things you're secretly kinda fascisty about

feel like most of us are not so secret w/ this but let's see

I think racists should be killed.

modding

Hating comma splices, adding "up" to verbs, and drivers who go 25 mph in the left lane.

Everything that annoys me, which is everything.

parades

schools should be federally funded so that they all have equal resources. i guess you can't stop rich people from privately contributing to schools in wealthy neighborhoods OR CAN YOU

otm

private schools should be made illegal

I think people who disparage education and achievement should never be allowed any type of employment or profession above menial unskilled labor.

oxford comma

fascism

if you have a 'politically incorrect' view of lincoln or the civil war i am going to sing the battle hymn of the republic and shell your house to the ground

People who abuse or molest their children should be sterilized.

i have a lot of feelings about racial and economic integration in schools but i can't figure out whether that should be done at the school level or at the housing level first

lol goole otm i have a lot of feelings about lincoln too

pros:
public education
Star Trek

cons:
advertising
Star Wars

I actually kind of get bored by parades, but I wouldn't mind sitting up on a dias with a shotgun and every time I fired off around the people in parade would have to cheer and throw their hats in the air. Then I would sell their hats in ebay.

I'm fine w/ all parades being made illegal

they are pointless

Comprehensive evidence based sex-ed should be mandatory in each and every school in this country starting at the elementary level.

otm

i love this thread!

(i meant to hyphnate evidence-based and not sex ed - oops)

everyone on this thread otm

guns and cars should be banned forever

automatic tickets for any speeding

students who goof off in the classroom should be expelled immediately

Alfred OTM re: comma splices.

Not bothering to fix smartphone typos -- I want to take your phone away from you and drop it in raw sewage.

modding

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, February 13, 2012 11:53 AM

Meaning you approve of heavyhandedness? I like this!

People who abuse or molest their children should be sterilized put down.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, February 13, 2012 12:57 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't be so obv max, everyone in the world knows that guns and cars should be banned forever

there is a moment in dr. horrible's sing-along blog (shut up) where neil patrick harris, the villain, says "the world is a mess and i just need to...rule it" and rarely have i so fully identified with a television character.

sing along blogs

I could make a long long list of health care related ones but abortion should be covered under all insurance plans regardless of reason or number or anything tbh.

OTM

come on the point of these threads is challops don't go for the easy stuff

oh okay. i was thinking forced economic and racial integration at the housing level could be carried out alongside a program to move people back into city centers from the suburbs /pandering

again, you would have to be insane to not agree w/ that

whoever said due dates in libraries in the other thread, otm

it's hard because what's challops in american political discourse vs. what's challops on ilx, you know?

lol xp to iatee

PIZZA

CAPITALISM

talking on cellphone while driving should be illegal and equivalent to a dui

democracy is dumb, you should lose voting points for every dollar u earn (start off with 1 million points, millionaires get no points, children get 1 mil points cos they have no money etc)

pizza otm

I secretly yearn for the imprisonment of my political enemies, in a facility where they could enjoy the benefits of publically provided health care, nutritious food, free educational opportunities and easy listening music piped into their well-appointed cells.

whoa

xp to m bison's next-level proposal

winning vote totals are like...spongebob 1 trillion pts, tupac 1.1 trillion pts, barbara bush 3 pts

2nd-4th grades in the USA should be entirely taught in languages besides English

wow m bison just solved all of our problems

sure u can practice your religion every day if every day u want to be forced to eat dog shit, the choice is yours!

I mean if you think that is a dick move try biking around PHL which is all one-way streets w/ parked cars whose doors will open and hit you and whose owners will scream at you for running into their open door

true but it was an unfairly weighted comparison

i see now that the problem w/ this thread is that it's called things you're secretly kinda fascisty about when it should really be called things you're secretly really fascist about.

no such thing as a partway fascist

indie rock

people who think they get no tax breaks on federal taxes, but have home mortgages and more than one child

we're subsidizing your house and kid, stop whining

90% of thread recommendations are instituting public goods in somewhat fascisty way.

we're cruel about our kindness

Also: a few wks ago I saw a guy biking A) the wrong way down a one-way street B) at night, with no lights C) TALKING ON A CELL PHONE BIKING ONE-HANDED. That made me p IA

like dont get me wrong i kick wing mirrors off've fuckers on my way by, i just see more reckless cyclists than drivers is all

stevie, you'd love montreal. saw a dude riding between two moving lanes of traffic, going the opposite direction, in the middle of the road

o_O

being a non-reckless cyclist takes a lot of patience/skill in a city

also a certain cognitive dissonance w/r/t statistics

Laws that should be passed:

