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James A. Robichaux

4 years

"Taxpayer" identity has an long, old, and mostly sordid history. It picked up life in the USA after Reconstruction ended as a way of poisoning multi-racial working-class solidarity by getting white people to perceive themselves as funding black people.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

You know, I might have to look into supporting that #AndrewYang guy. I mean, most of the other candidates suck. Should I support Yang?

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@Zoimaker

5 years

Hey, if you want a little attention on the twitter-sphere, just whisper the words, “I’m thinking about looking into, maybe, Andrew Yang. I heard something, one time about him.” Comments Retweets ❤️ 547 1041 3455 #YangGangFact #Math

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

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@TheToesKnows1 @zparks @mo87mo87 This is exactly why Twitter is being destroyed. This website has been an essential communication and organizing tool for marginalized people, as well as an essential resource for *learning about* marginalized people. I have learned so much here.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@ladytuono And it's pathological to the point of counterproductive, because, if you're dead, because you didn't get the medication, then you can't breed anyway!

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

That Andrew Yang guy seems interesting. Maybe I should look into his ideas, but I wonder about inflation. 😎

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Well, I guess, given the R-to-X-rated pictures that were posted about a half hour ago, the big take-down-Rob-Anderson thread that I had planned for tonight won't get much traction here, but this man is a serial sexual predator and needs to be known to the world as such.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@HooliganNY @travisakers It's really not complicated at all. Twitter has been the best platform for dispersed marginalized people to gather, to organize, to connect, and to punch upward. Plenty of powerful entities would like to see it gone.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

Hi. This may sound strange coming from me, but I may have actually "Yanged" someone in real life today.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@cathasach4bikes @Ruth_Mensch You ever notice that almost every last one of these "let the red states secede" people is white?

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

Yes, high-status people with plenty of letters behind their names are some of the people most viciously opposed to a move that could be a step toward eliminating having a bunch of letters behind your name being a class marker.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

@novasandler @politico What if . . . . what if he didn't actually ever have promise beyond creating a very narrow cult following? What if this is just who he is? What if there were multiple signs of this back in 2019? What if people had not blocked me when I pointed it out back then?

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

I just read over parts of Yang's health care plan, and I must say that, at least after only a first reading, I am impressed. This is one of those things that you must take a while to examine and ponder, though. #YangGang

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

4 years

"The point is that we run our economy like a six-foot-tall guy who wanders around perpetually hunched over in a house with eight-foot ceilings because someone convinced him that if he tries to stand up tall he'll suffer a massive head trauma." - THE DEFICIT MYTH @StephanieKelton

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

Good evening. I'd like to talk to you about the most important justification for universal basic income, one that doesn't get discussed enough, which is sad, because it is THE argument for UBI. So, gather round the camp fire! THREAD #BasicIncome

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@rcbregman Every time that Bernie Sanders spoke of the value of UBI, he spoke of it as helping "workers." And that's the difference between Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang. Bernie Sanders sees you as a "worker." Andrew Yang sees you as a PERSON. #BasicIncome #FreedomDividend #Yang2020

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

4 years

@BernieSanders We need the unconditional-universal non-means-tested $2,000/month for every adult legal US resident for the duration of this crisis, and we need it now!!

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

4 years

It really did sting. Not to take anything away from Anderson, but the real reason that this hurts *me* is that it means that I cannot trust my own neighbors, who reelected a real predator personality.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

Everything sucks and you suck and I suck and Trump sucks and the Democrats suck and the Republicans suck and caucusing sucks and politics sucks and Twitter sucks and climate change sucks and vacuum cleaners suck and fascism sucks and fast food sucks and this tweet sucks.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Rob Anderson, who doesn't have much in the way of ideological convictions, saw his opportunity. The thing that you, a Twitter user, have to know about Rob Anderson is that he is famous only on Twitter. Off of Twitter, almost nobody knows who he is.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Rob Anderson is a fraud. Rob Anderson is a grifter. Rob Anderson is a serial sexual predator. Rob Anderson has inflicted real harm on real women. Rob Anderson has harmed already-marginalized autistic people by blaming his bad behavior on autism.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

The women whom Rob Anderson has victimized, including my friend, tell a common story. PLENTY of the accounts that reply to his tweets seem to be sock-puppet accounts that HE runs, some of them to harass women so that "Rob Anderson" can rescue those women.

