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Begemot posted:No no no, the rich people around here hate trains with a passion. They're the biggest reason we don't have any besides our incompetent city council. Rich people hate trains everywhere. The reason Boston's MBTA system is crumbling to bits is that funding for it keeps getting voted down by rich douchebags in the Berkshires.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:40
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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:
This is tremendous. Zetsubou-san posted:
A Mad Max Cartoon. Also, I hope Cruz's candidacy lasts long enough for someone to make a good Grandpa Munster cartoon, because that's always the first thing I see with him.
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Sandpuppy posted:Also, I hope Cruz's candidacy lasts long enough for someone to make a good Grandpa Munster cartoon, because that's always the first thing I see with him. Grandpa Al Lewis ran for Governor of New York on the Green Party ticket. He was a nice man. 
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Mar 26, 2015 18:43
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loquacius posted:Rich people hate trains everywhere. The reason Boston's MBTA system is crumbling to bits is that funding for it keeps getting voted down by rich douchebags in the Berkshires. What advantage does this motorcar have over, say, a train, which I could also afford? ___________________\ 
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Mar 26, 2015 18:44
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I'm pretty sure loving over public transportation to gently caress over minorities is just the status quo for America. The highway system around Buffalo, NY was specifically designed to bypass the poor areas of the city and funding for the subway system suddenly disappeared when it was time to expand it far enough for people to actually leave the city with it.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:46
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I don't get it, do they think Scary Black People are going to ride the bus out to their rich suburb, just for shits and giggles and crime sprees? I have never seen a train or bus stop out in a rich white suburb that was anything but rich and white.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:49
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Saint Sputnik posted:I was thinking more like TED CRUZ SHUTS PRESIDENT OUT OF COCKPIT, SLAMS ENTIRE COUNTRY INTO AN ALPINE MOUNTAIN
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Mar 26, 2015 18:52
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alnilam posted:I don't get it, do they think Scary Black People are going to ride the bus out to their rich suburb, just for shits and giggles and crime sprees? I have never seen a train or bus stop out in a rich white suburb that was anything but rich and white. This is exactly it. I have a half-brother who strongly opposes expanding bus service to his neighborhood because "the poors will be able to come here and rob me" and maybe, in the future, even live in his area!
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alnilam posted:I don't get it, do they think Scary Black People are going to ride the bus out to their rich suburb, just for shits and giggles and crime sprees? I have never seen a train or bus stop out in a rich white suburb that was anything but rich and white. Yes. When there are proposals to extend the light rail around here to the suburbs, there are always alarmed letters about how this is going to "bring the inner city crime element" to their utopian picket fence world. White suburbanites literally think black people will ride the metro to the suburbs, steal their flat screen TVs, and ride back with them.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:53
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Actually, this reminds me of a bike trail, the one that runs from Pittsburgh to DC. In the 90s, when the leg from Pittsburgh to Connelsville (large-ish mountain town about 80 miles away) was proposed, some people resisted because it was going to be "a drug and crime highway from the big city straight to our backyards." Like, they thought Scary Pittsburgh People were going to ride a bike 80 miles just to smash some windows and deal some drugs 
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Mar 26, 2015 18:55
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alnilam posted:I don't get it, do they think Scary Black People are going to ride the bus out to their rich suburb, just for shits and giggles and crime sprees? I have never seen a train or bus stop out in a rich white suburb that was anything but rich and white. There's probably a component of that, but really it's mostly just not giving a poo poo about them. Topeka is basically letting a lovely bridge get shittier and collapse, because the people it will affect most are poor people trying to cross the river to get to their poor people jobs or GED programs or whatever it is those subhumans are doing these days. Thank God, too, because otherwise that relatively small uptick in the exploding Kansas deficit would really screw us over! As the old Republican saying goes "Gotta not-spend money to make ???"
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Mar 26, 2015 18:57
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alnilam posted:I don't get it, do they think Scary Black People are going to ride the bus out to their rich suburb, just for shits and giggles and crime sprees? I have never seen a train or bus stop out in a rich white suburb that was anything but rich and white. One of the worst public schools in Boston is located in one of the more white, suburban neighborhoods. I worked right near there, and it was always a bizarre experience trying to get the office manager to understand that no, we did not need to call the police on the kids walking to their bus stop, even if they sometimes would linger in the parking lot to have a smoke.
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Interesting that all of Tinsley's "Low Info" interests are things that are feminine, People-magazine style gossip. I bet he thinks it's actually really important, though, to know the Redskins' offseason moves or what's new in the 2016 Dodge Challenger. And my birthday is on Saturday, if anybody wants to send me a Doug Stamper impersonator I would be thrilled.
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Mellow Seas posted:And my birthday is on Saturday, if anybody wants to send me a Doug Stamper impersonator I would be thrilled. I hope your okay with a Doug Stamper stripogram.
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alnilam posted:I don't get it, do they think Scary Black People are going to ride the bus out to their rich suburb, just for shits and giggles and crime sprees? I have never seen a train or bus stop out in a rich white suburb that was anything but rich and white. Hell, my dad actually did have some jackass kids from Boston smash up some of our poo poo at the family laundromat in a smaller city once or twice years ago, but he's still pretty much totally fine with having those trains running through because of the business opportunities it brings to the community as a whole, since we've otherwise got nearly fuckall out here.
