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  • Rewarding parties for doing nothing is good democracy actually 🤓 /s

    If America were a functional democracy the Democrats would actually court voters with real solutions to real problems. That's not their goal. Let's not forget that the country was founded as a rich boys club and the founding documents were designed to preserve it as such. That is still true to this day. You can't pull the Democrats left because that's not their fucking job

  • Infrastructure change at the scale you're speaking about is not unheard of. The Netherlands did it twice. First because Europe got the shit bombed out of it and building car centric cities was trendy, then second because they realized what a shit idea that was and reversed it.

    Sure, the Netherlands was never sparse in the first place, but nobody's asking for trains to farmer John's house in Nebraska. If the Netherlands can rework their cities to at least chillax on cars, so can American cities.

    I know using the Netherlands as an example is trite, but urban planners literally know the solutions.

  • Half the population of Germany makes it into the global 1%? So 40 million Germans are in the 1%, a group that is 80 million people in the world?

    People severely estimate how many Westerners there are. The US alone is like 4 or 5% of the world population. If you're in the west, you're in the top 15% of the world, but not likely the top 1%

  • There's the "mil" which is just a thousandth of an inch, also called "thou". Not really that rare, however sufficiently precise measurement equipment probably was rare when the gauge standards were conceived