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Nope, the French knew what to do at the end of the 1700s.

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[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If you can get UBI implemented in a way that doesn't result in violence be my guest. But refusing to look at violence as an option is how the left has ended up in the state that its in. Weak and ineffective.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

Fun fact: Conservatives and Libertarians consider taxation to be violence.

This video is worth watching if you are not familiar with the argument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMQZEIXBMs

They're correct; just pedantic. Yes it's violence, but it's orders of magnitude less violent than many many other alternatives.