I’m in one of the bluest cities in the country and mine is a church. Pisses me off

I’ve found people who are consistently late do not respect others.

I’m waiting for the boost update to support piefed so I can use it.

We need multiple accounts to connect to more instances due to defederation etc

All it takes is one leader throwing a wrench in the process

Btw self funded insulates from that. You can have a committee run it and it blocks a lot of the politics from mattering for it

Would’ve looked a lot better if you commented that when I hadn’t already

Conforming to society does not equal authoritarianism

It’s a mix of both. They’re disappearing people, yes, but parts of the operation are still running more closer to normal and just deporting people how they always have ish. Nonetheless horrifying

the-store-whose-name-you-seem-too-think-that-no-one-should-say-like-its-fucking-voldemort-or-something,

Believe it or not. Shopping at unethical companies is unethical . I don’t like people advertising for a terrible corp. Especially a fascist corp.

Again with the wild accusations. Like when you pretend I’m racist, you bought into kat’s online image and think she’s the only one who will do anything.

If you think using your campaign funds to give back to people is vote buying, you’re not thinking from the view of a community.

“Give back” is not what she’s doing though. She’s pretending things aren’t supplied, and buying them to give away. Things that are already given.

… I don’t have problems with comprehension., for the things at my level… that wasn’t what I was trying to say

The best ones don’t bother, because collecting fares is expensive and slows everything down

That’s simply untrue. the best public transit system on earth collects fees, and no, it doesn’t slow things down any significant level because it’s just tapping as you walk by

Good transit is always expensive. Where the money comes from can be hidden from the end users, but it is always expensive. If you only look at the fares it might seem that good transit is cheap, but that is just because the costs have been moved elsewhere - a political question that has nothing to do with transit.

At surface value, this seems true. Until you look at the city with the best train system on earth, Tokyo. There, the trains are cheap. The trains are fast, clean, on time. And all of it is without any external funding

The best public transit systems can even make back their money just from low fairs alone due to shear ridership

She’s not pushing anything to the left. Again, not special for the district in question. Against the other front runners she’s about the same, possibly only more left on immigration.

She’s blatantly.vote buying, pretending she’ll have the power to do things she will not and buying things with campaign funds to just give out… That’s vote buying in my opinion. Over promising too far to be reasonable. Her lying about moving into the district is also just off the bat lying, also not ideal for a politician.

I’m closest to a high b1 level likely. I don’t fit into traditional levels very well in the n system as it focuses primarily on comprehension without no speaking input. And my knowledge acquisition is random. I would pass an n2, and would certainly fail n1. I consider it a 2nd language because I can communicate complex thoughts in it.

I get that it’s short hand for that --but I still don’t think it’s good to push people forward to stores with so many moral and economic issues like walmart as the first suggestion.

A simple trucker’s radio is a common item in gas stations and truck stops–not that they’re necessarily better than walmart, but they’re just as common and weren’t put forth as a suggestion

I mean. That’s because there was a ton who weren’t so reddit when through and kicked them out of mod teams. That’s a large part of why reddit is so much worse these days

Why is everyone so quick to recommend Walmart? Corpo advertising shouldn’t have a place on lemmy　, intentional or not

If mamdani doesn’t let himself get neutered by the advice, it is very much a good thing to have a former president throwing support behind him. And it would be his choice.

Why encourage cars? At most, I think having a permanent parking garage structure outside of town and a bus into town would be a fair compromise.

honestly it seems like you are kind of obsessed with her.

I’m annoyed with how people push her as a forefront of progressive politics when her politics are relatively normal. It’s extremely relevant to me because I live in il-9, which will obviously make me much more invested than a typical lemmy user.

Do you believe she would oppose bike lanes and walkability?

No, but I’d rather a candidate who consistently and strongly pushes rather than being passively supportive

but you haven’t been painting her as just someone with boilerplate politics

I’m pretty sure I stated her politics were neomal for the district multiple times in this convo.

I live in Switzerland, we have no Lobbying laws, that happens all the time here, but what gives you the idea Kat has been bought?

It’s not as much I think she’s bought as much as I think it demonstrates a lack of loyalty to the community typical to be people who end up corrupt. Basically, a risk factor.

I’m pretty sure all languages originating in Europe use the system.

English is my native language, but Japanese is my 2nd

… Islamic? Her last name is Islamic? You think I knew that?

And voting based on that is childish if you agree with the policies.

Childish to vote against someone who doesn’t care to actually research the community or live in it? No, that’s not childish. Not when there’s candidates with actively proven records like biss, who’ve shown to be strong on issues I care about like bike lanes and walk ability…

Instead of just dodging what policies you disagree

I made a clear answer to the question. Stop pretending I didn’t. Clearly they are hard for you to understand. I made it clear. Her issues are boilerplate, not special in the district. So it’s better to vote for a local who understands the other issues at play, not just immigration, especially when we have people on the ballot with proven records.

so you’ve been argueing with someone on a different continent

So? The only thing that matter for is if you don’t understand that politicians are meant to represent their districts, or if you don’t understand the history of how bad, bought politicians tend to love to live outside of the areas of their districts.

I love how now you pretend you’re fluent after claiming to not speak English. Nice. I don’t know the ranking, the languages I know do not use it.