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  • He was president 4 of the last 8 years. His party has been attacking the job security of air traffic controllers for about 4 decades.

    His party led by him even when he wasn’t in charge repeatedly shut down the government making essential workers work for free and threatened to do so.

    They have been saying that they would basically fire and replace everyone for the last year.

    He is the single largest barrier to any effort to retain and hire talent by the federal government since 2016.

    None of this speak conclusively to cause which will require investigation but unlike DEI its an actual objective factor its just not as neat a package as this sound byte


  • If it were that trivial why was public opinion not swayed earlier? The fact is at least 30-40% actually want Hitler. The rest are OK with Hitler if he actually cuts their taxes or makes them prosperous. If he built gas chambers and broadcast the mass murder of brown folks he would still have at least 30% support. We in the US are factually just garbage people.


  • If you want to kill people you dont agree with you are faschist

    Not even the word. A definition of fascism from wikipedia

    Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

    The countries which didn’t go so peacefully notably the US and France and the UK executing Charles I by chopping his head off were partially responsible for other abdications of power being more peaceful. Had nobody been willing to fight we might still all be saying “your majesty”



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    12 days ago

    If + covers and more why are we adding 2S also although the particular culture referenced is unique as they all are its not clear 2S actually references a different type of sexuality different from intersex and or bisexuality and the acronym was already unweildy as fuck.

    There are so many different aspects to sexuality it seems silly to try to abbreviate. Also if you add enough letters you’ll eventually cover anyone not completely boring.






  • The metric you desire ought properly to be determined by what problem you are trying to address. We aren’t building America like sim city we are deciding what to do with our existing situation. For a person deciding what to do they need to weigh the actual consequences of various choices. Deaths per billion not million vehicle miles captures the actual costs of doing so. 2 for sedans 110 for bikes.

    Anyone who drives 15,000 miles isn’t replacing their car with a bike. You would be asking them to bike 288 miles per week which is absolutely insane. Nobody is doing this. If they drive 5000 they might but at the cost of a drastic increase in risk. This leaves us where we are now where almost everyone either can’t or won’t.


  • VMT is the only reasonable metric to compare relative safety. It is literally the only metric that tells you how safe your family will be traveling.

    The fact that its cars that mostly make bikes dangerous is important but mostly irrelevant to any individual making decisions.

    Same with America being spread out. Mostly it is because it was cheaper and therefore more profitablr for individual actors not some grand conspiracy.

    The elderly, young kids, and especially the disabled don’t need safer bike lanes they need better public transit


  • A car can be used to move an entire family safely. You need 3-5 bikes to do the same far less safely including the very young, old, infirm.

    Fatality rate for sedans is 2 per billion vehicle miles. Bikes are about 110.

    Bear in mind that this is in the US which has bad drivers driving aggressively in environs ill suited.

    Furthermore the average person commuting by car commutes 30 minutes by car the average bus rider an hour.

    These are often distances too great to bike.