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3 days agoIt’s not that simple when most people actively choose the cruelty.
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In my experience, it’s here.
If we’re sharing our dogs, here’s mine.
It wasn’t a successful day at the park if he doesn’t sprinkle 15 molecules of pee on every tree at least a few times. He also marks the benches, despite my efforts to stop him. He’s very rude like that.
He just turned 2 years old a few weeks ago.
I was a Romney voter when I was 20 and a Johnson voter at 24 so I feel that.
tldr, very long - I did NOT become more Republican with age.
When I was a teenager, I was full on opposed to homosexuality. It happens a lot when you grow up in a hard-R farm town disconnected from everything in the armpit of SW Oklahoma. When I got to college, I met a few gay people. I didn’t even realize they were gay until I had known them for several months. The image of a standard issue homosexual that I had in my mind was pride gays…so I had this mindset that, “I wouldn’t mind the gays if only they didn’t shove it down my throat.” Young Christian me would not think critically about that statement or its reflection upon me for a long time. When I realized that gay people were just, like, normal people, I started to move away from the right.
But, hey, I was beginning my deconversion from Christianity (I remember saying around 2013 that I can see why it is just as hard not to believe as it is to believe), and that was causing me to rethink how I felt about abortion. Mostly how it pertains to the size of the government. And hey, I can’t be pro-small gubmint while also wanting it to be involved in healthcare decisions. I was also rethinking how I felt about weed. In 2014, I told my then-girlfriend something along the lines of, “If doctors say there can be a real medicinal use for it, then I don’t see why we shouldn’t study it.” So now, I’m for abortions and weed, and I’m against the left for coming for my guns. Guns I don’t own. Btw, I’ve never owned a firearm. So by 2015, I was a registered Libertarian.
And then Donald Trump was elected. I had mixed emotions in 2016. I actually really liked Bernie a lot. But I also watched a lot of Sargon of Akkad (as much as that pains me to admit). So I was kind of all over the place. I had a job and was paying for my own health insurance. I stopped taking my ADHD meds around this time because they were $70 a month at a time when that kind of money made or broke my month. The promise of socialized healthcare was incredibly appealing to me. And then the Wasserman-Schultz emails got leaked, and it became obvious the DNC stabbed him in the back because they wanted to run Clinton that bad. But I thought even back then that Trump was a bastard. But as I hadn’t acquired much in the way of strong critical thinking skills, I hadn’t realized just how bad he’d be. Still, thinking both candidates were very weak, I voted for Johnson. Trump won here by like 30 points so it didn’t really matter who I voted for. One of the values I like that I’ve always held on to is that I exercise my right to vote however I want, no matter which way my state goes. Change doesn’t happen if everyone who wants it sits at home and lets everyone else decide for them.
It took two years of Trump to make me a registered Democrat. Still, I was a 2A Dem. And at this point, the Oregon community college and Sandy Hook had already been shot up. Then Pulse and Parkland and Las Vegas happened. And I really started changing my feelings on guns. I read more about Columbine and VA Tech. And I began to think that maybe not everyone should be allowed one.
Then Uvalde happened. And you know what? What is a ragtag group of dad bods with AR-15s going to do against the military might of the United States government? Nothing. If people are using 2A to mount an overthrow of the regime, the regime is probably considering nuking its own cities to quell the rebellion. The Second applied at a time when a musket had a low chance of hitting a target from 20 yards. So fuck the Second Amendment. The Founding Fathers had lots of great ideas that hold up today. The idea that anyone who wants a gun should have one so that the people can keep a tyrannical government in check is NOT one of them. The states do maintain militias. We call them the National Guard.
So let’s recap. In 2012, my views were:
Yay:
- Guns
- God
- Beer, I guess? I was told to like it.
- Whatever my parents told me to believe, really.
Boo:
- Abortions
- Trucks
- Gay people
- The homeless, they deserve it
- Whatever my parents told me to hate, really.
Now, my views are:
Yay:
- Gay and trans people (didn’t know about trans people in 2012)
- Trains
- $25/hr minimum wage because $15 ain’t enough anymore
- Single payer healthcare
- Housing subsidies, and I say that as a homeowner
- Immigrants
- Reproductive freedom
- Police reform
- Weed. Fully legalized.
- And just about everything else my parents told me to hate
Boo:
- God. He kinda sucks, but if religion makes your life better, go for it.
