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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • the municipality asks civil engineers, who ask their computer, then forward the results back to the municipality.

    usually the public has a window where they can offer input.

    if nobody checks or notices anything weird, they start allocating funding and you have your bus stops whenever they have time and funds to build them.

    i like civil engineers, and a lot of them seem to care about their jobs, but their jobs have a lot of restrictions and regulations, so not everybody will be happy with the results.




  • “am I just imagining some idealistic version of the past that never existed”

    yup.

    Americans have always been this stupid, but stupid people aren’t the problem.

    everyone is stupid, greedy, or otherwise morally corrupt at some point or another or in some situation or another, that’s why legal rights and protections were so important, to keep the playing field level and the trains running on time when the assholes wanted to run riot.

    the successful conservative suppression of civil rights and removal of restrictions on corporate and wealthy political stuff civil activity, particularly the allowance by the Supreme Court of money to dictate political action, has removed the guardrails that used to protect the stupid and keep corrupt people in line.




  • “Harris is better than Trump.”

    …it’s demeaning to Harris to say she’s better than a rapist. most violent drug addicts are better than a rapist.

    “But they will never give you freedom, they don’t want to.”

    I mean, ridiculous.

    I know, it’s a cool meme right now, but totally ridiculous.

    “You need something more radical”

    no one brought up Harris until you did .

    I’m backing AOC and Bernie; if you don’t recognize their radical political nature, you do not understand the first word of what you’re talking about.

    which, I suppose, evident here:

    “Then, and ONLY then, will things change.”

    things are changing right now, it sucks. you don’t need things to change, you need things to get better. stop looking for radical Solutions when AOC and Bernie are telling you the very normal everyday solutions that take a lot of work to get done.

    those solutions work, those Solutions are better education funding, universal healthcare, money out of politics.

    it’s not fun or a good meme, but those are the real answers and you have two people who are telling you what to do and how to do it if you really care about making things better.









  • “I just don’t think this is the time to overhaul the whole system”

    how do you contend encouraging political stability overhauling the system?

    "the first priority should be to steady the ship.

    steadying the ship is literally what this protest is about, providing stability while the executive branch is trying to conquer and invalidate the judicial and legislative.branches.

    “You can’t fix things if you’re just struggling to stay afloat.”

    yes you can. That’s what SOS calls, bilge pumps, pontoons, tar, patches and welds are for, to fix problens on boats.

    you’re advocating to give up and sink when you can repair things.

    ridiculous.

    “Fixing things requires a certain level of stability.”

    the necessary level of stability is far below what you clearly misunderstand.

    We have that stability, what we need is political, legal and judicial actions liked the ones happening every day now fighting against the executive branch.

    The literal nationwide protests by tens of thousands of citizens, judges, politicians and lawyers constitute that saving grace.



  • I’m not sure where these questions are coming from, there are tens of thousands of people conducting dozens of protests across every single state at every level of government, and multiple stories about those protests in this feed.

    there’s absolutely some media suppression since Trump is friends with the owners of some media outlets, but there is also a lot of media documenting the literally Nationwide protests.

    there’s a super popular post like a few tiles up about the dozens of ongoing Tesla protests going on that are tanking the company.