I don't disagree with it not being a smart idea, but the English = Trump/US comparison doesn't quite hit because most English speakers are not from the US. Not to mention Putin seems more popular in Russia than Trump is in the US.
I read somewhere that a cat's coat color and pattern has nothing to do with their behavior, and all sentiment to the contrary (like this post) is due to cognitive bias.
My understanding is Russians don't have the same memory of nazis as The West does; to them "nazi" is short for "someone who seeks to slaughter Russians, by invading if at all possible." To combat these "nazis" (and for a dozen other reasons), Russia is going further and further right as well as more authoritarian.
Actual (neo-)nazis love that, so they love Russia(ns) for it.
Crazy how car drivers all think they deserve one free pass for dangerous driving.
Pay more attention.
That aside, it's bullshit that they allegedly made it difficult for you to understand how to take the matter to court. In all fairness I'm not sure I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, considering you missed the school zone as well.
A) It has been shown that yellow lights with such cameras are very often set to a yellow duration briefer than generally accepted engineering practices to increase revenue *1
Then create and enforce laws that require a given yellow light timer for a given speed.
B) They discourage a rare misbehavior, actually running red lights, whilst causing another to become common. That is slamming on the brakes even when it isn’t safe to stop. Exacerbated by A. Better slam on the brakes when it flicks yellow even if you are way too close to reasonably stop whilst going only the speed limit.
Guess you'd better leave a safe stopping distance between you and the car ahead of you. If you can't stop quickly enough to not rear-end someone slamming on their brakes, you're following too closely. Kids and animals run into the street all the time.
You and others like you are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I know you're arguing in bad faith, but let's pretend you're not:
Seeing as you weren't aware, the "default" for most cultures is meat-eating. So most people automatically start life with "us" being meat-eaters and "them" being non-meat-eaters.
Extremism definitely pushes reasonable people away from any group.
Humans are generalizers at our core. We will assume everyone in a group is like the worst member of a group and move on without a conscious thought on the matter.
Why would you make this comment? Did you think it added to the discussion?