Fuck:
- Ronald Reagan
- No really, Nixon and Reagan ruined everything
- Those giant lifted trucks
- The Second Amendment. It should be repealed
- The DNC, especially after '16 and ‘24. We should be finishing up President Sanders’ second term right now.
- The police
- Beer. If it’s an “acquired taste,” then it fucking sucks. Give me my whiskey neat instead.
- The Anti-Choice movement
- Cars, and I say that as a car enthusiast.
Amtrak currently runs trains on the freight tracks, but as Amtrak essentially leases the privilege of using the tracks at all from CSX and BNSF and Union Pacific and the like, their traffic gets heavily deprioritized to freight trains. You can totally catch a train from Fort Worth to Los Angeles, but it will take a few days longer than driving, will be almost as expensive as flying, and the train will be delayed many times for freight traffic.
If the federal government nationalized the rails, put them under the care of the FRA, properly funded Amtrak, and gave it a healthy advertising budget to let people know rail is the clear choice for medium length trips (like Chicago to St. Louis), there’s no reason we couldn’t send passengers on the same rails and with the same priority as freight trains. They’re perfectly safe, and the reason we’ve been hearing about so many train wrecks lately is the degradation of work conditions for rail workers. Longer trains and longer hours make for more dangerous operating conditions and more frequent wrecks.
And while the trains wouldn’t run 190 miles an hour, many long, straight stretches do exist, and it’s not unheard of for a train to be running 80-100 miles an hour on those stretches. That kind of speed is very doable for passenger rail. Hell, some Amtrak trains are capable of 150 miles an hour.
My point wasn’t to use 150 year old rails. It’s that the rails already exist so it doesn’t need to be a decades-long multi-trillion dollar project. It’s highly unlikely that any of the rails in use today are from the 19th century.
Don’t even need to lay down rails. The rails are already there. Built by Chinese slave labor 150 years ago. We need merely to seize them.
Or just cut a check to the freight companies.
7·15 days agoAuto parts, YOW!
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Adam Conover’s last video changed my view on the shock. They’re not voting for him despite his bad qualities. They’re voting for him because of his bad qualities. Telling them he’s a Nazi and a felon and blah blah blah will reinforce their idea that he’s the right guy. When people who worked in his government come out against him, the response is, “Of course they did. They’re part of the swamp we’re trying to drain.”
Reason is dead. We’re never going to convince these people that Trump is unfit for the job and a horrible human being. It’s time to stop being so shocked these people exist. They always have and will continue to exist. All we can do is show up and end the man’s political career.
Post-election update: 14 million vote spread between Biden '20 and Harris '24. Trump was only down maybe 1½ million votes between '20 and '24. Hey Democrats, where the fuck were you on Tuesday?
The South Park episode about voting always applies. It’s always the choice between a douche and a turd. But even between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, one of those choices is still objectively better.
Worth it. I’ve never even seen the falls, but I’ve seen lots of Jim Carrey movies. The man deserves it, and I’m sure he’d love to be honored in this ecologically non-invasive way.
And here’s the /s for those who need it.
And then there are the teachers using memes specifically because they know it will make those memes uncool. And I salute them.
Heat cycling is a huge stressor on any material. That’s part of why diesel freight trucks tend to last well past a million miles while it’s newsworthy if a passenger car makes it that long. How many times a week is your Toyota Corolla driving 10+ hours at a time? Most commonly, when you hear of a million mile vehicle, it was making long haul deliveries daily and was maintained at the correct intervals.
My kitchen sink is next to the water heater. It’s hot in 5 seconds. My shower is on the opposite end of the house. I’d reckon it’s a 2 minute wait. Sometimes, I turn the bathroom sink on and get undressed.
Just gonna leave Brainrot Girlfriend here for you to read.
Can’t say I’ve ever been to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
I wouldn’t even mind ads if they weren’t so obtrusive. The ones that take up 70% of your screen between one liners are the worst.
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I’ve seen too many videos of people launching Wiimotes because they weren’t wearing the strap. The Wii was around right as CRT was on its way out so I wonder how many LCD and plasma panels died this way.
Gotta swing 'er wide left then hard right for a turn on those tight city blocks.
I’ve done this with my dinner table several times.
Hell, when I was a little boy in 2001, you could still accept a ride from strangers. I mean, sure, you could end up in the car with a wannabe John Wayne Gacy, but more often than not, it was a kind stranger offering a ride to a kid walking home in the 105 degree Texas heat.