Post Ada2aMMcvNIpfpbmRE by chris@abraham.su
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(DIR) Post #AdZnMhcdajH4Eq7w5Q by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T17:42:36Z
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I feel like modern Americans surely and newly put all their eggs in the basket of the government should take care of them. That's like saying that the Metro or the Bus line should take care of me. Makes no sense to me at all. #ubi[The AI Breakdown: Daily Artificial Intelligence News and Discussions] What Roles Should Government Play in AI? #theAiBreakdownDailyArtificialIntelligenceNewsAndDiscussions https://podcastaddict.com/the-ai-breakdown-daily-artificial-intelligence-news-and-discussions/episode/169380188
(DIR) Post #Ada0BWvIKRuxH4rAJ6 by radiojammor@mastodon.scot
2024-01-06T20:06:11Z
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@chris I'm not an American, but I thought you were all "government of the people, by the people, for the people". Isn't taking care of the people what Gov is for? Perhaps 'old' Americans have lost sight of that.What takes care of people better than giving them enough money to live on? Cut the bureaucracy of other welfare and enable people to learn, to invest in their education, training, business ideas, or effectively be paid to look after family and home, like many women do now, but unpaid.
(DIR) Post #Ada0pY7pHL6maOnhmy by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T20:13:29Z
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@radiojammor ironically, no. It's of the people, by the people, and for the people. Ironically, that's an emergent system and not an of the country, by the country, and for the country; or of the management, by the management, and for the management; or of the ruling class, by the ruling class, and for the ruling class. When Communism talks about the people, it actually means the State. It's a bait and switch. It's not emergent, it's top-down. It's enforcement not freedom, it's collective...
(DIR) Post #Ada14jVRFO7cE85Ljk by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T20:16:13Z
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@radiojammor but what do I know. I studied literature and poetry. But I do live in DC and am an evil public affairs crisis management shill. When communism talks about the freedom of the people, they rarely get it. If LGBTQIA+ were smart, they'd want Tribalism because only Tribalism gives tribes their freedom to be completely autonomous of the collective... the collective will never put up with non-breeding pairs who corrupt the moral and productive integrity of the children in assless chaps!
(DIR) Post #Ada16p8vGDM4HwYCgq by white_male@poa.st
2024-01-06T20:16:44.879876Z
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@radiojammor @chris Principled freedoms are only dear to half of those, the rest are neurotically despotic.
(DIR) Post #Ada1EKAQJNqmXFpT5U by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T20:17:54Z
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@radiojammor I mean, the US federal government is basically only for this, down at the source code:"These enumerated powers include, among other things, the power to levy taxes, regulate commerce, establish a uniform law of naturalization, establish federal courts (subordinate to the Supreme Court), establish and maintain a military, and declare war."
(DIR) Post #Ada1NZ10TZmhBypXSi by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T20:19:30Z
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@radiojammor DefenseForeign RelationsRegulating Interstate and International CommerceCurrency and Monetary PolicyPost Offices and Post RoadsImmigration and Naturalization Laws**[[I feel like this doesn't matter anymore]]**Bankruptcy LawsIntellectual PropertyFederal CourtsTaxes and Public SpendingEminent Domain:)
(DIR) Post #Ada2aMMcvNIpfpbmRE by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T20:33:10Z
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@white_male @radiojammor I am neurologically despotic.
(DIR) Post #Ada2dzM2PnWTTA3zG4 by white_male@poa.st
2024-01-06T20:33:57.794786Z
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@chris @radiojammor Part and parcel of what you've become?Were you like that in your 30's?
(DIR) Post #Ada3h7JVNao0ydvyvQ by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T20:45:35Z
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@white_male @radiojammor I live in DC in the 80s and 90s: there were only "sink or swim" jobs in the DC area (the DMV) for high end, high-IQ jobs in the Nation's Capital. In tech, PR, entrepreneurship, government private consulting, etc: sink or swim, baby! No coddling for me in my 20s and 30s, bitches!
(DIR) Post #Ada3w4H4xefjtYvdLM by white_male@poa.st
2024-01-06T20:48:26.152360Z
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@chris @radiojammor Association is only thinly implied, your make up is not the only that made it through.
(DIR) Post #Ada4TwKD1WxX5OXmm8 by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T20:54:26Z
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@white_male @radiojammor I am really glad that my makeup made it through as I really don't like reapplying my makeup.
(DIR) Post #Ada53SCCWKwY4DjU0W by VonBora@nationalist.social
2024-01-06T20:58:40.525003Z
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What, uh, constitutes coddling? Not being on the front lines being shot at by enemies, domestic or foreign?
(DIR) Post #Ada53SwHkzo4N9IHq4 by white_male@poa.st
2024-01-06T21:00:58.316774Z
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@VonBora @chris @radiojammor Fierce business card contests.
(DIR) Post #Ada638TnvNB6sBNXLk by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T21:11:52Z
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@VonBora @radiojammor @white_male coddling is constituted by having loads of government protections for your job so that it's painful to fire you without cause. That's what Bubba did: he dumped all the Govvie jobs and replaced them, in DC, with mostly private contractors. Good times!
(DIR) Post #Ada64cJiTXm1hXMmOm by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T21:12:11Z
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@VonBora @radiojammor @white_male but, yes, also that.
(DIR) Post #Ada6TilrcIpwxQVEIa by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T21:16:45Z
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@white_male @radiojammor @VonBora do I win?
(DIR) Post #Ada6z5SHKNr6HvIYIy by radiojammor@mastodon.scot
2024-01-06T21:22:22Z
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@chris No, I think you lost a long time ago.
(DIR) Post #Ada7NI9NmLbmbz09k8 by VonBora@nationalist.social
2024-01-06T21:23:07.974619Z
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Did you lose your job because of the American Jobs Act then?