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alnilam posted:Actually, this reminds me of a bike trail, the one that runs from Pittsburgh to DC. In the 90s, when the leg from Pittsburgh to Connelsville (large-ish mountain town about 80 miles away) was proposed, some people resisted because it was going to be "a drug and crime highway from the big city straight to our backyards." Like, they thought Scary Pittsburgh People were going to ride a bike 80 miles just to smash some windows and deal some drugs NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, WHICH ONE OF YOU FINE HOMEOWNERS WOULD LIKE TO BUY AN OUNCE OF MARIJUANA?
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pkfan2004 posted:[man on a BMX ramps through a bay window, shattering it and landing in the middle of the living room, hopping up and down on the back tire] I would support the hell out of a BMX based weed delivery service
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I've never been sold on trains. Wouldn't busses be way more convenient and affordable for most of the working poor?
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gardenald posted:I would support the hell out of a BMX based weed delivery service
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Republicans posted:I've never been sold on trains. Wouldn't busses be way more convenient and affordable for most of the working poor? Trains are higher capacity, and their routes are more consistent and predictable which bring economic boosts that bus routes don't. Trains also tend to be objectively a smoother more pleasant ride, meaning middle income people who have the money to drive are more likely to switch from car to train than from car to bus which gives the system more riders and therefore makes it more likely they can continue to expand service. Buses might be cheaper, and for low demand routes can be the best option, but you also get what you pay for.
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D.N. Nation posted:Again, Allie with the balding/pony tail imagery. No, he just couldn't persuade the band to get back together. 
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Stultus Maximus posted:Crosspostin' Obama! 
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Cpt.Americant posted:Trains are higher capacity, and their routes are more consistent and predictable which bring economic boosts that bus routes don't. Trains also tend to be objectively a smoother more pleasant ride, meaning middle income people who have the money to drive are more likely to switch from car to train than from car to bus which gives the system more riders and therefore makes it more likely they can continue to expand service. Buses might be cheaper, and for low demand routes can be the best option, but you also get what you pay for. This is all true, and a recent-ish attempt at getting the best of both worlds (though in the US, Pittsburgh did it first in the 60s  ) is "Bus Rapid Transit." It's basically dedicated busways that function more or less like trains but cost way less to build.
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Boston's "Silver Line" is basically that. The trains are better, and the trains are not good. 
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Republicans posted:I've never been sold on trains. Wouldn't busses be way more convenient and affordable for most of the working poor? Depends on the distance between residence and employment. Buses can take a long time to go a short distance (an hour for ~10 miles, in one case I personally dealt with), and light rail can make it easier to not have to work in your own backyard (or leave your house at 4am to get to your 8am job). The only problem with trains is that someone keeps drawing a bunch of criss-crossy little lines on them and writing political terms in white paint over the lines. (EDIT: oh hi loquacius) EDIT: On one hand, I'm kind of sorry for transit chat. On the other, it's nice to discuss the context of a cartoon that isn't reprehensible! Kugyou no Tenshi fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Mar 26, 2015 |
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I was talking to my mom the other day about Cruz running and I described him as "Nixon 2.0" to my friend who was with us and didn't really follow politics and my mom (who lived through Nixon and was heavily into the counter-culture and socialism at the time) jumps in and goes "no no he's way worse than Nixon, Nixon at least tried to care about America continuing to function, Cruz just wants to burn everything down and build Cruzworld" and that got me thinking about the Street Fighter movie and now I want to see Cruz as M. Bison Wouldn't work. Cruz would never take any interest in anything surrounding a high speed rail. pkfan2004 posted:
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That new Prickly City came right the gently caress out of nowhere on the heels of "man, gently caress millenials" week.
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paranoid randroid posted:I've never understood opposition to trains on the grounds of it allowing poor people to come rob you. Because, yknow we got these things called roads right? That go right up to your house, for optimal robbery access, even. Shall we tear those up as well? I think he was mentioned earlier but let me tell you about Robert Moses and the building of highways to segregate neighborhoods
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paranoid randroid posted:I've never understood opposition to trains on the grounds of it allowing poor people to come rob you. Because, yknow we got these things called roads right? That go right up to your house, for optimal robbery access, even. Shall we tear those up as well? Ferguson had a pretty good program to try and stop poor black people from effectively using those roads.
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majormonotone posted:I think he was mentioned earlier but let me tell you about Robert Moses and the building of highways to segregate neighborhoods There was a time when we had rail cars in most cities. 
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Mar 26, 2015 21:11
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Yeah, it used to be every decently-sized city had light rail of some sort. They even had systems in Schenectady and Poughkeepsie (my hometown). They virtually all got destroyed by auto companies. Capitalism is terrible.
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Fulchrum posted:Once again, it was not gently caress millenials week, it was gently caress those morons who talk poo poo about millenials week, their arguments are bullshit. Black Mouthpiece was being Dumb and So Goddamn Crazy, which is ocassionally done to show she's wrong.
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loquacius posted:Boston's "Silver Line" is basically that. The trains are better, and the trains are not good. The T is in desperate need of a thorough overhaul, generally, as this winter ably demonstrated. Ralepozozaxe posted:There was a time when we had rail cars in most cities. Fishmech post incoming in 5...4...3...
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majormonotone posted:Yeah, it used to be every decently-sized city had light rail of some sort. They even had systems in Schenectady and Poughkeepsie (my hometown). They virtually all got destroyed by auto companies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OquSczOMkO4
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Someone please post the relevant "Remember when I killed your country" Obama DbD edit.
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