If you pay attention to who's pushing basic income it's a handful of extremely wealthy people with connections to billionaires. The goal of basic income is to replace all other forms of civilization and society with a blank check so that you can blame people when they are completely crushed by the systems in place. Monopolies alone make basic income pointless since they will just suck up the money.

American farmers are extremely well off. They are no small farms left. If you see something that looks like a small farm odds are it's just somebody's tax Dodge. We had decades of running small farmers out of business that process is basically over. The people who are left love Trump as long as he cuts them those checks you're talking about. Those big farmers want cheap labor or better yet slave labor and they want zero environmental regulations and Trump will give them both of those things.

As for direct health insurance payments the health insurance industry sucks up half a trillion dollars a year and private equity is buying up all the hospitals and doctors offices. You can't just cut people checks in it that environment just like you can't just cut basic income checks when you have monopolies.

Everything you're suggesting is bullshit put forward either to benefit Rich assholes or by Rich assholes who want to make you think there's an easy patch or fix to keep the system going so you don't have to think about any actual changes.

It's not your fault that's just how our media works but it's not a solution it's a scam

It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.

The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...

Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons we could come up with.

So when the economy needs to stop and can't because you're dumb ass pulled out in front of it it's going to go right through you.

Unfortunately this is where the analogy breaks down because it's not just your little car being splattered you're taking all of us with it

I wish those immigrants never founded my employer and about 1/2 of my entire industry!...not to mention bolstered us and made us superior to all the companies based in countries that were hostile towards immigrants. Not sure if you're American, but for all of our problems, we're one of the most accepting of immigrants in history. That's why we prevailed and our rivals fell short, especially the Soviet Union, post-war Japan, Korea, and China...and in the future it will be Israel and maybe some parts of Northern Europe. We produce a lot of talent locally and what we don't produce, we happily import.

Also, fuck off with the open borders bullshit. No one wants completely unregulated immigration. The far left in the USA and presumably everywhere else just wants lots of opportunities to move here...not let ANYONE without any sort of security checks whatsoever.

However, what has made the USA home of many of the greatest businesses and especially startups is that we not only welcome talented immigrants with open arms (at least we definitely did pre-Trump 47), we gave them loans and investors mentored them to succeed. This applies to Google, co-founded by an immigrant, as well as American-founded businesses like Facebook who filled their ranks with the best they could hire from around the globe.

Here's your choices...immigration as it is today with mild reforms, like better security checks or more legal pathways to citizenship...or...

We crack down on immigrants to the extent you and the Republican party says they want to and experience:

Food shortages, higher prices, the entire tech industry and every American multi-national literally decimated and relocating overseas to places that aren't hostile to immigrants. No good jobs, horrible inflation, bankrupt gov with no power to step in, Social Security running out of funds VERY abruptly, our entire economy and way of life wrecked...and like most failed states, like Russia, the very people with the talent needed to fix and rebuild will go somewhere else: Canada, Australia, maybe someplace crazy (except apparently Switzerland now?) and boost their economy....ensuring all American companies get killed on the international market.

All you MAGA folks...America is pretty great, especially compared to our rivals...and immigration is the main reason. We produce great talent and innovation...but more importantly, we attract immigrants who are talented and ambitious and ensure they start their companies HERE!...and not in their home countries. Most foreign economists bitch about this endlessly, the great American Brain Drain...where so many companies that would have been started in Europe, Asia, or India get started in the USA and we poach their top talent. So yeah, tolerate some people of different races and with funny accents and enjoy national prosperity?....or let those immigrants create jobs in their homeland at our national expense and see our economy much much worse....your pick!

So you have so many people going into gig wars to try and keep a roof over their heads that all the incentives are rapidly going away not just electric car incentives.

The best part is that squeezing the bottom like this will inevitably increase crime and then the increase in crime will get used for more of the kind of economic policies that cause the squeeze and so on so on so forth.

Capitalism is falling apart and socialism isn't an option. I don't know what we do.

And one that you need to live. So it's no surprise people are trying to constrain competition for that limited resource.

Stopping immigration especially in countries where birth rates are below sustainability will create a permanent recession like Japan has. I don't think that's really up for debate we've seen it play out in Japan to the extreme and in South Korea to a lesser extent.

But the problem is if you do not have enough places in society for the people who are already here and can vote they are going to do terrible terrible things when they are not just left out in the cold but facing homelessness and starvation.

We could of course try to spread the wealth around but after a hundred years of Cold war era propaganda that's just not on the table and I refuse to pretend that it is anymore.

Capitalism is breaking down and socialism isn't on the table but we do not have a third option. The best you can do is buy time and if you're going to do that you need to constrain immigration. Even if your economy takes a hit even if people are doing worse off they at least have a place in society. They are at least needed enough that we can justify giving them food and enough shelter that they are informing roving bands of bandits

Billionaires control 90% of the media in america. No joke and no exaggeration. I don't get to define the terms. They have control of the media they get to define everything.

You can crash at your parent's place, but won't see them for quite a while.

Did a human write this?

Seems to me that Canada is a lot further down that path than the US. You did know that Fascism is basically just Socialism with a slightly different management structure, right? The systems behave in exactly the same way.

This is a proposed restriction on a program that lets people from a handful of countries come to the US without a visa. It doesn't impact people using a traditional visa.

And quite honestly, if someone has spent the last few years talking about killing Americans or Jews, I don't ever want them to come here.

Either that or terrorists. I don't know why you felt you had to assume the first.

Entrant: I don't have any "social media", but it doesn't matter because I applied for a regular visa like most of the world instead of using the ESTA program.

Border Guard: Enjoy your visit.

Look past the headline. Headlines lie.

I resent the people who pushed us into a corner and forced this outcome.

Does that mean you are too young to remember the AV converters every console needed for something like twenty years, or that you are old enough to be forgetting such things?

Why would you call it anti-competitive? It protects competition by reducing deception through ensuring unique IDs for each competitor.

...back when we had the story about Steam releasing a console. It didn't make any sense to me why a new device would only support HDMI 2.0, now I know why. Idiotic licensing.