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OccultHawk · 07-20-2019, 11:55 PM

He probably set UBI back 50 years

The idea is a winner but he went and ****ed it up

The Batlord · 07-21-2019, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

He probably set UBI back 50 years

The idea is a winner but he went and ****ed it up

I don't think anybody's paying attention to him to set UBI back. I don't think anybody knows what UBI is still.

**Frownland** · 07-21-2019, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

I'm a Republican

Good to see that you're finally picking up on what we've been saying all this time!

The Batlord · 07-21-2019, 12:37 AM

You don't use condoms. Like a Republican.

Psy-Fi · 07-21-2019, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Applying for jobs recently when there’s a few candidates someone always makes sure to reference God.

Real **** I heard from unemployed person to potential employers in just the last three interviews.

“God blessed me with good insurance.”

“I just moved here and I have to drive 15 minutes to get to church!”

“I didn’t have free time in college because I was so involved with the church.”

I don’t have any marketable skills but I’m on team God. **** religion.

They probably think it gives them an edge over the competition. Especially in the Bible Belt.

Anteater · 07-21-2019, 08:25 AM

The vast majority of Americans are never going to vote for a progressive if they're going to saddle their economic positions with bull**** that's impossible to implement in any meaningful way (like reparations). If your gonna spend a trillion dollars on anything and strong-arm the corporate Dems and the GOP into passing something big, either give all Americans free healthcare, college, or an extra grand or two monthly. But your only gonna be able to force one of those things through over a four year period. But none of that matters if you can't win.

Yang gets it. In order to win (or at least have a shot at winning), you have to at least make an effort to push beyond traditional identity politics in some way along with having a solid economic message, along with having a clear idea how to make those things happen. That means giving the independents and the libertarian / more centrist oriented people who voted from Trump in 2016 a reason not to vote for him again. And while Bernie has good ideas and consistency, Yang's website better maps out how those policies might actually come to fruition and how they'd be paid for without taxing the living **** out of the middle class.

Trump only won because Hillary Clinton was incompetent to a degree we don't see that often at national level politics. She made McCain and Al Gore look like geniuses in comparison.

If Harris, Warren or Sanders gets the nomination, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye.

OccultHawk · 07-21-2019, 09:23 AM

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If Harris, Warren or Sanders gets the nomination, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye.

Hyperbolic bs

OccultHawk · 07-21-2019, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

he gets it

that's why he's polling at 1%

the majority of Americans will and do vote for progressives btw, as the majority of Americans are progressive, it's more a matter of turn-out

libertarians are such a small sliver of voters as to almost be irrelevant

**** free market libertarians. Small government my ass. 99% of government’s function is to support private property (theft).

Anteater · 07-21-2019, 10:05 AM

If you look at who actually took Republican seats during the midterms and what they ran on, you guys would see I'm correct.

New York Times - How Democrats Defeat Donald Trump

And elph, somewhere around the neighborhood of 25 to 30% of the people who voted for Obama in 2012 voted for Trump in 2016. Most of those all fell into some no-man's land where economic issues were all that mattered to them. I don't think getting those guys engaged is insignificant.

OccultHawk · 07-21-2019, 10:09 AM

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where Bernie is taxing the middle class it's to replace insurance premiums (a tax)

except now you don't have co-pays and you don't lose coverage if you get laid off

God forbid Americans aren’t extorted to keep slaving away at soul crushing jobs because Murica means FREEDOM

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