Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

My fb is disproportionately full of 35+ yo academic faculty women who love Warren and there’s no fucking way any of them drives an American car.

I let my Ativan script lapse a long time ago xp

silby otm, go off

I ride my bike around including to work, but also have a subaru :/

i'm sorry, but isn't this the bidet thread?

This seems like a great opportunity to leverage our languishing I Love Cars board

why don’t you drive an EV?

will post if we rename it I Hate Cars

what are EV's flaws?

I hate cars just a tiny bit less than I hate Nazis

i'm sorry, but isn't this the bidet thread?

― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:33 (one second ago) bookmarkflaglink

itt disagreeing on the best way to clean up this whole rump mess

dont have kids, have a diesel car, take the bus to work, fuckin hate ppl who take their brats on public transport tbh

its a tough puzzle

voted for trump

I grew up in a rural area without public transit. I hate it and got away like twenty years ago but if it weren’t for cars I’d be stuck there cuz I’m too lazy and slow and not an eager walker it’s not near anything, so point for cars allowing me to escape to a pedestrian utopia.

ban cars, ban Christmas, ban billionaires

- absolute minimum 50% of cars and vans in towns and cities should be a PAYG public utility. book in advance for guaranteed use, unlock on the street if available.

- Christmas is fun, nobody should have to spend it with their families. it's cool that there's an entire strand of pop music that is only listened to one month a year, and it's great when there aren't many people at the beach so you can really concentrate on your book and have a good shot at a wave

- heads on pikes, or voluntary relocation to a 2bdr in public housing (you are allowed 18 months to divest and to campaign in yr council area for improved standards in public housing)

This is a good conversational detour, highly recommend we continue to discuss driving norms and nothing but for the remainder of the evening.

(I only drive when I have to, do not own a car, have train commuting down to a science)

Texas has upgraded their voting tech, and I think it's a positive change. The old voting terminals were 100% electronic.

Not everywhere. I voted at a Hindu temple near Houston and it still had the old machines. That new system does sound great, maybe we'll have it soon-ish?

On a related note, I sat around for a few minutes to wait for the rest of my group to get done, and had a grim laugh overhearing this volunteer reading aloud the Republican referendums to an elderly voter: while as a Democrat I got to vote "Yes" on universal Medicare, housing and food for all, this guy was deciding whether to allow school prayer, border wall funding, and mass deportations.

What is yr stance on thousandaires, as I am briefly one of those for a few hours every other Friday and cannot afford a pike if we're meant to supply our own.

gocar sucks, sic. you have to leave them back where you picked them up.

xxp

Disappointing it isn't the whole state, guess it's just a local thing

not under this system deems (or other real world ones)

its the big flaw with it here

I had the printout voting machine but the screen was less responsive than one of those Coke touchscreen machines.

If I got rid of my car, who would drive my principled friends around?

xxxxxp

What is yr stance on thousandaires

ideally they are also functionally eradicated, by giving everyone access to the same level of social care as a current millionaire

pikes are fully socialised though, and maintained in a public location with multiple public transport connections

In a pinch you can use a novelty-sized pencil.

pike places

and mark it

(like, they shouldn't be in the public square per se, as kids shouldn't have to look at them if they don't want to. but anyone who wants a nice afternoon contemplate ought to be able to go by and cop a squiz.)

I wouldn't drive if Orlando wasn't a hilarious malfunctioning toilet whose busing system takes you 2 hours to get 5 miles across town and the public train only runs M-F and only travels on a straight line to very specific areas nowhere near me.

as it is, I risk death just about every day driving and hate it.

.....at 2.5 miles an hour?

the bus takes 2 hours to get five miles because it's routes are all over the place and there are far too few of them, not because they travel at comedy tricycle speeds.

besides I don't drive a bus, if I wanted to put hundreds of lives at risk, I'd just throw a buncha gators into the Amway Center

also cos you gotta like make ten bus switches along the way. I've used other states' busing systems and they make more sense than ours.

My city’s mass transit is some weird rideshare van thing, which is somehow a 1000% improvement on what came before.

fuckin 38a takes twenty minutes to get me to work, and i have to pay like a full eight quid a week for this shit

IS that a complaint because that sounds fucking GREAT!

anyway wapo projects VA for Biden, VT for Sanders

cool msnbc interspersing results w/ Biden eating ice cream

they are jubilant

IS that a complaint because that sounds fucking GREAT!

― DJI, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:56 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

;) reminding my uslxors what the civilised world is like

I would trade u my 2 hrs/day on the train but tbrr it makes for pretty top-notch reading and writing time

oh you get a seat eh

In my day we counted ourselves lucky to be dragged behind the train whilst holding on to a loop of rusty barbed wire

And we liked it

Etc

Bloomberg "outpacing" Biden voters over 45 in North Carolina, MSNBC sez.

it me the guy who decided to vote for biden after I saw he won south carolina

...And when I say "barbed wire" I mean "a half-dozen angry venomous snakes," etc

Bloomberg just won...

... American Samoa

Fun fact: It's the only US territory named after a cookie

so that's the billionaire island ive been hearing so much about

Lol Tulsi got a delegate from there too!

health care the top issue in VA, per preliminary exit polls. And Biden won those voters 2-1 over Sanders.

— Rick Klein (@rickklein) March 4, 2020

hahahaha

I've opened a bottle of wine! fuck everything!

so did I!

k3vin, come over. I'll mix a couple Negronis.

Raytheon has excellent benefits

Fuck everyone more like xp