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It's telling that you think the burden belongs on the oppressed. Also your veiled "[x] group rose up and became respectable" argument is tired. Your Scott Adams slight of hand nonsense is...

"Obamagate, Obamagate!"

Bro, there's nothing here. Please show me something, anything--

"MAIL IN BALLOT FRAUD!"

Come on wuf, this is shoddy work. Did you miss your morning coffee?

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.

Yeah, I mean a lot of what's scary about Russia is their know how. Their know how combined with China's population is scary.

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...

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...

Ah, well, that does make more sense. I took his comment in isolation.

I think you strawmanned wuf.

Wuf: Lifestyle choices are a determining factor.

Poop: young health people get it and die too.

It's a non sequitur

Whoa, wait, come on... Yes, very healthy people can die from this, just as healthy young people, who don't do uppers, do have heart attacks. It's just extremely rare.

I more interesting...

Good points. It's really hard to know how things would shake out with something as drastic as UBI, similar to how it's hard to know exactly how the shockwaves from Covid shutdown will ripple through...

Wait, why would demand drop? If there's a precedent of forgiveness, wouldn't it increase?

There's a strange injustice intuition that kicks in when UBI is talked about. People instinctively feel there's something wrong with people getting something for nothing. But as you said, it seems...

Means testing fails outside of crises. It's a foolish self imposed roadblock during a crisis.

There are two things that could solve this:

Better science communicators.

And a better educated populous that can absorb a simplified, yet still nuanced reading of the science.