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by mantas 1y ago
Working people in general. Those who keep producing and not sit on their asses enjoying UBI. You can tax incomes, wealth, whatever. Either way it’d be taxing those who want more than UBI. And you’ll need to tax them a lot. There’s no way ta
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by mantas 1y ago
If you want to provide truly livable UBI, it’d be even bigger than socialism. The working people would have to be taxed through the nose. And necessary professions like trash car drivers should be paid a crapton.
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by mantas 1y ago
Arts have another problem. Although I’m not even sure if it is a problem. Lots and lots of people can create arts. In old era when people would just gather together and sing. Nobody would make a living off that. Very very few people were ma
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by mantas 1y ago
East Germany border is very very visible.
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by mantas 1y ago
Huh? There’s plenty of deeply divided countries. Especially in Africa where many borders were drawn with no respect to ethnic and tribal situation.
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by mantas 1y ago
Nah. More like everywhere besides North Korea.
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by mantas 1y ago
Horse poop wasn't exactly great too.
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by mantas 1y ago
Why not desirable? It'd be very desirable for immigrants to adjust to local society. If people are not willing to integrate and assimilate their kids into host society, they should not come. We should not see people as economic unit wh
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by mantas 1y ago
The problem is, policies are about generalisation. Otherwise we couldn't make any laws at all. It's not realistic to evaluate person-by-person millions of people either. Especially when you take into account that 2nd and 3rd gener
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by mantas 1y ago
It's still separate assignments. The only difference is wether you throw them into a single meta-assignment. Or a separate one with main + fallbacks. The problem with such assignment is it's very hard to balance the alternatives t
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by mantas 1y ago
Yes. But there will always be an obscure case you can’t cover. Let’s say a test is written. Someone can’t write, but can dictate answers. Is it still the same test or not? On the other hand, how far can society tip-tap around such alternati
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by mantas 1y ago
> If this is genuinely your approach, you are being part of the problem; if taking a step back to reassess feels like too much work, I’d encourage you to explore why it feels that way, what emotions is this bringing up internally? How am
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by mantas 1y ago
It’d be bad if there was no alternative. But different people can get different assignments and that’s ok. Complaining about this is like me complaining about people drinking milk since I’m lactose intolerant.
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by mantas 1y ago
Homeless or loose current house? Downsizing and/or moving to cheaper places could go a long way. Yet loosing current level of housing is what most people think want to avoid.
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by mantas 1y ago
Those who think migrants are positive should bring proof too. Or is it just trying to claim moral high ground by cherry picking?
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by mantas 1y ago
Those who downvote you should find statistics from Denmark which migration sources are net positive and which ain’t.
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by mantas 1y ago
Social democracy is also capitalism. I’d rather word that differently. High-trust societies with little expectation of privacy and valuing community tend to do well with social democracy. Otherwise people end up abusing the system and it’s
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by mantas 1y ago
Making it easier to vote without ID in a country with a lot of non-citizen-residents is pretty damn close to election fraud in my books. At least in my country that could cause very sad political landscape changes.
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by mantas 1y ago
Maybe if both sides of the aisle are pissed about recent elections, this is a good time to both introduce voter ID and improve national ID issuing in a way to make it accessible? E.g. fair price ($10-20?) for processing and offices open on
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by mantas 1y ago
> Your thinking is scattered, disorganized, surface level and not well thought-through. You are missing crucial information and you are looking for a simple argument to a complex problem you erroneously believe to be simple and common se
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by mantas 1y ago
If you're going such lengths to abuse voter ID laws, then no-voter-ID is probably abused too :) At worst, one abuse is replaced by another abuse. And once voter ID law is in, it's much easier to make tiny changes on prices, office
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by mantas 1y ago
It depends where you draw the line who is COVID conspiracists. Is it only the batshit crazy people. Or is it people who e.g. stuck to lab-origin theory too?
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by mantas 1y ago
> In terms of conspiracy thinking you have to always be very careful with such statements, ask yourself why liberals oppose voter id laws? Assume no ill intent for the sake of it. Do research for yourself into the subject. Try for exampl
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by mantas 1y ago
Eh... ChatGPT is probably the worst of both worlds. Even if we skip hallucinations. First, it's not hard for fake content (e.g. russian propaganda) make into it. Second, ChatGPT censors wrongthink itself. E.g. at least older versions s
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by mantas 1y ago
I think the main point is those people do not trust anybody and look at facts-at-face-value only. And in many cases mainstream communication looks iffy with missing bits of information. Either because some information is classified or some
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by mantas 1y ago
I'm not very familiar with US, but over here „conspirational crowd“, based on thinking patterns, is very diverse. But media seems to flag as „conspirational“ only a portion of it that comes to vaccines. And a lot of people who had issu
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by mantas 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a similar portion didn't believe 2016 or 2024 results either. TBH looking from afar with US election system any election seems questionable. If my country had no mandatory voter ID, I wouldn't trust
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by mantas 1y ago
More like based on not trusting authority. And then trying to „do research“ on your own. Which frequently goes sideways. But not always. Just like mainstream approach. Sometimes it's correct, sometimes it's not. Growing up in a hi
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by mantas 1y ago
That's the beauty :)
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by mantas 1y ago
Anecdata, but quite a few people I met in alternative music and politics sphere a good decade ago, I meet again in unrelated non-music/political bubbles focused on heavy community involvement. Further confirming the joke, many of those

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