MystikIncarnate

I'm in Canada, the only thing we have in ample supply is land.... If you're not in a city, you're either driving through farmland, or a forest.

Nahh

No. I also don't own a Toyota, or a pickup. But I need to go to my city in "middle of nowhere". Your high speed train, local transit buses, and even taxis, don't go where I live.

There's lots of cases where vehicle ownership is not a requirement. There's also plenty of examples where if you don't have a vehicle, you're just not going anywhere.

I live in the middle of nowhere, I am basically obligated to own a car.

Circumstances have always demanded that I have one. Whether work demands, or simply being able to travel away from my house at all.

If I lived and worked in a city, at a job that didn't demand a vehicle, I wouldn't have one.

The only thing cars are better at than public transit and/or riding a bike (or similar), is traveling long distances. I'm not talking about your commute to the office; I'm taking about driving a percentage of the way across the country.

In that context and that context only, vehicles move more quickly, more consistently, and without needing as many breaks. With the obvious caveat of: traffic.

Other than that, for any notable Metro area, public transit should be the default, not your backup plan when your vehicle won't start.

.... You think that living in China, under the CCP, somehow provides a better quality of life than living in North America?

You lost me chief.

Their infrastructure might put ours to shame, and I'm not going to say that everyone lives in poverty there, there's billions of people in China; but when it comes to general happiness and quality of life? Nah. I don't believe you, and I don't agree with that assessment/opinion.

There will always be a market for relatively short term living spaces; a gap currently filled by rentals.

Any person who is not living in a place temporarily, eg, for school or a temporary job posting or something, should have the ability to buy a home at an affordable price, without fail.

The housing market is saturated with house flippers and people with more money than sense looking to become a landlord so they can have an "income property".

IMO, all rentals should be either run, controlled, or at least strictly overseen by a specific branch of government dedicated to the task. Anyone who wants to become a renter has to get their rental property approved for renting, and approvals only happen if more rentals are strictly required.

Jes, estas dekoj da ni.

For me, it's enough for anyone to turn their back on fascism and vow to never vote for the party that endorsed fascism again.

Yeah, they're shit heads. But they're people too. Anyone committing to be better, has a chance.

Punishing them for doing, what they thought was the right thing to do at the time, won't endear them to critically thinking, nor voting for the opposing party. Right now, we need them to vote these fucks out and keep them out.

Trump may be grand pubah now, but there's a huge line of people behind him that are just as bad, or worse.

I'd say this is silver lining on a very dark shitstorm cloud.

Can we though? We've never seen a sitting US president get thrown out of the job forcibly. Some were under investigation, or indicted, but stepped down voluntarily. The courts didn't kick them out of the job.

I do not believe, for a second, that Trump would ever be sensible enough to voluntarily step down. By the time they dragged him through the legal process of ending his term, his term would have ended anyways.

Even if we started today, the time that he would still be in office, actively harming America and Americans, would not change. We are unable to stop him because there's simply too much red tape involved; not that you could find someone to charge, and/or prosecute him.... Which is a whole other problem.

The damage is actively being done and getting worse. It will continue to get worse. And the only thing that could bring this insanity to a rapid conclusion is a radical and illegal act against the man himself. Honestly, I don't expect anyone to be able to "Luigi" Trump.

I'm with you. Too many opinions all up in here.