• Cyclists need to have front and rear lights while riding at night
• Everyone with a driver's license needs to take some sort of cycling awareness course and LEARN THE FUCKING LAWS

I hate when cyclists blow through stop signs, but have no problem with them doing a california roll through them, hypocritical, I know

I mean it's immensely frustrating bcz they pass these laws that are actually really cool (like the 4-ft cushion) but there is no way to enforce them and no way to report people who break them and be taken seriously

xp

http://osaka-steakhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/California-Roll-4.95.jpg

ya a lot of problems could be solved if speed limits and many other laws already in place were actually enforced

that's why I'm also for fascisty cameras everywhere

Cyclists need to have front and rear lights while riding at night

Already the law in the state of Ohio. And it specifies a red light in the rear and a white light in the front. I have two each, actually, yr standard battery-powered blinky lights plus these.

I know people who have this weird irrational anger, a couple years on, that there were bike lanes added to this street near my home. It used to be a clusterfuck of lanes, parking, and unpainted lines as the city decided what to do. It was either a four lane road (two in either direction) plus occasional turning lanes, or three lanes with parking, or w/e. Now it's mostly two lanes of traffic, a center turning lane for about half the length of the road, and two bike lanes. There's also lots more parking.

The only real thing a driver had to learn was that there is a turning lane for right turns where you cross the bike lane into what is usually the parking lane. It's easy, you look for bicyclists, then merge over when the lane has a dashed line. People RAGE about this. Note that this entire stretch of road is 1.5 miles. A mere two blocks up the hill is a four lane road with next to zero traffic, so if you really wanted to avoid this, you could go up there. All of the numbers so far indicate that shops along the stretch are making more money, the number of accidents has gone down, and there's more foot traffic.

I DON'T GET IT.

people hate change

I think the rage comes from the fact people want to take the most direct road, drive as fast as they possibly can, and not have to actually look for things near the road. We have places where you can drive like that, they're called suburbs.

nah man that's called italy

as someone who didn't own a car until age 28 i'm very sympathetic to cyclists but shitty cyclists (that is, all the cyclists in my neighborhood) enrage me. i think it should be perfectly legal to mow down some beardo fuck going the wrong way down a one-way street.

5 years dungeon for thread derails

The 10 best drivers I know are still 10,000x the danger to themselves and others than the 10 worst cyclists.

ok I cannot tell you HOW many times a fucking week I almost hit a cyclist because they're not obeying the traffic laws they're supposed to obey. running red lights, etc.

three or four day work week whatever makes most economic sense but you ~have~ to directly contribute to the construction of entire cities designed by rem koolhaas (maybe) and the organization of massive rio de janeiro style carnivals for the entire population.

I like these suggestions because they seem taken straight of the SIm City 2000 model for urban planning.

The 10 best drivers I know are still 10,000x the danger to themselves and others than the 10 worst cyclists.
ok I cannot tell you HOW many times a fucking week I almost hit a cyclist because they're not obeying the traffic laws they're supposed to obey. running red lights, etc.

― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Thursday, October 4, 2012 9:40 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

go slower

very very fascisty about drivers bitching about cyclists, and i drive everywhere.

I hit three whole cyclists this morning and I still hate when drivers complain about them

fuck off, Matt P. I follow the law.

I don't blame all cyclists for the antics of these clowns that surround my college campus, fwiw -- I think it's an engineering student thing.

my brother's just been in a bike accident :( on way to hospital now. Jinx.

DARRA. Shit, I'm sorry. Speed to his side and take our support & concern as you go.

:[

best to you and your brother

good luck.

thks guys. Spoke to him and he's ok but banged up a little. Phew

thank goodness!

bicycle meets automobile never ends well, but banged up a little is well to the better side of the spectrum

pizza

pssh, who needs an automobile present to have a bike accident

mh otm, no cars involved,

jumper caught in front wheel at speed, no helmet. Big forehead gash, likely be carrying a decent scar for life, likewise from lip to nose (which is broken), large chip off front tooth, broken fingers, maybe torn calf muscle, shock and concussion. And lucky at that.

uuungh I will only be reading that description once

I feel like I got away relatively unscathed with two broken wrists, one of which was unnoticeable to me

what kind of jumper was he wearing, that it could get caught in the front wheel like that?

he had it on the handlebars, he is 32 fyi

sounds horrible. i hit my face hard into the ground in a non-bike accident a few weeks ago and it hurt like absolute hell. the hard bone of your head just smacks right into the unbelievable hardness of the road and any soft tissue in the way just gets smashed right through like it isn't even there. good luck to the poor guy

Securing my load when biking.

(me and everyone else reading this thread)

i am p fascisty about fascists