Jesse Hare 🐇

@RancidGinger

3 years

Pro tip, Rob. If the women work for you, and you pay them, they feel like they have to put up with your sexual harassment or get fired. It’s not “consensual.” It’s sexual harassment.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@OliverStrawhat @LaurenKGurley This country hasn't had a railroad strike in 30 years! And I think that the one that happened 30 years ago was regional compared to the one that could happen now.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

we need to also DEMAND a change to - or a destruction of - the systems, social, legal, and political, that help to foster such monstrous predation in the first place. That's all that I have for now. Good night. <fin>

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

I want to write an article about how so many people have said that the Yang campaign made them feel hopeful like never before. I want to collect tweets like this one.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

I *voted for* this awful person. Yes, I live in his district. Clay Higgins, one of the most awful persons in Congress, is my Representative, and that is a clue in how a guy like Rob Anderson could gain such a platform.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

Universal basic income is simply legal authorization to control your own life by resisting domination by those who stand between you and the resources that you need in order to live. Large landowners and heirs of large fortunes already have this legal permission. #BasicIncome

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

The "cost" of universal basic income is 👏 not 👏 in 👏 taxes. 👏 The cost is a function of no longer being able to use fear of not having enough money to live to get people to do your bidding. The more shrewd opponents of universal basic income understand this.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Barely more than 20 minutes ago, he locked his account after losing a few thousand followers. One of my friends is one of his victims. He is a fraud through and through, and a grifter. I want to talk about how his persona came to be, the phenomenon of the Resistance grifter.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

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@Soonergirl2Ou @Universe__Lover @gracecamille_ No, you did not "pay for" anyone's loans. Miss us with that dishonest classist nonsense.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@LawSelfDefense Hey, why are you doing this?

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@meganromer @GOP And prices that I pay for goods and services went and stay up under their plans.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@Nancy_813 @NoLieWithBTC @CBSNews as did I, but I hadn't even thought about that until I read your comment, because this is not about me.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@Truckerpea @scottsantens UBI is fuel for people. UBI is *needed* fuel for people. People want to work, want to contribute. You're telling them that they must contribute before they can eat. We're telling you that they can't contribute UNTIL they eat and no longer fear not having enough money to eat.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

He claims to be autistic. This is not a problem in and of itself, because, especially in a country with no universal healthcare, we believe self-diagnosis to be valid. The real problem is that he has a habit of blaming his sexual harassment on his autism. 😡 🤬 😡

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

4 years

@sunrisemvmt Yep. I think about it often. We should have built it decades ago. We should start building it now.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

The first reason that I think that the autism excuse is hollow is that, in my extensive experience with autistic people, sexual comments and humor and innuendo and such things are rare. It's actually COUNTER to typical autism!

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Look, please don't ask me how I know this, but, beyond the harmful effect that this excuse has on #ActuallyAutistic people, I have two reasons to very strongly suspect that his autism excuse for his behavior is total nonsense.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

@whignewtons Yes, it should be higher than 37%. People who want to and have attempted to harm me and others and limit our freedom cannot be my friends.

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@JamesRobichaux

3 years

The second reason that I suspect the autism excuse is bogus is that, if he actually had such trouble reading social cues, he wouldn't know that he needed to limit his sharing of private-parts pics to PRIVATE messages. He KNOWS how to read social cues.

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Look, please don't ask me how I know this, but, beyond the harmful effect that this excuse has on #ActuallyAutistic people, I have two reasons to very strongly suspect that his autism excuse for his behavior is total nonsense.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

1.) Okay, #YangGang , please listen up. I need to talk to you about the serious problems with characterizing universal basic income as "extra money" or money "on top of" your current income, how this misses the point of what UBI is, and how it invites criticism and opposition.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

If Yang wins the Democratic Party nomination, he will be President. He will defeat Trump. The real trick, the real uphill battle, will be winning the party nomination. I am bearish on that. But we also win if he mainstreams acceptance of UBI even without winning an election.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Twitter is how *I* knew who he was. While he has - or had - more than 140,000 followers on here, he doesn't have more than 5,000 followers on his Facebook page, and, so far, nobody on there is commenting about today's revelations.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Remember that recent story of people donating money to Trump and being unable to cancel the donations? Apparently, Rob Anderson did the same thing. He is a grifter, both for money and for female bodies.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

He is now claiming, in his now-locked account, that the pictures that, two hours ago, he denied ever sending were done consensually and that HIS consent is being violated. It's the best plausible deniability that he can generate.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@dykehina @NoraReed reminds me of the dude who posted about taking his girlfriend to a Jordan Peterson event and then wondering why she wanted to break up with him.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

