My father when he visits the city to see me refuses to use the subway, even though it's a five minute ride from where he parks his car - he ubers instead. It's because he is frightened being trapped in a box with the poors.

When i got into work, coworkers asked me how i got in and i said Subway, they joked about having to avoid getting stabbed.

My friends are voting conservative in the upcoming election because they've seen too many poor people on the street engaging in anti-social behaviour (being drunk, and talking loud)

It's fucking insanity to me.

Conservatives think consequences are extremely unfair. Everything is an act of god to them.

This really just comes down to people in a certain income brackets are uncomfortable being in close contact with a working class person.

That's why they don't like trains, that's why they don't like taxis.

If I was a rich man, the only thing that would really change is the anxiety of losing my job and not being able to pay rent would go away.

Insulting Mexico, the other party that we need to work together with...

Oh i wouldn't care if you had cropped it out by mistake, i only mentioned it because it looks like it made it into official publication back in the 90s with the typo - which i find interesting

The word 'to' was lost from one of the last figures.

Exemptions will only be issued until after the cheques to trump tower have cleared.

It is going to be funny (not really, because only I will remember this) when the CPC, who made a big stink over the LPC not prosecuting SNC for bribing the son of the Libyan dictator to get a business deal done, begin directly bribing members of the Trump Administration and his family.

I guess you're right, if you're a teamster whose pension just got saved, that's something you won't appreciate for a dozen or so years.

So clearly, stuff like that is a crapshoot and will never be attempted again. The only thing politicians will do is subsidize purchases for goods and services.

No national healthcare insurance because people won't appreciate that until they're sick. So just send out checks for 600 dollars to make things a little easier on people, it's way cheaper too.

The dude who played Roose Bolton would make a good Kelven timeline Picard

The idea of stranger danger was created to give the real predators cover

Those companies will just bribe him into writing in an exemption for them.

Updated your tag for the good of all lemmy users

Earlier they lost because they didn't support workers, now they lost because they didn't break up every food, healthcare, and housing company.

I imagine if they did break those companies up and still lost you'd find another aspect of the party that isn't to to your liking and pin the blame on that going on and on and on.

If improving people's material conditions worked, the Democrats would win every teamster or every person who relies on the ACA for their healthcare would vote Democrat and they don't.

The reality is that democrats lose because a huge chunk of voters spend 2 hours a day listening to the voice of a guy who sounds like their dad, telling them that Democrats only care about the gays or the blacks or the browns, and even if you think the republicans are weird religious freaks - at least their cruelty is good for the economy. They hear this idea repeated to them over and over and over and over again and when that happens the human mind starts to assume it's the truth.

Talking to right-wing people like yourself is always a useful reminder that it's not that we have a difference of opinions, but rather that you are all so fucking stupid, too stupid to even have a conversation with.

They bailed out the teamsters pension fund and had to fight Republicans tooth and nail to do it — didnt even result in am endorsement and majority of teamsters still voted GOP.

CHIP act made Arizona flush with manufacturing and construction jobs, still voted GOP.

The reason Democrats lose is because they have to campaign against a made-up Republican that is normal and reasonable and Republicans get to campaign against the Oberlin faculty lounge instead of Democrats

Wtf I never said I was afraid lol

Your life is a constant struggle, isn't it

So you just get overly sensitive when someone criticizes a place where you don't even live?

When people are arguing with you about unsafe alcohol, and you randomly bring up human trafficking because that's where your mind cooked by rural fear porn immediately goes — that's not making a good argument, sorry