My megaproject ideas are mostly pretty standard. I'd build a high speed rail network across North America, and build and expand metro and regional rail systems in and around every city. I'd turn all cities and suburbs into fifteen-minute cities. I'd decommodify housing, and build ten million units of public/social/non-market housing, mostly three bedroom units. I'd link those last three policies together by building TODs around the new Metro and rail stops. And I'd build bicycle networks in every town and city and connect them to the TODs. I'd build bridges and walkways across skyscrapers. I'd put a bidet in every American toilet (uses less water than toilet paper apart from being more comfortable). Fiber internet in every home. A heat pump in every home. An induction stove in every kitchen. Phase out fossil fuels and power everything with Pumped Storage Hydropower and Geothermal. I'd make the US go Metric.

But my truly crazy, obsessive idea would be to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar. Or I'd purge all French influences from English.

  • Moss [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I honestly think that straight people don't actually exist because no-one is 100% straight. Like no straight man is attracted to every single person with boobs and a vagina and no straight woman is attracted to every single person with a dick. Clearly people have preferences for genders but gender is also not real. In a world where everyone expressed their gender freely and faced no backlash, I can't imagine anyone only being attracted to cis people of the opposite gender

    • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      So do gay people not exist also? The problem with the "everyone is bi" narrative is that while designed to invalidate straight people's sexuality (fair enough, heteronormativity is bad), it also does the same for gay and lesbian people. Lesbians are not going to "find the right man" but that's exactly what that idea would imply if it was valid.

      • ElHexo
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