The conservative brain has now become an engine of pure reaction. A lib could propose prayer in schools and cutting taxes on the rich and they’d :frothingfash:
Austin banned them and the Texas legislature made it illegal to ban plastic bags
It makes sense. Gas tax pays for infrastructure, and you still need money if cars are electric.
Didn't California almost do that? Gas taxes pay for highways, and they were righteously angry that wealthy people who got electric car subsidies wouldn't be paying their fair share of the roads.
I think one of the midwestern petrostates implemented an EV Sin Tax. Like, it got through their legislature not as a a replacement for the gas tax, but as punishment for any gotdang libruls who would buy an EV instead of doing their patriotic duty to support the petroleum industry. Maybe one of the dakotas?
Plastic bag bans are just recuperation and greenwashing. Plastic bags are not the problem, capitalism is.
what'd actually work is taxing stores for single-use plastics but noooo only the consumer can eat the costs of going green
Instead they just banned plastic bags outright and let the stores charge for paper bags as compensation for enforcing the mandate.
Now that I think about it that is a perfect encapsulation of neoliberalism.
CFLs were Al Gore nerd bullshit made from mercury with weird color spectrums, but LEDs seem pretty great, fuck reactionaries lol
yea that plays into it too but i think theres a deeper pathology at play here. Owning the libs is a fun treat but it’s not mother’s milk.
They're sorta handy though
Paper bags are nice and all but they will rip if you put too much heavy stuff in them. Also, better hope there's no rain or your paper bag is gonna dissolve on you
:I-was-saying: I always forget the reusable bags at home and I don't trust paper bags
They have. But its typically "prayer for everyone without respect to denomination" and "tax cuts for Californians and New Yorkers" so its easy to spin that as "Brainwashing our good Christian children!" and "Giving money to blue-haired communists!"
These conservatives view the actions of liberals and urbanists like the Batman views the actions of the Joker. Oh you're building walkable cities, Joker? Is that so you can trap them all inside in an evil plot?! What's next, parks for kids? You're sick, Joker.
If you want another example of CHUDs projecting, ask them their thoughts on what motivates leftists or even libs. A good amount of times, they'll say it's trolling.
parks for kids
neoliberals demolished so many community centers because they want nonwhite kids to be weak and incapable of throwing a ball, same reason Gov Reagan banned guns in California
This is what the joker should've been. Just Joaquin Phoenix doing praxis and the batman showing up to beat him up w the cops and calling him sick for feeding orphanages
https://youtu.be/S7M24KrqhBw
But Joker is a libertarian. Or Discord mod. Or something like that.
No really, I am stuck in a small town and I had to overhear this a couple times from some particularly WASPy neighbors. "Well, you'll stay here and learn to be a real man under our watchful eye unlike those [slur] elitists who moved to the city."
My God white suburbanites are so fucking boring its unreal. Why the hell are the only places worth a damn in :amerikkka: so fucking expensive, despite hearing about how they are so "undesirable"? If California is full of lowly non-model-citizens. The least that could happen is that California is cheap, but no, fucking Hitlersville, Nebraska is the closest there is to an affordable option.
European comrades really do need to start weaponizing "What are we a bunch of Americans?" against any rise in hitler particles.
I am once again calling for the complete sequestration of north america. We should not be able to contact anyone outside other than to request asylum (which should also require a communist party membership card as proof)
:grillman: This is an attack on man-culture! How am I supposed to trick
myselfothers into believing I'm a big, bad, manly-man without my dually, lifted, Sherman tank?Shermans are physically smaller and have better view lines than modern lifted pickups :yea:
Almost all new pickups in the US have worse low-height visibility than an M1 Abrams.
Me: "You could go to the gym, even plenty of conserva-"
:grill-broke:: "NO! Work gotta be my only hobby! Sorry I'm too IMPORTANT to exercise, loser!"
"Also, I don't exercise, but if a Civil War broke out, I would totally be the hero. What do you mean, the most important skill in surviving a fire fight is the ability to find cover and be able to get to it? Why would I need cover? Look at how badass this gun I own is!"
Red states are going to be twenty years behind blue states at the rate they're going, and that's a generous estimate.
