It’s also about taking independence away from the private person, if you have all your money in a credit card account it’s easier for the goverment to track your transactions and to exert control over your funds via the credit card and payment processing companies. We’ve already seen companies like mastercard, visa and paypal try to push politics via these means.

The Wild West was better. You were allowed to defend yourself and your property. Now, you'll probably be arrested for acting in self-defense.

Or they work with the government to freeze your bank account if they don't like what you say like Canada did.

Yeah Seattle blows. I guess they just have less visible weirdos than portland. Portland at least has really good food

It’s the ”major cosmopolitan cities” which are the problem. You can see this in elections where the entire state except for major cities vote a certain way. It’s the people from places like Scatfrancisco who rightfully deserve the ”locust” moniker. They will destroy a city with horrible and reprehensible policies and then leave for another better functioning city in another state and try to introduce the very same policies which destroyed the last city, eventually leaving again once they’ve ruined another city and state.

She isn’t?

@@debunkeduser1461 maybe she is but man she's talking with authority about states and their particulars

Well she's one of those things

But the problem with HSR is that it's the most Bridge to Nowhere graft in America. Billions of dollars every year for something that will never be built ever.

@@dragonknightleader1 It really isn't. The problem is California's regulations for the environment are some of the strictest. Japan is most similar to California geography wise (Mountains with valleys), and with that, really dense urban communities with suburbs. California should have it, solely to contact LA to San Fran Bay via In-land Empire. HSR when planned for major population centers works fantastically. Just look at France.

you know how well public transport works in the us....not very well because they refuse to fund it and build it properly. Not even new yorks subway works these days and that place is massive.

@@Tangenterines Is Cleveland the place where the river caught on fire because of pollution back in the day?

⁠​⁠@@lonelystrategosthat was in the 70’s. The newly formed EPA put a stop to that soon after. River fires haven’t been a thing since in general due to new regulations and the low key destruction of American manufacturing (China and NAFTA)

Take a trip there, you'll understand very quickly why it got that moniker.

california is a rogue state

Late Stage Capitalism and Communism effectively end in the same thing. A hyper powerful, ludicrously wealthy elite class and millions of absolute dependents. The only difference is that in communism the elite is found in the government bureaucracy, while in Late Stage Capitalism the elite is found in a strange alliance between the private sector and academia. Both are abject dogshit for the vast majority of humanity and sap the human soul dry in a generation or two. As Uncle Ted made clear Industrial Society and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity. No matter how materially wealthy or comfortable you are if you’re spiritually poor it’s worth nothing.

Yeah no the shit they past to law is only COMMIE SHIT.

Neoliberalism has lost all meaning at this point. In what way is California neoliberal? Have you seen the amount of market restrictions they put in place there?! Some of the most fucked zoning laws in the country. California literally couldn't be a worse example of neoliberalism. There is simply very few things that is neoliberal about California at all; calling it neoliberal only makes sense if you are using it as a nonsensical pejorative buzzword.

portland and seattle being complete dumpster fires and holding total political power over some of the most beautiful landscape on earth is truly heretical

Literally. There's human feces here in some cities 💩💩

They call it scatfrancisco for a reason.