Lauchs

Oh no, I get that. I think he's echoing that stuff intentionally but more to make us cry fascist etc. He loves our reaction to the dictator but only on day one schtick, his side sees it as a joke, we take it deadly serious and I worry median voters think "he was already president, we still have a democracy, these guys are over-reacting."

We can be simultaneously right AND lose the persuasion game. I'd rather win the persuasion game.m as that matters more than being right.

I think about Jan 6, with horrifies Democratic leaning folks but to a large swathe of the public, it doesn't seem to register as a concern compared to inflation etc.

Fair, I play more RPGs and whatnot where a knife takes 4 years to injure someone. (Though, a bad sword can take just as long because, I dunno, it's too dull to chop through this peasant's leather tunic? Goddamnit Ultima.)

That's a pretty bold leap. I'm pretty confident the guy screaming removed**removed on the street has bigger problems than the lack of free transit. (Also, if you've ever take a skytrain you'll notice how payment is rather optional for most folks with issues.)

Tourists bring in a boatload of money. I'm not even sure how you would enact a mechanism like this... A BC toll taker at every port, airport and land crossing? How much are we charging to pay for that, that somehow doesn't hurt tourism industries but also completely subsidizes our use of public transit?

I love public transit, think it's important but this seems more one of those "things I would like but don't seem particularly feasible."

(Also, if you've ever been on the N20 or even BLine and watched a mentally unhinged man threatening women, children, non white people or other vulnerable people, well... Not wildly sure I want to drop the barrier to entry to zero. I can be a scary looking dude and have had to use that at least 3 times in the last year as someone experiencing mental issues went off on a quiet brown guy, a woman and some teens respectively.)

"He knows what he is doing,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history who studies fascism and authoritarianism, said of Trump’s statement. “He chooses his words carefully.”

Yeah but not in the way this person thinks. I firmly believe a large chunk of trump's success is his ability to bait the Left/media into frothing at the mouth and making us seem like we're blowing things out of proportion.

It's why he uses stuff like lying press, to a student of history, that's a pretty clear Nazism. To a casual American, he's just hating on the press. Similarly with this, to a casual American, he really means deporting illegal immigrants back to their home countries, whereas to this author, well, you read the article.

I think back to the debate and how well Harris baited trump, it was so nice to see it go the other way and it worked beautifully. Hopefully, we can be wiser than trump and avoid taking his latest and future bait attempts.

I'm not sure they should win. Watching the electoral dysfunction in Germany and Israel is a hard reminder of the bizzare contortions that party coalitions create.

I just wish the under 35 crowd voted in primaries at rates comparable to the elderly, then maybe we'd see policies that actually helped instead of being the lesser of two evils.

I don't know how weird it is but my cat seems to understand that when faces are talking from the computer screen my hands will be free for the more important duty of skritching.

She has become a hit during team meetings, to the point where one time she was sleeping and didn't come prompting half the team to send concerned DMs.