I'm gonna pray to my Kanye alter. How about you? Any y'all got big plans?
03-11-2020 09:43 PM
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What will you do when Biden is President?I'm gonna pray to my Kanye alter. How about you? Any y'all got big plans? |
03-11-2020 09:44 PM
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LOL I forgot I have this avatar. She's hot for a racist. |
03-12-2020 11:25 AM
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Dunno... ice skate in hell maybe. | |
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03-12-2020 12:46 PM
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Do you think Trump beats Biden? |
03-12-2020 01:28 PM
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I think Trump wins 40 states if it's him vs Biden. | |
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03-12-2020 01:39 PM
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In a democracy Bernie should run as an independent. | |
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03-12-2020 01:45 PM
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03-12-2020 01:47 PM
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03-13-2020 11:05 PM
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https://twitter.com/imraansiddiqi/st...112131584?s=20 | |
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03-14-2020 12:34 AM
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03-15-2020 08:33 AM
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Holy Shit! I go off to a Muslim nation for a week and wufwugy is back! | |
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03-15-2020 09:34 AM
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Bernie is running for the 2nd time. Biden is running for the 5th time. | |
Last edited by oskar; 03-15-2020 at 09:40 AM.
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03-15-2020 09:41 AM
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03-15-2020 09:49 AM
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My understanding is that Bernie appeals to the same disgruntled voters that Trump appealed to in 2016. They're still there of course b/c obv. Trump has done fuck all to help them. It's an interesting question whether those voters would now switch to Bernie after three years of brainwashing by Fox News that Trump is their savior. | |
03-15-2020 09:55 AM
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I don't get how people shouldn't be able to get behind a: M4A, fuck TPP, cancel student loan debt, stop bailing out banks, stop foreign wars - platform? | |
Last edited by oskar; 03-15-2020 at 11:31 AM.
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03-15-2020 11:10 AM
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Bernie is right about healthcare and college being too expensive. |
03-15-2020 11:18 AM
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I'm down with any of Bernie's policies that de-monopolize. Anybody know of any? |
03-15-2020 11:19 AM
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03-15-2020 11:30 AM
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Bernie and Warren both ran on breaking up big tech and were the only ones to do so afaik. It has slid in the background, but Bernie has said many times he would break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook and other tech conglomerates. They're probably de-emphasizing that because it's easy to turn into red-scare attack ads. | |
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03-15-2020 11:33 AM
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03-15-2020 12:06 PM
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I googled that for 15 sec and I didn't find any specifics nor did I expect to. This is probably not a topic that will capture the hearts and imagination of voters, but it can easily be spun to sound bad, so I don't expect more than generalities and deflection should he get asked about it. This is probably more of a 3rd year policy... not unlike gulags and guillotines. | |
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03-15-2020 12:17 PM
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I'd be cool with healthcare-for-all by making much of what people want to buy/sell legal again, rather than by monopolizing it even further. |
03-15-2020 12:22 PM
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There's a debate tonight right? With Covid on the mind, if Biden looks too mentally addled, we might see a major turnaround for the Berno. I'm giving it, what, 5% chance of going down like that? |
03-15-2020 12:38 PM
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A person's health is not something that makes sense to view as a good in a supply and demand chain. If you need a drug or treatment to live, the demand is there no matter the price. As a result you see americans getting charged 10x as much for insulin, because the free market is at work and that's what people are willing to pay before it's either cheaper to fly to Mexico or Canada to buy insulin. If they can't afford that, they ration insulin and die. Under a government regulated single payer system this doesn't happen. | |
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03-15-2020 12:40 PM
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03-15-2020 12:43 PM
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03-15-2020 12:44 PM
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03-15-2020 12:47 PM
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M4A has to be a single payer system. You can't have a private company involved at any point. As long as you have insurance companies involved for whatever reason, they will lobby against it to carve out their own space to keep operating. That's why all the fake progressives ran on "M4A for all who want it" or "M4A but not for millionaires" because that is just a dogwhistle for insurance companies to mean: 'it won't be M4A" - it would be Obamacare 2.0. | |
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03-15-2020 12:52 PM
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Look, fat, you wanna do an IQ test? Let's do pushups together? C'mon man! | |
Last edited by oskar; 03-15-2020 at 12:55 PM.
