matthew-sadler.bsky.social
Pedestrian safety advocate.
Democratic socialist.
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It isn't a stretch for almost any right-wing person in America. And that's my point. Seeing a fairly generic type of racism and Islamophobia and blaming it - and here's the important detail, without evidence - on "the Zionists" is hasty.
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So you've got nothing. Any generic Islamophobe in America could make such a joke.
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Where did you read that the person who sent the threat was a Zionist? I don't see that in any news coverage.
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There's no guarantee that there will be an election in 2026. I'm afraid that we've reached the point where the fascism can't be voted out. TBD.
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Americans never learn. The necrophilia and racism is too deeply ingrained. Americans love killing people or having people kill for them. This country was founded hunting Indians and slaves and the hunting never stopped, though the victims vary.
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Bounty hunters aren't required to have licenses or any form of public identification in many states. Check your state laws and complain to your elected officials if you live in one of the 46 states that allows bounty hunting.
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Correct. Who is the person in the video? Are people just assuming he's an immigrant getting rounded up because he's Asian? OP said bounty hunters.
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Setting aside all the crashes, being inside a car also does not prevent a person from being a victim of violent crime, harassment, or stalking.
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Bounty hunting is legal in 46 states. Anonymous thugs snatching people off the streets is not new. Bounty hunters were used to snatch Native children and send them to residential schools. Before that, slave catchers. There's always been fascism for Black and Native people. Now, the rest of us...
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There are 4 states that have banned it: Illinois, Oregon, Kentucky, Wisconsin. Some states have licensing and public identification requirements. But in many states it is legal, they don't need a license, and they don't need to identify themselves. Bonkers!
worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...
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It matters to people who are poor/homeless or who have reason to fear police brutality.
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Bounty hunting is legal in the majority of states. This has been a problem for a long time.
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There was never any un-learning.
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The fact that he feels a need to add a disclaimer that "liberal democracy" does not mean leftism is sad.
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Would undocumented immigrants or any other population face barriers with accessing such assistance? I'm trying to look at all angles.
What are some jurisdictions that have implemented such a scheme?
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It can be to the person themself or to the person who refuses "charity" but could stand to benefit.
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Wow, I didn't know all that. I thought the buses ran on pixie dust.
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And yet Mr. Sam is not standing on the Canada or Tuvalu or Chile parts of earth. He's standing on the US part, where we have a Republican party that espouses austerity rhetoric, & where I have scolded him for talking *like* a typical Republican. Stop wasting my time with beady-eyed self-absorption.
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I looked at a map and OP's rhetoric is still a common Republican talking point. OP is American and discussing American politics, sweetie. Mind your business.
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And in fact, I think there has been progress. 15 years ago when I was saying that liberals are right-wing I was almost universally gawked at like I was speaking Martian. Now, there are many ppl who will merely consider me ANNOYING and roll their eyes at my "purity" or whatever. That's progress!
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Yes, but "normal" Americans are idiots and the USA is way, way to the political right compared to the rest of the developed world. We should be rejecting America's national echo chamber terminology.
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Being a leftist means being a socialist, communist, or anarchist. And being a socialist is itself not necessarily "far left".
Liberalism is a right-wing ideology. If that seems like a strange idea to you, it is because you are marinated in the bubble of America's deeply right-wing culture.
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Free transit is still better for poor people than a stigmatizing dispensation.
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"But how will we pay for it?" is Republican rhetoric.
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I'm not exactly sure if I'm still a pacifist, and I'm fairly sure war is going to kill us all, but I nonetheless hope we might all live long enough to become pacifists.
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Yes, no funding at all, that's clearly what I said.
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I was a teenager and my response then to mass support for the War on Terror was "The majority of Americans are astonishingly stupid and incredibly evil" and time has only deepened that view. Most Americans are just awful people. I'm just stuck here because I'm too poor to escape this nation-prison.
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"household income"
There are people who have no income at all, nor a house.
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Ugh. If only loons like these would believe "God sent us medicine and doctors".
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Unless I have missed their accounts here, I do not see Andrew Friedson, Sidney Katz, Laurie-Anne Sayles, Will Jawando, or David Moon on Bluesky. But they all have accounts on fascist Twitter.
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Yes! Although I'm wondering why they didn't mention the stretch between Southwood and Crestmoor.
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Also:
"Widen sidewalks on US 29 to a minimum of 6 ft from I-495 ramps to Southwood Avenue."
"Install new bike bridge over I-495 on US 29."
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@actfortransit.bsky.social @ericnshepard.bsky.social
FYI:
"Recommendation...Add 6 ft wide minimum sidewalks on both sides of US 29 from Crestmoor Drive to Burnt Mills Avenue."
www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/Reso...
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I almost never drink because I don't enjoy the taste.
Never understood why quite a few people have tried to get me to drink. Weird.
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And if it were up to me, all the sidewalk bricks in Four Corners would go. They are messed up in 4 or 5 spots that I can think of.
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To be absolutely clear though...bring on the sacrifices! 🔥
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Yes. Although, that was also the case in places that did have laws. They weren't always enforced. And from what I've been told about the new Ann Arbor ordinance, that isn't being enforced either. At least the laws give disabled workers a better shot at by-passing burdensome accommodation requests...
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Would there be space for protected bike lanes without "sacrificing" a lane for cars, is what I mean.
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Hmm. Boilerplate about "suitable seats" is pretty common in lit about women workers during that time. Now I'll have to research this more, RE fed department policies. Thanks!
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Would there be space for protected bike lanes?
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Yes. I had to cross the Beltway interchange with University daily for work. Not fun. Not safe.
(And then ride through a portion of the Blair parking lot because the bricks along the sidewalk are so messed up)
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@ripnewellstreetery.bsky.social Did I hallucinate a proposed bike/pedestrian bridge between the YMCA and Blair high school? That would be amazing. I could have sworn I read this as a proposal, but have not been able to track it down since.
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I often scooter between Four Corners and Colesville, along Route 29 and then up 650. It's definitely tricky. There are now paint-only "bike lanes" along 650, but I don't trust them. The sidewalks are cracked and overgrown with shrubbery though. And a portion of New Hampshire has no sidewalk at all.
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The status quo of narrow sidewalks (plus no bike lanes) really forces everybody to be an asshole, competing for space. I feel bad scootering over the Beltway sidewalk between Franklin Avenue and Four Corners...but what else am I supposed to do? Or simply annoyed: no room to go around the pedestrian.
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Yes. Despite the "Cyclists May Use Full Lane" signs, nobody is suicidal enough to do that, so either the pedestrian or the cyclist on the sidewalk is stopping for the other.
I also complained about the poles in the sidewalk near the Flash BRT bus stop, but was told that would be a difficult fix.