Richard Ian Porter

Category: Politics

  • It continues

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    I’m supposed to say everything is fine. But it’s not. There’s a global pandemic, over 200k Americans have died in an event a majority of developed nations controlled. We head towards an election as a divided nation, a would be autocrat, confirmed kleptocrat remains as president. All indications are he and his party intend to…

  • Black Lives Matter

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    Of course they do. How shocking that it needs to be said, but it does. How shocking that any could construe it as being said in opposition to all lives matter. Of course they do, but All Lives cant matter unless Black Lives Matter. I cant stand that I encounter people who say “well, I…

  • When should we go to war?

    When should we go to war?

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    (This post originally appeared on a couple other blogs where it seems to have been orphaned, posting it here to keep it alive and back dating to post date on those.) When we have to. How will we know we have to? It will be obvious to a majority of our people that we have…

  • My UBI Story: Or How I Benefit From An Unconditional(ish) 1k (ish) Per Month

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    This was also posted here. I support Andrew Yang for President in 2020. The Flagship of his policies is the Freedom Dividend in which every American Citizen over the age of 18 will receive $1,000.00 each month unconditionally. This seems surprising to a lot of people I talk with, although the concept has longstanding American…

  • Why Andrew Yang 2020

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    1 in 3 American jobs are likely to be automated out of existence by 2030. Andrew Yang has a plan to deal with it. Why I personally am investing huge amounts of effort in supporting the Yang Campaign: We are facing an economic Tsunami the likes of which we have not seen before. This time…

  • Andrew Yang 2020:

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    EDIT : I’ve added a more updated post on Andrew Yang here but I’ll leave this historical post up too! “since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it.” -Andrew Yang: attributed to Otto Von Bismark I’ve become a big fan of Andrew Yang. Why: Because our…

  • My challenge, my exchange and my entreaty to you on this Independence Day: read, reflect, act.

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    (retro re-post from my Medium account, Jul 4, 2018 ) “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants” –Thomas Jefferson (or maybe it musn’t!?) I propose a trade: I ask for your attention in reading this note, your reflection after reading it and your action afterwards…