Exactly what I was thinking.

Trump probably saw he was popular AND I’m sure Mamdani said polite things to the guy, and now were here.

I just want busses. That tears up nothing.

I just want bollards protecting pedestrian and bike traffic. That tears up nothing.

I want passenger trains between cities where there’s already railing. That tears up nothing.

Is this honestly a bigger ask than a decade long rebuild of an interstate that will need another widening in 5 years after?

I actually said they’re a net negative and I stand by that.

Lithium mining, their fixed short life spans, and the problems of car focused cities as a whole are not addressed by going all EV. Marginally better than combustion? Sure. I’ll give you that.

But ultimately its manufacturing and the lack of repair ability make it bad over all.

Gods, this is how I sell public transit to pro car people.

I am traffic. I want to be off the road and in a bus.

I just don’t want my bus ride to be over an hour and a half long when the car ride is 10 minutes.

I’ll settle for a bike commute because that’s 30 minutes but it would require riding down a major road where the only thing protecting me from a car going 60 MPH is a painted white line and trust.

I do think there’s a debate to be had as to if were in a “better place” then if Clinton had won

If she had won, we wouldn’t be better off relative to 2015. We would have been in the same shit we were in 10 years ago with a housing crisis on the rise and COVID would have still happened and probably wouldn’t have gone too radically differently.

Wed still have increased income inequality and we saw under Biden that the main Liberal answer to climate change is Electric Cars which net doesn’t help and in fact worsens our e-waste issue.

Obviously, I don’t know this is how it would have gone for sure, but the democrats really haven’t given me much to believe in.

So would we have been “better off” with a dem successor compared to the 2015 status quo? No I don’t think so and I think we all knew that and it doesn’t inspire people to vote or participate in elections.

Would we have been better off to what we got? Yeah probably. But that’s stuff we didn’t completely know until hindsight kicked in. I think we all assumed he’d be a lame president and not a modern Commodus or Nero.

Now, I don’t subscribe to acceleration ist views, but there is that view point as well.

Under that ideology, we are better off compared to a Clinton or Harris win because they would have subdued the flakier radical elements in society longer.

Trump being president and his flagrant disregard for our status quo system is a massive stepping stone towards a revolution of some sort to hopefully fix the problems of our 2015 society plus the additional inflated issues by Trump.

Damn. All this talk of conservatives being throat goats and we completely forgot how much Warren likes head.

I want to believe we could have a woman president so long as she ran on something other than being a wet noodle that’s trying to be #relatable more than just being a good candidate.

Or better yet, running on something more than

“Are you really gonna let Trump win?”

That’s so funny that you actually checked.

And also thanks for the kind words. I’m actually working on a few blog posts since my job and school have calmed down.

But you’re right, I should also contribute to open source memery

I would never glaze that hack! His ideas were far too disjointed and useless.

Now of you check my self hosted blog I go into much better more specific detail on why technology is bad!

Bro how much did Desantis pay to get this angle on the header?

Israel has a history of ostracising those they deem “cowards” in society.

Just look into how they remembered the Holocaust and how they treated the survivors.

I both hope those brave soldiers stay in Israel to lead a change and hope they don’t let the state crush them with the gleeful support of the fascist civilian population.

That’s so much of IT. They’re paying for me to get a degree but I already have the job. So it’s obvious it’s just a status symbol.

As an office IT guy, a vast majority of office jobs could be done by nearly anyone. If they just stopped requiring a college degree to do those jobs and trained people, I think the vast majority of office work will be done

That being said, HR would rather import people with H1Bs, drastically under pay them, and create another layer of class division but separating themselves from the brown people offices to work at the new executive offices or do full WFH forever then admit a college degree was always a class tax to move from working to might class.

Objectively has done more good and a better patriot to Solvenia than Melania