Better late than never I suppose, but If the Dems were serious about passing their agenda and protecting it, this would have been on the table as soon as Biden was elected, so I don’t expect this to go anywhere.

The solution is obvious. Install urinals in women’s bathrooms, and issue every person without a penis one of these.

Motorcycles have a maximum volume

They already do, at least where I live. The problem is that they sell aftermarket exhausts that bring the volume to an illegal level, and cops don’t care.

I’ve seen a bunch of articles about it this past week. With Biden there were a lot of prominent liberal voices calling for him to step down, not to mention the absolute lack of enthusiasm within the rank and file that was showing in polls - with Trump the party’s rank and file are on his side no matter what, so if a prominent conservative calls for him to step down they will be ostracized for it.

Music from 2004-2010 is the best and all other music is for old people or stupid kids.

the world record

Nobody needed to be a world class athlete in order to sustain themselves through hunting, that’s what the spears were for. Human sexual dimorphism is a lot more minor than what most people assume.

Is America at war with Mexico? No.

That’s it. That’s the whole explanation.

those poll numbers are fucking insane, I had no idea it had gotten that bad. We already have more cops and jails than any other country - what the fuck do people think increasing the budget is going to do!?

There is no reason for this is to be case. We could literally just stop enforcing the border right now - fire all border patrol agents, demo every single wall - and things would be fine. The undocumented immigrant crisis is 100% man made, and the purpose it serves the ruling class is that it creates a labor pool that has no legal protections.

That was the thanks he got for the ACA

I was paying for health insurance when the ACA was passed. My cost went up and my coverage got worse, and nowadays I can’t afford any coverage at all despite making too much money to qualify for Medicaid. The ACA increased “access to healthcare” but it was an absolute, unmitigated failure - Obama got exactly what he deserved for it.

Hardest ones for the majority are probably landback and reparations. Less hard but still pretty hard for Americans writ large would be a big transition to public housing and mass transit, since for many Americans most of their wealth is in their house value and a huge part of their concept of freedom is in their car. Anything that threatens the suburbs - whether that’s making cities better and cheaper or increasing land taxes to better match the true cost of providing services to non-urban areas - is basically impossible to do in America as it currently exists.

Defund the police is a hard sell outside of the minority communities that face the worst of what the police do. Reform the police is a little easier to sell to libs, but they’ve been “reforming” the police basically my whole life and the only thing that’s happened is the budget keeps going up and they keep getting more and more military vehicles.

Less hard but still opposed by the majority is any kind of actually-effective industrial policy. For example compare how China captured 80% of the world’s solar production - by investing a trillion dollars over the past decade directly into green energy companies, some run directly by the state and some run privately in partnership with it - to our own largest green energy investments - which was smaller than our oil and gas investments in the same bill and didn’t create any kind of control over the market at all, just incentives for private businesses to possibly chase after - and it’s clear why we’re falling behind or losing our lead in basically every single sector. But propose that the US Government should take a page out of China’s book and invest directly in production and people will screech at you about how central planning doesn’t work and how the government can’t do anything right.

It’s like this for policy after policy after policy, no matter how granular you get. Bike lanes? People think those increase traffic. Giving benefits and a minimum wage to Uber drivers? Roundly rejected. Demilitarizing the border and legalizing most of our immigrants? Keep dreaming! Just about the only progressive policy that gets widespread support is Medicare for All, and even that depends on how you word your polling question.

IMO almost all of what I just laid out is due to a messaging deficit from progressives. We’re certainly in a better place than we used to be - I remember the 2000s when being anti-war or pro-lgbt got you sent to the American gulag - but we need more people and orgs with a national profile pushing for these issues and not immediately folding on them in the name of party unity.

Your best option for a sidecar is to find something used that’s already set up. Before I bought my current bike I test rode a Triumph that had an Indian-made sidecar (the country, not the motorcycle brand) attached to it, and that bike was pretty nice but I couldn’t afford it at the time.

But if you’re in Europe, then Chang Jiang has new bikes in the EU. It’s got a modern engine too, not just an updated old engine like Ural has. It’s a Taiwanese company AFAIK, so it’s separate from the Chang Jiangs that come out of mainland China, which I believe are all still refurbished military bikes from the 60s. Dunno if they’re in your country or not, but I was really disappointed to learn that they don’t sell them in America because it would have been my preferred choice.

It’s actually a brand new Kazakhstan-made 2024. Its got the 2WD gear, but you only engage that when off roading because it makes turning even harder than it already is.

I’ve always been attracted to “third options”. Cars are boring, sidecars are interesting. I prefer to ride my regular motorcycle when it’s just me, but I go with the sidecar when I need to take my dog or carry a bunch of stuff and my regular car when I need A/C or heat.

Bought a Ural motorcycle. Planned to sell my car to afford it - but then nobody bought my car, but then I managed to increase my income and afford it anyway.

It’s the most dangerous thing I’ve ever ridden. It’s great.

getting a sneaky beej

I get that you’re comparing it with Trump’s flagrant and near constant flaunting of the law, but also don’t forget that Bill was an Epstein regular. He abused his position for sexual favors and we shouldn’t rehabilitate that.

I remember when I went to Germany and saw apartments with stores on the ground floor, blew my child mind at the time but it’s so obvious it hurts.

As long as they don’t add any “if you own a business in a disadvantaged community for two years” BS to the end of it, neat policy. Would be great if they paired it with something that will bring prices down while helping people who aren’t in the “can potentially afford a house” income bracket, like a massive federal public housing program.

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storm the capitol

take selfies

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Trump gets a second term