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  • If you want to put a little note saying 'the movies are overrated' sure, we can have a debate about that. Fantasy films really aren't for everyone, and adapting LotR is definitely not an easy task.

    If you genuinely mean the books as well, idk what to tell you. The history of the fantasy genre after LotR proves you're wrong.

  • Oh, don't get me wrong — my position has never been that UBI can't work under the right conditions.

    My position is that UBI cannot work without very major changes first. I don't doubt that UBI can inject a lot of good into an individual's standard of living — without some kind of regulation associated with it, which requires those regulatory agencies to not be inherently corrupt, UBI seems impossible.

  • I mean, yes — but the reality is that universal basic income dictates that everyone gets the money.

    For instance, let's say Congress allows the perfect UBI bill to be put forth. For whatever Bizarro World reason you can conjure, because we both agree that they would never agree.

    What happens next? We've already seen what regulatory capture has done to sectors like real estate. Corpos buy up shitloads of land, whether it's individuals looking to be land barons or alongside corporate interests.

    How would true UBI result in anything other than higher prices? Seriously, in the current markets that exist within the United States — how, without some kind of serious societal and economic shift prior to it's introduction, would this actually play out?

    Maybe it's better in other democracies, I actually can't really argue for any other nation — I can only apply this concept to what I already know. I just think UBI is a concept that can only exist in a place entirely separate from corporate greed, and that is definitely not the United States.

  • In controlled environments, maybe — however those controlled environments still interact with currently established economies.

    I'm just not convinced that UBI scaled up will actually result in anything other than what takes place in the Expanse.

  • Your point - the working title is the original name.

    My point - take anything with a title that may have had a working title, apply your logic to it.

    None of your words matter 'little guy', go back to Reddit.

  • whatever you need to tell yourself little buddy

    Projection, also imagine defaulting to this because you had your logic thrown in your face. Pathetic, this has nothing to do with 'winning' — it has everything to do with you just being wrong.

  • Pretty sure Kamala has already said this would happen. Pretty sure Biden is dealing with fucking cancer. Hakeem Jeffries put out a video 2 days ago directly stating that Trump does not have authority to declare war, and a tweet 17 hours ago reaffirming such. Chuck Schumer has called for an immediate vote on the War Powers Act to involve Congress in Trump's war.

    What else should they do?

  • Why would it matter?

    There are people here who believe that North Korea and China are actually amazing places to live despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. We're talking people who, in one thread, discuss discrimination in the U.S. while espousing the virtues of fucking China on discrimination. To remind you, China is an ethnostate. For us to be like China, we would need to secure white dominance in the U.S. — because that is what China has done with the Han.

    These people would cause a genocide or worse. And they're fucking all over Lemmy. I wouldn't limit myself to anything on Lemmy for anything other than Linux advice.

  • No, actually, but you clearly have very poor reading comprehension so it doesn't seem like I'll be getting through to you.

    Just know, when you use terms like strawman incorrectly you look fucking stupid.