☭POLITICS☭: Election Season Hell

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 11:24:49 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is advancing pedestrian safety by proposing a new rule to reduce fatalities and serious injuries among pedestrians struck by vehicles. The proposed rule would establish a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard requiring new passenger vehicles be desighned to reduce the risk of serious-to-fatal injuries in child and adult pedestrian crashes.

In 2022, 88% of pedestrian fatalities occurred in single vehicle crashes. The proposed rule would apply to passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less, including multipurpose passenger vehicles (trucks, SUVs, crossovers and vans). Data show that fatalities of pedestrians struck by the front of a vehicle are most common for multipurpose passenger vehicles (49%) followed by passenger cars (37%) in 2022.

[...]

The proposed rule meets a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directive to harmonize U.S. vehicle regulations globally to promote vehicle safety. This standard, when finalized, would align with Global Technical Regulation No. 9, with focused enhancements to ensure that uniquely American platforms, such as pickups and large SUVs, would provide the proposed level of pedestrian head protection. Those two platforms represented nearly a quarter of U.S. passenger vehicle sales in 2020. This action supports the Department’s advancement of safer vehicles in alignment with the safe system approach.

another Biden W!

Make believe “infrastructure week” vs infrastructure presidency

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 11:32:47 GMT -5 Percussionist Foster Grant said:

Sept 10, 2024 11:23:54 GMT -5 solidsnake said:

I think the young guy Rogan/Kill Tony/Tim Dillon listeners are a new voting demographic that will have legit consequences for dems. Dudes who think they’re much smarter than they are that will reflexively vote Republican cuz they hate woke shit and think they’re smarter than they are. Not social cons, cuz they are fine with abortion and think dense nuggs of fat buds is cool, but will be intractable voters who just won’t cross over.

Most of those people are already written into the Trump vote though. Trump's largely found who supports him, and it's probably good for 46-48% every voting cycle (as evidenced by his inability to win the popular vote on two separate occasions). Very few people in 2024 are just now stumbling across Donald Trump's "platform" for the first time.

MGTOW incel Joe Rogan freaks coming of voting age aren't gonna turn the tide as much as simple undecided independents will.

I think a potentially decent chunk of these not particularly engaged or reliable voters will hit their 30s and just naturally slide into steady Republican voters. And that wouldn’t have necessarily happened without the podcast bros as their lodestar. 

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 11:25:35 GMT -5 tomservo said:

Sept 9, 2024 18:57:17 GMT -5 tomservo said:

white trash of deindustrializationville Ohio furious that Haitians are the only ones in town with jobs

nailed it

Yeah, but those are jobs that real members of the community deserve. This is why we’re in a recession. 

[Porch Honky]

Sept 10, 2024 11:23:54 GMT -5 solidsnake said:

I think the young guy Rogan/Kill Tony/Tim Dillon listeners are a new voting demographic that will have legit consequences for dems. Dudes who think they’re much smarter than they are that will reflexively vote Republican cuz they hate woke shit and think they’re smarter than they are. Not social cons, cuz they are fine with abortion and think dense nuggs of fat buds is cool, but will be intractable voters who just won’t cross over.

I think you're overestimating how many of those types there are. Especially ones who would vote.

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 11:39:57 GMT -5 Porch Honky said:

Sept 10, 2024 11:23:54 GMT -5 solidsnake said:

I think the young guy Rogan/Kill Tony/Tim Dillon listeners are a new voting demographic that will have legit consequences for dems. Dudes who think they’re much smarter than they are that will reflexively vote Republican cuz they hate woke shit and think they’re smarter than they are. Not social cons, cuz they are fine with abortion and think dense nuggs of fat buds is cool, but will be intractable voters who just won’t cross over.

I think you're overestimating how many of those types there are. Especially ones who would vote.

I hope so. But legitimately almost every guy I know listens to some or all of these guys. It’s how they get most of their news. One of my buddies just got a ph d in neuroscience and he’s thinking RFK jr is kinda cool cuz Tim Dillon says so.

[carl carlson]

phd in neuroscience eh???

[johnny two cool]

we're in a recession?

[Cholo Molester]

Sept 10, 2024 11:51:51 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

we're in a recession?

despite what the Biden admin says, yes, we are in a full blown recession and its gunna keep getting worse. 

[Ass Dan]

If polls don't change and are off like 2016 and 2020 then Trump wins, if they're off like 2018 and 2022 then Harris wins.

🤷

[Ass Dan]

Sept 10, 2024 11:56:39 GMT -5 Cholo Molester said:

Sept 10, 2024 11:51:51 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

we're in a recession?

despite what the Biden admin says, yes, we are in a full blown recession and its gunna keep getting worse. 