If you are still defending #RobAnderson , there is something else that you should know. Even though he is glad that you're defending him, he has little respect for you. It's not unlike the low regard that Donald Trump has for his own supporters.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

4 years

@NathanJRobinson I have been wondering this myself. There is literally no downside to pushing for a stand-alone $2,000 payment, or even a payment of more than that.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

That right there is one of the flaws that needs to be fixed if we want to prevent other Rob Andersons from predation and grifting based solely off of an outward stance and Twitter-talk against Republicans. We need serious electoral reform. We must break the two-party system.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

In a weird way, Yang Gang cultishness is its own case for universal basic income. If UBI already existed, the populace would be less susceptible to cults of personality centered around the promise of survival money for life.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 months

@eurolaxen @JusticeHorn_ Somehow, a narrative that removing Biden from the ticket is an affront to black voters has developed. To me, that is insulting to black voters in addition to being just generally insulting.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

You might have seen comments that cast doubt on @RancidGinger because her Twitter account is only a few months old. I'd like you to look at the accounts that are DEFENDING Anderson and notice how many of them, too, are relatively new, and mostly anon.

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

The women whom Rob Anderson has victimized, including my friend, tell a common story. PLENTY of the accounts that reply to his tweets seem to be sock-puppet accounts that HE runs, some of them to harass women so that "Rob Anderson" can rescue those women.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

But, on top of all of that, on top of all of his money grifting and sexual predation, including against one of my friends, there is something else that makes me, a neurodivergent white man, VERY angry about Rob Anderson's self presentation. A hint is highlighted here.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@rcbregman When someone asks, "do you support UBI as a response to automation?" Say no. Say, "I support basic income as a human right independent of automation." Thomas Paine did.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@CatsCavern @Antifagator "Death to poverty."

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@JamesRobichaux

2 years

Debt cancellation is as old as debt and as old as civilization. The idea that debts cannot be canceled is a horrid, classist lie.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

So, Rob Anderson, a political novice, saw a chance to elevate his profile by running for Congress where he knew he had little chance of women. It was a way for him to engage in predation of female followers.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

7.) As @Mattzwolinski writes, " The point of a basic income isn’t to give everyone the *same* amount of wealth. It is to ensure that everyone has *enough* access to material wealth to render them immune to the coercive power of others." This is critical.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

He noticed, as too many other Resistance grifters have noticed, that, in this either-or society, all that you have to do is say that you are against Republicans and the Conservative Movement and say things against them, and hordes of people will be like "that's my guy!"

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

@NUMBCat9 @zackbeauchamp Seriously, our only hope is some kind of palace coup, and I hope that someone with some influence is working on that.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@BusinessmanLego I'm a cis-het dude with many traditional male interests, including construction and such things, but I've long been very avoidant of all-male workplaces due to their almost-inherit toxicity.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@celeblith @posspossduo @JarOfCalamity @BadBoyCroy I struggle to get fellow "liberals" to understand that the purpose of conservative bravado is to serve as a shield for fear and, therefore, that the way to reach these people (if you actually want to do the hard work to do that) is to ignore the bravado and address the fear.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

In other words, there is plenty of reason to think that many of the anon accounts that are defending Rob Anderson this evening ARE Rob Anderson. This is how he has built his public persona and trapped women into being 'rescued' by him.

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

The women whom Rob Anderson has victimized, including my friend, tell a common story. PLENTY of the accounts that reply to his tweets seem to be sock-puppet accounts that HE runs, some of them to harass women so that "Rob Anderson" can rescue those women.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

1.) People are screaming for jobs and money while businesses and job-seekers are screaming at you to buy their products and services, all while store shelves are always stocked, and the main reasons that businesses fail isn't a lack of supply but a lack of customers.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

6 years

@CNN @AndrewYang It's about dammed time! We should have had universal basic income decades ago! Drop this silly focus on "bringing back jobs" that obviously no longer need to exist. Free the people! Liberate us from involuntary subordination to other human beings. #BasicIncome

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@andrewperezdc @JonathanKadmon Yes, high-status people with plenty of letters behind their names are some of the people most viciously opposed to a move that could be a step toward eliminating having a bunch of letters behind your name being a class marker.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

5 years

I'll say this again, because it needs repeating. Universal basic income is just issuing money directly to people. That's it. So, there is nothing to "pay for." It's not like buying an aircraft carrier. So, we should not legitimize any questions about "paying for it."

