stop subsidizing cars and trucks
Left.
nah that’s actually right wing (in theory)
in reality, it’s left… the world is a weird place
I mean, people on the left generally aren’t against subsidizing transportation, the problem is with cars specifically. Their dominance is generally bad for society as a whole, but good for a few already very powerful people.
Nah, driving is a very cultural and now traditional practice, changing it is a change in those domains so it’s left
Any company using insecure cryptography in any new product or service should be dissolved.
Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it. Wet literally means “covered in or consisting of liquid,” and yet everyone seems to think water can’t be wet just because it also makes other things wet, which it does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t itself wet
The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn’t deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.
Public school teachers shouldn’t have to pay income tax
Left, believes public schools should exist, welcome to 2025 noob
This is a dumb opinion. Don’t make tax rules more complicated than they need to be.
If you want teachers to earn more (and that’s fair: you should), just…pay them more.
just… pay them more?
exceptions to taxes just makes them a target. others will point at them and go “why do they get to keep their money while i have to pay the government my hard earned dough?” and start complaining about unfair treatment.
if the problem is that public school teachers aren’t being paid enough, then just fix the problem itself.
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i think it’s possible to have too many buttholes. like, from a functional standpoint. it’s probably super uncomfortable.
We should train mountain lions to be comfortable around humans, so they can hunt down feral cats and dogs to stop them from killing local wildlife and polluting rivers.
Eagles could work too.
All active duty soldiers should be get a free, non-transferrable 1000+cc motorcycle.
Cities/towns under 1 million should ban cars within the city limits, but remove all liscensing requirements for <200cc motorcycles.
Being someone that thinks all noisy motorcycles should be banded, I think these are neither left or right, just wrong. Make them electric bikes.
Mountain lions cannot catch cats and dogs easily. Also, plenty of people would straight up murder mountain lion with a gun or their car to save a dog or cat.
Catch, Neuter, Release diminishes wild cat populations dramatically over just a couple generations, and it doesn’t involve having to facilitate their deaths.
Edit: I am a fan of the motorcycle idea. We should make sure they’re electric to cut down on their driving volume.
i was gonna say, my favorite vehicles i’ve owned goes in order: my etrike, the hot red turbocharged 90s sportscar i drove in college, the late 80s nissan convertible with the popup headlights i learned to drive in, the hybrid we got right now, all the rest, and then that piece of shit barely worked had a door held on with duct tape and those awful automatic seatbelts but these made a RUHRUHRUH sound because they didn’t retract all the way when you got out and it had a leaky radiator that the dude who owned it before me thought you could fix by cracking an egg into it fucking garbage 94 Ford Tempo. It was Blue.
which is to say i’m a big fan of the motorcycle idea or just ebikes
Come to vietnam. Outside of HCMC and Hanoi, where there are so many bikes they recreate the issues with cars, the freedom and flexibility of 90%+ of the population using motorbikes is good for your soul. The emissions of 8 million 10 year old bikes is bad for your lungs tho.
China is kinda ahead in that they have both bikes, ebikes/scooters, and public transit, but theres way more cars.
I miss the Saigon of 2007, when I first moved there. There were hardly any cars other than taxis. Over the 6 years before I stopped living there, the change was immense. And last time I went back, in 2022, it was overrun with cars. And worse: it’s cars driven by people clearly trying to drive like they’re on motorbikes. All over the place, not sticking to lanes. It was absolute chaos. Especially down some of the narrow laneways clearly not built for cars.
The average car driver has gotten a bit better, I’ve only been hit by 1 driver not understanding how big their vehicle was (and 1 driver not hitting the ebrake/engaging the clutch and rolling back into my bike before I could get out of the way). But yeah, even 1 car for every 20 bikes fucks up traffic for everyone, especially when they have to stop to crawl by a parked car or something. I have some hope things will improve as Hanoi bans ICE engines inside the city and other cities take notice.
Even so, I will take riding in the worst HCMC traffic over America’s psychotic, egotistical drivers.
oh, i don’t need to visit vietnam for that, i live near (and used to live in) a college town with about three times as many bicycles as cars. only time we got in the car was to leave town.
I’m not exaggerating about seeing 10+ bikes for every car in some locations. https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/1690616/only-nine-per-cent-of-households-in-viet-nam-own-a-car.html
The important part isn’t that you have the bike, its that very few people use cars, so there streets have the capacity to transport hundreds a minute, a dozen people can park in front of a 15 foot wide shop.
that sounds like the main bike corridor of this town, yeah. only place in the state i know of where police take the laws around bikes like helmets and lights at night seriously.
Cougars absolutely can and do eat cats and dogs; their natural prey is primarily deer but they’ll absolutely hunt smaller animals if given the opportunity. It’s also not unheard of for them to stalk children and even adults.
It is a hoax that feral and domesticated cats are destroying the environment in places where they have predators, which is almost everywhere except Australia and some isolated islands. Cats live near humans precisely because they have so many predators in the wild.
The only disagreement I have about the bikes is that 200cc is a bit high. But smaller? Yeah probably fine.
