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šØš¦ Newfoundland expat living in Halifax, NS. Devoted partner & pet parent.
Autistic | Secular humanist | Teetotaller | Cookery nerd | Knits, apparently?
He/him | Progressive liberal | Anti-fascist | Make Nazis Afraid Again
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The people who say the things they want to hear are a representative sample, and the ones opposed are radical edge cases.
Always the way.
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Itās the Robert Moses of it all - people think they make choices. People think theyāre choosing to steer right or steer left, but they didnāt build the roads. The big choices got made for them long ago.
(with apologies to Brennan Lee Mulligan)
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āWhat does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?ā Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. āIt looks like an additional monthly user.ā
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He dismissed the results of that survey by saying not many people completed it, so itās not representative of what the city actually wants.
In unrelated news, turnout for for the municipal election was such that he received about 52,000 votes for mayor out of an estimated HRM population of 530,000
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STOP RESISTING
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He's clearly looking for 'strong mayor' powers, and he's going to use the disfunction that he has single-handedly created as proof that everything's out of hand, and only by granting him a crown and sceptre can we make sense of anything.
This is bad news.
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I hate to call the spade a spade, but these are authoritarian delusions. He's upending established processes, creating problems and sowing discontent, then getting in front of a microphone and lamenting that he 'tried his best', 'for the city', but the goddam city got in his way.
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Fillmore's turning people against each other, stoking division, and trying to paint himself as the beleaguered saviour being thwarted at every turn by the fools and villains who stubbornly refuse to fall in line when he tells them to ignore the evidence because he just knows better.
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This on top of his deliberate portrayal of cyclists as being a fringe minority, undeserving of consideration, his continuous lies about bike lanes as drivers of congestion who steal road capacity from precious cars, his continued shit talking of the rest of council - he's trying to start fights.
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By transferring the onus for their own safety entirely onto cyclists, he's implicitly forgiving motor vehicle drivers from any responsibility to ensure that they do not harm their fellow humans - bike riders are wild, man, you've gotta be a bit crazy to go and do something like that.
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He's dismissing the concerns of parents who are worried about letting their children navigate the city by bike, because people commuting in cars are safe, but people who want to ride bikes need to be brave because it's a reckless choice and those who do accept the risks of other people's actions.
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One encourages them to find alternatives to travelling by car by belittling, marginalizing, and vaguely threatening people who attempt to use those alternate modes, presumably.
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Clearly you're not cut out for it if you're worried about 'dedicated lanes'.
Mayor Bad Faith Fillmore says that a prerequisite for being a bike rider is that you have to 'not be afraid'.
Lot to unpack, there!
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3) Explain incredibly clearly what he means when he says, out loud, on radio, that to be a bike rider, you have to "not be afraid".
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If someoneās going to clutch pearls about cringe AI posts - whoās gonna tell them about the current state of Twitter?
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I hear the improv comedy scene in Isolationville is HOT HOT HOT right now.
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"What, you call this a birthday party? There's not even anyone here punching people in the face and telling them they should die. You should invite some of those people to your party, stop living in an echo chamber."
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to really split hairs, it was the latest episode of the new campaign, 'Cloudward, Ho!', but this was the only gif I could find featuring more than one Intrepid Hero.
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Come on.
Come ON.
Iām supposed to believe that the people rolling this horseshit out are smart folks?
Makinā it real hard to take any of this idiocy seriously, gang.
I didnāt /need/ to know how many of these motherfuckers would jump off the cliff just because they saw their friends do it.
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...are the hate crimes against white Christians in the room with us now?
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Well, as Abraham Lincoln once said, "suck it, nerds!"
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they've been militarized and trained to see civilians as 'the enemy', is my guess - that's been all the rage in american policing in the last couple decades.
they know they'll never be held to account, so they get to act out their worst impulses with impunity.
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unreal, right?
in fairness to the LAPD, there's *only* about 20-25 of them in a line, with their riot gear on, at an empty intersection, and she's one whole unarmed civilian, moving slowly, predictably, and unthreateningly.
...I can understand why they might have felt under threat and panicked.
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Oh, he held it, but no one saw it because heās still ignoring The Internet.
He just sat alone in a car and shouted. Camera wasnāt even on.
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aye, caramba
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He 100% wants to pick fights with the council - he speaks properly in the chamber and talks about respect and not making it into a 'bikes good, mayor bad' binary, and then gets out in front of the media and says things like "My colleagues don't care about congestion".
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...and in Suzanne's piece in the Examiner, she quotes him as saying he 'did himself a favour' and didn't read any of the social media commentary/feedback on his motion.
You plebs already voted me in, I don't need anything more from you. Blinders on, what I want goes.
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what if that one guy is deliberately dishonest and disdainful, though?
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por que no los dos?
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I kind of want to make a list of streets that are likely to see less then 80 trips per day and start campaigning for their removal since nobody uses them.
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THATāS what heās so afraid of.
This all makes so much more sense, now.
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Itās not quite back to the full-on Barrio vibes (PiƱa & Teo 4eva), but itās been getting more fun this year.
The āget rid of the jacketā grumpus brigade was a wild over-correction in vibes.
I think they can play well and not have to look miserable - youāre playing a game, boys. Enjoy it.
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Without the benefit of any previous positive experience, all Iāve seen from him is entitlement, derision, and, massive ignorance as to how anything fucking works.
The manās not making a good impression.
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Okay the pucker factor there was a bit high for my liking, but we scored enough runs to compensate for some unsuccessful bullpen moves.
Ah ya ya
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āHave you learned anything?ā
āNope!ā
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o captain my captain