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Yes, and he is pretty much along the same lines as guys like Fetterman. We need more guys like Fetterman.

a lot of people in new york do not have a driver's license and get around just fine Also, as someone who lives within 20 miles of two big city centers (DC and Baltimore), better public transportation would make it easier and safer to get to those big city centers from suburbs. The traffic is absolutely unbearable because public options are so limited

How is it anything other than a coincidence?

Lol what does this even mean? Just say what you mean and not this fence sitting shit, man

that shit was 15 miles from where i live, i could've gone they also said "you really trust ted cruz and marjorie taylor greene with your social security" lmao

No, more lanes won't fix it. We need way better driving standards and non-driving options. Assholes won't stop driving on the left and staying in the merge lanes, and nobody in America likes to keep distance from the car in front of them OR let anyone change lanes outside of rural areas It doesn't really matter anyway, thank god there's a US state trying to set some sort of green standard. Also @Dr. Tarrasque how do you feel about the messaging the last few weeks?

That's why it's 2035 and not 2025. Infrastructure will be built very quickly since now there is will, and that's before we get into how California is trying to *lead* us into the country. I think they're planning on banning gas cars by 2030. People gotta live somewhere. You mostly need more housing. NIMBYism is a huge issue in California.

Texas has a garbage government lol, once California gets housing figured out it'll probably be the best state in the union. They just passed a bill to phase out gas cars by 2035. Anyway, Joe Biden had a crazy amazing speech around 15 minutes from my house, alongside MD gubernatorial candidate wes moore: highlights thread: (it's a thread, so keep clicking down to see the stuff he's saying)

i'm necroing a sticky but only because I want to make sure this isnt lost: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13o8iTXOvkr0CsZzxinBtk9lj7DhYBxcwiRXiQQ0Rwnw/edit#gid=84382139 Maniac Mode enemy stats. If anyone wants to make it better by noting reinforcement triggers and unit placement, be my guest. This was solely a raw data collection run from 6-7 years ago.

A lot of weirdo Republican grievance shit today but who cares https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/pell-grants-student-loan-forgiveness

Tldr elect more Democrats, then make them better Your entire post is basically required reading

For the record, Maine started instituting ranked choice voting in Democratic primaries and I believe other states will be following suit. There is a lot of slow change in this country, and I'm hoping medicare jolts all these old people to go out and not vote the shittiest iteration of the republican party

It's also because our two parties are coalitions in the first place. No other country in the world would have Sanders caucusing with Manchin. This take is actually bereft of knowledge of our voting system. I actually do not like the idea of primaries and my ideal system would be putting a bunch of candidates in a vote similar to France. Or a ranked choice voting scheme. No primaries, just anyone who is eligible and wants to run, is on the ballot, and then we do either ranked choice or run the whole thing through two rounds of voting. The parties themselves are almost independent of their members, in a way, which dates back to pre-Southern Strategy US Politics. Tldr primaries are what you're looking for, we aren't delusional about only looking at two parties. And frankly, if the libertarians didn't want to kill the IRS and call taxation theft or if the Greens didn't put up an anti-vax 911-truthing Putin plant maybe the vote would be slightly more worthwhile. People do vote independent -- look at Bernie Sanders. But he caucuses with a party, and it's functionally no different from a two party system. America's issue is if the legislative branch truly represents the constituency and how it can be improved. It's not solely a FPTP problem.

You mean the party that put up a Putin plant in 2012/2016? Pass. Read this: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/steve-bannon-war-room-democracy-threat/638443/ Bannon's nazi strategy of "flood the zone with shit" worked on you. It's a very binary decision to make.

My question to you is, what makes you think this vilifying will make it to MSM outlets? These things are happening. Look at Fetterman's campaign, look at Warnock's campaign against, respectively, Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker. Stacey Abrams and just about anyone running against a Republican in America is literally saying this on the campaign trail. Like, look at this by Beto O'Rourke. https://mobile.twitter.com/travisakers/status/1557546910101250051 How much will this be repeated in the mainstream? MSNBC and CNN and NYT and shit tries to counterbalance Republicans, creating a false symmetry between the two parties. They did this with Trump. As it currently stands, Clinton did exactly that, people were fence sitting to say it's all political bullshit. The media has no interest in actually reporting things. Basket of deplorables and some stupid fucking emails were more heavily emphasized than the fact that "basket of deplorables" was actually a speech about empathy towards certain parts of rural America. Or the fact that Clinton stated repeatedly she did not want to raise taxes on the middle class. The message gets muddled because the media is intent on making things a horse race. Or they're Fox News. You should be aware of this, too. I advise you look up on what Steve Bannon actually did with Breitbart, because he did a lot of things to astroturf Breitbart to a mainstream audience that gets facebook addicted dumbasses to believe dumb shit. All messaging is met with "they're lying, they're playing politics, it's all a part of their games" by indifferent voters. This article gets at it better than anything else I've read or listened to. Dark Brandon is exactly the type of messaging the Democrats need. Right now, lowkey, there's a lot of NIMBYs that are making things worse for everyone and they aren't loyal to a party. They're the reason why the NYPD is so corrupt and mayors are routinely flaccid against them. They're the reason why zoning and housing is still so segregated. Right now they're mindlessly reading about groomers and thinking why Democrats care about the culture wars so much. It's a load of bullshit, but Facebook & Fox News is proving this to be a horrible uphill battle, because they're willing to feed the red meat to these people.