Ok, 156cc, i was just thinking a Honda winnerx or a yamaha exciter 155 is a little underpowered for short highway trips.
Language changes. “Literally” also means “Figuratively” now. The pronouciation of “gif” is regional. To fight against it is pointless.
linguistic descriptivism (left)
definitely not conservative
Boo
“Old man yells at the cloud”
Linguistic descriptivism is generally quite a progressive and pro-science ideology
I also think both the examples I gave are incredibly stupid that they are true, it’s just pointless to fight against.
Linux is the best operating system, and the primary things preventing its adoption are manufacturers not packaging it and professional software like Adobe being unavailable
left
Funny enough non-tech people see linux as a gamergate right-wing conspiracy theorist OS.
“Google wants to make us all gay and government is after me for telling the truth about angels being under the flat earth”
The best way to spread Linux is to install it on your friends computer while they’re not looking and then flee from the scene.
that’s the real trouble with suggesting linux IRL is if someone actually takes you up on it now you’re kinda obligated to be their tech support
problem is null and void because either A: you already know how it works, what is wrong and how to fix it B: you get to learn how new parts of the OS work as you troubleshoot, which is fun
B, A, Select, Start
gamergate vibes, right
Cheat code to avoid consequences for my poor choices. Checks out.
But ‘select’ implies they have a friend
Everything’s too expensive these days
the rent is too damn high!
It’s fault of those corrupt politicans!
At my most reductive, I think English speakers shouldn’t be allowed to self govern.
Right, racism and fascism.
Fucking duh.
racism?
hey look everybody it’s “islamophobia isn’t racism” but for white people 🙄
protip: the problem isn’t a given demographic because the problem is not people the problem is power.
further, all you’ve really done in that scenario is rearrange the fascist power dynamic. it’s still just fascism. you have a fascist position and you need to think on that.
Are you seriously, as a Blahaj user, going to say you can be racist against white people? What’s next, someone can be heterophobic or cisphobic? Misandry is real? Get outta here with this garbage.
Are we forgetting how Irish people at some point got discriminated against by the US, being artificially labelled not white? Or transphobia, which occurs regardless of race (white, black, etc.)?
But indeed: the focus shouldn’t be on: who can and cannot be racist. Rather: on how we combat the rampant fascism and capitalism.
Or transphobia, which also occurs against white people?
What the fluff? Are you seriously a blahaj user, insinuating another blahaj user believes you can’t be transphobic against white trans people? Surely you’re trolling, right? RIGHT??
Clarified post, hope it’s clearer this way.
racism is the specific tool of racial supremacy used by white people (systematically, not individually) to oppress anyone who’s not in the in-group.
as you said, Irish people, when they were being discriminated against, weren’t seen as white. it’s not just about skin color.
so, given what racism is, how could anti-white racism exist? the only way it could happen is if non-white people gain power en masse, to the same extent that white people have power now, and start using the same system against whites. it’s fair to say, that’s far-fetched.
anti-white xenophobia certainly exists, but xenophobia is just the hatred based on any characteristic. you can be xenophobic to people with brown eyes. and if you are that, you’re certainly an asshole, but it’s not really gonna affect anyone’s life.
TL;DR anti-white racism makes as little sense as anti-straight homophobia. not even heterophobia; anti-straight homophobia
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Bestie, whatever possible reason you have for thinking “racism against white people” is an erosion of white people’s civil rights, it is categorically, hilariously wrong. But you have a great day now alright! 💜
one of us is in a hurry to make enemies, and it ain’t me. touch grass loser.
This is a really stupid take, just so you know.
I did say it was reductive.
But I think the word you’re looking for is “prejudiced”. This position is prejudiced against anglophones. I also don’t genuinely hold it. It’s a tongue-in-cheek exaggeration of my frustration with the governments of the US, UK, and Canada. Hard to imagine how, as inheritor/patriarch/benefactor of the British Empire, these countries could ever be reformed in a way to make them genuine democracies and just actors on the world stage. At my most exasperated, I sometimes think it would be better if we just turned over day-to-day management to the UN.
sounds like the kind of excuses you definitely wouldn’t make for any other grade of fascist
¯_(ツ)_/¯ stick to dealing with the beam in your own eye, rather than the splinter in your brother’s
pathetic. try thinking for yourself instead of regurgitating thought-terminating bullshit like an evangelical republican. it’s disgusting.
the original meaning of race referred to people that spoke different languages… like the french race, spanish race, etc… fyi…
Left
cereal is soup
progressivism (against the Chapter 19 Harmonized System Code 1904 status quo)
left
We should vote on someone to exile every year.
We should pay people to vote.
Right.
Left.
Left, right!
I mean technically we pay people $25 to vote in Australia, you just start at -$25 because voting is mandatory.
Yea that was where I got the idea.
My thought on the matter was to give people pretty much enough for a meal in either cash or a voucher, then hold a festival/fair type thing a short distance from the polling place. That would encourage actual social interaction between people of different parties and hopefully result in more moderation than you know; volent street action and drunken brawls.
