Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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  • In my mind, a UBI would replace a lot of welfare and retirement programs and would absorb much of their budget. What would we need the whole food stamps system for if we guarantee everyone an income? What would we need social security for if you have your Universal Basic Income?

    Since it’s universal, we can do away with all those systems we have to make sure you “deserve” it. We can eliminate entire data centers, close entire offices. Those people (mostly office worker accountant types) can go work in some other part of the government like school systems, the FDA, the FAA, something that actually helps make society go. That should free up some budget.

    Do an actual goddamn audit of the Pentagon, if we find some bullshit pet projects we don’t actually need costing taxpayers billions of dollars we bust a general down to recruit and find or invent a way for him to die for his country.

    Capitalism may not be able to survive alongside a UBI but I think a largely free market economy can. I’ll always have my housing and food needs bet but I’d like to have an Xbox so I’ll go get a job to get money to pay for one.















  • Six words:

    soap box

    ballot box

    ammo box

    more words than that:

    First you try talking. You campaign, you protest, you petition. None of that has worked during my lifetime.

    So you turn up to the polls to vote. Because of how elections work in this country there are only two actual choices, one wants to actively destroy the healthcare industry and the other isn’t all that bothered by the destruction of the first. Everybody in congress owns stock and they get paid for fucking over the citizens. When the citizens say “give us healthcare” and the Republicans say “no” and the Democrats say “No. 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM” We’re kind of past it.

    The only option left is violence. Isn’t it amazing how much unifying power there is to be found in the act of putting three little bullets in one little executive?