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Cake day: December 4th, 2024

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  • he criticized U.S. passenger rail as “embarrassing” compared to other countries.

    He’s actually right about that but 100% wrong about why: US passenger rail is embarrassing due to

    • a pitiful lack of political will for public investment in it (in spite of the vast majority of the population being in favor),
    • billionaires like himself and others with competing interests spending ridiculous amounts of money lobbying against it
    • private and ridiculously under-regulated freight companies (such as Norfolk Southern of East Palestine catastrophe infamy) being allowed to privately own the tracks that tax funded public works projects built, and thus setting schedules and speeds that are not conducive to effective passenger transit.

    In short, the Apartheid Nepo Nazi wants to pretend to fix it by doing more of what ruined it.







  • Better idea: move Israel to Alaska, Montana, the Dakotas, and Wyoming.

    All of those states are mostly empty anyway and about as enthusiastic about far right politics, hating Muslims and Arabs, and favoring ethnostates.

    Then MPPA (Make Palestine Palestine Again), a secular state that doesn’t oppress ethnic and religious minorities, or at least not as a matter of deliberate policy.