It’s interesting to watch someone try to blame the Democrats for trying and failing to enact solutions to the problem that killed her father, point out that she’s the only Republican she’s met advocating for bike lanes, and still not see how important it is to talk to other Republicans about maybe building more fucking bike lanes.
This is so unnervingly frustrating. Author claims we want the same thing and are talking over each other while recognizing they are the only Republican they know pursuing the thing the author claims Republicans want. When Democrats try and explain to Republicans that these things are good for them too (like single payer healthcare), they plug their ears but somehow it’s still the fault of Democrats and Socialists that we don’t have these things.
They don’t care about these things until it affects them personally.
I didn’t see if the author claimed to have advocated for bike paths before their father was killed. But I’ve just assumed that’s the case, and in the wild circumstance that I’m wrong, it’ll be more coincidence than anything else.
I’m so tired of these fascist-come-latelys jumping on that one specific topic that has now affected them WHEN IF PROGRESSIVES HAD OUR WAY THIER RIGHTS WOULD HAVE BEEN PROTECTED ALL FUCKING ALONG.
It’s also ignoring everything their fellow republicans are doing. Nevermind the secretary of transportations bullshit, local politics is where most of this kind of shit starts. My town put in protected bike lanes (protected only by collapsible plastic rods), and all the Republican f-550 Sherman tank edition truck owners bitched they couldn’t fit their tanks on the roads until they literally ripped them out a few years later.
But the Sherman is relatively small as far as tanks go, both in modern context and even back in its day.
The Sherman was the smaller, lighter, cheaper tank that wasn’t as good as most of its rivals on the battlefield, but made up for it by being cheaper and easier to produce, so they were able to field more of them and win through numbers.
It’s interesting to watch someone try to blame the Democrats for trying and failing to enact solutions to the problem that killed her father, point out that she’s the only Republican she’s met advocating for bike lanes, and still not see how important it is to talk to other Republicans about maybe building more fucking bike lanes.
This is so unnervingly frustrating. Author claims we want the same thing and are talking over each other while recognizing they are the only Republican they know pursuing the thing the author claims Republicans want. When Democrats try and explain to Republicans that these things are good for them too (like single payer healthcare), they plug their ears but somehow it’s still the fault of Democrats and Socialists that we don’t have these things.
They don’t care about these things until it affects them personally.
I didn’t see if the author claimed to have advocated for bike paths before their father was killed. But I’ve just assumed that’s the case, and in the wild circumstance that I’m wrong, it’ll be more coincidence than anything else.
I’m so tired of these fascist-come-latelys jumping on that one specific topic that has now affected them WHEN IF PROGRESSIVES HAD OUR WAY THIER RIGHTS WOULD HAVE BEEN PROTECTED ALL FUCKING ALONG.
it’s that classic republican talking point ‘why didn’t Obama tell us this was a terrible mistake even harder?’
It’s also ignoring everything their fellow republicans are doing. Nevermind the secretary of transportations bullshit, local politics is where most of this kind of shit starts. My town put in protected bike lanes (protected only by collapsible plastic rods), and all the Republican f-550 Sherman tank edition truck owners bitched they couldn’t fit their tanks on the roads until they literally ripped them out a few years later.
But the Sherman is relatively small as far as tanks go, both in modern context and even back in its day.
The Sherman was the smaller, lighter, cheaper tank that wasn’t as good as most of its rivals on the battlefield, but made up for it by being cheaper and easier to produce, so they were able to field more of them and win through numbers.
That is a good point and shows how little I know about tanks