemy is to consider such a war an inevitability, but that in itself is dangerous thinking. | |
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04-28-2020 08:24 PM
#193
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Last edited by wufwugy; 04-28-2020 at 08:39 PM. | |
04-28-2020 08:28 PM
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Last edited by wufwugy; 04-28-2020 at 08:46 PM. | |
04-29-2020 09:03 AM
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If China are willfully responsible for this pandemic, then fair enough, we're at war with them. If this is just an accident, which is what I believe, and that the Chinese govt have just been incompetent, well that's not a matter of military conflict. | |
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04-29-2020 10:18 AM
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Until China and India have banded together, I think your precious way of life is fine. | |
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04-29-2020 01:15 PM
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oh, fun, foreign relations between parties that don't include the US (or whatever your home country is) are fascinating. I think we're (I certainly am) so used to understanding the world in how it relates to our own country that it's easy to forget how complex the web of international diplomacy really is. | |
04-29-2020 01:30 PM
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Yeah I always thought China and India didn't really get along, and the main thing stopping them from fighting was the huge mountain range between them. | |
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04-29-2020 01:41 PM
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04-29-2020 01:43 PM
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Ong, it should be pointed out that it's not just Americans who see a rivalry, the Chinese state does too. It's implicit in many of their communications/international agreements. | |
05-08-2020 10:56 PM
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Whatever happens with COVID, the outcome will strengthen what each person believes already. |
05-08-2020 10:58 PM
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That has nothing to do with CV, wuf. | |
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05-13-2020 03:09 PM
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05-13-2020 08:15 PM
#204
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I'm winning. I haven't had to speak to the jobcentre in over a month, and even when this is over I'll probably deal with them by phone for the rest of the year. Plus I've got free credit on my phone in the evenings and weekends due to covid. Also, I strongly suspect that covid is the reason why I'm winning more at poker... more terrible players. | |
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05-22-2020 10:47 PM
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What does it mean when our federal government is better at providing real news than our national press is? |
05-22-2020 11:03 PM
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I'm not sure which one of these perspectives is more racist and hurtful. Are they both equally harmful? |
05-23-2020 05:13 AM
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Not sure what two perspectives you're talking about. It's bad, but it's not really news that Biden is racist. It's kind of funny that right after this clip he goes on to say you just have to look at his record to see who's better for minorities, when that's the last thing he wants given his record. He lies effortlessly. As does Trump. This seems to be a very beneficial trait in politics. | |
Last edited by oskar; 05-23-2020 at 06:51 AM.
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05-23-2020 06:49 AM
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I just attempted to watch the entire Breakfast Club interview and I nearly cringed myself into another dimension. I can't get through it. | |
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05-23-2020 02:03 PM
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Obamagate is real news. The press (at least the WH Press Corps side) isn't touching it. |
05-23-2020 02:04 PM
#210
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I don't like that it takes the Trump administration to push it for the information to even get out. Shouldn't be like that. |
05-23-2020 02:27 PM
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Even assuming 10% of "Obamagate" is true (which is probably a stretch), it's a bit of odd timing for Obama to be under scrutiny now, isn't it? He's not POTUS anymore. | |
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05-23-2020 02:29 PM
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So far every factual statement from the White House saying anything about Obamagate has been shown to be either false, or standard operating procedures followed by prior presidents. | |
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05-23-2020 03:43 PM
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Last edited by wufwugy; 05-23-2020 at 03:50 PM. | |
05-23-2020 03:49 PM
#214
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He's been under scrutiny (started years ago) since it was first revealed that he was spying on the opposition party. Trump admin has slowly ramped up talking about it, and the timing appears to be election based to me. |
05-23-2020 05:07 PM
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She's going through a whole lot of things in that video that may or may not be related. What part specifically do you think should have been reported on but didn't? | |
Last edited by oskar; 05-23-2020 at 05:20 PM.
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05-23-2020 05:26 PM
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I just want to say that it is absolutely beyond parody that a reporter in a white house press conference who's totally not a plant would ask a question like "Has president Trump considered pardoning Obama for his crimes" | |
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05-23-2020 06:12 PM
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I was waiting for "Has Obama stopped beating his wife yet?" | |
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05-23-2020 06:38 PM
#218
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05-23-2020 06:42 PM
#219
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05-23-2020 07:19 PM
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If that's the big reveal, then I'd say it's not a frontpage story because it's just not a big story. How do you prove intent in that? Is there a communication line from Obama to whoever unredacted the name? I certainly wouldn't put it past democratic leadership to do that, but as long as it's just speculative it would be bad journalism to report on it. This is one for the tabloids until more information comes out... but I wouldn't hold my breath. Unless I'm missing something, they are not going by new information. They are digging up a 4 year old story just before the covid death toll officially breaks 6 figures and right after a failed coup attempt that Elliot Abrams definitely knows nothing about, and will probably be forgotten once all that is off the news cycle. | |
Last edited by oskar; 05-23-2020 at 07:26 PM.
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05-24-2020 05:16 AM
#221
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So it's got nothing to do with underage pizza? Boring. | |
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05-24-2020 05:54 AM
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So a nothingburger with no lizard meat. Let's assume the spying happened. What punishments should come out of it, in relation to these? | |
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05-27-2020 01:00 AM
#223
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Mail-in ballot fraud is real. I've seen so much in my state of only mail-in. It goes unnoticed usually. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 05-27-2020 at 01:05 AM. | |
05-27-2020 08:12 AM
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05-27-2020 11:28 AM
#225
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