ChristerMLB

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[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

No, Vance will take over, and that will be worse.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fear leads people to do stupid evil shit

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That sucks, and I hope you're wrong, I can't say you're wrong to prepare, though. Solidarity from Norway

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

True, but you could also band together with the other rich people and lobby for the inheritance tax to be abolished for a few years so you can give your children the inheritance before the tax gets reintroduced. A wealth tax doesn't have that problem.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

nice summary, thank you

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

The president is, and is supposed to be, just a dude – not a supreme leader. I get that it might not be politically expedient to sell them like that, but at least realize that whatever candidate wins – even an establishment favorite – they are subject to pressure from within their party.

So, join the party and push from within, or your union and push from there – or both.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Could he be seeing Trump less because he is no longer a White House Insider?

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

fair enough. why do you think that, though?

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (7 children)

that sounds like a slogan, not a strategy

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