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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Once Kansas City had apparently a fantastic streetcar. Then the car companies bought it up and tore out the rails. Now we’re getting a streetcar being built again but it’s just doing downtown on one street. I’m not near the streetcar.

    So I drive to work. It’s 12 miles, about 30 minutes (or 20 miles, 30 minutes if I take interstate around the city… honestly this city is weird, EVERYTHING is 30 minutes away.) If I wanted to take the bus, the shortest time frame would be 1 hr 35 minutes… not including that I’d have to get halfway there to get to the first bus stop.

    Cities… if I wanted to take the train, I can go to Chicago for relatively cheap using Amtrak… but gotta plan that 3 months in advance, and the 8 hour ride we HOPE doesn’t get extended because Amtrak doesn’t own the rails it’s on. Flipside, driving is 8 hours. Other cities, St. Louis, Wichita, basically I have two train lines, one in state, and one cross country. If I want to go to Denver… it’s not happening.

    So to answer your question, I want you to try to imagine how bad you think our public transportation is. Then lower your expectations.






  • I mean, the bar isn’t exactly a high one to cross in our situation. The ONLY good thing about Trump is his five year old with a shotgun strategy in he’s as likely to fuck up a bunch of Republicans on his way of hurting everyone else. Trump is for Trump and no one else.

    Vance at least will believe in the party… when I say competence I don’t mean in running the country. I mean competence in when being in control if not a tyrant, but a good enough puppet that he won’t tear down the foundations of the reign.

    Understand, when I say competent… that’s the worse category.





  • Y’all, I live in the US. Listen to this. We had the same shit conversation with Harris. How many people I had to tell this “A vote is not a valentine, you’re not professing your love for the candidate,. It’s a chess move for the world you want to live in.”

    Yes, I’ll agree our Dems can suck, and I’d love someone else… but for the love to my neighbors up north, don’t do the same dumbass move the US did and go “Eh, they’re not good enough” and bring in someone who’s a terror.


  • Not even WWII history, US history, again not Texas schoolbook approved.

    Grew up in the South: “Remember the Alamo”, “It’s heritage, not hate!”, “War of Northern Aggression”, “States Rights”, “The South will rise again!”

    All angrily yelled about a war 160 years ago, all angers that have been left to fester because a group has lied about them and was never dealt with. These are not statements of olden days. These are things you’ll see commonplace in the south today.

    The Alamo: Fought because a bunch of slavers invaded a sovereign nation (Mexico) for the purposes of trying to peel it off and get it into the Union to have more slave owning states to control the government. Mexico was a non-slave nation.

    War of Northern Aggression: The South shot first. And they’ll blame other situations, like federal control (that’ll be discussed in next point), or John Brown with bleeding Kansas… who John Brown did go on a merry murder spree, but against slavers specifically moving up to Kansas to… again… try to outnumber the non-slave states so they’d have control over the federal government.

    States Rights: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America specifically prevents states from outlawing slavery… so no fucking states rights. And on southern aggression when it comes to states rights, the South kept putting bills pre-Civil War to force northern states to allow their bounty hunters in to chase fugitive slaves. There were non-fugitive blacks that were kidnapped and taken back to the south to be enslaved.

    The South Will Rise Again: These statues that were all over that’s upsetting people getting knocked down weren’t put up post Civil War, they were put up by the Daughters of Confederacy which became a group in 1890, and got most of them put up between 1900-1910, all the way up to the 50s, the eras of Jim Crow segregation. They’re in 31 states. There were 11 states that seceded. The flag that most people call the Confederate flag is in fact the Virginia Battle Standard, the actual Confederate flag was determined to look too much like a flag of surrender ironically months before they surrendered. Virginia keeps asking/demanding Minnesota for their flag back, claiming heritage… thankfully Minnesota keeps telling them it’s their heritage that they took it.

    Most of this is not known by people living in the country. The lies are repeated far more than the truths. If you visited the South and didn’t know anything about the US Civil War you’d be convinced the South won.

    2025 at this point, I’m convinced they got their victory.







  • That’s what scares the shit out of me. I’m in a VERY red state, surrounded by red states, in a blue pocket of urban.

    And lets be honest, civil war is not off the table, and much of it will be religious. If you’ve lived in the South, the Southern Baptist Church has been wanting a chance to turn the country into a full Christian cult whether you like it or not. And would be happy to get rid of the “Mary worshippers” (Catholics). And weirdly I’m side eyeing the Mormons because I’m actually relatively close to their holy land in Missouri and I’m sure it’s not forgotten the state had Missouri Executive Order 44 (the Mormon Extermination Order). Doesn’t help the Salt Lake of Salt Lake City is disappearing and spreading toxic dust.

    It’s gonna be fun!


    1. The third of the people who didn’t vote had Trump previous to realize what he’d do and still said “Meh, either’s fine with me.” They’re complicit.

    And 2. I get so fucking sick and tired of the “Dems are corporate shills” when the left can’t be faffed to show up at voting. I don’t mean the 4 year presidential votes. I mean the yearly all the way to the local shit. You want to know how we got Trump? Because the ultra-right made it a point to get in bed with the republicans and beat down doors to tell people to vote to secure the supreme court, to secure state positions, to secure fucking school board positions.

    I have never met someone who had interest in Republicans who didn’t think they paid attention to the news. It may be Fox and Infowars but they paid some attention. If I had a nickle for every individual who was interested in left wing ideals but told me “I don’t know. I don’t like politics” I’d have enough to afford a plane ticket out of this fucking country.