Sadly, in the US, we can’t do that because NIMBYs tie everything up in the courts until projects go bankrupt and get abandoned.

Maybe in Europe, but in the US At-will employment means that you can be fired at any moment without cause, without warning and without severance.

You can not advocate for something to happen but be glad it did.

Agreed. I never advocated for violence against CEOs, but Luigi has already saved hundreds of lives (United healthcare started approving more claims immediately after BT died) and he revitalized the debate for socialized medicine so I am very glad he did was he did.

It is unusual and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it is bad. If I liked the person I would probably come to like the name.

Cars are useful in rural areas, absolutely, but cities should primary be built as walkable communities connected by trams, trains, buses and bike paths.

Car dependency is completely unsustainable in the same way that flying your car off a cliff is a flight that cannot be sustained.

We joke, but Ronald Reagan signed California’s gun control laws because the Black Panthers had guns and minorities having guns scares conservatives

Great point. When the country has fallen to fascism is not the time to implement gun control.

The law can be whatever we collectively want it to be. The entire point of having Amendments is that the Constitution was supposed to be a living document that we would refine and improve over time.

Like farmers who refuse to let the government plant shelter belts to preserve our top soil all because they don’t want to take a 5% hit on their yields… So instead we’re going to deplete our top soil in 50 years and future generations will be completely fucked because creating 1 inch of top soil takes 500 years.

I never tried that, but if you fill a bottle with water and submerge it in water then you can drill holes in the glass without it shattering

Also, DJT is just the tip of late-stage-capitalism’s iceberg of evil so wake me up after we abolish billionaires, convert all large companies into worker co-ops, and design our cities to be walkable places connected by public transportation

This is what happens when basic political science isn’t taught, guys like Elon have no idea that socialism (the left) is fundamentally about expanding democracy to our economic systems.

Liberals will watch you drown in a swamp and then they will brag about how they kept their hands clean.

Letting tens of thousands of people die without access to healthcare is acting like an adult???

Liberals are the epitome of the trolley fallacy: passive choices are still choices, letting someone drown in a nasty swamp because you want to stay clean is social murder. Liberals might appear to have clean hands, but their souls are soiled by the deaths of all the people they chose not to help

Basic dignity will always be at odds with profit motive. We need eternal vigilance and working class solidarity to keep capitalism in check

Reminds me of how the damage to roads scales with the weight of the vehicle to the 4th power, so someone driving a 6000lb pickup does 16x more damage to roads than a 3000lb sedan

It is expensive /complex because the capital class does everything they can to undermine and sabotage public institutions.

Okay, how about a large fine based on wealth, 1 year community service, and a lifetime ban on owning a vehicle and driving?

I worked the ER for a smaller hospital in the past and one evening I was called in because a father had ran over his own son with one of those pickups. The kid ran out to greet him but the father couldn’t see his own kid because the lifted pickup’s hood was too high.

I sincerely hate those wanktanks with all my heart and soul