A regressive tax on the poor would be increasing taxes on everyone including safe drivers and non drivers to make all the changes to the roads necessary to get the same amount of accident and fatality reduction that you get with adding speed cameras.

If people think it’s safe to go past a school at 50kph, that road is built improperly, or the school is built on the wrong road.

Your using people very broadly there. Some people see a narrow street next to a school and think a reasonable speed is 30 kph. Some people see that same road, don’t notice the school and judge they can go 50kph. That second person needs some enforcement to discipline them otherwise they’ll keep using their metric for safety, which is far from what a normal person would measure, much less a traffic safety expert.

Narrowing streets and adding speed bumps is expensive, and adding curves just isn’t possible in most places. Why do that when you can put up a camera that’s cheaper and are effective at reducing speeds, and thus accidents and fatalities. By picking the more expensive solution you’re basically asking safe drivers and non-drivers to pay more in taxes so that reckless drivers don’t have to pay tickets.

The only argument against them is the one the guy laid out in the op-ed, i want to speed and don’t want to have a cost for my reckless driving.

His campaign funds on hand are put at $4.4m, and his campaign is eligible for $2.2m more in matching public funds.

So mostly from small donors as the public match is only for small dollar amounts.

Meanwhile…

Adams is barred from receiving matching campaign funds, the city campaign finance board having found he had violated related laws.

I agree with you that there are certain issues that will require long incremental complex change that is hard to sell to a populace addicted to short simple sound bites. I also believe there are a lot of issues that can be implemented in a congressional term that can be summarized easily, but dems refuse to do them because it would require large systemic change that there donors don’t want. Messages like Medicare for all, free childcare, student loan forgiveness all funded by a wealth tax on billionaires. This is a very popular, simple message you can give to the masses while at the same time laying out those long term complex technocratic plans for those who care.

The dems are only giving those technocratic plans though, and it shows as less and less non-college educated people are voting democrat. We can say theyre just stupid sheep but those sheep are a majority of the population and if we don’t cater to them, we’ll never win another election.

I am not, nor any normal person, is gonna read that 92 page platform. I am commenting about the messaging they are giving to the masses, like it or not orders of magnitude more people see these Gavin tweets then there platform and this is what’s informing there view of the democrats, and that view is terrible. They are at a 30 year low in approval rating, even with the unpopularity of trump to play off. What do you think explains this if not shitty messaging? Cause I think we can both agree there platform is nominally better then the Republicans, yet your average person doesn’t believe that.

And the Republicans did have a platform, it was project 2025 and it was full of a lot of extremely unpopular shit. Did that stop them from winning all three branches of government? No, because no one reads a platform.

This is why democrats are still losing to trump, they can’t give any sort of positive vision for the country. They’re turning into reactionaries so whenever trump does some bastardized version of progressive policy, they don’t say we’ll do that but better, they say that’s dumb and we won’t do it at all. So anyone who wants the current system to change ( a majority of americans) they see trump as the only one who’s even trying it.

If Trump says he’s gonna bring peace to the middle east, they need to point out how shitty his plan is and how bad he is at negotiating and then give a better plan, not brag about there close connection to war mongering psychopaths in Israel.

If trump says he’s gonna raise tarriffs to bring back jobs, they should point out how untargeted and useless they are and put forward a plan to use them in combination with industrial policy to make green industry in America, like China did.

If trump is taking 10% of intel to probably just sit on, they should say we’ll use that stake to guarantee workers rights and to keep jobs in America, not call it communism like some reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy.

Still hot as hell. The central valley, and basically anywhere more than 10 miles inland that isn’t elevated, is insufferable in the summer. Sacramento has a high of 102 today

I understand people making choices despite popularity, it seems a lot of people here are of that category, I’m concerned with the people who are choosing not to join a cause because of its lack of popularity, leading to the issues mentioned above. I think this second group is a larger percentage of the population then the first group. I think we can agree that these causes gaining popularity is good, even though they can have value without popularity. So getting that second group into the cause would be good.

I think what your advocating is to just evangelize the benefits and then people will come. But I think there are a lot of people that even if I could explain every benefit of Linux, they’d still stay on windows citing one of the above benefits of popularity, same with a lot of the causes listed above. If we are to say evangelizing is the best/only method then we leave a lot of those people for which education is not enough.

