The way I understand it, free buses are not a cost-effective way to get people to stop driving. You get a better effect by using the same money for more routes and higher frequencies.
As a social policy, though, it might have something to it.
If the approach is just “look for evil people and then destroy them”, or “if politicians piss the people off, and they’ll come for their head”, it’s likely to produce more evil through the fear that it creates. A good political system is predictable – politicians should know that if they do evil (clearly defined in law), it will become public, and it will have consequences (again, clearly defined in law). This should also apply to all powerful people, not just politicians.
At the end of the day, the goal is to control and counteract certain ambitions, not to create fear.
It is going to get worse, but it is inequality that is at the center of the problem. Inequality will be a problem regardless of what our mode of production is.
Fear leads people to do stupid evil shit
That sucks, and I hope you’re wrong, I can’t say you’re wrong to prepare, though. Solidarity from Norway
In that case, shouldn’t your focus be on building a broad political alliance of opposition that includes as much of the military as possible?
fair enough. why do you think that, though?
alright, I’ll give you a better answer.
I wouldn’t say I’m looking to make capitalism ethical, as much as I’m looking to make it harmless. The big problem is the high and increasing inequality, that eventually makes free societies impossible.
As for FDR: whatever. I neither engage in, nor approve of, political hero-worship. His legacy is complex, including maybe even the image of the führer-president that Trump is exploiting right now.
that sounds like a slogan, not a strategy
yeah, I switched to Linux on my personal computers once I noticed ads in the start menu, my work computer has win11, though
Let me rephrase: it can, and probably will, get worse. It is not in the left’s interest to hurry that process along.
I mean, this is clearly the same kinds of magical immigrants who steal all our jobs while sitting around claiming welfare all day.
dude, Notepad even has Copilot now
Pretty sure no type setter or graphic designer would use Word for anything else than making Word templates.
I’ll take that as a yes. Fair enough.
So wanting back to the post-war consensus is centrism in your book?
huh, I have to say, this is the opposite experience of what I have on the rest of the internet. Finally I can get into arguments with some leftists :)
There is a left wing in the democratic party - it is possible to get organized and help it win over the conservative wing.
The military is majority conservative, the same with the police, private security, and even the local gun club. Normalizing political violence is just about the dumbest thing the left can do in the US.
If you’re very interested, the Norwegian institute of transport economics has an article about it here: https://www.tiltak.no/b-endre-transportmiddelfordeling/b-2-tilrettelegging-kollektivtransport/b-2-6/
You web browser can probably translate it, or you can just check out the references at the bottom