Also South Korea took the brunt of the damage from the Japanese occupation considering most of the North was pretty agrarian during that time period

It took a long time to reach even-gender population because the japanese took so many young women as prostitutes during the 30s and WWII

Hit the economy like a truck

Especially during the transitory stages where the japenese were still being expunged by both the communist North and capitilist south

Aren't they doing something similar to Russia with Conception Day?

Basically, you get the day off work and if there is a kid born within certain timing of days, the kid gets government benefits as they move through life

You get paid to bone on a holiday

"common cause with libertarianism" ahem... *what?*

That's what gets me off

Hey he helped me and Cobra Commander birth Ultra God

Because if you're working and not even better off than somebody who isn't working, that would build resentment

Hitler dumped an insane amount of man power and money into researching the occult and stuff like summoning demons and crap like that

ha

wow

hot take

*even hotter take*

Is this a trick question?

OK say you're getting 1000 a month from UBI but if you started a part time minimum wage job, and I'm talking a state with high minimum wage like maryland at 10.10 and lets be generous and say you get around 30 hours a week. You're working and only making about 212 dollars more a month than the person sitting on their ass doing nothing.

Now if you apply that to the federal minimum wage you'd need to work at minimum wage almost full time in order to break a thousand a month

To make the same amount of money as somebody literally doing nothing

So you would continue giving out UBI to the person with the job to prevent that from happening

Trotsky proposed the theory of permanent revolution, the democratic system your thinking of is purely the creation of Lenin: Democratic Centralism which effectively removes the aspect of Representational Democracy where dissenters would break away from the main body and form another party. Effectively though, in practice it was just the decisions of the higher communist party trickling downward through out the system resulting in effectively a dictatorship.

Right but he was very focused on continuing the communist revolution outward from Russia

Neither do socialists

I have never encountered a socialist who understands the pitfalls of socialism

I know plenty that memorize specific language to sound superior while filling the air with so many labels as to be incomprehensible even to themselves

I find most of my online arguments is spent reading about specific ideologies rather than debating ideas

Socialists

I was a bit unclear there sorry

Right but a pig is a pig even if you call it a far right authoritarian regime that used socialism but isn't socialist at all

Labels don't matter, ideas beyond those labels matter

I can label Fascism whatever the fuck I want

Doesn't change what Fascism is and the ideas behind it making it one of the most horrifying political systems in history of mankind

Right but even modern socialist ideas can't be enforced through a democratic system

In order to regiment a society like that you need more oomph

And it certainly can't be determined by the majority

When I speak of socialism I don't mean the faux socialist "democratic socialists"

The idea of democratic socialism isn't socialist, it still uses an entirely capitalistic economy as we see in the countries people consider democratic socialist countries

I'm talking about people that self identify as democratic socialists, not the political theory

Note I said countries *people consider* to be democratic socialists

Incrementalism just makes me think of the frog in the water

The more power the state has, the more susceptible it is to being overtaken by a dictator

Or simply making life hell on its citizens

which is why protected rights are necessary to forming a healthy state

I don't know his stance on social media platforms and big tech so I have no idea what to think there

Because that defines whether or not he gives a shit about the first ammendment

Idk man some of the dem candidates have no policy positions on that subject

or even ones that support corporate censorship

Good

He should also appoint someone who can manage the budget after he's done monkey fucking it

And a state funded and run higher education system

you could fix higher education through targeted regulation and restructuring of federal aid money and price capping though

Yeah his "Freedom Dividend" is a big policy point for him

I lost interest in Yang when he went full smear politics though

He went on stage and said a whole bunch of dumb shit about trump and how he would love to see him run a mile

Ah yes lets give YouTube control of the flow of information

Good call

Depends on the climate model you use, most of them show human impact at around the industrial revolution

At least extrapolation of the data we have now that is

I need a hard source for that driving thing to believe that

And I don't mean an article, I mean something that has been peer reviewed

Oh man

nah bogus climate claims are perpetuated based on something journalists read on twitter

Just look at the amazon fire fiasco

Honestly they generally do, most journalistic organizations don't even issue retractions when they're straight up wrong

I mean I could come up with 3 or 4 examples off the top of my head

News papers ignoring the firing of rubber bullets into the eyes and throats of yellow vesters being an international example

Covington and Amazonian Forest Fires being another 2

Hmm

Whats a fourth, I may have to actually think about that one for a second

Gender Neutral Santa Clause

OH YEAH

Russiagate

Hmm

Pizzagate too

I read an article doomsaying climate disaster by 2023 which didn't even cite a source

Another one that actually used a study performed by somebody without a degree or employer who constructed a faulty model from incomplete climate data

I'm not saying they "generally make up stats" I'm saying that you can't rely on them to use stats

"manipulate other people's studies to show things they want to show"

That is what I was responding to

Not making up stats

being manipulative or simply not putting in due diligence to source a story

Yeah

Independend journalists are good

*sometime*

depends on the journalist

lmfao

Schizophrenia is a hell of a drug

You're denying basic historical fact dude

Historical fact that Nazi's were far right

and I refuse to elaborate further

But I will keep saying that over and over again

Yeah this went to shit lmfao

Damn he put 3 exclamation points like that means jack shit lmfao

No see

*Jew*

Yeah don't try to make this about gay people we're clearly talking about Jews here

Oh is he?

I don't pay attention to him

I mean I'm just meming right now