Explaining is not defending

You’re right. Sorry about that. I saw the post on the follow feed and it truncated it so only the second post showed up. I didn’t see the part about waxing until after your comment.

If it comes from an undifferentiated general fund people will see it as an expense.
But if people see the source as something we collectively own, then they will see it as something everyone has a right to. That will protect it politically.

Mineral rights are one source.
Returns on government funded research are another thing that everyone can recognize as something we all collectively contributed to.
There are certainly other creative ways it could be financed and explained

I agree that it could be returns from a lot of things. I think it is easier to convince people if the money comes from a specific, named thing that we all have shared interest or ownership in.

If they were proposal was “everything is free” your criticism would be right, but it’s not so you’re not.
What they’re proposing is something like

pfd.alaska.gov

It should be like the Alaska fund, where everyone gets a share of the oil revenues. For the US as a whole, I propose it be based on returns from publicly financed research. And everybody should get it, even those who don’t need it.

The grass is so dry that Cal fire advises mowing before 10 AM and never on a hot windy day. Just a spark from a lawnmower can touch off a wildfire.

www.fire.ca.gov/dspace?mod=a...

There is also dry lightning.
The air in California is so dry that rain from thunderstorms evaporates before it hits the ground.
The lightning still strikes though and can ignite fires

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_thu...

Many Native American nations had leaders, who lacked the power to compel, not rulers, who have that power. They did not give that up willingly.
I don't think most people would want rulers if they could avoid it. Democracy is just the least onerous system people do not want

Are global narratives about Africa really based on map projections? Is there evidence for that?

I grew up in a town that doesn’t exist. For real.
It lasted for over 100 years. It existed while I was growing up. Then in the 90s they gave up and it doesn’t exist anymore.

Nobody who wrecked the world economy was punished and the torturers still walk free

Didn't someone say once something like, "if you keep calling every proposal that would improve people's lives 'socialism' eventually they'll start thinking socialism is a good idea"

Roberts was there too
gigafact.org/fact-briefs/...