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I've thought from the start that it'll be Kamala Harris, and I still think so. This'll make the ticket even worse, since she's an authoritarian neoliberal who only cares about power.

I'll concede that UBI is at present more a theory than anything else, and that pilot schemes have been limited in scope. No doubt any UBI system would require considerable tuning and would differ in its implementation, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

I'm interested in whether we - and other posters here - are agreed on any or all of the following points?
1) The current system benefits the rich more than it benefits anyone else, and this works to increase inequality within societies (as a feature, not a bug),
2) A system of ever-increasing inequality is unfair and unsustainable in the long-term, and we need an alternative,
3) UBI in theory works to reduce inequality, and
4) An economic recovery from CV19 will not happen by itself through light-touch global market capitalism, and will instead require some degree of state support.

If we agree on #4, then what is a better alternative to trialling UBI? I'm by no means a UBI-zealot, I'm genuinely interested in learning about other ideas.

I would happily stroll through there on foot and most likely nobody would say shit to me as they are just ordinary people trying to live their lives like anybody else. Unlike you, I don't live my life in fear of minorities.

Probably the worst thing about your comment is it has absolutely zilch to do with issue at hand.

People like you and techy think you're making an argument but really all you are doing is repeating your opinion that "black people are bad."

As somebody who moved to a country that is arguably more dangerous than the U.S., it's not me that desperately needs to explore the outside world -- it's you guys.

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Take a look at what happened to George Floyd: we both can agree it shouldn't have happened. What do the white vs. black stats have to do with what happened to him?

And what really needs to change in order to decrease the chances of that kind of thing happening in the future? Less media coverage? I don't think so.

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Yes this will provide a real incentive for the unproductive people to become more productive to society and add value to our culture and civilization ....NOT   MOAR free beer n drug money..yay!!

I'm not sure why so many people are dead-set against UBI. It is a great way to rein in some of the worst excesses of untrammeled capitalism, and reduce inequality. UBI grants power to the poor, not only by boosting their income but also by disincentivising wage-slavery and other exploitation by powerful employers. Also it removes the huge state burden of maintaining the welfare system. Post-COVID, we are looking at struggling economies and much-diminished job opportunities, with whole industries on the brink of failure. UBI helps to ensure that money circulates in the economy in a much fairer way than we've seen in the past with QE, and also reduces the 'too many people not enough jobs' aspect by making it that even a part-time job is sufficient to keep someone above the breadline. Employing 5 people on a 3-day week or 3 people on a 5-day week is the same $ outlay for the company, but under UBI a 3-day week can be sufficient for the employee, and we get more people into work.
I for one am sick of my tax payments just being used to supplement the already swelling coffers of the rich. It's time for a fairer approach.

....Keep in mind that Biden lacks the mental capacity to make actual decisions....

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now they have entered the stage in which they are in a conflict with themselves.

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At this point the betting odds give Biden something like a 52% chance of winning.....

do you see a single european or middle easterner till today demanding reparations from italians and the city of rome?

Is this really how black people are being treated in the US? There are not many black people ( I'd say its less than 1% ) in the conutry I live in so to I'm unable to understand this madness.

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exactly getting enslaved on an american plantation by white people was often a much better destiny than getting enslaved by african tribal warlords, that didn't even where able to afford cloths.
or killed by local fauna and flora. which was extremely hostile. not to mention the tribal wars over hunting grounds. people killed each other than over ridiculous unthinkable things.

i doubt reason and black people are comparable.

LOL!  

OK I didn't actually Laugh Out Loud, but I did smile.

I don't think this means what you intended it to, but its hard to gauge your level of seriousness based on the preceding sentences.

Okay. What evidence do you have that ActBlue is illegally funneling money from their charity arm to their PAC?

....Quantum mechanics is missing companion wave and self correction wave.
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You're not even "pointing out" that the victim was a "bad guy." You're simply giving your opinion. I don't consider it reasonably worth sharing, as it has nothing to do with the issue at hand. By giving this opinion you can only be insinuating that maybe he got what he deserved. He didn't deserve it at all.

Back to licking boots for you.

.... So I would like to catch it and have antibodies in the same way that they are developed for any of the hundreds of other microbes that we all run across.  When I go out and about I deliberately touch things in hopes that I can pick it up.  .....

....You can literally organize mobs to murder, beat, burn and loot all you like and call yourself a movement, and suddenly it is ok!

why are the democrats trying to impose a racist president on america?

didn't they got with trump what they wanted a nonracist white republican president.