(DIR) Post #Ada7NIyQiYRRAIsvJI by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T21:26:44Z
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@VonBora @radiojammor @white_male I never lost a job because I am a swimmer. Because to sink is not acceptable.
(DIR) Post #Ada8276NlG5IDc3zxQ by radiojammor@mastodon.scot
2024-01-06T21:34:10Z
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@chris Some people can't swim. Do they just drown? Many moons ago (it just seems like it) I queried your stance on UBI. I am afraid that I don't think I can discuss this with you because you are so immersed into your American conservative capitalist system, you cannot see beyond it, and that you may have done well out of it, but others never could. I'm bowing out.
(DIR) Post #Ada8m2shmlNMRvZI2a by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T21:42:31Z
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@radiojammorGood luck on Scottish Independence. I hope you get it some day. I studied in Norwich and Scotland is not England. You should take the Welsh and the Irish with you.
(DIR) Post #Ada8pT2yxTYyTC0UUa by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T21:43:07Z
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@radiojammorTouchez
(DIR) Post #Ada99QZhrLk8atpajo by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T21:46:44Z
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@radiojammorAmerica has an extremely generous needs based social system. We don't get nearly enough credit for it considering the population. Needs based is better than UBI because, I believe, that, like we've seen with interest, a UBI would just adjust the price to take into consideration the new economic floor. It would reset pricing accordingly, IMHO, unless there were laws against doing that under the auspices of "gauging" but people are extremely creative. You could move to rural Vietnam.
(DIR) Post #Ada9ELpsuGuTLOkJnc by makeheroism@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-06T21:47:45Z
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@radiojammor @chris if by “taking care” you mean killing you yeah sure that’s what government is for. Where would you ever get the impression government is in place anywhere in the world to improve people’s lives? Government is responsible for most of the murder in human history. Possible only eclipsed by religion.
(DIR) Post #AdaBqJczlPNdPPwot6 by Grandtheftautism@freespeechextremist.com
2024-01-06T22:17:02.400943Z
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@chris @white_male @radiojammor @VonBora that's a nice card
(DIR) Post #AdaF8xhHpFngkxXP72 by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-06T22:54:00Z
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@GrandtheftautismCheers ha ha ha ha@radiojammor @VonBora @white_male
(DIR) Post #Adb0pCftE3bxDTWq36 by radiojammor@mastodon.scot
2024-01-07T07:47:56Z
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@chris And yet I constantly hear Americans complaint about issues that a UBI would solve.I often come across this inflation argument, but it is a logical fallacy based on right wing propaganda, from people who see how UBI would benefit society. Trials of UBI show negligible inflation. Everyone gets it and spends it or invests it. There is no leftover disposable income for the super 'secret cabal that controls everything' to raise prices on. So inflation doesn't happen as you might think.
(DIR) Post #AdbTPXLkdAFKTsDr1M by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-07T13:08:25Z
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@radiojammorI would always rather spend tax dollars on UBI, health insurance, child care, pre-K-Post Doc education, and dole, but we might need to kill that $800 billion defense budget and the NATO thing and the global adventurism and I'm all over that. Most of what I say, generally, is sarcastic nihilism. I like to always say: Europe and Japan have their "free" government health insurance, child care, pre-K-Post Doc education, and dole because America loves paying world military tabs.
(DIR) Post #AdbUAIneXq6GxuZZUe by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-07T13:16:59.112192Z
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@chris @radiojammor japan has private health insurance
(DIR) Post #AdbWGoSVwxJeneuwzo by radiojammor@mastodon.scot
2024-01-07T13:40:24Z
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@chris I can see I am going to struggle to see when you are serious...America pays for world military tabs? I think you come bearing receipts as well as arms... and oil and gas contractors, etc. And yes, UK does/did that too, poxy little fascist country that it is on the sly.Going back to UBI, if your meaning of dole is as mine (for the jobless), UBI replaces it. It replaces much welfare (not too familiar with US welfare, so that's a proviso, but I see US UBI advocates claiming that so...)
(DIR) Post #AdbWYqUH9B1MIsL8xU by moth_ball@shitposter.club
2024-01-07T13:43:53.257735Z
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@Moon @chris @radiojammor Also public healthcare is not the same as a public health insurance
(DIR) Post #AdbaTxlNOAZgRnwLuy by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-07T14:27:28Z
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@radiojammorYes, you're right about all of that. We're not Altruists we're Privateers. If you care about what I really believe, this is as close as I've ever gotten, and it's from 2005, so it's when I read earnest. You're a benevolent Scotsmans—I've been proven extremely wrong as America DOES Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy https://chrisabraham.com/blog/america-does-not-go-abroad-in-search-of-monsters-to-destroy
(DIR) Post #AdbaZqcSrVK41rZtCa by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-07T14:28:45Z
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@moth_ballPS I'm so honored to be included in this conversation so I want to know I really appreciate it even if the condescension is palpable, I deserve it. @radiojammor @Moon
(DIR) Post #AdbdFvliJ81C4O6AhU by moth_ball@shitposter.club
2024-01-07T14:58:53.972899Z
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@chris @radiojammor @Moon If you're going to If you're going to be passive aggressive when your wrong information is pointed out, at least take the time to proofread your posts.
(DIR) Post #Adbrd0tkngFZzvlBwG by chris@abraham.su
2024-01-07T17:39:45Z
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@moth_ballSee, you get me completely wrong. Why are you so angry. It's really going to kill you young. @radiojammor @Moon
(DIR) Post #Adbwpp99VFFuVHVhdg by radiojammor@mastodon.scot
2024-01-07T18:37:52Z
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@chris I don't know who you are talking to but I am muting this conversation. I can't see whoever it is you are responding to.