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Well, I figured that this would eventually happen! It's what my friend said that he did to her once she started asking questions about what, to her, seemed like holes in his story. He preys on women he perceives as vulnerable and gullible, usually much younger than he is.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

@epollaert @QasimRashid Gosh, this is so disingenuous. 🙄 Your mortgage is not only for a transferrable physical asset that you use before you own it, but it's for one that is likely to significantly increase in value by the end of the term. This should not have to be said. Get real.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

But Rob Anderson was able to do all of this in large part because our institutions have failed, or, rather, they are functioning largely as designed, to maintain the status quo. Anderson filled a void caused by the lack of a challenger in a heavy Republican district.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

4 years

@briantylercohen Gosh, I wish that Republicans lose Georgia!!!!

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@JamesRobichaux

3 years

He calls his supporters the "Rob Mob," and, just as importantly, they agree to be called that. They define themselves more by their fealty to him - for what, exactly? - than they do by their devotion to any particular cause or ideology.

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

If you are still defending #RobAnderson , there is something else that you should know. Even though he is glad that you're defending him, he has little respect for you. It's not unlike the low regard that Donald Trump has for his own supporters.

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@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@AndrewYang You can - and will - win if you get the nomination. The real trick is winning the nomination.

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@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@AndrewYang Yes. One the one hand, it's weird that you have to mention universal basic income in every answer. On the other hand, it REALLY IS the issue that underlies everything, and it's shameful that nobody else is talking about this two decades into the Third Millennium! #BasicIncome

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@JamesRobichaux

3 years

This is Rob Anderson's entire 'job' anymore. This is what he does all day. He ran for Congress to garner himself a big following and now takes money for his podcast and does drugs (mostly acid) all day.

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Rob Anderson, who doesn't have much in the way of ideological convictions, saw his opportunity. The thing that you, a Twitter user, have to know about Rob Anderson is that he is famous only on Twitter. Off of Twitter, almost nobody knows who he is.

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@JamesRobichaux

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@rcbregman and, for all of Sanders's "stick it to the rich" rhetoric, his anti-UBI, pro-JG policy leaves the power to consent with the rich people he supposedly despises. Poor people will be compelled by hunger to do JG jobs. Rich people won't. Not much will have changed.

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@JamesRobichaux

3 years

In August, @TheMightySite published this article on the autistic candidate for Congress in Louisiana. I have unbounded faith that the overwhelming majority of the #ActuallyAutistic community will condemn this grifting creep.

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"We're 34 trillion Dollars in debt!" Okay, so, then, we're also 34 trillion Dollars "in credit". X - X = 0 There is no problem here. Carry on.

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@JamesRobichaux

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Hi, #YangGang members, have you told your parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, neighbors, friends, coworkers, etc., that you have joined a gang? Do they know? 😋

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@JamesRobichaux

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@rcbregman @Josh_McGee_G Look, regardless of the reasons that anti-UBI people *say* that they are opposed to UBI (taxes, automation fears overblown, etc.), the idea of them no longer being able to use the threat of homelessness to get you to do their bidding is the REAL reason that they oppose UBI.

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@JamesRobichaux

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@rebekahentralgo @MPoltonSimon Yeah, I recently saw a CBS profile of her, and it talked about how she both covered the Supreme Court and became friends with Supreme Court Justices, and I was screaming, "do you guys not see what the problem anout airing this without questioning the conflict of interests is?"

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Hi, #YangGang , Yes, this article has some factual errors that are unfair to #AndrewYang , but, in the process of making angry replies, most of your are exhibiting cluelessness of the larger context. I'll try to explain that larger context here. THREAD

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One disability justice advocate says Andrew Yang "falls into a very familiar pattern of non-autistic parents of autistic children using their children to support their own credibility as speakers about autism without actually consulting autistic people."

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We have an awful assumption that people are only extrinsically motivated, an assumption that leads to horrific abuse and waste, and @scottsantens has a great piece on that topic here. #BasicIncome

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@JamesRobichaux

5 years

@PSolidarity08 @AndrewYang How would he know?

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@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Two years ago, I was closely following both Rob Anderson's Twitter persona and the Andrew Yang campaign, particularly as it played out on Twitter. I can't prove it, but I think that Anderson called his followers "the Rob Mob" after the "Yang Gang."

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@JamesRobichaux

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It's important that we take down Rob Anderson and send a signal to aspiring like-minded men (because it's going to be men) that such behavior will result in ostracizing, and it's important that we keep our guard up for such predators and grifters, but

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@JamesRobichaux

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That is why universal basic income is everyone's birthright. Universal basic income is reparations for land enclosure, which was deliberately done in order to compel the dispossessed to do powerful people's bidding. #BasicIncome #geoism

Basic income isn’t just a nice idea. It's a birthright | Jason Hickel

A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instil a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump

www.theguardian.com

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Look, please don't ask me how I know this, but, beyond the harmful effect that this excuse has on #ActuallyAutistic people, I have two reasons to very strongly suspect that his autism excuse for his behavior is total nonsense.

