Rural areas, sure. Suburban and urban where the majority of humans live, no.

I’m being speculative, right?

In a political climate where you could actually implement UBI, you would also be able to …

Which is why UBI should be coupled with UBS (universal basic services). In this context, at the very least there would exist also a rental board (like Quebec’s existing Regie du Logement). If you’re more ambitious, housing would be a universal service and taken out of the market altogether. And don’t forget that that 1600E income of the landlord would be also taxed.

More generally: https://ubiadvocates.org/inflation-and-ubi-separating-fact-from-fiction/

If UBI is financed through measures that inject new money into the economy, such as deficit spending or monetary expansion, the risk of inflation may be heightened. This is because the increase in the money supply outpaces the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services, leading to a general rise in prices.

Conversely, if UBI is funded through redistributive measures, such as progressive taxation or cuts in inefficient spending, the inflationary pressures can be mitigated. By targeting resources from high-income individuals or unproductive sectors of the economy, such funding mechanisms redistribute existing wealth rather than injecting new money into circulation.

This ensures that the overall level of demand remains relatively stable, thereby limiting the potential for inflationary spirals.

In a political climate where you could actually implement UBI, you would also be able to implement walkability policies.

Also, e-bikes. E-bikes is where it’s at.

Not American, so feel free to stop reading.

It’s ridiculous to me how you yanks go from zero to a hundred like this. Either normality or civil war. Like there is no in between? You have an authoritarianism problem. So resist authoritarianism. What makes you think that the only way to resist is shooting people? Resistance is a spectrum, and you have barely started using democratic means to fight back (you just started electing democratic socialists), much less active procedural and institutional warfare (is Bernie demanding a vote for every procedural point requiring a vote? Are the Dems actually using any rat fucking tactic to make the state ungovernable? Are your local and state governments really resisting beyond making angry noises?). You have barely tried non violent resistance (not the same as peaceful!) but you’re such a violent culture that you jump straight to military solutions. Wtf. Those come at the very end, if everything else has failed. Has it? Nowhere near. So this talk about civil war, is that really useful?

One thing I’ve noticed with Lemmy is that it feels way more like a social bookmarking and commentary platform. I see fewer posts that are “original content” here than for example Reddit.

I wrote “ostensibly”.

I think the difference in China vs elsewhere is that the powerful people are state/party functionaries, not a bunch of rich guys. Not that they don’t become rich via the state, but they don’t claim the state power because they are rich. If I may be allowed a diversion, this is similar to the difference between the Imperial Medieval Roman Bureaucracy (in Constantinople) vs the feudal European Monarchies in the west. Byzantium actually has been described as functionally very close to a one party state.

Sorry no :/ But I’m sure Erdogan would love to be included in the club.

One thing they do have going for them is that in China capital is subservient to the state, and the state still operates ostensibly for the good of society. Chinese capitalists don’t hold sway over the state the way western ones do. For now at least. So if the state decides that this or that part of the economy needs to do this or that, they can make capitalists do it. That’s good. But it’s not enough and the anti-democratic structures are extremely concerning about the future. The capitalists after all only need to capture such a powerful state once.

Indeed they did.

The resolution is based on sources that the world’s leading scholars on genocide deemed to be reliable. These are the same brave scholars who had the courage to stand up to Israel’s hasbara and overwhelming PR to name the genocide in Gaza. If that reality offends you, be offended. I have no time for genocide denialism.

That’s a gross trivialization of the matter, that is basically genocide denial.

The International Association of Genocide Scholars, whose resolution I cited, is an academic organization of scholars that engage in peer reviewed research. I believe it when it names the genocide in Gaza, I believe it when it names the genocide in Xinjiang.

You slipped the word “only” there just now. That’s moving the goalposts.

For the rest, you’re just presenting excuses.

Technically it doesnt say that trumo thinks that. But sure whatever make shit up.

It literally shows Trump holding up a map were he has scrawled things with his own pen. You’re the one making shit up.

it hasnt tried to colonize or conquer another country for over a hundred years

• 1950s–present: invasion and occupation of Tibet
• 1950s–present: occupation and genocide in Xinjiang
• 1962: land grab during the Sino-Indian War
• 1979: Invasion of Vietnam
• 1980s–present: jingoism in the South China Sea
• 1997–present: steady dismantling of the promised autonomy of Hong Kong
• Near future: Taiwan, likely.

Technically, the meme says Trump thinks that.

That said, LeftyMemes sidebar rule #2: recognize the capitalist nature of China. And when there is capitalism, imperialism soon follows.

Um, Obama is/was not a “leftist”.

In fact, “computers” were women whose job was to do calculations in the era before electronic computers.

A heads up that, in 2026, a 70 year old grandmother could just as well have had a 30-40-50 year career in computing. Don’t use grandmothers as the go to trope for tech illiterate users :)

Sudo vibe coding in Bletchley Park.

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