teslas_love_pigeon t1_ja87p96 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 3:58 PM

Reply to comment by LukeWarmCheesecake in MBTA won’t roll out $935M automated fare payment system in 2024 by weallgettheemails2

lol you people will continue blaming Baker in 2030.

You are absolutely delusional to not see that your politicians absolutely don't care about you. Why should they? You'll lap up all the garbage values they spit out while doing fuckall.

Did you happen to know that the Democratic Party in Mass had a complete veto proof supermajority in the legislature branch during all of Baker's reign? Do you know what this actually means? It means Baker didn't do shit unless the DNC approved it first.

But yeah continue to vote for the same politicians that figuratively spit in your face while telling you they care about housing equality or public transportation.

I mean FFS we voted out a politician that brought billions in federal transportation grants into Mass and replaced him with a woke twitter moron that has done fuck all but loves to ride the coattails of AOC (who is a better politician than Pressley will ever be).

AWalker17 t1_ja97o7g wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:48 PM

I think it’s worth noting that Pressley actually voted AGAINST the infrastructure bill. So not only did we replace the guy getting the transportation grants, we replaced him with someone who actually voted with Republicans against the infrastructure bill. And even worse, we’re likely stuck with her because no one in their right mind would vote for a Republican and there hasn’t been a whisper of a potential primary candidate since she was elected.

teslas_love_pigeon t1_ja9ou53 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:35 PM

Yes, it's truly insane how stupid the voters are but it's okay they're voting for people that want to "help" us without ever questioning what that help actually is (spoiler alert it's mostly suppressing new development, public transit, and job opportunities).

I'm sure if you're wealthy you love it because you get to talk about how much you love helping the poor and minorities while voting for politicians that will do everything in their power to make sure poor people can't live or work in Boston.

0bsessions324 t1_jad0ans wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:39 PM

It's a known and quantifiable fact that Baker's been meddling with the T since long before he took office.

Baker was the guy who gutted funding for the MBTA to fund the Big Dig. It takes a pretty big sense of self delusion to not notice that a lot of the T's current issues are at Charlie's feet.