You’ve convinced me: rail should be subsidised more and air travel should get nothing (unless there is no equivalent train route e.g. across the sea) .

This is my daily nightmare. How do you vet someone in skill, devotion and influence to make sure it doesn’t all collapse?

Beats whatever cumbersome recipe governments worldwide are trying to do to "keep kids safe"^TM

Funny, that can be reconciled at the other end with the maga bullshitting: “China is invading us with spies”. It’s similar to the war on terror in that the media would say “fear brown people” and then fundamentalists would do everything they could to validate that through media hysteria to get more recruits.

Sounds like their arch-enemies are not even the CIA and fascists from any country (they are not even that good at identifying them). What they truly fear and hate is russian dissidents and people who actually live in the Baltics, Poland and Ukraine and understand what is really going on and can deflate their skewed worldview. They don’t see them as enemies, they see them as traitors.