Well yeah but it's a slippery slope from here. For now it's just a one-time handout and I agree that THAT isn't socialism. But what happens in 2 years when Trump doesn't just need to win the midterms but the full-fledged election? Is he gonna promise UBI? Healthcare for all? Who knows what other crazy socialist ideas that man has floating in his brain.

It's blatant corruption and illegal in all functioning democracies. Not saying you don't have a point, but your point I believe is incomplete without this as a disclaimer.

There's a third option:

~ I think [am conditioned to believe] abortion-access is an abomination¹

Jerry Falwell discovered the single-issue voter in the 1970s, and was able to whip them up into a voting bloc to secure Reagan's victory in 1980.

¹ Except when I need an abortion, because there's nuance I can see.

No. If he said that he would pay people money of his own, on the condition that they vote for his party - like Elon Musk did in Wisconsin in 2024 - then that would be election interference.

More candidates should be running on non-means-tested cash payments to all Americans - rather than just more tax breaks for rich people.

Most elected officials would argue that we can't make these kinds of cash payments to American taxpayers.

You're saying this like it matters. Who's going to look into it, the justice department?

How could you doubt him.

It will be pretty sweet, after the other $5,000 check he promised for DOGE and $2,000 tariff dividend and then this $5,000, every person is going to have like $12,000 extra. I'm sure he would have already, but Biden is not letting him do it... I can't see any other explanation...

It's the Star Trek character named Q.

He's one of the most annoying yet necessary characters in the series.

People who don't like Star Trek are like "Nothing ever happens. They can just create anything they need in a replicator, teleport everywhere and shoot lasers to make things go away. All they do is talk."

Well, that's the fucking point, isn't it? The series investigates what issues are even worth thinking about once we rule out the ordinary troubles of violence, physical needs and money.

Q is the catalyst for some of those ethical and philosophical dilemmas. It's an interdimensional being that transcends both space and time. Not exactly a god, but just a being from a higher plane of existence. He likes to play around with Picard the same way that the cartoonist of La Linea (the line guy) plays around with his 2d drawing.

His husband.

Q

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