Universal Basic Income

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  1. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    damn... there's no way I could top "2) Total equality is impossible without abandoning the concepts of merit and private property while indenturing one man to the welfare of his neighbor." for the daily dumb. I mean, you're placing a lot of faith in a pair of abstracts here.

    gotta love how a guy who pushes a button for a few cents above minimum wage thinks him calling me stupid is somehow gonna push my buttons too.
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  2. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    I just realized who UA reminds me of.
    Doctor Doom's android doubles.

    Doctor Doom's androids are programmed to think they're Doctor Doom unless they're in the presence of Doctor Doom, or other androids.
    They even contain a full neural clone of Doom.

    So long as he's here, the lone libertarian, he really thinks he's a rare endangered species.
    If he ever found himself in a Randroid Reddit, or Stormfront, or a comments section of a YT anti-trans hate monger, he'd see he's a copy, and switch to hive mode.
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  3. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    man, I used to set gems and my fingers aren't nimble enough to untangle that whole "private property and merit" thing. Some young earth creationist level shit right there...


    “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
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  4. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    That's literally how taxes already work now, dicknuts :dayton:

    I don't have children but I pay for kids in Washoe County, Nevada to be able to have an education.

    My house might catch fire and taxes go to pay for firefighters to put it out.

    That's how this shit already works.
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    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    The problem with unregulated UA island is that the moment we let it happen, he does something stupid which results in the entire neighborhood getting wiped out because he didn't pay his fire department bills or keep his house up to code and built it with match sticks and cheepo wires he got from ripping the guts out of dollar store electronic devices. Then he blames everyone else because they did not anticipate his idiocy so they should have built a firewall to prevent shrapnel and flames from engulfing their property.

    It is never the responsible good professional who whines about regulations and paying for things like the fire department. It is always some half ass schmuck like him who does shit work and then blames everyone else for his cheap dangerous dipshittery. He is the guy who makes a high explosive gender reveal bomb that kills a bunch of people because he thinks he can do it properly and knows how. That is all while he bitches about gender reveal parties and people blowing up things while doing them. It is never him being unsafe, but I bet there are a bunch of lucky almost deaths in that memory of his that he will never admit to.
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  6. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    of course, that's presuming the taxes paid by individuals would go up noticeably with a UBI... it probably wouldn't as there'd be more people paying tax on goods and services, greatly offsetting the cost by recouping a lot of it.

    what else do expect from a fucking white supremacist liar though?
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  7. Uncle Albert

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    Yes, I know how taxes work, and I would have them work differently. No more forcing me to pay for YOUR dumb shit decisions under the "morality" of extortion.


    And at this point, "Oh yeah, well you're an istaphobigot nazi :shakefist: " just signals you have nothing to say but still want to make noise.
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  8. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Predicting someone will call you a bigot doesn't make you not a bigot.
    Only stopping being a bigot does that.
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  9. matthunter

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    This style of language is associated with a particular type of character in fiction.

    Can you guess what type?

    I'll give you a hint. Spider-Man is invariably punching them in the face and/or dick.
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  10. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Calling someone a bigot when they're not a bigot doesn't make them a bigot, but it does make you an asshole.
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  11. Diacanu

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    But he is, so academic point.
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  12. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    clearly you don't, and once again, we only have to look at the language in your posting history to conclude you're both incapable of honesty and not a fan of an integrated society.

    and trying to deflect on behalf of a known bigot shows the class where your sympathies lie... (although your own questionable use of stigmatizing language is likewise notable).
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  13. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    well, we've proven everything at least twice in this thread. nothing left to add save for:
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  14. Bailey

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    Racists are bigots yeah? Since you've quadrupled down on calling Democrats racists...
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  15. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Yes I'd say that the party of slavery is racist.
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    Are the Democrats of the Confederate Era the same as the Democrats of the modern era?
    Or, if you permit me to rephrase: Are the Republicans of the Lincoln Era the same as the Republicans of the Roosevelt Era; are they the same as the Eisenhower Era; are they the same as the Reagan Era; are they the same as the Bush/McCain Era?
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  17. Spaceturkey

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    of course you would... your version of America is firmly set in 1860.

    Although it begs the question of weren't those CW era democrats also anti federalists? Therefore we may conclude that anti federalists are historically and inherently racist
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  19. Uncle Albert

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    Based on your tiresome fucking strawmen.
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  20. Diacanu

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    Tell us about the pink hairs, and the outrage warriors, and twitter ghouls again.
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  21. matthunter

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    Boy who thinks Liz Cheney isn't Republican doesn't think political parties can evolve, News at 11.

    Of course, it's more devolve in the case of the GOP.
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    Parties can evolve, they just stop eventually. The Democrats in 1860, the Republicans in 1968. Duh.
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  24. Uncle Albert

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    Why do so many poor people make goddamn litters of babies?
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  25. Diacanu

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    1. So the first batch can raise the second batch. 2. to have fodder meat for the war against the Satanic Jews liberals.

    Oh, you meant poor BLACK people, didn't you?
    :diacanu:
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  26. Uncle Albert

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    Nope, that's your own racism speaking up. I have relatives who are very much Caucasian who did the same thing. 5 or 6 kids by 2 or 3 daddies. One could be bad luck. A half dozen is a pattern of bad decisions.
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  27. Diacanu

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    Then why idly wonder? Ask them and report back.
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  28. Uncle Albert

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    Excuses. Everything is someone else's fault. It was highly educational.
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  29. Diacanu

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    Then your expression of intellectual curiosity was disingenuous from the get.
    Stunning. :soma: That's not the UA I know. :drama: :diacanu:
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    They're the ones maintaining the replacement rate. Without them, we'd likely experience population decline like China and Japan, despite immigration.
    If you want them to have less kids, ensure they have education. More educated people tend to have less children.
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