You forgot to include someone calling OP a tankie

The Shinkansen network in Japan was infamously extremely expensive and during its construction, many Japanese hated it and doubted it would ever amount to much. Today, it is held up as the best public transit system ever created.

Here in Seattle, the Link Light Rail system is also extremely expensive, though this is due to many factors, notably the fact that between the time the project got started and initially set its funding goals, the Covid pandemic happened and massive inflation, both in currency and in raw materials. However, the lines that are finished are extremely nice. The Link system is shaping up to be some of the best in the entire US, and the biggest and most important section hasn’t even opened yet: the world’s first rail line to travel across a floating bridge. Once the bridge section is complete, it will connect the two separate systems on the west and east sides of Lake Washington into one system and allow fast, efficient transit from the east side into downtown Seattle.

Anyway, my point is that just because a system is expensive, doesn’t mean it’s bad. I think you’re just furthering car-centric propaganda and reinforcing the belief that public transit is expensive and therefore bad

If you/we can’t even bother to attend a protest on a day off for a few hours, how the hell are we going to do it during the week, to shut cities down?

That’s very sad, I’m sorry. I hope it doesn’t come to that for you

I’ve visited before, yes, and I know exactly what you mean lol. I felt the same way when I was there, the freedom of movement and quality of life about everything is so incredible that you just have to experience it yourself to believe it. I think visiting with my partner would help, but that’s a lot of money at a relatively short timescale to prepare in case things get really bad. We could do it, but…

What’s the Discord you’re using to learn Dutch? I’ve actually been “learning” for a few years just using Duolingo and I’ve been pretty lazy over the last year so I’ve stalled. Netherlands was actually always my goal before I even started dating my partner, which is partly contributing to our problems I think.

I feel this strongly. My partner is very resistant to moving to the Netherlands despite the many, many reasons that doing so would be better than staying in the US

If i’m driving 10 hours across the US, it’s going to be on the freeway between population centers. A relatively flat course between population centers… oh that sounds perfect for a train! I’d much rather take the train than drive!

Biking three miles takes about 15 minutes, you should do that instead

As opposed to silently changing your default browser?

His greatest accomplishment was getting shot in the neck

Drinking alcohol doesn’t give adults birth defects either, but drinking alcohol while pregnant causes birth defects in the child 🤯

ok

Not really, but this seems more like projection to me.

There is only thing I know for sure and it’s that the shooter wasn’t a leftist. There is nothing about him that suggests him being a leftist, and certainly nothing that would suggest he’s been radicalized to the point of a targeted killing by the left. The only thing you have to go on is what the state and federal investigators say they have, which they obtained through a source they didn’t name.

Although I agree that Robinson seems to be politically ambiguous, he most definitely has a right-wing bent. Him being apolitical or even a kind’ve slight leftist doesn’t explain how he became radicalized enough to commit a targeted political killing.

My theory is that he was radicalized as a teenager since we have strong evidence that he spent a lot of time online as a teenager. Given all the factors (white cis male in a MAGA household living in Utah who grew up terminally online and described as a hardcore Gamer), it makes sense to me that he was a Groyper or at least spent a lot of time in Groyper spaces outside of the Discord channel mentioned in this article and that was what radicalized him to hate Charlie Kirk. If the feds are to be believed and he was dating a trans woman, then that would provide the motive for acting on his pre-existing hatred for Charlie, but it wouldn’t explain how he got radicalized enough to act on that hatred in the first place.

As as aside, I strongly disagree with this article that Robinson is bisexual. If he’s a rabid rightoid dating a trans woman, then he would likely consider himself straight and he’s just dating his girlfriend. If he’s a woke leftie dating a trans woman, then he would likely consider himself straight and he’s just dating his girlfriend. In either case, I highly doubt he would consider himself bisexual at all just because he’s dating a woman.

Zionists are not controlling the New Nazi Party, that’s absurd. Just like the original Nazi party, our New Nazi party are financially supporting Zionists in Palestine because Zionism happens to align with Nazi ideology when it comes to the belief that all Jews should be deported from the US and live somewhere else.

Can you really imagine a far Right killing Kirk would be doing so because they “had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out” ?

Yeah I can actually. A young white man radicalized by years of being terminally online in groyper spaces who already hated Charlie Kirk for not being extreme enough, who then started to date a trans woman (if the feds are to be believed on this at all). All the trans romantic partner angle gives is a more clear motive, but doesn’t actually explain his radicalization to the point of a targeted killing. Being a groyper does.

Just because you can’t hear the dog whistle does not mean it doesn’t exist. The thing with Groypers, and many white nationalists over the past decade, is that they’re full of ironic memes, co-opting liberal media, and hidden language as a tactic to confuse people like you into believing they’re not an extremist movement at all

Protests? You mean “race riots”

Of course I do. Mostly because I avoid communities that I know will be toxic as hell and full of chuds

This seems to be the opposite experience for many who have expressed that they don’t check—they feel entitled to be present and post in every space regardless of any context

Yeah! If women want their own space they should sequester themselves into a backroom with no advertising and an onerous sign-up process requiring an ID check that no one ever sees or hears about but somehow all women will know it exists because they have a psychic sense for those kinds of things