I like it, the best of both ideas

Or any car abandoned on the tracks becomes public property and is auctioned off to improve the trams

I respect your experiences, but we have a lot of data that shows these cameras actually do save lives.

I don’t care if the kid threw a brick through my window, murdering a child is completely unforgivable and there is zero justification for it.

Imo, the only time shooting someone is even remotely justified is in the defense of someone’s life or as a very last resort when there are no other options.

There will always be these stupid loopholes

Initially, yes, but overtime we should be able to refine our laws to close up the vast majority of harmful loopholes

Storing cars is also devastating for the environment and society. We have as much land and resources devoted to housing cars as we do to housing people. I’ve seen so many houses that have garages as big as their house + a paved driveway + each city needs 3 publicly funded parking spots per car.

We need less cars. There simply isn’t a future were we beat climate change without getting the majority of people to take trains, buses, and bikes

Hey now, we also build bigger and bigger stroads and bigger cars every year which kill more and more children every year.

I swear we won’t stop with the urban sprawl until our entire country is covered in asphalt

Not surprising since they’re part of the capital class. Our laws exist to bind the poor (workers) and to protect the rich

A evil corporation lied to avoid legal responsibility for killing people? Unbelievable, I never would have guessed.

You know how road rage is a thing, but bike rage and walking rage isn’t? I suspect that driving is a stress multiplier which can easily bring out the very worst in people.

Public ownership of companies for the benefit of the public is a form of socialism, but Trump’s fascist oligarchy serves only the wealthy elites. Oligarchs hijacking democracy for their own benefit isn’t socialism.

Nah… no matter what they do, people - especially Americans, are too lazy and apathetic to care.

Apathetic is the key word there. And can you really blame Americans for being apathetic? In 2008, Democrats promised to give us socialized healthcare and the people showed up in record numbers. We gave Democrats complete control over the House, Senate, and Executive branch. And what happened? Nothing. They made up countless excuses on why they couldn’t help us so our healthcare system stayed as broken as ever.

Last year, what did Harris promise to do to help us if she won? Nothing. She wouldn’t endorse socialized healthcare for all, she wouldn’t support free college for all, she wouldn’t promise to connect all the major US cities by high speed rail, or to mandate that all working Americans have a minimum of 2 weeks of paid vacation each year + paid sick days, etc.

US politicians don’t give a shit what the American people want. They don’t even try to pretend anymore like they will help us. Instead, all they do is claim the other party will be more damaging. So yes, we are apathetic but that is because we live under a corporate dictatorship.

In the fascist US, yes. But the EU forced Apple to adopt Usb-C to protect consumer rights to not need to buy completely new cables when they switch to or from Apple so I expect the EU will force Google to let European consumers use their devices however they want to.

Reminder that cognitive decline starts at 40. By 70, your mind is mere shadow of what it once was. Yes, even Bernie is a shadow of the man he was when he was 40.

It’s like most things in America - if you’re doing ok then it’s great, and if you’re not then the rest of the country just pretends you don’t exist.

That truly is the US in a nutshell. The US is fantastic if you are in the top 20% (and you have zero empathy for people you don’t know), otherwise this country sucks.

Define better. They eat healthier (lower rates of diabetes and obesity), but they also spend less money on cosmetics.

Jokes aside, as an American, I wish the US had lost the revolutionary war. Commonwealth territories ended up with socialized healthcare, a far better democracy, and far better labor rights, while the US ended up with fascist oligarchy. No thanks. I’d gladly trade my coffee for tea if it means I get a real democracy instead of a fascist oligarchy

That’s infinitely better than the US trying to force everyone to drive monster trucks by 2070

The risk of dying on a train doesn’t increase based on the length, but crossing a busy intersection becomes exponentially more deadly the more lanes there are

Jesus. It is only safe to cross a single 3m lane at a time and this is 6 lanes wide!!!
The risk grows exponentially so instead of being 6x as dangerous, it is closer to 64x more dangerous