Sheesh, apparently I'm not the only one getting a bit high tension. Cool it. I feel strongly about bombing kids, and caging them. It should be obvious why.
I'm leaving this discussion, I realize I'm asking you to be frank with your friends, but most people are hesitant to. I hope you think about this, but it's unlikely either of us will change, myself especially.
If Biden had sold weapons like this before, if Gaza was occurring at Biden's hands in 2016 having beaten dump, I would not have voted for him in 2020. In actuality, we have direct proof in 2016 onwards of caging babies on the Mexican border, yet your friends voted for him again without much hesitation.
I'm a democratic socialist, no I don't support genocide and made that extremely clear to anyone when it came up. Do your friends similarly denounce baby caging? Especially considering the direct precedent in living memory?
My dude... I can theoretically be compatible with someone on literally every point except detaining innocent children, and that's a deal breaker. We'll never be friends.
Maybe there's not enough selection of people around you, maybe it's just not important to you (which bums me out) but it's your life.
Hurting innocent people is 110% shitty, I don't care who's doing it.
No, but there are certain important things that I do hold very important and would struggle to connect with someone on if they disagree.
I believe America is the country of second chances, the land where if you want to get educated it will be available to you on fair terms, and so forth.
Now we're training teachers on how to damage efforts by ICE to detain the children of migrants at school to coerce and deport. That's not my vision for America, it's not right and I don't respect anyone who thinks it is.
I'm an older fella who supported BSD systems before transitioning careers, the damn fact that you can't just read a log file by default was enough to get my hairs up. I like using other simple tools to handle parsing for important info or events as well.
I still subscribe to the philosophy as you put it, a system is only as reliable as it's components.. the sum of simple tools worked way better than systemd ever has in my opinion.
The "forgetting the money" is one of the parts we city people grumble quite a bit about amongst ourselves whenever the upstate politicos play games with our funding needs.
Look, the goal of govt is supposed to be benefit as many as possible, though for some that seems to also mean ignore the few, which I strongly disagree with.
If we build an HSR system within the city e.g. by replacing metro-north tracks, city people immediately benefit.. but then the system can expand from there out to Schenectady, Albany buffalo etc. There's no reason we can't build your idea in a sensible, phased manner. We could go backwards too, start in buffalo and build south since the metro-north system is already fully functional.
I no longer live in NYC, but the years working for the MTA showed me a lot of the difficult, non-engineering problems to balance. Maybe there are ways to avoid the human problems associated with any large engineering project, but I don't yet know if any such shortcuts exist or ever existed.
For the record, we in NYC have unique needs that are sometimes time sensitive, see funding for tunnel doors after Sandy as an example. There was no intention to override or co-opt funds meant for people outside the metro area, we all live the beauty of the Hudson valley and so forth.
That need for expedience generates ill will nonetheless, I forgot how many politicos from the state area would purposely slow down city requests or legislation unless a deal was attached.
Get fucked you self-centered dickhead. Why go to work? What are you saving money for if it's in serious danger of burning down? Can you eat your cash if it becomes worthless?
Halcyon & on & on...