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03-15-2020 12:55 PM
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03-15-2020 02:38 PM
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03-15-2020 03:14 PM
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You got me. | |
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03-15-2020 03:32 PM
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For these countries with monopolized healthcare: |
03-15-2020 04:06 PM
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Wuf, people study ways to improve health outside of the US, and for less pay than they would get to do the same job in the US. Or do you think all medical advances come from the US? | |
03-15-2020 04:08 PM
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So let's take a recent example: Both China and Germany are at the forefront of creating a covid vaccine. Both are intending to distribute the vaccine for free. Maybe it is because a lot of people work for self improvement and helping others rather than accumulation of wealth? | |
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03-15-2020 04:46 PM
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03-15-2020 04:51 PM
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In general, riskier ones and less obvious ones come from entrepreneurs. |
03-15-2020 04:58 PM
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All of them. |
03-15-2020 05:04 PM
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This is an excellent example of when the monopoly can work. There is heightened charitable desire to create a vaccine. |
03-15-2020 05:36 PM
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The projects are not run by state medical staff, they're run either by universities or private corporations. Monopolized healthcare (come on, should have been easy to come up with a more derogatory and dismissive term for it) does not include basic research, drug development nor production. So, not much I would think. | |
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03-15-2020 05:52 PM
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03-15-2020 06:44 PM
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03-15-2020 06:56 PM
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03-15-2020 07:09 PM
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The public through taxation. The researchers get the money through grants that go through peer-review, just like NIH and NSF grants in the US. | |
03-15-2020 07:12 PM
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Oh, and there's also charities that fund research in the non-US, just like in the US. But presumably (going out on a limb here) they're not incentivized to make money either. I know not being money-oriented sounds like a disaster to an economist because it turns the models upside-down, but it seems to work somewhat in the real world. | |
03-15-2020 07:16 PM
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03-15-2020 07:18 PM
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03-15-2020 07:44 PM
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03-15-2020 07:44 PM
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03-16-2020 04:57 AM
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Yeah I don't really understand what you mean by that. We're talking about health care providers. Government provides some healthcare, but it is far from having a monopoly. | |
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03-16-2020 08:39 AM
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Here's another point in favour of public medicine (if you really need one). Oxycontin was pushed hard by big pharma as a 'miracle drug' for those in pain, with all kinds of claims like it wasn't addictive, could be used long-term, could be given in high doses, etc. They encouraged doctors hard to prescribe it, whether it was warranted to do so or not. Some doctors did so because they were dumb, others did so because of various forms of payola they were getting from big pharma. We all know what happened next. | |
03-21-2020 06:10 PM
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I've changed my view. The virus and economic recovering will reelect Trump. |
03-21-2020 06:54 PM
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Personally I think Trump will be elected despite the virus and lack of recovery. | |
03-21-2020 07:06 PM
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Why do you think that? |
03-21-2020 07:24 PM
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What is the role of a candidate in the midst of a crisis? If they champion an idea, they're in no position to enact it, and at best it has no affect on the president's action, but more than likely will decrease the chance that policy is put into action. | |
03-22-2020 05:39 AM
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This https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...roval-ratings/ | |
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03-22-2020 06:00 AM
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This was the last time Biden was seen in public: | |
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03-22-2020 10:19 AM
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03-22-2020 10:24 AM
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You can tell it's about winning the election to Biden, first and foremost. His campaign advisors are definitely telling him that the smartest move now is to keep on the low down. |
03-22-2020 10:49 AM
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03-22-2020 10:54 AM
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Ah yes. |
03-24-2020 10:37 PM
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Odds on Fredo Cuomo's brother becoming Democrat nominee? |
03-24-2020 11:15 PM
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That's Michael Avenatti levels unlikely but Biden has already hinted that on the off-chance he wins the election he'll expect his VP to take over. | |
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03-24-2020 11:21 PM
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It's elder abuse at this point. |
03-24-2020 11:40 PM
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I know nothing at this point. They couldn't more blatantly cheat Sanders, but given that so many people came out to vote for Biden on overtly no information at all, maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe nothing matters | |
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03-24-2020 11:44 PM
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That feeling when you realize people act based on emotion. |
03-24-2020 11:48 PM
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Are you fucking kidding me: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...-biden/608614/ | |
Last edited by oskar; 03-24-2020 at 11:51 PM.
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03-24-2020 11:52 PM
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Look at the bright side: Biden getting the nomination this year will help AOC get it in 4 years. |
03-25-2020 10:10 PM
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03-25-2020 10:21 PM
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03-25-2020 10:24 PM
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Given how powerful AOC is, I hope we can use her for good instead of suffering. |
03-26-2020 02:25 AM
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What happened to Ivanka for Pres 2024? | |
03-26-2020 01:13 PM
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Kanye4lyfe |
03-26-2020 02:13 PM
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We're already seeing what one lunatic in office would do. Maybe that's enough for now. | |
03-26-2020 02:26 PM
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