Moonlight Graham

If we keep up the population growth rate as it is and don't significantly increase housing supply then obviously the price of housing and rents should keep rising. Locking young people into expensive mortgages for the rest of their working lives is a disaster for this economy, at least for workers, not the banks and developers and baby boomers selling and moving into retirement homes.

I'm sure Iranians will respond well to another western coup and suddenly want to be our friends.

Sure but what's your point? The current governments haven't changed their plans enough to respond to the situation which they largely created. If they want riots they're on a great track. And you didn't answer if you support guaranteed basic income with no qualifiers?

The current government caused the housing crisis and contributed greatly to the health care crisis due to their vast expansions on immigration and international students and lack of regulation on foreign and domestic speculating. Provincial governments also are to blame for bad policy or lack thereof.

The government. This is mostly what we do now with benefits, though we should do a bit more of it for some programs. For instance, you can't go on disability EI without a doctor's note. If you're seriously advocating for just giving free income to anyone who wants it with zero qualifiers I think that's a very bad path for many reasons. Is this what you're proposing?

See my first reply in this thread.

I think he's just trying to not suck in the polls

Make good policy. They probably won't riot if they think the gov is honestly doing everything they can to respond to their problems.

Well if you have serious health issues, are old as dirt, can't find work despite serious effort etc. The alternative is we just allow anyone to mooch off the system with no qualifiers, or help nobody.

If things get worse economically or even don't improve then I think there are risks of riots. The problems are affecting the young voters the most and they're also the most likely age group to cause public violence historically. See the George Floyd riots.

For some this is the perception yes. Personally I have no issue helping people who are genuinely in need of help or incapable of supporting themselves, but I do have an issue of creating dependency on those who aren't and them unethically exploiting taxpayers. It doesn't even follow Marx's "From each according to his ability..." ethos. There's a fine line between compassion/help and creating dependency. One is positive and the other is corrosive.

I don't think the solution to inflation is giving out free money. In fact it would make it worse.

1. Not any more than woke theory though. I mean what he's saying is what most people believed from at least the 60's (MLK) until 10 years ago. 2. Well i still use "spade a spade" and I don't get looks and so do many others since it's a common phrase, nor have i ever heard a black person referred to as a spade. Either way, this guy is black so he can use both haha.

I'll simplify it: I can see conservatives supporting via basic income those who legitimately are unable to work, but i can't see them supporting those who can work but don't want to.

I think conservatives can embrace basic income in the following ways: 1. As a means of reducing government bloat in terms of simplifying/combining different programs reducing the # public servants needing to be paid to handle all of it, which is a net drain on the economy (government inefficiency/waste of tax dollars). 2. If there are still reasonable qualifiers for receiving the basic income, and it's not "guaranteed" to all if "all" also means people who just don't want to work even if they're healthy able-bodied and of working age and there's jobs available they're qualified for. So you'd only be qualified for the basic income if e.i. you lose your job and are searching for a new one for a short term period, you fall ill and can't work, you're a senior and can't afford the basics to live, or AI has taken so many jobs that not everyone can find one etc. I'd also support the above, but I wouldn't support any program that can be exploited and taken advantage of by freeloaders/scammers, nor should any reasonable person.

1. But how does this answer my question. How is this message not consumable by the masses, as opposed to identity politics messaging? 2. True, but that's not where the phrase comes from, it has ancient greek origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade "The phrase predates the use of the word "spade" as an ethnic slur against African Americans,[15] which was not recorded until 1928."

Evidence or STFU. Yeah you're lying. Someone in the trades doesn't sit at home all day everyday rage-posting on the internet.

Insults are what people do when they don't have an actual argument. You're just showing us that you've got NOTHING. So we're going to reject your argument. [quote]I literally did lmao.[/quote] And I'm black.

1. How are the messages not for a mass audience? What is wrong with saying "calling a spade a spade"? 2. Audience applause is probably a bad format if the goal of a show is objective discussion. The audience will typically side with the host because why would they show up if they didn't like the host? So then remove the audience I guess. Might work for The View, but Maher is also part comedy show so they want the laughs. Maher has an ego but is one of the few moderate and reasonable political hosts on US TV

It didn't work. The whistleblower was harassed through retribution by an authority over her by getting kicked out of her job, then her party, and when she ran as an independent she wasn't re-elected, and the Liberals got re-elected into government. Thus far I don't recall Trudeau or the head of the Privy Council being punished. We're just lucky that JWR was an honest enough person to put her ethics and our democracy above her own career. Every other MP chose their own careers over our democracy when they voted her out. It was vile.

And we all know that's a bunch of hogwash. Becoming a lawyer or engineer or computer scientist with all that conservative indoctrination in the classroom that doesn't exist and you've shown zero evidence for....oh noes! Circular argument. Check your white privilege and dictionary definition of racism and take the L, you and your radical ilk are a bunch of nutters. You're a perfect example of the stupidity that western universities have been churning out. But i'm sure you went to trade school right?

Coleman Hughes demonstrates how to express and debate the problems with today's leftwing racial identity politics ("woke" ideology) using logic while remaining calm and respectful and finding common understandings where possible. @Michael Hardner this is our guide to elevate discussion. Here's he's confronted on The View: On Bill Maher, where he finds disagreement and agreement with another reasonable person regarding police racial issues. Great discussions!

Yes, bad grades discriminate against people who don't achieve good grades.

So your claim has nothing to do with what we've talking about? Ok great then we'll just ignore it since it's totally irrelevant. Thanks for wasting everyone's time.

I tried. You're free to do a search.