Tom Steyer keeps running around saying that it’s unfair that billionaires like him can buy our democracy, then spending hundreds of millions dollars to do just that, then failing to get elected, and then repeating all the same lines the next time around. It’s extremely funny.
I immediately knew it was in Pakistan and not in France because European countries would never sentence Pakistanis to death for gang raping a European woman in front of her children.
The reason the bottom half, and in fact everyone, should pay taxes (to paraphrase Thatcher) is because you want ppl to buy into the system. “I paid for this bus service, so it better work efficiently and be nice”. Incentive alignment.
The asylum system is from an era of defecting Soviet ballet dancers, not infinity economic migrants who can’t get a visa.
It needs to just end, completely.
aside from WW11, we should also note that ilhan omar understands that she can cynically deploy american history and values against american interests to oppose things that she herself supports when they're in somalia and build up more immunity to that.
Rep. Ilhan Omar: “The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked… during World War ELEVEN.”
She must have gotten her education in the Quality Learing Center.
“UBI is coming.” No it isn’t. UBI has been here for decades already. You don’t need to work to eat. You can just fill out some forms. Need health care? Just show up in the emergency room.
If you want to understand the social change wrought by UBI, just look around.
NYT: Guy who tried to blow up a synagogue was just avenging family who definitely weren’t terrorists.
Lebanese journo: They were part of Hezbollah rocket unit
US feds: Family were terrorists and suspect had terrorist contacts on phone.
🚨 Malia Obama recalls having to work “twice as hard” as peers to get into Harvard, break into Hollywood — “As a Black woman, nothing is handed to you.”
@justindeanlee Well, obviously this guy is like that because busses aren’t free. If we simply allocate resources to this guy, he will transform into a well-adjusted member of society! Uh, probably.
In all seriousness: the fundamental practical message of the Democratic Party is that you should expect to pay European-level taxes for South African-level public services. Nobody in the Party really offers a solution, though their brightest think we should build more housing.