buckykat @ buckykat @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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PEVs (personal electric vehicles) aren't cars. They're ebikes and escooters and EUCs and things like that. Things you can carry up a flight of stairs or onto a train. They are most at home in bicycle infrastructure.

You could just watch the shows you don't want to be spoiled on.

I like rimworld, but I play it as a utopian anarchist commune simulator instead of a human leather war crimes simulator as intended

And bikes or PEVs for short range travel.

The solution is trains

Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

This Snidely Whiplash mf

In the US, the federal government's powers have historically been very limited, with many of the day-to-day laws that affect the average citizen's life being decided at the state level instead. This has led to conservatives pushing their unpopular policies at the state level whenever they can't succeed at the federal level.

In the early 1800s, this included whether slavery should be legal. Slave states insisted it was their right to keep slaves and the institution of slavery while also passing a federal law called the Fugitive Slave Act which would compel the governments of free states to capture and return people who escaped slavery back to the slave states.

Events like the hero John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry with the intention to start a slave revolt and his subsequent execution and martyrdom and Lincoln's election to the Presidency as the leader of a (at the time) very antislavery Republican party scared the slave states into seceding and starting the Civil War to preserve the institution of slavery.

After the war's conclusion, slavery was restricted to prisoners only, which is the primary reason why the US has such a high incarceration rate, and why that rate is disproportionately high among black people specifically. The military and government officers who had led and fought for the pro-slavery secession were pardoned and allowed to return to public life.

A few years later, the Compromise of 1877 withdrew federal troops from the slave states which allowed the white institutions of those states, often led by those same pardoned slaver officers, to use murder and terrorism to roll back the political gains black people made in the years immediately after the war and also to begin a campaign of historical revisionism claiming that the cause of the Civil War was federal imposition on the slave states' rights rather than the institution of slavery, despite each slave state's declaration of secession plainly stating at the time of their secession that the cause was to protect that institution, and despite the fact of the greatest federal imposition on states' rights leading up to the civil war, the Fugitive Slave Act, being in their favor.

Ever since, whenever conservative controlled states, which are predominantly the same states which seceded for the cause of slavery, are prevented from doing some horrible thing which violates their peoples' rights like racial segregation or denying gay people equal treatment under the law, they go back to crying about states' rights.

Don't need to change the constitution if you can get your council of unelected elders to decide it always meant what you wish it said.

More dead cops

The red pistachios were from Iran and have been under sanctions and embargoes most of the time since 1979.

The Supreme Court is already delegitimized.

Just remember that "the economy" means "rich peoples' yacht money"

You're either a Nazi or a useful idiot for Nazis

This is why we need more real, physically separated and protected, bicycle infrastructure. Signs are not a solution.

Economic warfare against Iran

Yeah sure keep dog whistling bud

Pearson sucks but PragerU is straight up fascist propaganda

Annas-archive.org to get books, ereader prestigio to read them on my phone.

Limited government involvement in the economy means wanting to kill poor people, which means wanting to kill minorities.