But you don't vote, so you don't even want to contribute the minimum amount possible. How do you think they get those votes? Consistent engagement and voting. Elections happen all the time, so you have to be persistent. My point is proven. Dunno what "holding their end of the bargain" actually means here -- you need a lot of voting in a lot of different places to get things done in this country, like you said. But when it comes down to Trumpublican vs Democrat in the general, there's no reason to fence sit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/ This guy invited Saudis and Russians to Mar-A-Lago. Having nuclear secrets is a big fucking deal.

What the hell are you talking about? a) right now it's possible he had nuclear secrets (which was part of the DOJ warrant), on top of documents with his conversations with Russians and Saudis. It's not just "some documents". You sound like a Fox News host. b) It wasn't just him. But this is something that is an extremely likely possibility, and will be used to monitor, if anything, TruthSocial. You're clearly some kind of right winger that's trying to downplay shit and make right wing talking points, so I'm not sure what you are referring to when yuo say "bogeyman" -- bogeyman for what? Verifiable extremism that was allowed to flourish under President Trump? The difference is that a lot of police departments get a lot of money and don't do jack shit. Look at Uvalde. And instead, we are having a teaching shortage at public schools because we pay and treat teachers like shit. Teachers receive significantly more oversight than the police in this country. Maybe defund is bad branding, but all we fucking want is significant oversight and police departments to actually have trained and educated police officers and not the dregs of society we have policing us. Mixed with, you know, the commonly known right wing and white supremacist infiltration of many city police departments. But given you probably read breitbart, you don't think any of this is real. Who's "he"? Then why do you care about politics? Why post in this thread or discuss anything if you're just gonna be a fence sitter? There's plenty of info on this guy. EDIT: man wtf is up with editing on this site. I can't edit my shit half the time. Come on, this is a dumb point. Considering how Trump was literally raided by a D appointed DOJ, the last few weeks of Democrat legislative wins, and the literal fact that right wing uprisings are happening everywhere -- look at Macron vs Le Pen mark 2 -- nobody is doing a great job dealing with this in the west. It's far from just an American problem. Hell, Poland is already lost to the extreme right wing. Republicans have a propaganda wing that the Democrats lack. It should never shock you how imbalanced it is, considering the mainstream media constantly insists on trying to bothsides the parties and people buy into that shit. No amount of messaging will get through to this country that's gerrymandered to all hell and has a Senate, when you can just criticize a Democrat and make it sound almost as bad as a literal treasonous conspiracy. I hope the non-Fox News MSM actually wakes up after this. Because Armchair General is literally what the average indifferent American voter looks like.

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Yooo they raised Cheeto cucks house Mixed with a bunch of other Dark Brandon-isms God bless

I genuinely believe the zealots are simply taught to not be self-aware, and be more in tune with a set of contradictory principles rather than actually self-consciously reading the Bible. I haven't read any religious text in too much detail, but I feel like many religious texts are a collection of stories that warn us of bad things in the air and show us the result. And how the bad things were ultimately human greed leading to people causing the wrong things to happen. It hit me when I saw someone using word for word Bible verses to describe Trump as the antichrist and it generally hit me that it could easily describe any dictatorial or authoritarian figure in the past. That is basically what the religious texts are attempting to get at, and I think the modernization of religion (which is also happening, part of why zealotry is so pronounced as a response) is basically now acknowledging we can deal with the ramifications of a lot of these issues and the only thing that can really kill us our own greed or when we crucify those who want to help and want us all to do better (Jesus Christ, a figure the majority of people do not seem to understand). It seems like the books are historical texts filled with warnings, and the institution of religion itself is led by corrupt figures focused on greed. I actually have a hard time wording my thoughts on religion, but I really wonder if anyone understands what I mean. I am sorry to hear about everything I have read. I really wish you the best, I don't know what I can really offer honestly.

mississippi, nevada, and new mexico are in the same tier. those are the fastest that come to mind.

I lived there. The people are actually more on the libertarian side and much more liberal than you would expect. The politicians are a disaster and the Arizona GOP is many orders of magnitude out of touch with the population. Their education is ranked 49th in the US and somehow has many avenues to getting worse, which sucks because it can be a very nice place to live if you love nature and the outdoors. The people who live there and the landscape don't deserve the bullshit that their state is giving them.

Fucking snowflakes. I bet they don't release body cam footage during an investigation either.

It doesn't ban it nationwide, but consider this is what Republicans have been campaigning on for 40-50 years and put judges on the bench precisely to help do this. It's ultimately a wedge issue that's bad for everyone in America, even in states where abortion is legal. But in either case, while it does not ban abortions, it allows for the ban on abortions. Many states have trigger laws -- I have linked many sources on this in previous pages -- so it does end the legalization of abortion in many states. By removing rights to privacy as well, they also move a lot of civil rights issues (gay marriage, anal intercourse etc) to the states, many of which are also in favor of banning them. I mean, you can talk to a lot of politicians with their finger on the pulse, and the replacement theory thing has been a big deal since before Tucker Carlson spewed that garbage on air. It's plainly obvious. A senator literally mentioned that the courts shouldn't decide interracial marriage, the only reason it wasn't brought up in the majority opinion (like the other rights) is because Clarence Thomas has a white wife. It's very nakedly corrupt and activist; this isn't a mistake.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/09/shinzo-abe-assassination-election-blinken/ Basically Abe was promoting a church that the killer's mother donated a substantial amount of her savings toward