So the rest of the West doesn’t do embargos because the conquest of land is bad and not the killing, when one does special military operations?

That is, if China owns them. You can also buy them to hedge against a falling Dollar.

Isn’t the bigger news that Indonesia is doing the same? I would say that this is a coordinated efford by China and those are only the first countries.

https://feddit.org/post/21023640

What do you expect? Most of them like to get fucked.

This is a test balloon. One state is needed to overcome all the technical hurdles like clearing VPNs for work. Once that is done it will be roled out everywhere.

Without ruling out VPNs, all the other internet laws don’t make sense. So this step is necessary and almost inevitable.

The combined assets of “big” capitalists worldwide is in high-double-digit trillions of dollars. That would be enough for a livable UBI for everyone, for some time at least.

That doesn’t work. Assets are not recurring income so you can only handout them once.

As I’ve said, I’m participating in local mutual aid communities when I can.

What does prevent it from spreading?

Stop defending capitalists, they will never appreciate it or give you anything in return.

They create the structure. People could already have the assets for UBI if they were structured. We don’t have because groups don’t have the discipline to maintain the structure all the time.

If the group can force the billionaires to hand out the assets then they could also create the assets on their own.

Because the average person, world-wide

Of course, because the average person in the West is already rich.

So there are the resources for an UBI.

are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on stupid bullshit that even they don’t really need.

Make it $800 billion. That would give each person $100.

It’s pretty clear that we should indeed start with the rich.

It us not. The rich can prevent you from starting if you need them to participate but nobody is preventing you from doing it yourself.

No. The rich will never do anything other than short-sighted profiteering

Even if they do, it’s just $100 more. You don’t need them.

If we replace the capitalists with a fair sharing system, we could implement a generous UBI and also your effective net salary would go up.

Which is essentially communism and a goal too far away.

Or, if you want to go a more reformist route, you can implement a very aggressive progressive taxation scheme (a-la FDR) to force rich people to contribute more.

Why should the rich share with the average person if the average person doesn’t want to share with the poor?

Start with the average person and the rich will join.

Charities are not sustainable. There needs to be recurring income.

UBI needs universal participations

Why? Only honest people are needed who are willing to work if they can.

That’s why it will never be approved by a parliament.

It has to be done privately. That way, it would be like a union for everybody. That should lead to everybody earning more so that the membership fees pay for themselves.

But as the voting shows, it’s a tough sell.

Also, UBI for everyone would be fucking amazing. Why we’re not doing that is beyond me.

You can do it right now. Create a club to share a part of everybody’s income as UBI.

Afghanistan was strategically as important to the USSR as Vietnam was to the USA. So going nuclear was not worth it.

For no missiles on Cuba, the US risked everything, and they still embargo Cuba for leaving their fold.

Ukraine is even more important for Russia. So assuming that nothing will happen because nothing happened for the loss in Afghanistan is careless.

The USA does business with Vietnam but not Cuba. Strategically the countries are not the same.

It’s the other way round. They can now do anything and people think it’s a distraction from the Epstein files.

Then make it fun and remember what is supposed to be taped.

Why talk about Tesla? That can only be $200 of the $500 billion. SpaceX should be his main property now.

How are the “unofficial” streaming sites financed if people only pay for VPN?

A video of that event exists. It was Saddam Hussein.

shoot them down and look where they land.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown (map at ‘The shootdown’)

Doesn’t work reliably for the Turkish incident. The crash site determines the path, but both crash sites are in Syria.

genetic fallacy

Indeed. Because their mother was a hamster and their father smells of elderberries.