• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Y’all need to come to the Pacific Northwest, where people drive 60-70mph on the highway in torrential rain without headlights in a silver vehicle.

    It’s like a battle between “Fuck the Police” and “Fuck Cars” ideologies out here: ten minutes on the road on an average rainy Tuesday in November and I’m 'bout to tattoo a thin blue line flag on my forehead and personally petition tripling of the police budget just for even a smidge more enforcement of headlight laws.

    (inb4 all the Europeans start up about their mandatory headlight regulations)

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      1 day ago

      Tripling the police budget won’t make them enforce traffic laws any more than they already do.

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        23 hours ago

        I am keenly aware of the relationships between police budgeting, enforcement, and traffic safety. Hence why I paired it with an equally useless action (getting a thin blue line tattoo) for comedic exaggeration of my frustration around a chronic issue.

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          20 hours ago

          Fair! Though I think we both know there are plenty of people dumb enough to think a tattoo and budget increase would change their reality around them… At least I hope… because there are plenty of simply brainless morons on this planet…