Can’t say Im a big washington fan but yeah transit is a big mistake given how important it is to the people of the city. There is a reason the chicago bicycle federation became the active transit alliance. This was the biggest thing daley had going for him was he was laser focused on infrastructure.

I think much of this is after the fact thinking. There was much more hope in his running which is why I want to see what mandani does. How much is talk and how much is walk. Still im glad for johnsons pushback on the rediculous curfew legislation.

Thats not people giving up comfort, that is them losing it. Nobody will rebel due to self sacrifice. Many act to rebel from loss of things that don’t directly cause discomfort but they have the cognitive ability to see the long term consequences that will come of it.

Its easier because your costs are forward rather than in arears. You can’t move before you sell the house because then you will have to pay on it while your trying to figure out expenses in a new place. You need to sell it for more than you owe and you will then need to find temporary housing where you will not have any costs if you need to leave at any particular time which tends to be more expensive. You will need to downsize to a backpacker level as part of this. Not just you but your family. Then you will be applying to try to get somewhere else which may or may not happen. You can start that before but then you might just have to abandon everything. If one has nothing to lose the process is easier. Similarly if you want to have a similar lifestyle in the new country you will have to find an equivalent and likely harder to find job in the new country.

This all or nothing things annoys me. Johnson has done alright in chicago and we will see how mamdani does. Pritzker, walz are great. Bernie is still pushing forward. Don’t get me wrong. Mamdani is the right direction. My senators have done alright but being somewhat progressive is not longer going to cut it going forward.

mirrored my thoughts.

I have performed this study many times. Not even that realistic. Sometimes the dog gets jealous of me having the toy and takes it for herself.

same here and likely will be till my end. Figure some folk will pecefully protest till we are killed, some will violently protest, and some will be part of the underground rebellion. The whole point of democracy is to provide a voice to people and have a fair enough society that folks don’t need to do that and when they do reacts enough to non violent protest to make anything more unnecessary. Sucks we are here but like anything else we all just do what we can for things to be better.

I mean its what they want. This whole thing is not about getting rid of folks as much as making sure any folks coming in are ready to bend the knee and actively support the bs. At a minimum stay silent but that may not be enough. Need to loud the ones in power and how good and just they are. Basically the ideal is north korea.

Only thing missing is the two way allows for the corrupting and controlling influence. Sauruman basically became the way he did by using them to much and he is from a class of beings that are about as resistant to the effects as can be.

I understand your sentiment but I also understand theirs. People could not fight inside nazi germany with civility. While we are not there yet we are rapidly approaching.

It could be me come january.

Not only do we not have universal healthcare but we are pulling back the pittances for the poor. This is more obama care destruction which balanced the weight between emergency rooms, insurance, and doctors offices. Now ER’s will bear a larger and larger burden and this is after already kicking out the mandate leg of the three legged stool.

I don’t think people need to give up comfort. At least not to any reasonable level. We need to make it so that we are doing things efficiently. Passive housing using geothermal/solar/wind and such. People able to afford to live where they can be carless.

We need a list of all orgs, especially media companies, that have rolled over. I was actually watching 60 minutes more after they seemed to be fighting.

Actually the lower class has a bit better chance. If you have no home to sell or money to transfer over leaving is a bit easier. If you have enough to set yourself up and then sell what you have that makes it easy. So its like people barely affording their mortgages or have decent jobs that would be hard to replace that get stuck until its to late.

I often wondered how nazi germany happened given the democracy and find myself caught up in the process despite my best efforts and the efforts of many people I know.

yeah goes through every secretary.

Ah you know what. I did not even notice the article I went to the second link so I was like. Why are we giving it these crazy titles. My bad.

That makes sense. I forget sometimes the yearly mating common in animals works in both how the females and males systems work.