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  • So you see one party that's actively burning things to the ground, and is likely to swap elections with a series of genocides, and another party that's not undoing the bad things the fascists did, and you say they're the same, and then vote defend voting in a way that empowers the fascists. You think you're being coerced because a terrible option exists that you should avoid? Wait till they're in power.

    You understand why I think this is moronic, right? Childish fucking virtue signalling that risks democracy. As I said, work to make the Democrats better literally every other day of the election cycle, then vote like a goddamned adult - like lives are on the line.

  • I've been clear I think induced demand will be an issue here. There's no dispute on that, but you're refusing to bite the bullet on whether these more extreme teething issues (which I'm asserting aren't induced demand) will stay.

    If you say the delays will stay, I'm confident you'll be proven wrong in fairly short order - the traffic will ease, proving it's not induced demand. The scale of the induceed demand can be fairly measured at that point.

    If you don't think the delays will stay when the induction factors remain unchanged, you have to concede this isn't induced demand - it's short term teething, which is my position.

  • Brevity isn't your strong suit. I'll keep this simple.

    I assume you wouldn't argue that the current delays will sustain for the foreseeable future. The induction drivers won't disappear for the foreseeable future. With those 2 things being true, how could you say these delays are induced demand rather than temporary teething issues with opening?

  • every country except the free republic of Iran are turbo zionist^and that's why shooting their citizens is justified

    Strong opener there.

    Can I call that (the IDF indiscriminately killing Palestinians) an "act of resistance" ?

    You could call a nuclear power occupying a territory, and operating it as an open air concentration camp, restricting water, power, movement, food, and trade, killing the people there an act of resistance, but you'd look pretty silly.

    the tabloid who made up that (beheading babies) claim

    The IDF isn't a tabloid that's publishing headlines about their genocide.

    I can't really see how they could have built the tunnels

    I won't bother with the evidence - I'll just point out that you're defending bombing a hospital... To achieve what?

    they hamas did share the videos

    Of the babies the IDF lied that Hamas killed? No.

    If you weren't desperate to defend a genocide, you wouldn't have to say such stupid shit.

  • Not that it matters, because the standard is any of those points, but which 3 don't you think it meets?

    I'm not familiar with the claim that the UN committed genocide against the Serbians, but if true, that would be bad - what's your point?

  • I'm not defending genocide lol

    I'm disagreeing with you that genocide is happening. 20 years from now there will be Palestinians

    We still have Jews in Europe - are you denying the Holocaust, or is the standard you pretended to care about to dismiss the UN definition of genocide a lie?

    Israel needs the support of the US - they can't act in an unchecked manner, which is why it's been a slow burn until the anti-Israel extremist group they backed to displace the moderate created the pretext they needed to escalate things.

  • Why do you think I assumed that? I certainly said nothing of the sort.

    I did in my first reply to you.

    Because you seemed pretty passionate about defending people engaging in that sort of behaviour. Again, the one day that isn't for that is the one day democracy is on the line.

  • Induced demand is (like I said) definitely a thing, and will almost certainly be a meaningful factor here, but to point to massive delays a couple of days after opening the most complex underground road network in the world, where loads of people are stopping after taking wrong turns (e.g. the side you access the Anzac bridge has switched) is obviously not induced demand.

    Let the immediate adjustment period cool off, then take a look at it - I'm sure the induced demand will be there. There's no need to point to teething issues immediately after opening and call that induced demand - it discredits the very concept.

    I lived a few hundred meters from it, and currently live a few km from it - not that I think it's relevant to this discussion.

  • I assume you're a consistent piece of shit and deny the Holocaust for the same reason?

    Again, the definition of genocide has already been met. You can't blame the Muslims for that one unless you're going to tell me they already managed time travel.