Is this a joke or are you hard rocking?

[johnny two cool]

Sept 10, 2024 11:56:39 GMT -5 Cholo Molester said:

Sept 10, 2024 11:51:51 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

we're in a recession?

despite what the Biden admin says, yes, we are in a full blown recession and its gunna keep getting worse. 

Is it the Biden admin, or is it literally everyone with any level of expertise, from a popular Marxist blogger to the chief economist for the National Retail Federation?

[Sorley Boy]

That's honestly a perfect James K satire post.

[bonerinsweatpants]

lol we arent in a recession (although that term is so watered down anyways bc you can get 7 different answers from 7 different economists on what the definition of recession is). having said that, inflation and shrinkflation is still rampant

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 11:51:51 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

we're in a recession?

It was a joke.

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 12:34:46 GMT -5 bonerinsweatpants said:

lol we arent in a recession (although that term is so watered down anyways bc you can get 7 different answers from 7 different economists on what the definition of recession is). having said that, inflation and shrinkflation is still rampant

My eggs cost 75 cents more…RECESSION AGGGHHHHHH.

[johnny two cool]

There is a workforce shortage problem (predominantly public sector but not exclusively) and a public finance problem, both of which were brewing pre-Covid but have accelerated exponentially after lockdowns, etc. ended. There's commercial vacancy rates, there's a lack of public sector accountants, there's a lack of frontline public sector workers, there's an overreliance on shiny high-tech solutions that don’t work but get people excited, and there's the inability of wages to keep pace with housing expenses. That's not a recession, but it is bad. Very bad!

[throwdemgunz]

I took multiple rights on red driving around this morning. Feels so good when you ain’t got a bitch in your ear telling you it’s dangerous. The loony left will never understand!

[johnny two cool]

I <3 community engagement

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 14:12:41 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

I <3 community engagement

I can’t not think about zoning everyday because of my wife’s job and all of the anger and resentment about every proposed development. There is literally one stretch in the whole valley that ever encounters what one could consider traffic (resulting in an additional 2-5 mins of extra travel time, if you take that way, at peak times). So far, none of the new developments have squeezed the roadways with traffic. The joke in the planning world is everyone is a traffic engineer when a development is proposed. 

Also hasn’t been increased crime (that comes up a lot). In fact, people like to link Mexicans doing crimes with development. I assume because there are some Mexicans who work construction. So, if you see Mexicans—and there weren’t that many here 10 or 20 years ago—safe to assume they’re also criminals. 

[floorpunchchalie]

I am looking forward to hearing the hot takes tonight in this thread. Also Kamala is going to be our next president of the United States.

[solidsnake]

Part of it, as discussed, is right wingers think the cities have fallen or are at least uniquely unsafe compared to pre-Biden. So, increased density gets you closer to looking like a city, which is where the devil lives.

[solidsnake]

Sept 10, 2024 14:33:03 GMT -5 floorpunchchalie said:

I am looking forward to hearing the hot takes tonight in this thread. Also Kamala is going to be our next president of the United States.

Let the record show my take is the opposite of Chalie’s. Big egg on my face cum November, hopefully. 

[Deleted]

The MBTA Communities Act requires 177 communities served by the MBTA to zone for multifamily housing. Communities risk losing access to certain state grants if it fails to comply by Dec. 31.

Coupled with our savior and transit GOD Phil Eng



Finally feels like MA is doing what needs to be done. NIMBYs BTFO

[floorpunchchalie]

Sept 10, 2024 14:35:26 GMT -5 solidsnake said:

Sept 10, 2024 14:33:03 GMT -5 floorpunchchalie said:

I am looking forward to hearing the hot takes tonight in this thread. Also Kamala is going to be our next president of the United States.

Let the record show my take is the opposite of Chalie’s. Big egg on my face cum November, hopefully. 

She’s gaining more and more momentum as the days go by. She’s not a strong candidate by any means but she will most likely win over Trump. I think she wins Pennsylvania by 1 percent and North Carolina by 2 percent.

[johnny two cool]

Sept 10, 2024 14:33:03 GMT -5 floorpunchchalie said:

I am looking forward to hearing the hot takes tonight in this thread. Also Kamala is going to be our next president of the United States.

We’re talking about zoning, bitch

[carl carlson]

actually the momentum is kinda stagnating

maybe trump will go full brandon tonight that would be fun

[Reasonablepizza518]

I'm expecting a vintage debate performance from Trump tonight. He's gonna leave it all out on the stage.

[Deleted]

I've been watching polls like a damn libcuck.

[johnny two cool]

“Not a strong candidate by any means”

OKAY PAL

[Ass Dan]

God willing I will be asleep when the debate starts.