Works better when spoken but just say this in your head really fast

What’s the difference between a good joke and a bad joke timing.

I would think someone alive during Jim Crow would remember Kent State

It sounded like you wanted a concrete example within living memory

Kent State

1968 in general

The best arguments for metric is that you get to travel slightly faster for an equivalent speed limit (100 kph > 60 mph) and only needing to own one set of wrenches

I’m not saying not to do it, I’m saying you can’t just call for something on the internet and expect it to materialize out of nothing.

I’d also maybe suggest we stop using the term “general strike” when we mean “protest”

You have to build the ground work for that first. How do you feed people indefinitely when stores are closed, trucks aren’t moving, etc? You need a massive mutual aid network and solidarity. We don’t really have anything approaching that in the US

Is “remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas” a dogwhistle for “tolerates Nazis” or have I just become too cynical

Good strategy, blame individuals for systemic problems lol

Yes they can but they’ll only do it when they’re sucking up to federal law enforcement

It’s a good message for the non-insane, but anyone still pro-Trump will just tell themselves that we haven’t gotten rid of enough gays/immigrants/trans people yet for the country to be as great as it once was in some imagined past. In that light the sign has an ambiguous interpretation

Idk about the others but old Angus just won reelection so he has like five years left in his term, and by then he’ll be around 107 years old so I don’t think he really gives af

His kid is trying to run for governor though so call him up and ask if being a coward runs in the family

North Dakotan?

I operated on 40m with a dipole I strung up in my attic, so this isn’t really true. In WW2 radio operators would build their antennas into plaster walls and other parts of buildings. Very easy to hide even long, large antennas

Octavia Butler wrote The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents in the early 90s, set in a declining United States around 2024-2030 run by a Christian nationalist whose slogan was “Make America Great Again”

Yes, you must keep it as government officials, members of the public etc. and not let it turn into a revenue generator even then. The focus should be on enforcement with the end goal of safer public spaces.

I’ve always been a fan of the idea that you don’t need armed police to do traffic enforcement, you could get this done with another group of unarmed local officials of some sort with cameras, like meter maids but mobile. Headlights too bright, muffler too loud or missing, speeding, etc could be gathered and enforced much more rapidly. All the fines etc. are mailed out, no dangerous human-human or dangerous roadside interactions required. Would increase the amount and effectiveness as well. It would also free up police to do what they are (in theory, in an ideal world) supposed to be doing which is solving crimes.

A strike with an end date is not a strike

Not OP but I bought a 45" LG UltraGear gaming “monitor” a while back that’s basically just a TV, no smart anything etc. Right now the only ones I see after a quick search are curved though, mine is flat.

I always wanted New England to join Canada and be part of the Maritimes so that the time zone would make more sense. And so New Englanders could get healthcare that wasn’t tied to employment