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

He claims to be autistic. This is not a problem in and of itself, because, especially in a country with no universal healthcare, we believe self-diagnosis to be valid. The real problem is that he has a habit of blaming his sexual harassment on his autism. 😡 🤬 😡

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@JamesRobichaux

3 years

Now, before we get into whether his "I'm autistic, I don't read social cues very well" excuse even makes sense, let's consider the effect that the perception that THAT'S why he does this stuff on #ActuallyAutistic is! How will THEY be treated?

James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

3 years

He claims to be autistic. This is not a problem in and of itself, because, especially in a country with no universal healthcare, we believe self-diagnosis to be valid. The real problem is that he has a habit of blaming his sexual harassment on his autism. 😡 🤬 😡

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@JakeLahut @nicolepagelee So, a universal basic income would enable us to do good journalism work without having to concern ourselves as much with ensuring that the work translates into enough money to avoid starvation and homelessness.

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James A. Robichaux

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@mscrosswi @StephanieKelton @mucha_carlos Strike out the passage that limits the monetary amounts of payouts to the quantity of FICA tax 'receipts' and replace it with something like "such funds as may be necessary." Done. The fake "solvency" crisis would be permanently over.

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James A. Robichaux

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Today's Yang-Sanders spat highlights two things. 1.) Relying so heavily on the looming 'threat' of automation as a way to justify UBI is a bad idea. 2.) Sanders's opposition to UBI should surprise nobody, and the signs were there all along. THREAD #BasicIncome

Krystal Ball

@krystalball

5 years

I asked @BernieSanders how he would deal with automation and why he believes a federal jobs guarantee is superior to UBI. "I think most people want to work...part of our humanity is when we are productive members of our society." FULL: #rising #yanggang

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@AndrewYang You still don't understand the problem if you think that asserting that you are not white is helpful.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

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We have a toxic reductive, either-or, zero-sum sociopolitical system in which all that an aspiring grifter and predator like Rob Anderson - or a Republican equivalent - has to do to get followers is posit himself as being against the one and only other team.

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James A. Robichaux

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But *like* a smart autistic person with pattern-recognition skills, #RobAnderson noticed a huge weakness in USian politics and decided to exploit it. He noticed the horribly-toxic dynamics created by the two-party system and decided to take advantage of them.

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James A. Robichaux

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@AndrewYang We should ensure that everyone has an unconditional income FLOOR. Please don't say "give." Universal basic income is a matter of justice, not charity.

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James A. Robichaux

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@DanPriceSeattle Taxing you will NOT "pay for health care for everyone, you classist narcissist! STOP pretending that taxing you and other millionaires in any way helps us enact universal healthcare. 🙄 We get that you have a Jesus Complex, but real people's lives are at stake here.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

2 years

@LaurenKGurley @MythSerene Such a big missed opportunity considering the Trumpist leanings of so many railroaders. Imagine the effect of Biden coming out on the side of railroaders.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

@LaurenKGurley

2 years

So why won't the carriers change their attendance policies? They've said that they already offer ample time off, including up to 5 weeks vacation, depending on seniority. + a Biden-appointed board brokering the dispute did not recommend a change to attendance policies

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James A. Robichaux

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Wynne Godley, the economist who developed the sectoral balances approach, said that adopting a foreign currency is equivalent to voluntarily becoming a colony of the issuer of that foreign currency.

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James A. Robichaux

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@carynannharlos @ninaturner It seems like "are firefighters enslaved" is a really easy question to answer, especially for someone who threw out the enslavement charge in the first place.

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James A. Robichaux

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@rcbregman @Josh_McGee_G Automation means that it is no longer necessary for most of us to toil in wage labor, and there is no more excuse for withholding access to needed resources. Got that, Bernie? Let us LIVE, and we will work. That's all. Good night. <fin> #BasicIncome

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@JCrezonanz

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Can we acknowledge that automation is NOT why we need UBI? Civilization accepting money as the tool to access enclosed commons is why we needed UBI centuries ago. Change my mind.

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James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

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This is why I so often say to anti-UBI people, "you didn't create the Earth." No person created the Earth. We must always point this out. Therefore, nobody has any authority to come between another person and needed, life-sustaining resources. That is #geoism . #BasicIncome

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