So i took a bus line in LA that went free for a while, and it got faster. It just got faster, because people didnt habe to fuck around with their ohones or their cards or qhatever while boarding.
I can say, conxlusively, as someone who takes the bus and regularly took a bus line that went free for a while: this works. It’s great. Bus feels safer too.
You really only need three; grovel is also on there.
If you’re still offering…
I dunno, if they’re autocracies, one guy ajd a few ambitious generals?ore if theres a congress or whatever.
My end goal with this proposal isn’t pacifying countries, it’s getting rid of the concept.
So probably some fuckers you paid for with fed taxes. We should really stop doing that.
Spotted it, decided not to.
Yeah. That all men are trash; avoiding the bad ones just leaves you with fred rogers and probably a second one at some point idk.
Im not your mother. Look it up or don’t.
what logic
I believe i already laid that out. This conversation is over.
Well the point of the app was to identify the small percentage of men who do most raoe Nd stuff, and even if the law wouldnt stop them, help potential victims avoid them, so as to not have to be guarded around every man one meets like hes a potential vicious rape monster, because some just are.
Im saying all men are garbage, and the fundamental oremise that you can under any conditions act like any number of men are human is foolish and likely to get you hurt. Which i think this situation show.
still require agriculture
Im talking about the ‘must always grow’ shit. Yes we still need food
immigrants
Fuck borders. Why? What’s the benefit of them to actual people? They’re just problems. Let people ho where they want.
people shouldn’t be alienated from their food
Agree.
fuck corporate (thing)
Agree
Print stuff to fool cameras. Old trick, finding new use.
Doesn’t work well on people, but it’s very diffocult to train a model on the difference between printed and real images.
It’s about to make a comeback.
hostile countries
What if we just stopped having those?
keeps me safe
Okay. But that doesn’t seem like it’s in the interest of people trapped here.
US has a long history of doing the thing i just said it protects me from
So… When were borders invented? I assume that just stopped when they were invented, right?
and Russia
Doing a great job at that.
countries
Why do i give a shit about them? The one that’s supposedly mine wants me dead. Deployed the military i paid for to kidnap my friends, point guns at me when i go tk the only grocery store in easy walking distance. Why the fuck do i want that?
Nevermind the more subtle ikpersonal shit like letting borders be permeable to goods but not people, isolating laborers from solidarity and increasing the efficiency of exploitation worldwide when we can be more easily pitted against each other. Nevermind the fact that if local stabdards get too high and the workers demand too big a cut of their labor, the factory owner can pick up and move somewhere more exploitation is allowed, the people here can’t follow the work, and the people there can’t walk away in protest. Lets keep this personal.
ideology and religion
So, the place I’m in: it’s literally illegal to believe some of the things i believe if you weren’t born here, the governing ideology is a queerphobic exterminationist christofascism, and everything i love is under threat from the killers who steal money from me in taxes so they can shoot chemical weapons at me when i ask them to stop killing black people.
The governments on the other side of both land borders have expressed zero explicit desire to exterminate me, and never pointed guns at me because i wanted strawberries, like the one here did for most of this month.
Im trapped in here with the kkk and florida, but i cant have the best-on-the-continent chinese food of vancouver or the excellent tacos of oaxaca unless i risk my life crossing that imaginary line-and, again; not super worried about the mexicans or Canadians killing me or telling me i can never go home. They don’t even think about it unless i date them, and even then theyre still more peaceful than a lot of the monsters here.
resources
I’ve lived in an extraction town in the continental US. It was dystopian, dirty, and poor. We were exploited abd stolen from. How the fuck did the border protect me? Protect the people who couldn’t leave? Especially jow with the abolition of OSHA the NLB and the EPA; what the fuck is the point? What does a ‘country’ do for me? How does it represent me? Please explain this to me.
I actually spend abouf half my time in an extraction town right now, one that got wealthy by also being a shipping/entertainment hub. People are dying on the streets. How the fuck does the border help them?
Explain how the fuck a border keeps me safe. To me, it just feels like a cage. Am i missing something?
Or maryland. The feds are not friends right now. Arguably ever, but definitely not right now.
first guesses
Not so sure. Arent they known for being a queer friendly town?
Stop pretending that’s how laws work, abd fucking gight.
Please.
No, if you think it’s bullshit it makes sense.