konkondragon.bsky.social
🪽Andréa + 🛰️ Ciel and 🦊Mira / aka: the Firmament system / she/her / 🇵🇭🇪🇸 / 26 / known tf hazard and Wifes Girls! / θ∆& / ❤️ @ehksidian.bsky.social + @bolibob2.bsky.social ❤️
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WOMEN. GOOD. I'm not just a lesbian I'm a fucking lesbian bundle. We're three entire lesbians
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as a trans woman (double jump) dragon (glide) fox (sliding-animation long-duration dodge) my movement is whack
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also a good candidate for this
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if you put more than X number of engines on your vehicle korolev's ghost himself enacts vengance on you
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sexy ass machine, too bad russia moment
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🛰️i like the idea that maybe they pulled a China and invented the crossbow relatively early on, or haad a strong culture of bowmanship or even javelineering. or even just. spears. i can see a spearfighting tradition
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no yeah that's not what im proposing at all, yeah. that shit sucks im sorry
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🛰️ It really is the worst, especially for a gal with as long a history of rejection and being betrayed as she does. Her rsd going off touches on trauma, too
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Weh
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the absolute horror of "knowing how much infrastructure actually costs"
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awful combination: being approximately three millimeters distant from your friends politically and also having crippling RSD, would not reccomend
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I wish I wasn't so autistic that I was completely incapable of just joining what everyone around me thinks. Or that I was any good at shutting up. Or that even my most milquetoast beliefs didn't make people raise their eyebrows at me. Bweh.
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WAIT WHAT?
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that's running a system badly. poor stewardship of the project
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oh that shit is awful bullshit, that's not what I'm talking about at all no
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I tend to be a bit suspicious of things that sound like a universal fix it solution, call it a personal philosophy thing I guess. Our world is too complex for there to be so few keys...
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twigging my instinct for "this feels to convenient. is that money gonna last. Is it even gonna be achievable to do that. does it even add up mathwise"
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are people willing to pay higher taxes for free transit too. Because as appealing as taxing the hyper rich is, I... It feels like it's being thrown around as an instant fix for all funding issues
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reducing costs I can be more amenable to, but I'm worried about how popular demands to basically drop the funding floor out from under already struggling transit systems are
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exactly. what I'm saying is that in that exact context, talking about making the transit free is... It's not the right time. You rebuild the systems first
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idk it just feels there's a lot of Common Ideas Going About I'm simply unable to put my faith in because I see so many flaws in them and this activity like hurts my relationships because people think I'm a reactionary or some shit when really I'm just worried about accidentally making things worse
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it's a place by place thing. Places with successful free fare programs seem to be ones that had their systems already well developed and funded
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exactly.
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has fares =/= for profit either. fares on a public or semi public system means more of that revenue to reinvest into the system
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I mean, sure. Public good is a goal. Reduced fares and even free in the long term is a goal. But I'm talking about the now, and the state of many transit systems struggling to keep afloat let alone actually expand to usable capacity - it's not the time for a sudden move to free for most places, imo.
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This combines to make people go "tax the rich and decimate the defense budget" as the ur-solution to all government funding woes but it's a position that doesn't hold water unforch
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mhmm
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I think a lot of people are willing to say that now but will fucking lose it should it actually happen, tbh
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also in the US specific context I think people think a LOT more money goes to defense in the US than it does
I think people are being misled by the way charts seperate the mandatory and discretionary spending - defense is the majority of discretionary but it's dwarfed by social security etc
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The numbers are inflated! Musk doesn't actually have that much liquid cash, and if he tried to sell his shit to get it he'd probably cause a small market crash lol
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also everyone forgets that most super rich guys net worth is based as much on companies and stock they own as their actual liquid reasonably taxable assets, even with all the tax evasion.
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and especially if you want to tax the ultra rich into nonexistence as a category - congrats, you did that, now where's the money gonna come from longer term
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the answer is almost always "tax the rich" and it's starting to feel a little bit like something that's thrown around as the do it all solution
Even if you did that, you run into the numbers problem. Infrastructure is that fucking expensive. Taxing a handful of rich guys isn't gonna fund it all
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I'm tired of hearing about after the coming revolution. I want to hear about actual concrete plans to build transit and shit in the now
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maybe this makes me a "shit lib" or whatever but I'm more focused on the immediate problems of the near future and the now within the systems that currently exist than distant let's dismantle capitalism type solutions I hear a lot around me. I'm talking the day to day fight to make things better