I do think it’s important to reject the neoliberal demand that all services pay for themselves. I think a heat map showing percentages of local/state and federal funds spent on non-car transit infrastructure would be more useful and interesting. Or, a heat map showing the percentage of roads in each state which the state is currently able to afford upkeep on. As the big issue with our road funding model is that it’s easy to build, almost impossible to maintain.

Thought I had stumbled into a vore / feeder comm for a moment.

Those speeders would be really mad if they could read

Maybe I shouldn’t have been so crass. Maybe you shouldn’t have been so obtuse and avoidant. Mistakes were made, had I known your proximity to the people involved ahead of time I probably would have cut you more slack. More communication and explanation up front is always better.

A user wrote that someone who brandishes in public deserves to be shot.

You asked if that applies to people who open carry at McDonalds.

I replied to note that brandishing and open carry are different things.

You replied “Watch the video.” As there are several videos floating around relating to this event, and as the video in OP’s article does not seem at all relevant or the one that you reference, and you don’t offer any reason why some video should be watched, I found this comment to be dismissive, vague, and unhelpful.

So I replied with reference to the similarly vague and unhelpful meme of “read theory” in hopes of cuing you in to the lack of imformation without wasting too much energy on your behalf.

Joke went completely over your head. You began making a character argument on behalf Gamboa as you know the guy. Completely unrelated to where the thread began.

And then when I try to reel you back in to the topic of brandishing vs open carry, you tell me I’m shit at interpreting context.

Come on, buddy. Really? Really??? I’m not someone you should be angry at or fighting with. You seemed to have been confusing brandishing for open carry and I just wanted to make sure you were aware that those are completely different things.

What does this have to do with your fantasy of shooting people in a McDonalds?

“Read theory”

Adding another obligatory “brandishing and open carry are legally distinct acts” to the thread.

Only ~1 in 5 New Yorkers even own a title to a car. These policies very much create a demand for cars that wouldn’t exist otherwise. The lot in question is across the street from a stop on one of NYC’s main subway lines, and within 5 blocks of a major transit hub.

New Yorkers need to pressure their council members to push back on these policies. I’m sure that developers have the opposite ear of representatives and are also asking for an end to such rules. Representatives need to know that they are hurting, not sheltering, their constituents by resisting change. All of this money could be going to public transit improvements instead.

It’s propaganda.

Well then call me the outlier, cause I’m a childless man who has been happily working remote since before covid. I’d rather be jobless than go back to office work. I have a small group of non-work friends that I enjoy spending time with, and back when I did office work the majority of my friends were not work friends.

Fuck I’d hate the be the guy who stopped him. Non-zero chance that he didn’t actually stop a mass shooting, and ending up being the only party present who actually killed an innocent person. Seriously, I hope that guy has strong friend / family support and really good therapy, he’s gonna need it all.

If you’re paying for music, stay away from any music publisher that doesn’t give you the option of keeping a DRM-free copy for yourself that can be played back in perpetuity, unconditionally.

Yes we have that concept. We just don’t often have that reality.

Came to the comments for The Arrival mention, TY.

He wants more resistance to justify escalation. But he’s going to escalate regardless of if we resist or not. So the best course of action is overwhelming resistance, more than he bargained for, more than he can handle. He’s already polling unfavorably on all political matters, across the board. We can sink him even lower.

Not to incidentally glorify a bunch of aristocratic slave owners, but I think that’s exactly the sort of shortcut that the founders of the USA didn’t want us to be making, and I do agree with them on that matter. I’d rather have long, hard, good-faith conversations over how to safely and responsibly have as much freedom and individual autonomy as possible without infringing on the same for others, than give up access to specific objects and actions piecemeal in an ostensible attempt to curtail our lowest common denominators.

In terms of outcomes, there are about 400 million guns in the US and about 283 million cars. Yet gun deaths and car deaths have kept pace with one another for about a decade with roughly 45K annually for each, with guns recently edging out cars during covid. Statistically speaking, a gun kills at a rate of 11.25⁻⁵ Americans per year, while a car kills at a rate of 15.79⁻⁵ Americans per year.

However, I hope you’ll agree with me that we shouldn’t ban cars simply because they are capable of violence.

Well go on, show me the violent crime stats by country so that we can compare to semiauto long gun regs. It would also be nice if we could see before and after stats but I know that’s a tall ask and I’m not trying to be a sealion. Let’s just see violent crime stats, maybe just homicides per 1 million or similar. It sounds like you have access to this data.

Don’t show me only the mass shooting stats. We’re not trying to reduce mass shootings, we’re trying to reduce violence. We’re not trying to avoid having to see guns, we’re trying to avoid having to see bloodshed. I know, I know. You want to point out that mass shootings are a vector of violence that can be remedied by removing guns. This is true, taking away rights does mute a lot of issues related to irresponsible management of those rights. But you’ve been brushing off my suggestions that there are more just and fair ways to address that vector for this entire conversation. So let’s table that specific response of yours for now, and let’s just see the violence stats before moving on.

Nice try, FBI