I really think progressives/socialists would do better around here if they engaged it from the logical "effective spending" side rather than JUST the moral/inequality side. Good spending is something everyone can get behind, and stuff like socialized medicine and tuition-free public colleges are just a good investment that tons of other countries have already figured out.

Didn't you hear? Ted Cruz called us communists. Guess we should tell that to our utterly-neoliberal state legislature.

There was a bloc of Dems primarying said cronies, who didn't care about pissing him off. Unfortunately, complacency won. I think about how stacked the cards are against people not in the establishment and it's frustrating. They have it WAY too easy.

Keep in mind that this is the same Ronald Mariano that something like 70% of state house Dems vote practically-identically to. The level of control without actual representation is insane.

On that we agree. We need to do away with Citizens United, establish ranked-choice voting, end dark money and stop congresspeople from trading specific stocks at the very least.

Whoopdeedoo, I'm obviously some naive idiot who thinks billionaires care about us! That's why I'm a leftist, mhm!

Oh man, if only there were some way that we the people could enact changes over these predatory businesses. Thing is, you provide no alternative. You're acting as though things won't be automated if we just ask them nicely. You're falling victim to the very thing you're accusing me of, just coming at it from a personal angle instead of a societal one.

I'm not saying UBI/UBD as a solution is likely, I'm just saying that we basically have two outcomes here, and this is the better one by far. The money and resources are there, we have them. The question is just in distribution.

Legit, he asks where the money comes from when literally we HAVE the resources. The real question is how we get this translated into policy and overcome conservatives.

Alright, well, businesses are going to fight to lower their costs no matter what so it's not like we can slow down automation by much either. We need to switch to some form of UBI or UBD where companies pay a % of their profits directly into a public trust to be paid towards everyone, to eliminate the adversarial relationship between human and machine. Otherwise everyone starves and has even LESS power.

If you're planning on having kids, they'll have access to Shawsheen Technical Highschool, which is quite literally one of the best public schools in the state in what's already the best education state. Worth noting!

" if you aren’t willing to kill when necessary, than you don’t value your life at all, nor the lives of others. "

Don't put words in my mouth. I'm saying that a gun needlessly escalates a situation. What happens if they charge you thinking they're going to die? It was a freaking parking lot with people in it, it's not like it was a back alley where he'd never have been discovered. Even if you DO shoot them, congrats, they didn't have to die and they'd have never been thinking life or death without that gun there in the first place.

My argument is simply that having something like pepper spray will create better outcomes in this particular situation than a gun.

Pepper spray doesn't do anything? Really? Maybe if they're on cocaine! I promise unarmed car thieves don't have the fight in them. You don't take out a gun unless you're willing to use it, and so many things could go wrong once you show you're willing to kill them. The best case scenario for everyone is that they stop breaking into the car and go to jail. Non-lethal is the way to go.

Honestly the situation would've been way easier to resolve with some pepper spray imo.

This is unironically the best way to think about things to be frugal. Going to a restaurant? Would you take 35 bucks to not eat that single meal?

Well, leave it to the left to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. I say this as a leftist. Lula sounds like a watermelon - green (LibLeft) on the outside, red (AuthLeft) on the inside.

I mean I do hate Lula for being pro-Putin so it wouldn't surprise me if he was screwing things up in his own way, but most of those things don't even sound objectively bad.

I think personally that we'll need some form of Universal Basic Dividend that every company pays into a public trust going directly to the people, so that we can continue to benefit from businesses in a more direct way and remove the adversarial relationship that'll most likely develop between workers and AI.

Oh no, students miss a few days of school while learning a valuable lesson about strikes! SO horrible!

Are you a billionaire, or do you just have a hard-on for union-busting?

I don't know anything about the mayor's response, but when workers protest injustice, everyone wins.

Someone asked it some questions about Kenshi and ChatGPT insisted that the technophobic Holy Nation had power armour. RAGE.

I really didn't expect that tbh. That makes him better than the modern one.

Could you just admit you're wrong and move on instead of engaging in bad-faith BS that makes you look stupid? Guy was an idea stealer, that's not debatable.

Huh, weird, it just spit out a picture of a guillotine

UBI could probably replace several existing programs like food stamps or even social security, at least partially. It's also the only way forward if our jobs continue to be automated.

Then close the damn loopholes that they CREATED in the first place! Sheesh. You're defeatist.

Jobs would still exist and people would still work them, it's not as though UBI gives everyone enough to do nothing. This being said, jobs are disappearing and being automated away. Things stack up that one day, we won't need to work any more, and this should be a good thing if we make the ultra-wealthy stop hoarding our excess labor.