The US was built on steam trains going literally everywhere

a societal virus that’s been a befallen parts of our species as far back as the stone age

There have been a lot of examples of large, advanced civilizations living in a way that didn’t harm their environment (i.e. Amazonian cultures). Pretending Capitalism (or police) is a force of nature or part of human nature plays into the ruling class’ cards.

We just kind of spread out everywhere quickly and made the train locations somewhat irrelevant.

Do you know any US history

a brutal dictatorship which violates human rights on the regular

Don’t you think you’re a little harsh on the US?

That’s because they’re politically illiterate. The important difference is the economic model and its end goal. Is it to make a small elite super rich? Is it to meet the peoples’ needs? The US is extremely efficient in creating a small class of super rich people (and by that I mean corporations too) while China is extremely efficient in switching to renewable energy and expanding high speed rail.

What would aliens say? Oh sorry, you’re good, it’s those other ones in your species that are the bad ones… ?

If the aliens were as advanced in systemic analysis as humans are, they wouldn’t say bs like that but “Your species is not the problem, but you seem to have a societal virus that forces most of you to destroy your planet for the benefit of a tiny elite class. This seems to be the problem”.

Btw dblsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de’s tone does not seem hostile to me at all. They’re just brutally honest.

Thank you. The problem is the rich, the problem is capitalism/colonialism, but it’s not too many people. Genocide wont solve any problems, overthrowing the billionaire class will.

Step away from the lathe

In Germany it really depends on the ethnicity of the driver. Law enforcement and the courts will be much more lenient towards ethnic Germans

the desperate

A yes the poor desperate Mercedes drivers trying to vehicular manslaughter someone for being stubborn (but right)

About the only real intensive agriculture historically is rice paddies

Amazonian, Aztec/Maya and some northern American pre colonial people practiced intensive agriculture to support large cities. Crops included corn, beans, squash, cacao, hot peppers, manioc, pineapple, potato, sweet potato, and a lot more.

What feature could you possibly want that signal does not have? What’s inconvenient about it? Never used WhatsApp and am genuinely curious.

some people kill a few people, some people kill a lot. Both are murderers. If you can support one it shows your moral failure.

Were they not?

I’m really not sure what the intent was here.

Political illiteracy from a hexbear user? That’s certainly something I didn’t expect.

Tell me more about how democrats are not like republicans. How they’re not owned by the billionaires. How they didn’t deport people. How they implemented medical care for all. How they codified Roe.

This is not “both sides” but quite the opposite - there’s a good and progressive side (top of the stick) and a depraved and evil side (bottom of the stick). While the parties differ in their demeanor (e.g. civility, rule of law), their goals are quite similar, which is why both are at the same position on the political spectrum.

I’m with you but the snark is a bit much

There’s a lot of assumptions in your angry reply - and you should be angry. Just not at principled progressives, among them a lot of POC and queer folks, who did not vote for a party that never really did anything for them. You should try to overcome your naivete and accept the obvious - that this current development was inevitable with a Democratic party that is only different from Republicans in the sense that they keep up an act of civility that only ever applies to conservatives. Just look how vile the party establishment attacks Mamdani but had no problems compromising with, and clapping for Trump.

Stop attacking leftists and start forming coalitions (but this time NOT with blue conservatives), because the time when you had the luxury to do so has passed.

Has the thought occurred that these people might not be shopping but commuting? Forced to commute on foot like some medieval peasant? You’re ideology is showing

This is why the Democratic Party sucks so bad. The never offered people something to vote for. They didn’t even offer something harmless - they only ever offered to drive off a cliff more slowly. When in power, they never did anything against the DHS, the MIC, ICE, the Patriot Act. They didn’t even talk about fighting landlords, the bosses, the rich. The Dems even refused police reform, instead increasing budgets. The only thing the party elites ever fought fiercely is Bernie Sanders and the progressive caucus.

The Democratic Party is just as much to blame for Trump as the GOP. Stop blaming progressives for this miserable one party state - start holding your politicians accountable.