Warren sounds so fucking rehearsed and I hate it

Like the most robotic of all the candidates

Might as well throw some ketchup on her and give her to Trump

lol

bernie's getting all riled up. it feels like watching a man 40 years his junior.

See I fuck with Bernie a bit cuz at least he’s like “yea I’m raising your taxes, tf you gon do about it?”

I’m in full support of operation clown world thousand dollars a month turns ancap paradise with full genetically engineered cat traps

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I like that he's honest about that, 'we need money to make this stuff work, and you will need to pay for it'

and no one cares about the multiple studies showing this would save the country and citizens money overall compared to the current way of things

even if you don't agree with what he wants to do you've got to at least give him props for that

Yea, as compared to warren who won’t even answer that she’s gonna raise taxes

On the middle class

@Jokerfaic the UBI?

no, universal health insurance / medicare for all

though UBI is a coin toss if it works or not, from what I understand

I think I read that a city in California did a limited test run. It mad people feel better but had no noticeable impact on reducing unemployment or increasing the number of people working.

though if AI and automated manufacturing keep progressing, its gonna be a necessity

not in the near future, maybe, but still

@Jokerfaic yang's VERY on point about that, and that being the reason why he's pushing for the ubi

I think for healthcare it should all go to the states if it doesn’t already

not with single-digit cyclical unemployment
also, submitting to something like UBI would only make sense if you think that we are in final-stage tech development

reminds me of judge dredd comics, where 98% of MC1 is unemployed and on basic income from the government, and so the government encourages them to find literally anything to do with their time

*anything not outlawed

because almost everything has been delegated to robots

Am I the only one who sees the states as mini countries, like they’re such unique places I think just pushing some uniform policies across all of them is too... impractical for lack of a better word

prior to the clear political divides happening post-2016 I wouldn't have said so

@evannthegreat1 you're not, but there is also a lot of people who don't see it that way.

IIRC, the state’s have been called the “laboratories” of democracy...a place to test these sort of things out. California is ready to test ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that involves spending other people’s money

They have done a bang up job on testing “high speed rail”...building a high speed train that goes nowhere important

be fair, california is home to hollywood, so really most of that "other people's money" has been movie sales

not recently, but still

They got plenty of Obama money for that high speed rail project and it has not delivered on the benchmarks that were requirements for those grants

IIRC, it as supposed to run from LA to San Francisco. And it will end up doing neither.

it'd be nice if we had something on par with japanese high speed rail

I don’t think I’d ever want to live in Cali, the whole vibe just throws me off

Like I’m a liberal dude

@Jokerfaic The US could really use a high speed rail network, to bad your government is too incompetent.

but by the nature of japanese bureacracy, I suppose it makes sense why they got it so fast

Japan is a compact country. High speed is cost effective there. Not so much in the US...maybe for the Northeast corridor from DC to NYC but not in many other places

well what about a continental rail? coast to coast