I actually just found it on Google Earth for shits. It's super easy to find if you know the city. Caution, OP.

Because clout chasers use that hashtag to speak out against her. It's fucking stupid. Like quote tweeting Ben Shapiro.

I think it's difficult for a lot of people to imagine a functional public transit system. In my city (small, but still a city), our buses are scant and unreliable, there's no light rail, and Uber is the only way to and from the airport and Amtrak. How can the average person (drives their car to a workplace) be convinced that this ineffective, politically vulnerable system is worth investing in? I'm convinced this lack of trust in our transit is why our metro area sucks to travel in and is dying culturally.

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big o7 to you dude

Thanks for your support, but honestly, I feel guilty. Going along with all this just to keep my job is enabling the exploitation of the working class and their children. I should probably be drumming up support for a wildcat strike instead of just submitting, but I'm too tired and scared to rock the boat.

When you grow up during the Bush Administration and Obama runs for president when you're 16, you actually trust a politician. You know you're not supposed to, but Hope and Change. He's going to make all of this better, you think, with your stupid teenage brain. Then you become an adult in Obama's America and you see life get harder for everyone you know while the media tries to convince you things are as good as ever.

Bernie Sanders appears and starts making enough sense for you to find yourself trusting another politician. And yeah, his ideas are good, but he gets burned by the media, loses the primary, flips for his party, endorses a platform that embodies none of the priorities of his supporters, and then gets blamed for splitting the vote anyway. Twice. You resolve never to trust another politician. Entrenched interests have total control over the electoral process. Republicans and Democrats will both roll over when it's convenient. Electoralism doesn’t work.

You're disillusioned with the lies of the ruling class, but it's not just you. Thousands of people are learning how to use the internet to organize direct action. Class solidarity is waking up. It's a long road ahead, but it looks like hope and change are on the horizon for real this time.

^I’m here right now. Anyone know what happens next in the political optimism arc?

Also, he's said before that he actually can't give away money faster than he makes it. Like the infrastructure for handing out cash isn't adequate for how much worth he has.

First of all: disgusting. But also, I believe it. It's a massive operational problem to move around that much cash and the laws make it easier to accrue wealth than to redistribute it. His assets need to just be seized so he can stop playing god.

enshrines power grids as a legitimate target

Check out what the US did to the civilians of Iraq during the Gulf War. (Might be paywalled. I pay for nytimes because I'm a lib.)

Here are the highlights:

The assessment indicates that Iraq's electrical power industry may have been damaged well beyond the intentions of allied war planners, who developed a still-secret weapon that dropped thousands of metallic filaments onto the electrical network at key points to create huge short-circuits and blackouts on the night of January 17th, when the war began. This was followed by precision strikes on power plants.

In addition, allied warplanes wrecked Iraq's civilian telecommunications system, described as a total loss by one estimate; and the bombing campaign seriously damaged the national network of roads and bridges, crippling commerce

The Bush Administration's internal findings parallel those reported by a special United Nations mission to Iraq in March, which concluded that because of the damage inflicted on it, "Iraq has, for some time to come, been relegated to a pre-industrial age, but with all the disabilities of post-industrial dependency on an intensive use of energy and technology."

the Pentagon appears to have miscalculated the multiplying effects on public health of its large-scale destruction of Iraq's electricial power system, which fed civilian as well as military industries.

The system powered water purification and sewage treatment plants, the loss of which led to a sharp increase in disease during and after the war.

A report issued by a Harvard University study team this month said that "the collapse of electrical generating capacity has been a crucial factor in this public health catastrophe." The team predicted tens of thousands of additional war-related deaths by the end of the year, a finding the Administration has not disputed. "Without electricity, hospitals cannot function, perishable medicines spoil, water cannot be purified and raw sewage cannot be processed," the study team's report said.

Later investigations estimated the civilian death toll to be at least 200,000.

Subtle, but important difference between "arm the proletariat" and "everyone gets a gun."

Yeah, except the US government would never give you a gun without programming you to use it against someone who doesn't deserve it. Users here might have anti-propaganda goggles and use their weapons for good, but I don't want the government arming everyone and training them. That's just the military by another name. That's the IDF.