I was looking for people who were at that point of being educated about a cause, but weighed it it less then those benefits of popularity and continued on in the capitalist consumerist system. Then maybe something else pushed those scales to the other side and they chose to join the cause. What was that experience? Was it having a child? Was it an experience with death, spiritual experience, revelation, drug trip, etc. I guess that’s the question.

I wouldn’t say Palestine is a losing cause. All the ones I listed are minoritarian, some in the low single digit percentage of people, especially in the US. A majority of people in the US and a large majority of the world want a ceasefire. It’s not failing due to lack of popular support, its failimg because a small minority of very powerful people really want this genocide.

What makes you think a given person prefers the capitalist options?

The fact that they vast majority of people choose the capitalist option. You could chalk some of it up to lack of awareness, but even those that are aware still tend to go for the default capitalist option. Out of every normal person you’ve explained Linux to in real life, how many do you think made the switch? Yes individuals may choose them but the vast majority of normal people aren’t.

vegans are not bothered by restaurants not catering to them because they simply won’t go

Speak for yourself, I’m a vegetarian and often get annoyed by the lack of options, and that’s in a very liberal city. Not everyone has your same moral conviction, my girlfriend is a vegetarian too but will eat meat if it’s the only option on the menu. You can say she’s a fake vegetarian or doesn’t truly believe in the welfare of animals, but she still cares a hell of a lot more than your average person, so if she’s is still occasionally eating meat then your never going to get rid of animal products for the average person who doesn’t give two shits about animal welfare.

The fact is the more good vegan options there are the more people will be vegan, or at least partially vegan. Most people value taste and there food preferences more then animal welfare, environment etc. But if there’s an item on the menu that is tasty and they prefer and its vegan then they’ll choose it, and that’s a win. But most chefs aren’t putting there time into making a variety of tasty vegan food because the markets not there. Yes there are people with a higher moral conviction that value welfare over taste but that is a slim minority who won’t be able to stop all the abuse the industry causes.

Also you don’t always select where you go to dinner, a lot of times the friends or family your going to dinner with will select it. Some are kind and will check the menu for options but a lot of the time they can forget and just pick one. Am I supposed to not go to dinner after my cousins graduation because it’s at a steakhouse?

Can you elaborate on this one?

A platform like this benefits from having more and more diverse communities to keep people engaged. Lemmy, as it stands right now, only has a couple broad communities, mostly about these causes I mentioned: FOSS, socialism, etc. If your not interested in those communities at all you probably won’t find lemmy very valuable. Even if you are somewhat interested in those things you may still stay on reddit because it has the other communities your interested in along with those that are on lemmy. This is especially true for niche interests but even some broader interests like sports in general are completely absent from lemmy. This is self fulfilling to a certain extent, as less people talk about sports, less people post about sports, less people come here for sports etc. So for a person who wants a feed of say 50% socialist memes and 50% baseball they’re gonna go to reddit because they can get that, even if the socialist memes and discussion is better over here, now we’re missing out on that person’s discussion in the socialist meme communities and that’s a loss for everyone in that community.

They’re not patrolling European streets rounding up people who don’t “look right”, without identifying themselves, in flagrant violation of the law, and without ensuring their kidnappees detainees receive due process.

Not yet… The far right is rising fast in the EU. They’re maybe one election cycle behind the US before Frontex is doing the same.

This is the same guy who tweeted that the progressives on San feanciscos city council should die a slow painful death.

Yeah, let’s put up another California democrat that’s too centrist to attract progressives and too California to attract middle America, it worked so well last time…

Nah, mass. Wasn’t one of the 6 states that voted against Reagan in his first term, and was not the one state that voted against him in 88, shout out to Minnesota.

Nixon would go on to win the election

That’s underselling it, it was a blowout. He won every state except Massachusetts and won the popular vote by 27%.

Nah, The more you learn about mormonism the more you realize how stupid it is.

It’s more like vegans, the more you learn about it the more you realize they’re right but you don’t switch out of convenience and familiarity. The preachiness and eir of superiority is annoying though.

There are two sure things in life, death, and paying taxes to sex predators.

If llms are juiced up auto complete then humans are juiced up bacteria. Yeah they both have the same end goal, guess the next word, survive and reproduce , but the methods they use to accomplish them are vastly more complex.

Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.