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Puritan mind virus is my guess.

Total separation of pedestrians and cyclists from cars isn’t feasible unless we’re willing to close large parts of cities from vehicle traffic. Will people support this? I certainly do but in the USA this is widely regarded as an unrealistic solution.

At least in my city this isn’t really true. It’s an illusion of the cost of housing typically being measured by cost per square foot. But when you compare cost per unit, it ends up being similar. In fact if you reduce your vehicle costs by using other transit modes, you may even save money. However, this does require knowledge of how to travel car free, which not everyone has. It also may require some longer travel times on certain errands which can’t be done in the urban core. But this is usually an occasional inconvenience vs the long daily commute, so you still save time.

However this is just my experience and it may vary by city. Also I was comparing middle class areas, if you are willing the live in areas with high crime/poverty you might save more money.

What did they say under Biden? Because, first, these numbers are kinda crazy how split the country is despite the horrors we see around us.

But also, I think the issue is voters are able to see things are not going well but they’re mostly not educated enough articulate a better alternative. So instead they just wish for the only other option they’re aware of, which is the party out of power.

If we want to break this pendulum cycle, we need to articulate a better alternative that speaks to the concerns of ordinary voters and help them build the tools to actually implement it. I don’t have much hope for such a movement under either party, nor among any third party due to the way our elections punish third parties. So it may need to exist outside of national electoral politics.

It’s not meaningless. The more funding they get the more harm they can do. Keeping the funding level high instead of astronomical will mean fewer Americans will be subject to state-sanctioned violence.

But I do agree that those funds should be clawed back as soon as possible.

That said I expect them to capitulate like they always do. But we’ll see.

They’ve always got more money to spend.

Oligarchy and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.

Perhaps CA and NY: https://www.wired.com/story/california-and-new-york-are-next/

I don’t believe it’s a physical blockade but threats of sanctions against anyone who provides them with oil.

All these boycotts I can’t join since I never paid for them in the first place 😢

Wow! Startling new information! It’s not as if people have been talking about this for years. Or is it?

No shade OP it’s just a silly headline.

I mean DC has plenty of white people but they’re in a similar situation. Although at least they get to vote for president.

From what I’ve heard there isn’t really a consensus among Puerto Ricans on what they want their status to be.

Somehow they’ve found a new low every year that passes. I am terrified where they will go from here.

They’re always ready to shoot us the exact second they think they can get away with it.

“For most users” the whole point here is to gradually get people used to having to show their papers to access the internet. We must accept nothing less than a total reversal here. Give them an inch each day and eventually they’ll have their mile.

Fair point but it’s so deeply rooted. Don’t we have to engage with it to some extent in order to eliminate it?

Is there somewhere I can read about this? I haven’t heard this.

I know they had made further threats against California recently but not specifically national guard.

I was gonna say some of these people look pretty white to me. But then we’re getting into the arbitrary question of who counts as white which is probably way beyond her understanding.

If someone was killed as a result then you could argue yes. Doesn’t seem to be the case here, thankfully.