If Mort Divine ruled the world

[EternalMetal]

Also said they had never heard of/didn't know what "intersectionality" means or something iirc. Sure.

Still watching the podcast, but I came across this now. For anyone interested, here is where it starts:

edit: rewind maybe 30 seconds to a minute, it's right around that point though.

They basically just mumble in contusion about it.

And at 1:32 cunt face basically admits that most tech companies are liberal, which is the first instance in the vid of her even acknowledging the political spectrum. Almost immediately after Jack basically admits that Twitter has a left leaning bias.

Tim Pool went on Rubin right after and says he thinks Jack Dorsey isn't on the same page with the Twitter bureaucracy, while Ms. PR most clearly is.

Jack comes across as more of a reasonable liberal, whereas Vajayjay is basically lying through her teeth with every word, and denies any sort of bias or right-targeted banning offenses. She continually digresses into "I dont know", "we arent perfect", "thanks for your feedback", and "we will consider this in the future" type of responses whenever she is backed into a corner, and you can just tell that she is being entirely disingenuous. She knows and has opinions on everything brought up, but is completely unwilling to expose herself and feigns ignorance at every step. She is disgusting.

 

[Dak]

But that's why she's getting paid big bucks as a PR person. Just doing her job. She's much better at it than your average journalist, which is why she's not spewing BS on webpages of the MSM.

Edit: I listened to about 2hrs of it, finally had to turn it off, after Ms. PR was clearly going to continue the rest of it just being a sack of shit.

 

[Dak]

In an unrelated announcement that will probably shock everyone, I'm officially on the Yang train for 2020.

 

[CiG]

Joe really knows when to let it roll and when to chime in. I was surprised by how well Tim Pool did, not very familiar with the guy though.

 

[rms]

In an unrelated announcement that will probably shock everyone, I'm officially on the Yang train for 2020.

how can you be on a UBI guy who doesn't discuss any of the economics of it? or has truck driver Dak taken over

 

[Dak]

how can you be on a UBI guy who doesn't discuss any of the economics of it? or has truck driver Dak taken over

I'd be in favor of the 1k per month to every american who makes under a certain amount, if it means the complete erasure of all other federal transfer payments and related bureaucracy. Obviously that's not precisely what he's promoting, and generally speaking, UBI isn't a workable program. Fortunately, the president doesn't have the ability to unilaterally implement a UBI. What a President does have the ability to directly affect is Foreign Policy. And Daylight Savings Time.

He's a lesser of evils from the Democratic Party. I like Gabbard on FP as well, but her domestic views and family baggage are a bit much.

 

[EternalMetal]

But that's why she's getting paid big bucks as a PR person. Just doing her job. She's much better at it than your average journalist, which is why she's not spewing BS on webpages of the MSM.

She definitely does exercise some restraint, that is for sure.

Edit: I listened to about 2hrs of it, finally had to turn it off, after Ms. PR was clearly going to continue the rest of it just being a sack of shit.

Same. Seemed like most of the relevant things to be said were already said at that point.

Joe really knows when to let it roll and when to chime in. I was surprised by how well Tim Pool did, not very familiar with the guy though.

Joe definitely picked a good guest for this discussion. I never heard of Tim, but he really knew his shit and pressed on a lot of relevant talking points.

And Daylight Savings Time.

I wish the government would give me back the hour of time I lost last night

 

[Dak]

I wish the government would give me back the hour of time I lost last night

Just wait for the Time Dividend being paid back in November, with zero interest.

 

[EternalMetal]

Just wait for the Time Dividend being paid back in November, with zero interest.

But im being victimized now. Im trying to recover from a cold, and now I have one less hour to do it before work tomorrow. I demand justice!

 

[Einherjar86]

Yang supports a Green New Deal and carbon tax. I'm down with that. A lot of the older, crusty democrats are pretty bad on climate policy.

 

[Dak]

As far as I can tell most Democrats' idea of good climate policy is pushing US CO2 emissions from productivity to other countries and killing quality of living here.

 

[CiG]

Green New Deal as in the one Cortez is shilling?

 

[Dak]

Green New Deal as in the one Cortez is shilling?

I would hope not or he's not as smart as I presume. Probably more Obama-era subsidies for green-tech. A money-pile-fire, but less so than chasing cowfarts (to use the popular meme).

 

[CiG]

I'm not sure if there are other Green New Deals floating around besides the one we're referencing, but without any detail he said on Twitter that he's onboard.

 

[Dak]

I'm not sure if there are other Green New Deals floating around besides the one we're referencing, but without any detail he said on Twitter that he's onboard.

Sad. I'd hope that's for the primary votes. Fortunately, again, he can't actually make that shit happen himself. People need to understand what the President has the power to do.

 

[CiG]

 

[Dak]

So on Rogan Yang specifically said the $1k would not be on top of other federal welfare/SSI expenditures. Unfortunately, he wasn't clear on those bureaucracies being completely folded. Better, but still not best. What people don't understand is that the 1k will likely drive up inelastic goods costs (housing), while the VAT to cover the UBI would drive up the costs of consumer goods. Still rock and a hard place, instead of a rock. Yang is simply arguing that automation is going to create that rock and a hard place with unemployment and current pricing.

From a behavioral perspective, I'm interested in how a UBI will exacerbate, rather than help smooth inequality, even if larger economic concerns turn out to be baseless (inflation, etc). I expect a quick and permanent drop in labor force participation (in advance of automation) rather than everyone suddenly feeling "free to pursue their dreams," at least as idealized (as by Yang, for instance). Interested in possible offsets in mental health problems: less mental health difficulties from money struggles, and more due to lack of purpose and meaning.

Also interested in how joblessness with a financial cushion affects physical health. Will people find more time to live more healthily? Or will they become greater couch potatoes. Of course there's a huge interaction between mental and physical health, so that has to figure in.

 

[rms]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...frum-how-much-immigration-is-too-much/583252/

 

[Dak]

https://marginalrevolution.com/marg...e-competence-downshift-by-white-liberals.html

Internal meta-analyses revealed that liberals—but not conservatives—presented less competence to Black interaction partners than to White ones. The simple effect was small but significant across studies, and most reliable for the self-reported measure of conservatism. This possibly unintentional but ultimately patronizing competence-downshift suggests that well-intentioned liberal Whites may draw on low-status/competence stereotypes to affiliate with minorities.

Small effect, and replication crisis caveat, but good ol solid piece of confirmation bias science rah-cheer.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm pretty surprised that Yang has expanded past his fanbase on /pol/ tbh. He not only will say anything but already has promised everything. Anyone that opens their platform with the word "AI" is a joke.