Man... I wish Jared Golden had had tough words for... I dunno... terrorists, traitors, insurrectionists... those who led, aided, abetted and sheltered them. Covered for them, lied for them, and lied to them and for them, driving them to violence?

Jared will always be a disappointment to me: brave enough to go help kill brown people for not my freedom and demand constant credit and recognition for it...

Completely fucking spineless in the face of fascist assaults on our democracy. But lobstahs, Jared. Lobstahs.

She's never looked like a leader. Ever.

Barely any of them have for a very, very long time.

The railroad industry made 20 bn in PROFITS last year.

If you don't support our RR workers getting paid sick leave and a little vacation you're a giant piece of shit and I'm not going to pretend otherwise for a moment.

So put down your anti-labor, anti-union mostly-right-wing bullshit and show up for your communities for once. They're not asking for too much and if you think they are you can fuck right off to suicide-net China where you belong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcUBxe0UvOQ

This guy.

If I show up for the Lobstermen will they start showing up for everyone else?

For example... probably time to figure out climate change is real and stop right-wing denying that shit.

Hey guy, that's wicked fah.

Sarcasm not your thing?

It absolutely does mean that. What're they supposed to do?

Wait?

I'll blame em:

The only reason CC theft is profitable is EXACTLY because of the scrap and salvage folks willing to buy what they absolutely know to be stolen materials.

I'll say it loud and proud. Yes. That - and the thieves - are who are to blame. The thieves would steal other shit if this wasn't made profitable by the existence of a completely wild-west, unregulated marketplace. It's that marketplace, and the ease of the crime, that make it such a problem. Police the marketplace because the ease of crime is difficult to tackle.

CC marking - and making the REVOMAL OR GRINDING OF SAID MARKS A CRIME, which makes being in possession of them a crime, would be a great way to address the recycling/scrap side of this issue... which is a primary way of combatting it due to the speed and ease in which a CC can be removed.

If LE rolled in and found unmarked CCs, boom, we got us a winner. There's no way to accidentally do shit and you've closed a bullshit blame hole.

Just... how?

" because the state didn’t have the workers"

Its actually because the workers are taking a shit. (using the bathroom, grabbing their food out of the fridge) Now - if you REALLY want to double the manpower at all these toll sites so that the booth NEVER has to go unattended... I'm sure the MTA would be happy to hike tolls charges by whatever massive amount it would take? This is the situation in Maine at least.

I'm sorry you have to take an extra step. I just asked about why they put the signs up instead of calling people lazy and understaffed. Turns out to be kinda sensical and it sucks you go through the booths sometimes when they're indisposed.

Maybe drop off a litter tray and solve your problems?

I did.

How do you all ensure individual liberty - in the context of societies that limit it without governmen oversight, protections and regulation which , to be honest, as our own history shows - only partially address the problem?

Seems to me libertarianism refuses to accept (despite screaming about individuals) that individuals - and groups of them - are fully capable of limiting the rights and liberties of people without "government," using only their collective biases and agreed-upon-bigotry to do so?

The "rights" thatlibertarians believe are "natural" or "god given" or whatever... that's not the case at all. And they are, in fact, existant only due to the blessing and whim of our communities and neighbors.

Where liberterianism leaves people up to the wolves... codified protections do not.

Well your use of ad hominem is ironic, isn't it? Almost... professional.

I like how impotent you are responding to me.

Libertarianism is, by definition, self-serving.

For example - they're supposedly big individual liberty people.... so they don't want the government enroaching on those.

Only they don't accept or understand that corrupt people and communities also do this... and things like governmental protections for marginalized groups matter.

You can't be pro "individual liberty" if - at the end of the day - you believe in a world where, by stepping foot on the wrong block, my liberties can be erased by the populace and their corrupt institutions.

My words don't do nearly as much damage as your vote.

I'm grateful I don't have to hear "I was homeless when I was younger so I grew up to be a heartless, lying, racist piece of tax-fraud shit" for another few years... unless, of course, someone decides to fuck off to Florida for good this time.

Dat's a spicy molester!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_proceedings_in_the_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attackhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_proceedings_in_the_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack

>The "woke" Military

If you want to to detail an actual loss in readiness... go ahead. I'll wait.

"The whole gun control lie"

What other nation has gun violence like America that you're proud to be compared to?

People don't need to be actively violent. They just need to look away when the violence is being done by parties they otherwise agree with.

That one can be said about lots of groups, institutions, parties, etc.

When they try to kill our democracy and the numbers don't move?

Then that defense falls flat. They might not all be bad enough to go flip the switch for the ovens... but if you just turn a blind eye to the trains going into the camps you're still a piece of shit.

Lot of train-spotters in the Republican party right now.

Maybe half the year? Unless we're publicly funding hot chocolate and whiskey cider.

Sure when they host a conversion event.